Turning Points: Essays in the History of Cultural Expressions

by Marshall Brown

Through a combination of general reflections, studies of important critics, and both comprehensive and specific analyses of cultural change in literature, music, art, and philosophy, Turning Points demonstrates the role of style and form in promoting and shaping cultural development.

The book proposes that works do not timelessly abstract, retrospectively reflect, or passively express; instead, they promote and shape historical change...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804727082
• ISBN13: 9780804727082
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"