Englishness and National CultureIn this highly engaging book, Antony Easthope examines 'Englishness' as a form and a series of shared discourses. Discussing the subject of 'nation' - a growing area in literary and cultural studies - Easthope offers polemical arguments written in a lively and accessible style. Englishness and National Culture asserts a profound and unacknowledged continuity between the seventeenth century and today. It argues that contemporary journalists, historians, novelists, poets and comedians continue to speak through the voice of a long-standing empiricist tradition. |
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... desire 33 PART II The English tradition 59 3 Empiricism in English philosophy 61 4 An empiricist tradition 87 PART III Englishness today 115 5 The discourse of literary journalism 1 1 7 6 The discourse of history-writing 1 35 7 English ...
... desire 33 PART II The English tradition 59 3 Empiricism in English philosophy 61 4 An empiricist tradition 87 PART III Englishness today 115 5 The discourse of literary journalism 1 1 7 6 The discourse of history-writing 1 35 7 English ...
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... desire to believe that face-to-face contact is real, free from interference by signs, language, 'writing', while opposed to this the larger, more impersonal groupings constructed by modernity are imaginary, false, unreal. In the pre ...
... desire to believe that face-to-face contact is real, free from interference by signs, language, 'writing', while opposed to this the larger, more impersonal groupings constructed by modernity are imaginary, false, unreal. In the pre ...
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... desire as forms of drive (Trieb), instinct, that is, which has become signified or represented. For Hegel identity unfolds in a dialectic with the Other, culminating in absolute self-consciousness in what is essentially an internal ...
... desire as forms of drive (Trieb), instinct, that is, which has become signified or represented. For Hegel identity unfolds in a dialectic with the Other, culminating in absolute self-consciousness in what is essentially an internal ...
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... desire, which will be discussed in more detail in the next chapter). Thus feral children become like the animals who nurture them, and, as is well known, children who are loved come to love themselves while those who are hated, hate ...
... desire, which will be discussed in more detail in the next chapter). Thus feral children become like the animals who nurture them, and, as is well known, children who are loved come to love themselves while those who are hated, hate ...
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... desire, Freud insists that collectivities are by nature non-sexual: In the great artificial groups, the Church and the army, there is no room for woman as a sexual object. The love relation between men and women remains outside these ...
... desire, Freud insists that collectivities are by nature non-sexual: In the great artificial groups, the Church and the army, there is no room for woman as a sexual object. The love relation between men and women remains outside these ...
Contents
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National desire | 55 |
Empiricism in English philosophy | 61 |
An empiricist tradition | 87 |
The discourse of literary journalism | 117 |
The discourse of historywriting | 135 |
English tragedy English comedy | 153 |
Contemporary English poetry | 177 |
identity and difference | 200 |
Bibliography | 230 |
Index | 241 |
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