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Pretentiousness: Why it Matters

By (author) Dan Fox

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What is pretentiousness? Why do we despise it? And more controversially: why is it vital to a thriving culture? In this brilliant, passionate essay, Dan Fox argues that it has always been an essential mechanism of the arts, from the most wildly successful pop music and fashion through to the most recondite avenues of literature and the visual arts. Pretentiousness: Why it Matters unpacks the uses and abuses of the term, tracing its connections to theatre, politics and class, advocating critical imagination over knee-jerk accusations of elitism or simple fear of the new and the different. This book is a timely defence of pretentiousness as a necessity for innovation and diversity in our culture.

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Normally shipped | Available from overseas. Dispatched in aprox 4-8 weeks as local supplier is out of stock
Publisher | Fitzcarraldo Editions
Published date | 17 Apr 2024
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 176
Dimensions | 197 x 114 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-8042-7093-6
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BISAC | literary collections / essays

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The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes

William Kelleher Storey
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528 pages
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This first comprehensive biography of Cecil Rhodes in a generation illuminates Rhodes’s vision for the expansion of imperialism in southern Africa, connecting politics and industry to internal development, and examines how this fueled a lasting, white-dominated colonial society.

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