John Carey, Author Oxford University Press $29.95 (286p) ISBN 978-0-19-530554-8
""People in the West have been saying extravagant things about the arts for two and a half centuries,"" sighs Carey, Professor of English at Oxford and eminent critic, at the outset of this witty and irreverent dismissal of cultural elitism, his...
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John Carey, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (246p) ISBN 978-0-312-09833-9
This scathing critique argues that modernist literature and art arose as a reaction against popular culture and the mass reading public created by late 19th-century educational reforms. Oxford Enlgish professor Carey shows how intellectuals like D....
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John Carey. Yale Univ., $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-300-23222-6
In this clever, wide-ranging history, British literary critic Carey (The Essential Paradise Lost) provides a tour of Western poetry, from Homer to Maya Angelou. Each brief chapter tackles one or more poets representative of a particular era, with...
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