The Dictionary of the History of Ideas (University of Virginia Library)

The Dictionary of the History of Ideas (University of Virginia Library) 

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Ce dictionnaire encyclopédique en ligne propose plusieurs sections: "Nature", "Humanity", "Art", History" etc.

Sommaire de la section "Art. The history of ideas in literature and the arts in aesthetic theory and literary criticism": 

• ALLEGORY IN LITERARY HISTORY
• AMBIGUITY AS AESTHETIC PRINCIPLE
• ANCIENTS AND MODERNS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
• ART AND PLAY
• ART FOR ART'S SAKE
• BAROQUE IN LITERATURE
• THEORIES OF BEAUTY TO THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY
• THEORIES OF BEAUTY SINCE THE MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY
• CATHARSIS
• CHANCE IMAGES
• CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE
• CLASSIFICATION OF THE ARTS
• SENSE OF THE COMIC
• CREATIVITY IN ART
• LITERARY CRITICISM
• DEMONOLOGY
• EVOLUTION OF LITERATURE
• EXPRESSIONISM IN LITERATURE
• FORM IN THE HISTORY OF AESTHETICS
• GENIUS FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO 1770
• GENIUS: INDIVIDUALISM IN ART AND ARTISTS
• MUSICAL GENIUS
• CONCEPT OF GOTHIC
• HARMONY OR RAPTURE IN MUSIC
• ICONOGRAPHY
• IMPRESSIONISM IN ART
• IRONY
• LITERARY PARADOX
• LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES
• MILLENARIANISM
• MIMESIS
• MOTIF
• MOTIF IN LITERATURE: THE FAUST THEME
• LITERARY ATTITUDES TOWARD MOUNTAINS
• MUSIC AND SCIENCE
• MUSIC AS A DEMONIC ART
• MUSIC AS A DIVINE ART
• MYTH IN ANTIQUITY
• MYTH IN BIBLICAL TIMES
• MYTH IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND THE RENAISSANCE
• MYTH IN ENGLISH LITERATURE: SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
• MYTH IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURIES
• MYTH IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES
• NATURALISM IN ART
• NEO-CLASSICISM IN ART
• NEWTON'S OPTICKS AND EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IMAGINATION
• PERIODIZATION IN LITERARY HISTORY
• RHETORIC AND LITERARY THEORY IN PLATONISM
• POETRY AND POETICS FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MID-EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
• REALISM IN LITERATURE
• RHETORIC AFTER PLATO
• ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE
• ROMANTICISM (ca. 1780-ca. 1830)
• SATIRE
• VICTORIAN SENSIBILITY AND SENTIMENT
• STYLE IN LITERATURE
• SUBLIME IN EXTERNAL NATURE
• SYMBOL AND SYMBOLISM IN LITERATURE
• TASTE IN THE HISTORY OF AESTHETICS FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO 1770
• TEMPERANCE (SŌPHROSYNĒ) AND THE CANON OF THE CARDINAL VIRTUES
• SENSE OF THE TRAGIC