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Cynicism in British post-war culture : ignorance, dust and disease, Kieran Curran, (electronic book ;)
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- Summary
- This book is the first academic text to examine cynicism as a driving force in the context of post-war British culture. It maps a sensibility that transcends divisions between high and low culture, and encompasses figures such as Philip Larkin, John Lennon and Stephen Patrick Morrissey.
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 232 p.
- Contents
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- Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Annus Mirabilis - Philip Larkin 2. Work Is A Curse - John Wain/Kingsley Amis/Iris Murdoch 3. Just Another Sunday Evening - John Osborne/Jazz 4. That's What I'm Not - British New Wave Cinema 5. I've Heard Of Politics, But This Is Ridiculous - TV Satire/Comedy 6. Bed Peace - John Lennon 7. Quiet Riot - Stephen Poliakoff 8. No Future/No Alternative - Punk and The Cynic Sensibility 9. Before The Moon Falls - The Fall 10. Somehow That Really Impressed Me - The Smiths Conclusion
- Isbn
- 9781137444349
- Label
- Cynicism in British post-war culture : ignorance, dust and disease
- Title
- Cynicism in British post-war culture
- Title remainder
- ignorance, dust and disease
- Statement of responsibility
- Kieran Curran
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This book is the first academic text to examine cynicism as a driving force in the context of post-war British culture. It maps a sensibility that transcends divisions between high and low culture, and encompasses figures such as Philip Larkin, John Lennon and Stephen Patrick Morrissey.
- Cataloging source
- UK-WkNB
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Curran, Kieran
- Dewey number
- 306.0941
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Popular culture
- Cynicism
- Great Britain
- Summary expansion
- Cynicism is a neglected subject for investigation in post-war British cultural history, perhaps due to its apparent omnipresence. Kieran Curran aims to rectify this omission by lucidly connecting together literature, music and film as common avatars of the cynic sensibility. Transcending barriers between high and low culture, Curran maps cynicism from 1950 (the end of post-war austerity) to 1987 (the year of the break-up of the Smiths), spanning a number of significant historical moments in the process: decolonisation and the erosion of the British Empire; the expansion of higher education (particularly in the wake of the Robbins Report of 1963); the radical comprehensivisation of secondary education; the dismantling of railways with a parallel valorisation of car culture; and the neo-colonial excursion of the Falklands War
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- Cynicism in British post-war culture : ignorance, dust and disease, Kieran Curran, (electronic book ;)
- Contents
- Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Annus Mirabilis - Philip Larkin 2. Work Is A Curse - John Wain/Kingsley Amis/Iris Murdoch 3. Just Another Sunday Evening - John Osborne/Jazz 4. That's What I'm Not - British New Wave Cinema 5. I've Heard Of Politics, But This Is Ridiculous - TV Satire/Comedy 6. Bed Peace - John Lennon 7. Quiet Riot - Stephen Poliakoff 8. No Future/No Alternative - Punk and The Cynic Sensibility 9. Before The Moon Falls - The Fall 10. Somehow That Really Impressed Me - The Smiths Conclusion
- Control code
- 9781137444356
- Extent
- 232 p.
- Form of item
- electronic
- Isbn
- 9781137444349
- Specific material designation
- unspecified
- Type of computer file
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- PDF.
- Users can print and/or download individual articles/chapters and other individual items from Palgrave Connect ebooks, limited to no more than one chapter per title per authorised user
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- Cynicism in British post-war culture : ignorance, dust and disease, Kieran Curran, (electronic book ;)
- Contents
- Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Annus Mirabilis - Philip Larkin 2. Work Is A Curse - John Wain/Kingsley Amis/Iris Murdoch 3. Just Another Sunday Evening - John Osborne/Jazz 4. That's What I'm Not - British New Wave Cinema 5. I've Heard Of Politics, But This Is Ridiculous - TV Satire/Comedy 6. Bed Peace - John Lennon 7. Quiet Riot - Stephen Poliakoff 8. No Future/No Alternative - Punk and The Cynic Sensibility 9. Before The Moon Falls - The Fall 10. Somehow That Really Impressed Me - The Smiths Conclusion
- Control code
- 9781137444356
- Extent
- 232 p.
- Form of item
- electronic
- Isbn
- 9781137444349
- Specific material designation
- unspecified
- Type of computer file
-
- PDF.
- Users can print and/or download individual articles/chapters and other individual items from Palgrave Connect ebooks, limited to no more than one chapter per title per authorised user
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