The Concept of English Culture in the Cultural Biographies of Peter Ackroyd

Studies in Literature and Culture. Volume 3

Tomasz Niedokos
ISBN: 978-83-7702-212-2
Stron: 190
Format: 220 x 205 mm
Rok wydania: 2011


CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1. TME NOTION OF "TERRITORIAL IMPERATIVE" IN THE ACKROYDIAN CONCEPT OF ENGLISH CULTURE

1.1 The "Territorial Imperative"
1.2 The Influence of Territory
1.3 The Influence of the Climate
1.4 The Sea, the Countryside and the City
1.5 The "Line of Beauty" versus the Perpendicular Style
1.6 The Antiquarian Tendency in English Culture
1.7 An Attempt at "Total History"
1.8 Strategies of Writing the Place
1.9 English Music
1.10 Conclusion

CHAPTER 2. ACKROYD'S LONDON: REAL AND IMAGINED

2.1 Ackroyd's London
2.2 London Time
2.3. London as Spectacle
2.4. London as Body 2.5 Conclusion

CHAPTER 3. THE BURIED CATHOLIC SENSIBILTY IN THE ACKROYDIAN OF ENGLISH CULTURE

3.1 Culture and Religion
3.2 Schism and Buried Inheritance
3.3 Out of the Ruins
3.4 Communion with the Dead
3.5 "The Streaky Bacon"
3.6 The Analogical Imagination
3.7 Case Study: Milton in America
3.8 Conclusion

CHAPTER 4. FROM POSTMODERNISM TO CULTURAL BIOGRAPHY -ENGLISH AND/VERSUS FOREIGN

4.1 The Englishness of English Culture
4.2 Between Scepticism and Quest for the Absolute
4.3 Notes for a New Culture and Historical Structuralism
4.4 Peter Ackroyd as Cultural Biographer
4.5 Conclusion

CONCLUSION
APPENDIX
BIBLIOGRAPHY