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Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture Ct S Eliot

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Author : Thomas Stearns Eliot
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949

Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture Ct S Eliot written by Thomas Stearns Eliot and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Culture categories.

Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture

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Author : T. S. Eliot
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2014-03-25

Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture written by T. S. Eliot and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-25 with Literary Criticism categories.

This critique of modern society argues that culture must be organic, and cannot be planned or imposed. The word culture has been widely and erroneously employed in political, educational, and journalistic contexts. In helping to define a word so greatly misused, T. S. Eliot contradicts many of our popular assumptions about culture, reminding us that it is not the possession of any one class but of a whole society—and yet its preservation may depend on the continuance of a class system, and that a “classless” society may be a society in which culture has ceased to exist. Surveying the post–World War II world, Eliot finds evidence of decay in cultural standards in every department of human activity, and expects the phenomenon to continue. He suggests that culture and religion have a common root—and if one decays, the other may die too. In observing the superpowers of his day and the course of recent history, he reminds us that “the Russians have been the first modern people to practise the political direction of culture consciously, and to attack at every point the culture of any people whom they wish to dominate.” The appendix includes Eliot’s broadcasts to Europe, ending with a plea to preserve the legacy of Greece, Rome, and Israel, and Europe’s legacy throughout the last two thousand years. “Behind the urbanity, the modesty, the mere good manners of Mr. Eliot’s exposition, one cannot mistake the force and significance of what he has to say, or ignore that it constitutes a fundamental attack on most of our assumptions on the subject.” —The Spectator

Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture

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Author : Thomas Stearns Eliot
language : en
Publisher: London : Faber
Release Date : 1949

Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture written by Thomas Stearns Eliot and has been published by London : Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Culture categories.

"The word culture, in recent years, has been widely and erroneously employed in political, educational, and journalistic contexts. In helping to define a word so greatly misused, T. S. Eliot contradicts many of our popular assumptions about culture, reminding us that it is not the possession of a class but of a whole society and yet its preservation may depend on the continuance of a class system, and that a "classless" society may be a society in which culture has ceased to exist. Surveying the contemporary scene, Mr. Eliot points out that our standards of culture are lower than they were fifty years ago, finds evidence of this decay in every department of human activity, and sees no reason why the decay of culture should not proceed much further. He suggests that culture and religion have a common root and that if one decays the other may die too. He reminds us that "the Russians have been the first modern people to practise the political direction of culture consciously, and to attack at every point the culture of any people whom they wish to dominate. The appendix includes his broadcasts to Europe, ending with a plea to preserve the legacy of Greece, Rome, and Israel, and Europe's legacy throughout the last 2,000 years. 'Behind the urbanity, the modesty, the mere good manners of Mr. Eliot's exposition, one cannot mistake the force and significance of what he has to say, or ignore that it constitutes a fundamental attack on most of our assumptions on the subject.'" --THE LONDON SPECTATOR. Provided by publisher.

T S Eliot

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Author : Clifford William Atkinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949

T S Eliot written by Clifford William Atkinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with categories.

Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture

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Author : T. S. Eliot
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2010-11-25

Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture written by T. S. Eliot and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-25 with Literary Criticism categories.

'The term culture . . . includes all the characteristic activities and interests of a people; Derby Day, Henley Regatta, Cowes, the twelfth of August, a cup final, the dog races, the pin table, the dart board, Wensleydale cheese, boiled cabbage cut into sections, beetroot in vinegar, 19th century Gothic churches and the music of Elgar. The reader can make his own list . . .' In this famous essay T. S. Eliot examines the principal uses of the word, and the conditions in which culture itself can flourish 'So rich in ideas that it is difficult to select two or three of them for comment . . . it is a natural history of culture.' Sunday Times

In Bluebeard S Castle

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Author : George Steiner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971

In Bluebeard S Castle written by George Steiner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with categories.

T S Eliot And The Cultural Divide

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Author : David E. Chinitz
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2005-12

T S Eliot And The Cultural Divide written by David E. Chinitz and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-12 with Literary Criticism categories.

The modernist poet T. S. Eliot has been applauded and denounced for decades as a staunch champion of high art and an implacable opponent of popular culture. But Eliot's elitism was never what it seemed. T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide refurbishes this great writer for the twenty-first century, presenting him as the complex figure he was, an artist attentive not only to literature but to detective fiction, vaudeville theater, jazz, and the songs of Tin Pan Alley. David Chinitz argues that Eliot was productively engaged with popular culture in some form at every stage of his career, and that his response to it, as expressed in his poetry, plays, and essays, was ambivalent rather than hostile. He shows that American jazz, for example, was a major influence on Eliot's poetry during its maturation. He discusses Eliot's surprisingly persistent interest in popular culture both in such famous works as The Waste Land and in such lesser-known pieces as Sweeney Agonistes. And he traces Eliot's long, quixotic struggle to close the widening gap between high art and popular culture through a new type of public art: contemporary popular verse drama. What results is a work that will persuade adherents and detractors alike to return to Eliot and find in him a writer who liked a good show, a good thriller, and a good tune, as well as a "great" poem.

Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture Ct S Eliot

Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture Ct S Eliot

Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture

Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture

T S Eliot

Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture

In Bluebeard S Castle

T S Eliot And The Cultural Divide

In Bluebeard S Castle

Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture

Notes Towards The Definition Of Culture

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