The Idea of Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4980131 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alvin B Kernan, Alvin Kernan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31 |
| Publication date | 1973-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/468406 |
| OpenAlex | W2314572975 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The various arts are certainly as old as human civilization, but the manner in which we are accustomed to group them and to assign them a place in our scheme of life and of culture is comparatively recent. This fact is not as strange as may appear on the surface. In the course of history, the various arts change not only their content and style, but also their relations to each other, and their place in the general system of culture, as do religion, philosophy or science. Our familiar system of the five fine arts did not merely originate in the eighteenth century, but it also reflects the particular cultural and social conditions of that time.1
Sociology · Classical Studies and Philology · History · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |