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Book Description: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2001. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 235 x 155 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. Oral culture, just because it does not have an inexhaustible memory at its disposal, by nature tends to preserve its cultural inheritance. Written culture forgets nothing: but when everything can be recalled or somehow retrieved, the problem becomes what to remember and what to comprise to oblivion. This provocative book, written with a light touch, rooted in the Classics but ranging over the whole of Western literary culture, addresses many of the major issues that face us at the turn of the millennium. What is our shared cultural curency? What use - good or bad - do we make of it? Why should anyone involve themselves with the Classics? The tyranny of the anniversary and the magpie nature of the anthology, the urge for instant gratification, the attraction of the cultural canon, the way writing encloses or even imprisons - all these themes are brought together in a passionate plea for the Classics as essentially impervious to these vulgar urges of our age - the Age of Indiscretion. Bookseller Inventory # AAW9780715629703

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Book Description: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd, 2001. Paperback. Book Condition: New. New and in stock. Book. Bookseller Inventory # 0715629700

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Book Description: Duckbacks, 2001. Paperback. Book Condition: Brand New. first edition edition. 192 pages. 9.50x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # 0715629700

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Book Description: Duckworth Pub, United Kingdom, 2001. Book Condition: New. FLAWLESS COPY, BRAND NEW, PRISTINE, NEVER OPENED - 192pp pages; 5 x 8 1/2 inches -- A progressive study of the identity of the Classics & the idea of culture in a post-modern age -- This provocative book, written with a light touch but firmly rooted in the Classics, ranges over the whole of Western literary cultures, addressing many of the major issues we face at the turn of the millennium. What is our shared cultural currency? What use, good or bad, do we make of it? Why should anyone study the Classics? The tyranny of millennial introspection, the urge for instant gratification, the attraction of the cultural cannon, the way writing encloses or even imprisons – all these themes are brought together in a passionate plea for the Classics as essentially impervious to these vulgar urges of our age – the Age of Indiscretion. -- REVIEW: "Maurizio Bettini is one of the most original thinkers currently working in the field of Classics. Reading Classical Indiscretions is an unsettling experience --Bettini tickles the intellectual fancy but at the same time raises profound questions about the study of Classics at this millennial moment. This book will intrigue and provoke anyone concerned with the intersection of antiquity and modernity." -- Professor Susanna Morton Braund, Yale University -- TOC: Preface * 1. The Age of Futility * 2. The Tyranny of Time * 3. The Urge for Instant Gratification * 4. Belated Invocation * 5. Time and the Canon * 6. The Search for the Classics * 7. The Classics in an Age of Indiscretion * Epilogue * Notes * Index. Bookseller Inventory # 34990

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