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The Modern Cultural Myth of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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Palgrave Macmillan


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Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media

Paru le : 2016-08-13

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This book investigates the ‘decline and fall’ of Rome as perceived and imagined in aspects of British and American culture and thought from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries. It explores the ways in which writers, filmmakers and the media have conceptualized this process and the parallels they have drawn, deliberately or unconsciously, to their contemporary world. Jonathan Theodore argues that the decline and fall of Rome is no straightforward historical fact, but a ‘myth’ in terms coined by Claude Lévi-Strauss, meaning not a ‘falsehood’ but a complex social and ideological construct. Instead, it represents the fears of European and American thinkers as they confront the perceived instability and pitfalls of the civilization to which they belonged. The material gathered in this book illustrates the value of this idea as a spatiotemporal concept, rather than a historical event – a narrative with its own unique moral purpose. 
Pages
228 pages
Collection
Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media
Parution
2016-08-13
Marque
Palgrave Macmillan
EAN papier
9781137569967
EAN PDF
9781137569974
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
22
Taille du fichier
2028 Ko
Prix
28,47 €
EAN EPUB
9781137569974
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
2
Nombre pages imprimables
22
Taille du fichier
502 Ko
Prix
28,47 €

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