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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... organised on a basis which is unconscious as well as conscious. National collectivities identify with the overt symbols of nationhood (flags, presidents) but my proposal is that a much deeper effect is achieved through identification ...
... organised on a basis which is unconscious as well as conscious. National collectivities identify with the overt symbols of nationhood (flags, presidents) but my proposal is that a much deeper effect is achieved through identification ...
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... organise against us (Not!) And lead us not into Trade Unionism, but deliver us from Scargill. For thine is the Jingo the Land of Hope and Glory, For ever and ever, School without Roof Amen. Source: Guardian, 16 January 1996. Tate's ...
... organise against us (Not!) And lead us not into Trade Unionism, but deliver us from Scargill. For thine is the Jingo the Land of Hope and Glory, For ever and ever, School without Roof Amen. Source: Guardian, 16 January 1996. Tate's ...
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... organisations such as the Labour Party or Amnesty International, groups we can 'join or leave' at will (1991, p. 144) has very little charge compared to our love of nation, a group we have not chosen to join? Common sense furnishes him ...
... organisations such as the Labour Party or Amnesty International, groups we can 'join or leave' at will (1991, p. 144) has very little charge compared to our love of nation, a group we have not chosen to join? Common sense furnishes him ...
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... organisation, with the power to require obedience and loyalty from its citizens. A nation is a community of people, whose members are bound together by a sense of solidarity, a common culture, a national consciousness. (Seton-Watson ...
... organisation, with the power to require obedience and loyalty from its citizens. A nation is a community of people, whose members are bound together by a sense of solidarity, a common culture, a national consciousness. (Seton-Watson ...
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... organisations. Even where groups are formed which are composed of both men and women the distinction between the sexes plays no part. There is scarcely any sense in asking whether the libido which keeps groups together is of a ...
... organisations. Even where groups are formed which are composed of both men and women the distinction between the sexes plays no part. There is scarcely any sense in asking whether the libido which keeps groups together is of a ...
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