Classical Indiscretions A Millennial Enquiry into the Status of the Classics,9780715629703

Classical Indiscretions A Millennial Enquiry into the Status of the Classics

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ISBN13: 9780715629703
ISBN10: 0715629700
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-08-23
Publisher(s): Bristol Classical Pr
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Classical Philology at the University of Siena, Italy, and at the University of California at Berkeley. His publications include The Portrait of the Lover.

Table of Contents

Preface 7(2)
The Age of Futility
9(5)
The Tyranny of Time
14(24)
The Urge for Instant Gratification
38(22)
Belated Invocation
60(1)
Time and the Canon
61(17)
The Search for the Classics
78(45)
The Classics in an Age of Indiscretion
123(8)
Epilogue 131(13)
Notes 144(12)
Index 156

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