Pericles Lewis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3858205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pericles Lewis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pericles |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Rise & Restructuring of Yale-NUS College
Yale University and the National University of Singapore (NUS) agreed in 2011 to open Yale-NUS College, an autonomous liberal arts college within NUS. As the College's first president, I recount in this essay some of the successes and challenges of creating the College, which opened in 2013, and the decision of NUS in 2021 to end the partnership as of 2025. I analyze the College's educational offerings, the political controversies surrounding its…
The Burial of the Dead in Mann’s The Magic Mountain
During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, readers of modernist literature have often been reminded of the flu epidemic of 1918-1920. Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain (1924) anatomizes pre-war bourgeois society as represented by the inmates of a tuberculosis asylum in Davos, Switzerland. The novel typifies a concern in modernist fiction with the proper rites for the burial of the dead, which I explored in an earlier study, Religious Experience and the…
The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism
Modernism arose in a period of accelerating globalization in the late nineteenth century. Modernist writers and artists, while often loyal to their country in times of war, aimed to rise above the national and ideological conflicts of the early twentieth century in service to a cosmopolitan ideal. This Companion explores the international aspects of literary modernism by mapping the history of the movement across Europe and within each country. T…
Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel
The modernist period witnessed attempts to explain religious experience in non-religious terms. Such novelists as Henry James, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Franz Kafka found methods to describe through fiction the sorts of experiences that had traditionally been the domain of religious mystics and believers. In Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel, Pericles Lewis considers the development of modernism in the novel in rel…
History
Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel
In Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel, first published in 2000, Pericles Lewis shows how political debates over the sources and nature of 'national character' prompted radical experiments in narrative form amongst modernist writers. Though critics have accused the modern novel of shunning the external world, Lewis suggests that, far from abandoning nineteenth-century realists' concern with politics, the modernists used this emphasis on individ…
The “True” Homer
M ax Horkheimer, director of Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, considered Giambattista Vico the first real philosopher of history of modern age.' He praised Vico for anticipating anthropological study of myth as a projection of social needs, rather than a simple deception. As an alternative to Cartesian system of philosophical inquiry, anchored in presumably autonomous individual, New Science appeared to Horkheimer to recognize conditionin…
The later fortifications of Dover
Medieval Dover Castle has been the subject of many histories, but this article seeks to trace through documentary sources the influence of artillery on castle and town defences from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, and to set the Dover fortifications in a national context. At its strongest Dover ranked with the major naval bases and probably nowhere else is it still possible to see such a concentrated and varied array of defences of all …
The Rise & Restructuring of Yale-NUS College
Yale University and the National University of Singapore (NUS) agreed in 2011 to open Yale-NUS College, an autonomous liberal arts college within NUS. As the College's first president, I recount in this essay some of the successes and challenges of creating the College, which opened in 2013, and the decision of NUS in 2021 to end the partnership as of 2025. I analyze the College's educational offerings, the political controversies surrounding its…
The later fortifications of Dover
Medieval Dover Castle has been the subject of many histories, but this article seeks to trace through documentary sources the influence of artillery on castle and town defences from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, and to set the Dover fortifications in a national context. At its strongest Dover ranked with the major naval bases and probably nowhere else is it still possible to see such a concentrated and varied array of defences of all …
The “True” Homer
M ax Horkheimer, director of Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, considered Giambattista Vico the first real philosopher of history of modern age.' He praised Vico for anticipating anthropological study of myth as a projection of social needs, rather than a simple deception. As an alternative to Cartesian system of philosophical inquiry, anchored in presumably autonomous individual, New Science appeared to Horkheimer to recognize conditionin…
Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel
In Modernism, Nationalism, and the Novel, first published in 2000, Pericles Lewis shows how political debates over the sources and nature of 'national character' prompted radical experiments in narrative form amongst modernist writers. Though critics have accused the modern novel of shunning the external world, Lewis suggests that, far from abandoning nineteenth-century realists' concern with politics, the modernists used this emphasis on individ…
History
Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel
The modernist period witnessed attempts to explain religious experience in non-religious terms. Such novelists as Henry James, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Franz Kafka found methods to describe through fiction the sorts of experiences that had traditionally been the domain of religious mystics and believers. In Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel, Pericles Lewis considers the development of modernism in the novel in rel…
The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism
Modernism arose in a period of accelerating globalization in the late nineteenth century. Modernist writers and artists, while often loyal to their country in times of war, aimed to rise above the national and ideological conflicts of the early twentieth century in service to a cosmopolitan ideal. This Companion explores the international aspects of literary modernism by mapping the history of the movement across Europe and within each country. T…
The Burial of the Dead in Mann’s The Magic Mountain
During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, readers of modernist literature have often been reminded of the flu epidemic of 1918-1920. Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain (1924) anatomizes pre-war bourgeois society as represented by the inmates of a tuberculosis asylum in Davos, Switzerland. The novel typifies a concern in modernist fiction with the proper rites for the burial of the dead, which I explored in an earlier study, Religious Experience and the…
The Rise & Restructuring of Yale-NUS College
Yale University and the National University of Singapore (NUS) agreed in 2011 to open Yale-NUS College, an autonomous liberal arts college within NUS. As the College's first president, I recount in this essay some of the successes and challenges of creating the College, which opened in 2013, and the decision of NUS in 2021 to end the partnership as of 2025. I analyze the College's educational offerings, the political controversies surrounding its…
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