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portada Heresies and Heretics: Memories of the Twentieth Century
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2013
Language
English
Pages
198
Format
Paperback
ISBN
0718892925
ISBN13
9780718892920
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Heresies and Heretics: Memories of the Twentieth Century

George Watson (Author) · Lutterworth Press · Paperback

Heresies and Heretics: Memories of the Twentieth Century - George Watson

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Synopsis "Heresies and Heretics: Memories of the Twentieth Century "

In his enjoyably iconoclastic book, George Watson discusses some of the great cultural heresies of the twentieth century and the heretics who espoused them, often with surprising results. He provides us with examples of 'true' original heretics from Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, who asserted that his study of the remote past had made a radical of him rather than any influence of modernism, to Douglas Adams, whom Watson knew as an undergraduate. Watson forces us to question various long-cherished political and intellectual assumptions in witty and conversational style. Is snobbery really such a bad thing? Have we ignored the links between socialism and genocide? He touches entertainingly upon subjects as diverse as literary theory (experimental fiction is often the last resort of those who have nothing to say), and the unoriginal conformism of teenage Marxists incapable of actually reading Marx because he is too boring. This is a work that will delight any reader seeking a uniquely personal perspective on the culture, history and personalities of the twentieth century. George Watson is a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, author of 'The Literary Critics' and general editor of the 'New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'. He is author of 'The Lost Literature of Socialism' (1998, 2nd edition 2010); 'Never Ones For Theory? England and the War of Ideas' (2001); 'Take Back the Past: Myths of the Twentieth Century' (2007); and 'The Story of the Novel' (2008).

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