Cynicism in British Post-War Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cynicism in British Post-War Culture write by K. Curran. This book was released on 2014-11-24. Cynicism in British Post-War Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the first academic text to examine cynicism as a driving force in the context of post-war British culture. It maps a sensibility that transcends divisions between high and low culture, and encompasses figures such as Philip Larkin, John Lennon and Stephen Patrick Morrissey.
Cynicism
Cynicism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cynicism write by Ansgar Allen. This book was released on 2020-02-04. Cynicism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A short history of cynicism, from the fearless speech of the ancient Greeks to the jaded negativity of the present. Everyone's a cynic, yet few will admit it. Today's cynics excuse themselves half-heartedly—“I hate to be a cynic, but..."—before making their pronouncements. Narrowly opportunistic, always on the take, contemporary cynicism has nothing positive to contribute. The Cynicism of the ancient Greeks, however, was very different. This Cynicism was a marginal philosophy practiced by a small band of eccentrics. Bold and shameless, it was committed to transforming the values on which civilization depends. In this volume of the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Ansgar Allen charts the long history of cynicism, from the “fearless speech” of Greek Cynics in the fourth century BCE to the contemporary cynic's lack of social and political convictions. Allen describes ancient Cynicism as an improvised philosophy and a way of life disposed to scandalize contemporaries, subjecting their cultural commitments to derision. He chronicles the subsequent “purification” of Cynicism by the Stoics; Renaissance and Enlightenment appropriations of Cynicism, drawing on the writings of Shakespeare, Rabelais, Rousseau, de Sade, and others; and the transition from Cynicism (the philosophy) to cynicism (the modern attitude), exploring contemporary cynicism from the perspectives of its leftist, liberal, and conservative critics. Finally, he considers the possibility of a radical cynicism that admits and affirms the danger it poses to contemporary society.
Cultural Feelings
Cultural Feelings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultural Feelings write by Ben Highmore. This book was released on 2017-05-18. Cultural Feelings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Cultural Feelings: Mood, Mediation and Cultural Politics sets out to examine the role of feelings and mood in the production of social and cultural experience. By returning to the work of Raymond Williams, and informed by recent ‘affect theory’, it treats feeling as a foundational term for cultural studies. Ben Highmore argues that feelings are political and cultural forms that orchestrate our encounters with the world. He utilises a range of case studies from twentieth-century British culture, focusing in particular on Home Front morale during the Blitz, the experiences of Caribbean migration in the post-war decades, the music of post-punk bands in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and more recent ‘state of the nation’ film and television, including Our Friends in the North and This is England. He finds evidence in oral history, in films, photographs, television, novels, music, policy documents, and journalism. Through these sources, this book tells a vivid and compelling story of our most recent history and argues that the urgent task for a progressive cultural politics will require the changing of moods as well as minds. Cultural Feelings is essential reading for students and researchers with an interest in affect theory, emotion and culture.
Philip Larkin, Popular Culture, and the English Individual
Philip Larkin, Popular Culture, and the English Individual - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philip Larkin, Popular Culture, and the English Individual write by J. Ryan Hibbett. This book was released on 2019-02-18. Philip Larkin, Popular Culture, and the English Individual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite the denigrating revelations of his published letters, Philip Larkin looms larger than ever, both as an English national icon and as a championed voice of postwar English poetry. Philip Larkin, Popular Culture, and the English Individual seeks to move beyond the decades-long preoccupation with Larkin’s reputation and canonical status, approaching Larkin instead as part of a persevering cultural phenomenon through which the traditionally distinguished individual is reconstituted in the company of the ordinary and the interchangeable. It tracks how Larkin’s poetic texts negotiate and engage with representations of popular culture at a time when notions of celebrity, authenticity, and cultural authority were newly (and deeply) unsettled by rock and roll, and when cultural capital had become a coveted substitute for diminished imperial wealth. From his unprecedented f-bombs to his cultivation of a familiar, comedic personality, this book examines how Larkin realigns common social practices and popular art forms—be it attending a church service, watching television, or enjoying a concert—to the isolated, knowing gaze of the individual.
The Beatles and Sixties Britain
The Beatles and Sixties Britain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Beatles and Sixties Britain write by Marcus Collins. This book was released on 2020-03-05. The Beatles and Sixties Britain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this rigorous study, Marcus Collins reconceives the Beatles' social, cultural and political impact on sixties Britain.
