The devil knows Latin : why America needs the classical tradition / E. Christian Kopff.

"For generations scholars treated the United States as a unique country whose cultural history could be studied in isolation from world events and traditions. More recently, writers have shown an increased awareness that American society, far from developing in a protected, ahistorical realm, c...

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Main Author: Kopff, E. Christian
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books, 1999.
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505 0 |a Section I: Civilization as narrative -- Tradition and the lunatics -- Learning to tell your story -- The Latin invasions of English -- Back to the future -- The classics, the founding, and American creativity -- Federalism and Christianity -- The enlightenment project -- The Ghost dance: liberalism in crisis -- The classics and the traditional liberal arts curriculum -- Section II: The good, the bad, and the postmodern -- Postmodernism and the end of humanities -- The final solution of the philological problem -- Scholarship and bricolage -- Margaret Fuller in Rome -- Passion and pedantry -- J R R Tolkien: inventing lost worlds -- Section III: Contemporary chronicles: role models and popular culture -- Russell Kirk: Bohemian tory -- Douglas Young: a free-minded Scot -- Still a saigon in my mind -- Paying and praying on the old homestead -- Arms and the man: Clint Eastwood as hero and filmmaker -- Publishers and sinners: arousing interest in the century's top 100 novels -- Things you see better in the dark: the fate of American Cinema. 
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