The devil knows Latin : why America needs the classical tradition / E. Christian Kopff.
The devil knows Latin : why America needs the classical tradition / E. Christian Kopff.
The devil knows Latin : why America needs the classical tradition / E. Christian Kopff.
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Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N480.07107/1
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English
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xvii, 313 p. ; 22 cm.
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Sect. I. Civilization as Narrative. I. Tradition and the Lunatics. II. Learning to Tell Your Story. III. The Latin Invasions of English. IV. Back to the Future. V. The Classics, the Founding, and American Creativity. VI. Federalism and Christianity. VII. The Enlightenment Project. VIII. The Ghost Da...
XXI. Publishers and Sinners: Arousing Interest in the Century's Top 100 Novels. XXII. Things You See Better in the Dark: The Fate of American Cinema -- Epilogue: Optatives and Imperatives for the Next Millennium -- App. Doing it On Your Own.
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Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books, 1999.
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Delaware
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1999.
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For generations scholars treated the United States as a unique country whose cultural history could be studied in isolation from world events and traditions. More recently, writers have shown an increased awareness that American society, far from developing in a protected, ahistorical realm, can be understood only as part of a wider civilization. N...
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The devil knows Latin : why America needs the classical tradition / E. Christian Kopff.
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1882926579 (pbk.)
9781882926251
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480.071073
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991014253149702626
