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Published in: Society 1/2024

29-11-2023 | BOOK REVIEW

Clive James, Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time

Picador Collection edition, 2022, 851 pp., ISBN: 978-1529077346

Author: Graham McCann

Published in: Society | Issue 1/2024

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Clive James was a much-misunderstood, and under-appreciated, cultural critic—often by others, and sometimes by himself. It was not uncommon for others to praise him as an entertainer but patronize him as a thinker; it was also not that uncommon for James himself to underestimate the value of the achievements of his writing on popular culture, but overestimate it in his work on more traditional, esoteric, and elitist forms of culture. …
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Title
Clive James, Cultural Amnesia: Notes in the Margin of My Time
Picador Collection edition, 2022, 851 pp., ISBN: 978-1529077346
Author
Graham McCann
Publication date
29-11-2023
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Society / Issue 1/2024
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-023-00940-y

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