Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… which far surpasses the pure semantics of a lexical definition. Places > Clubs & Societies Practices > Associational culture Keywords Academies France Italy Literature The Early Modern era saw literary academies woven liberally into the … disciplined, regulated, and structured organisation, combining pleasure, gambling, and entertainment with the desire for culture.’ 5 The proliferation of academies in every Italian city 6 since the sixteenth century—from private meetings … litteratum ) away from the hubbub of public life’ . In France, salons were thus the forums for ‘learned elocution’ and cultured conversation. 7 Georg Simmel claimed that sociability finds its origin in the internal ‘impulses’ driven by …
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