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Heresies and heretics : memories of the twentieth century /
In this enjoyably iconoclastic book, George Watson discusses some of the great heresies of the twentieth century, and the cultural heretics who espoused them, often with surprising results. Watson provides us with examples of 'true', original heretics, from Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, who as...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Lutterworth Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- ""Front cover ""; ""Other Titles by George Watson from The Lutterworth Press ""; ""Title page ""; ""The Lutterworth Press""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""I Heresies ""; ""1. Who Are the Heretics?""; ""2. The War of the Canon""; ""3. A View from the Basement""; ""4. The Virtue of Verse ""; ""5. The Privilege of Absurdity""; ""6. The Best of British""; ""7. Making History""; ""8. Shooting the President""; ""9. Commonplaces""; ""10. No Marx for Engels""; ""II More Heresies ""; ""11. Americanophilia""; ""12. The Americanness of Poetry""; ""13. The Rain in Spain""
- ""14. Educating the Prime Minister""""15. The Indictment of the Germans""; ""16. Thoughts on a Dead Elephant""; ""17. The Sudden Death of Imperial Guilt""; ""III The Heretics ""; ""18. P.G. Wodehouse""; ""19. The Forgotten Churchill""; ""20. Arthur Quiller-Couch""; ""21. E.M. Forster""; ""22. C.P. Snow""; ""23. Hugh Sykes Davies""; ""24. Angus Wilson""; ""25. Moses Finley""; ""26. Hugh Trevor-Roper""; ""27. Frank Kermode""; ""28. Douglas Adams""; ""You might also be interested in other titles by George Watson ""; ""Back cover ""