Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 222 pages)
Edition:
First edition
Edition:
Also available in print
ISBN:
0857722182
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0857733583
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1780762852
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1780762860
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9780857733580
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9781780762852
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9780755603459
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9780857722188
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9781780762869
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9780857722188
Content:
Elizabeth Wilson is one of our most radical cultural critics. In Cultural Passions she transcends the division between 'high' and 'low' culture, exploring the emotional commitment people bring to the books, performances, objects and rituals in which they find meaning and challenging an enduring suspicion of the pleasure of the aesthetic. Ranging from Marcel Proust to tarot readings, from urban planning to interiors, Elizabeth Wilson investigates an underlying Puritanism in critical commentary on matters as wide ranging as Roger Federer and C S Lewis, Surrealism and fashion and the relationshi
Content:
Part 1: Cultural diseases. Introduction ; Pleasure's dangers ; Looking backwards: Nostalgia mode -- Part 2: Fashion. Magic fashion ; Glamour: The secret behind the sheen ; Dressed to kill ; Camouflage and its vicissitudes ; Fashion and memory ; Urbane fashion -- Part 3: The future we have lost. Austerity in retrospect: The glamour of masochism ; Post-war perverts ; Bethnal green -- Part 4: Magic moments. Modern magic ; 'Disoriented agnosticism': Reading the Tarot ; Secret worlds ; Temporary gods ; Conclusion.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-215) and index
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Also available in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781780762852
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wilson, Elizabeth, 1936- Cultural passions ISBN 9781780762852
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9780755603459
