Theatres of Memory. Volume 1: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Published by Verso, London, 1994
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Verso, 1994, first edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Black cloth hardback with gilt titles on spine. Clean and bright in a near perfect dust jacket (two tiny pressure marks on the back of the jacket). tall octavo, 9 1/2 inches tall. 479pp.
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- Title
- Theatres of Memory. Volume 1: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture
- Author
- Samuel, Raphael
- Publisher
- Verso, London
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0860912094
- ISBN 13
- 9780860912095
- Edition
- First Edition
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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- Literary Criticism, Plays and the Theatre
According to critics of the heritage industry the current obsession with the past signals not a return to tradition but the exhaustion of history's grand narratives. The postmodern condition, so the argument runs, is one where the future has spectacularly parted company from the past. Nostalgia is the sigh of the historically orphaned, heritage a symptom of national decay.
In this book-the first of a trilogy-Raphael Samuel takes issue with the heritage baiters. He offers an alternative genealogy of resurrectionism, relating it to the environmentalist movements of our time. He argues that we live in an expanding historical culture, one which is newly alert to the evidence of the visual, and which is reconnecting the study of landscape and townscape to that of the natural world. It is also, he argues, more democratic than earlier versions of the national past, and much more hospitable to hitherto stigmatized minorities. The volume is prefaced with a long essay on unofficial knowledge and has an Afterword on 'allegories of the real'.
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