Walter Cohen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3787434 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Walter Cohen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Walter |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohen |
| SIGNATURE | COHEN W |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Drama of a Nation: Public Theater in Renaissance England and Spain
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in the midst of an international florescence of drama, the English and Spanish theaters displayed striking and unique similarities. Although these two national theaters developed in relative isolation from each other, in both countries the plays synthesized native popular traditions and neoclassical learned conventions, a synthesis found neither in the more elite Italian and French drama of the time…
Empire and Its Discontents in Classical Latin
The history of classical Latin literature is closely connected to the fortunes of Roman imperialism, its crucial slave economy, and increasing inequality, under both the Republic and the Empire. The writers’ natives lands—rarely Rome itself—often anticipate larger political trends from the third century bce to the fifth century ce. Their texts, deeply indebted not only to Greek literature but also to the cultural heritage of the Near East and bey…
The Vernacular
The collapse of the classical empires opens the way to the rise of the vernacular, arguably the turning point in the history of European and world literature. The replacement of one spoken vernacular by another is the result of conquest, but, almost always, only if the invaders represent a large enough percentage of the resulting population to prevail. Though the emergence of written vernaculars exhibits recurrent causes and characteristics acros…
A History of European Literature: The West and the World from Antiquity to the Present
The history of European literature and of each of its standard periods can be illuminated by comparative consideration of the different literary languages within Europe and of the relationship of European literature to world literature. The global history of literature from the ancient Near East to the present can be divided into five main, overlapping stages. European literature emerges from world literature before the birth of Europe—during ant…
Eurasian Fiction
An Interview with Martin Bernal
Martin Bernal: The project is on the origins of ancient Greece; it's both historiographic and historical. I set up two accounts for those origins, which I call the Ancient and the Aryan models. We've been schooled in the Aryan model, according to which Greek civilization is the product of conquest from the north by Indo-European speakers, or Aryans. This differs from the accounts by Classical Greeks, who say their ancestors lived in idyllic simpl…
Drama of a Nation: Public Theater in Renaissance England and Spain
The Artisan Theatres of Renaissance England and Spain
How might we understand the late Tudor and early Stuart public playhouse? The institution's economic, social, political, and ideological heterogeneity undoubtedly precludes any simple categorization. The large sums of money, the evident quest for profit, and the array of financial instruments integral to the operation of the Globe, its predecessors, and its competitors seem to indicate the dominance of the capitalist mode of production. And indee…
The Merchant of Venice and the Possibilities of Historical Criticism
The effect of "social censure" and "social approval" on the psychomotor performance of schizophrenics
A Study of Thinking
An Interview with Martin Bernal
Martin Bernal: The project is on the origins of ancient Greece; it's both historiographic and historical. I set up two accounts for those origins, which I call the Ancient and the Aryan models. We've been schooled in the Aryan model, according to which Greek civilization is the product of conquest from the north by Indo-European speakers, or Aryans. This differs from the accounts by Classical Greeks, who say their ancestors lived in idyllic simpl…
The Artisan Theatres of Renaissance England and Spain
How might we understand the late Tudor and early Stuart public playhouse? The institution's economic, social, political, and ideological heterogeneity undoubtedly precludes any simple categorization. The large sums of money, the evident quest for profit, and the array of financial instruments integral to the operation of the Globe, its predecessors, and its competitors seem to indicate the dominance of the capitalist mode of production. And indee…
A Study of Thinking
The effect of "social censure" and "social approval" on the psychomotor performance of schizophrenics
The Merchant of Venice and the Possibilities of Historical Criticism
The Artisan Theatres of Renaissance England and Spain
How might we understand the late Tudor and early Stuart public playhouse? The institution's economic, social, political, and ideological heterogeneity undoubtedly precludes any simple categorization. The large sums of money, the evident quest for profit, and the array of financial instruments integral to the operation of the Globe, its predecessors, and its competitors seem to indicate the dominance of the capitalist mode of production. And indee…
Drama of a Nation: Public Theater in Renaissance England and Spain
An Interview with Martin Bernal
Martin Bernal: The project is on the origins of ancient Greece; it's both historiographic and historical. I set up two accounts for those origins, which I call the Ancient and the Aryan models. We've been schooled in the Aryan model, according to which Greek civilization is the product of conquest from the north by Indo-European speakers, or Aryans. This differs from the accounts by Classical Greeks, who say their ancestors lived in idyllic simpl…
Eurasian Fiction
Empire and Its Discontents in Classical Latin
The history of classical Latin literature is closely connected to the fortunes of Roman imperialism, its crucial slave economy, and increasing inequality, under both the Republic and the Empire. The writers’ natives lands—rarely Rome itself—often anticipate larger political trends from the third century bce to the fifth century ce. Their texts, deeply indebted not only to Greek literature but also to the cultural heritage of the Near East and bey…
The Vernacular
The collapse of the classical empires opens the way to the rise of the vernacular, arguably the turning point in the history of European and world literature. The replacement of one spoken vernacular by another is the result of conquest, but, almost always, only if the invaders represent a large enough percentage of the resulting population to prevail. Though the emergence of written vernaculars exhibits recurrent causes and characteristics acros…
A History of European Literature: The West and the World from Antiquity to the Present
The history of European literature and of each of its standard periods can be illuminated by comparative consideration of the different literary languages within Europe and of the relationship of European literature to world literature. The global history of literature from the ancient Near East to the present can be divided into five main, overlapping stages. European literature emerges from world literature before the birth of Europe—during ant…
Drama of a Nation: Public Theater in Renaissance England and Spain
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, in the midst of an international florescence of drama, the English and Spanish theaters displayed striking and unique similarities. Although these two national theaters developed in relative isolation from each other, in both countries the plays synthesized native popular traditions and neoclassical learned conventions, a synthesis found neither in the more elite Italian and French drama of the time…
Art (8 works) · History (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (2 works) · Drama (2 works) · Early Modern Spanish Literature (2 works)