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Clive James' Europe without Baedeker.(Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time)(Book review)
Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time, by Clive James; Picador, 2007, $49.95.
I find that any self-respecting artist must be, and in more than one sense of the term, an emigre.
--Witold Gombrowicz
THE EMIGRE Clive James is surely one of the t good things English journalism has going for it. Who else in that often insular and leftist culture could produce a book with the literary range, political good sense, and sometimes depth, of Cultural Amnesia? It has over 100 chapters on mainly European writers, organised alphabetically from Ahkmatova to Zweig. Each chapter gives James' liberal-conservative reflections on the issues, great and ...
- Clive James. Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the...
- Magazine article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics Levinson, Martin H. July 1, 2008 700+ words
Clive James. Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History...Arts. New York: Norton, 2007. Clive James, an author of numerous books of...they should be remembered and why cultural amnesia is a continuing danger. One might...
- This is one strange book. Strange and frequently wonderful.(While We're At...
- Magazine article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Neuhaus, Richard John October 1, 2007 700+ words
...frequently wonderful. Weighing in at 852 pages, Clive James' Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts is...like a literary Rorschach test: Name a name and Clive James will tell you what comes to his mind. It is a game...
- Fallen heroes.(Books)(Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the...
- Magazine article from: Commonweal Lakeland, Paul November 23, 2007 700+ words
Cultural Amnesia Necessary Memories from History and the Arts Clive James Norton, $35, 768 pp. Somewhere in...life for his readers is the business of Cultural Amnesia, James's vast, sprawling tribute...
- "Cultural Amnesia" Threatens Democracy.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine) August 1, 2001 700+ words
...Americans' grasp of history is slipping away, and this cultural amnesia is a threat to democracy, according to Stephen Bertman...cites four "memory killers" that account for Americans' Cultural amnesia: * The passage of time has stripped historical events...
- Cultural Amnesia: A Threat to Our Future.
- Magazine article from: The Futurist Bertman, Stephen January 1, 2001 700+ words
Like Alzheimer's disease, cultural amnesia is a progressive and debilitating disease. It may threaten...history and the value of remembering, inducing a state of cultural amnesia in the American mind. Each day, fewer and fewer of the...
- Cultural amnesia; necessary memories from history and the arts.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News August 1, 2007 700+ words
9780393061161 Cultural amnesia; necessary memories from history and the arts. James, Clive. W.W. Norton 2007 876 pages $35.00 Hardcover CB245 On one...
- America is suffering from cultural amnesia. (American Thought).
- Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine) Bertman, Stephen November 1, 2001 700+ words
...a bomb had ever been used. The shocking results of these surveys show Americans are suffering from a disease called "cultural amnesia," the social equivalent of Alzheimer's disease. Unlike Alzheimer's, though, it afflicts the young as well as the...
- Washington's Bad Case Of Cultural Amnesia; The Case for Rediscovering The...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Benjamin Forgey April 24, 1988 700+ words
...work them out. There's a living art history here, still waiting to be told. Conventional reasons for this city's cultural amnesia are pretty persuasive. It's a capital city, a power city, a transient city. Witness the television commercials and...
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