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Our culture, what's left of it : the mandarins and the masses / Theodore Dalrymple.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2005Description: xi, 341 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1566636434
  • 9781566636438
Uniform titles:
  • City journal (New York, N.Y.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610.92 22
LOC classification:
  • HM621 .D35 2005
  • R489.D357 A3 2005
Contents:
Arts and letters. The frivolity of evil ; A taste for danger ; Why Shakespeare is for all time ; Sex and the Shakespeare reader ; What's wrong with twinkling buttocks? ; The rage of Virginia Woolf ; How--and how not--to love mankind ; A neglected genius ; The dystopian imagination ; A lost art ; Gillray's ungloomy morality ; Trash, violence, and Versace: but is it art? -- Society and politics. What we have to lose ; How to read a society ; Why Havana had to die ; The uses of corruption ; The goddess of domestic tribulations ; The starving criminal ; Don't legalize drugs ; All sex, all the time ; Who killed childhood? ; A horror story ; The man who predicted the race riots ; When Islam breaks down ; The barbarians at the gates of Paris ; After empire.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 610.92 DAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A401797B

"Most of the contents of this book first appeared in City journal, published by The Manhattan Institute"--T.p. verso.

Includes index.

Arts and letters. The frivolity of evil ; A taste for danger ; Why Shakespeare is for all time ; Sex and the Shakespeare reader ; What's wrong with twinkling buttocks? ; The rage of Virginia Woolf ; How--and how not--to love mankind ; A neglected genius ; The dystopian imagination ; A lost art ; Gillray's ungloomy morality ; Trash, violence, and Versace: but is it art? -- Society and politics. What we have to lose ; How to read a society ; Why Havana had to die ; The uses of corruption ; The goddess of domestic tribulations ; The starving criminal ; Don't legalize drugs ; All sex, all the time ; Who killed childhood? ; A horror story ; The man who predicted the race riots ; When Islam breaks down ; The barbarians at the gates of Paris ; After empire.

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