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Notes Towards a Definition of Culture
T. S. Eliot
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Description for Notes Towards a Definition of Culture
Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 110.
'The term culture ... includes all the characteristic activities and interests of a people; Derby Day, Henley Regatta, Cowes, the twelfth of August, a cup final, the dog races, the pin table, the dart board, Wensleydale cheese, boiled cabbage cut into sections, beetroot in vinegar, 19th-century Gothic churches and the music of Elgar. The reader can make his own list ...'
In this famous essay T. S. Eliot examines the principal uses of the word, and the conditions in which culture itself can flourish.
'So rich in ideas that it is difficult to select two or three of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1973
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571063130
SKU
V9780571063130
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99-99
About T. S. Eliot
Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in St Louis, Missouri, in 1888. He settled in England in 1915 and published his first book of poems in 1917. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Eliot died in 1965.
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