Fashion, Trend, and Novelty
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Topic: Fashion Trends
Sort Desciption: Fashion, Trend, and Novelty. 7. th. Annual UNC-Duke Graduate ... When and how do certain trends in literature. and history become fashionable or pass ? ...
Content Inside: Fashion, Trend, and Novelty 7 th Annual UNC-Duke Graduate Colloquium in Classics March 27, 2004 Chapel Hill, North Carolina Consciousness of style, whether novel or traditional, is pervasive in both classical literature and the plastic arts. Homer sings the , Horace his carmina non prius audita. Several periods of classical literature define themselves by intertextual reactions or allusions to earlier authors, and we are left with a diachronic impression of ancient literary vogue. In the realm of material culture, discussions of style have always shaped our understanding of art and architecture, and contemporary criticism highlights the ancients alertness to competing fashions. Elsewhere, we find the intersection of several styles, such as bilingual amphorae. Ultimately, of course, a poems or statues canonization and consequent preservation is a matter of the taste and fashion of succeeding generations. This colloquium invites papers that consider fashion and fashions, literary or artistic, whether in specific or in abstract, including depictions of and attitudes towards (un)fashionable styles of speech and writing, philosophical methods, historical styles, and architectural and plastic representations. When and how do certain trends in literature and history become fashionable or pass? What is the value of aesthetics in the ancient world? How does novelty stand in opposition to conservatism in different periods and locales? Submissions may also examine influences on stylistic evolution, such as the role of the Roman Imperial family or the Hellenistic dynasts, and ancient attitudes towards this evolution: to what extent can we see an awareness of the changing fashions? What do ancient fashions tell us about the cultures they reflect? How do the ancients struggle to define themselves within and in reaction to the fashions of their day? Keynote Speaker: Joy Connolly, Stanford University The colloquium will take place on Saturday, March ...
understanding fashion trends