The Classical Sublime: French Neoclassicism and the Language of Literature. By NICHOLAS CRONK. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press. 2002. ii+210 pp. 32 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 1-88636-522-9. Nicholas Cronk's book takes as its subject matter the seventeenth-century French preoccupation with pseudo-Longinus' first-century Greek treatise, Peri...

The important discoveries of theoretical physics in the early part of the 20th century influenced the development of economic theory in that period. This influence resulted from the desire of neoclassical economists to develop economic theory into a mathematically-oriented field like physics. The physics...

A.B.T. decided to give us a double dose of Kenneth MacMillan during the season just ended: a week each of Romeo and Juliet and Manon. But although the two ballets are similar in many ways, there’s a difference in kind. Romeo is a carefully mounted...

A.B.T. decided to give us a double dose of Kenneth MacMillan during the season just ended: a week each of Romeo and Juliet and Manon. But although the two ballets are similar in many ways, there’s a difference in kind. Romeo is a carefully...

It was a contrast to the Neoclassic writers of the 1700's and how each writers method was different from one anothers.