{"product_id":"genius-isbn-9780631157854","title":"Genius","description":"This book explores the history of the idea of genius from its origins in classical antiquity to its deconstruction in postmodernist criticism. Focusing mainly on the creative arts, the book examines certain key points in the development of the idea, and also addresses the problem of what constitutes genius in specific subject areas. Experts in different fields have contributed chapters on literature, art, music, mathematics, philosophy and psychiatry to produce a volume which illuminates an abiding obsession throughout the history of European culture.  \u003cp\u003eThe contributors to this volume show how the ancient image of the inspired poet and the Renaissance conception of the \u003ci\u003edivino artista\u003c\/i\u003e both anticipate later notions of genius, developed into the 18th century around the central figures of Homer, Shakespeare and Goethe. Romantic definitions of genius are analysed, as are the implications of Nietzsche's pronouncements on 'human greatness'. The historic conjunction of genius and madness is explored from the early belief in divine possession through the Renaissance notion of melancholy to the age of psychoanalysis.\u003c\/p\u003e Poetic genius and its classical origins \/ Penelope Murray \u003cp\u003eThe \"super-artist\" as genius: the sixteenth-century view \/ Martin Kemp\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe second Homeric Renaissance: allegoresis and genius in early modern poetics \/ Glenn Most\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eShakespeare and original genius \/ Jonathan Bate\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGoethe on genius \/ Michael Beddow\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe emptiness of genius: aspects of Romanticism \/ Drummond Bone\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNietzsche on genius \/ Michael Tanner\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeconstructing genius: Paul de Man and the critique of Romantic ideology \/ Christopher Norris\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is musical genius? \/ Wilfrid Mellers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGenius in mathematics \/ Clive Kilmister\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGenius and mental disorder: a history of ideas concerning their conjunction \/ Neil Kessel\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGenius and psychoanalysis: Freud, Jung and the concept of personality \/ Anthony Storr\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePenelope Murray\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Warwick.  This book explores the history of the idea of genius from its origins in classical antiquity to its deconstruction in postmodernist criticism. Focusing mainly on the creative arts, the book examines certain key points in the development of the idea, and also addresses the problem of what constitutes genius in specific subject areas. Experts in different fields have contributed chapters on literature, art, music, mathematics, philosophy and psychiatry to produce a volume which illuminates an abiding obsession throughout the history of European culture.  \u003cp\u003eThe contributors to this volume show how the ancient image of the inspired poet and the Renaissance conception of the \u003ci\u003edivino artista\u003c\/i\u003e both anticipate later notions of genius, developed into the 18th century around the central figures of Homer, Shakespeare and Goethe. Romantic definitions of genius are analysed, as are the implications of Nietzsche's pronouncements on 'human greatness'. The historic conjunction of genius and madness is explored from the early belief in divine possession through the Renaissance notion of melancholy to the age of psychoanalysis.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989279097061,"sku":"NP9780631157854","price":38.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631157854.jpg?v=1761783494","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/genius-isbn-9780631157854","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}