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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2005.Description: xi, 341 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781566636438
  • 1566636434
  • 9781566637213
  • 156663721X
Uniform titles:
  • City journal (New York, N.Y.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306
LOC classification:
  • .D35 2005
Online resources:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
General Lending Carlow Campus Library General Lending 306 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 67077
General Lending Wexford Campus Library Wexford General Lending 306 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 59314

Includes index.

CW017

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

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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