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- catalog abstract ""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. Now E. Christian Kopff offers an even sharper perspective by viewing America squarely within the classical traditions of ancient Greece and Rome. For, as Kopff demonstrates convincingly, a truly informed, nuanced view of American culture must rest upon an appreciation of our debt to the classical past."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12039105.
- catalog coverage "United States Civilization Classical influences.".
- catalog created "1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
- catalog description ""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. Now E. Christian Kopff offers an even sharper perspective by viewing America squarely within the classical traditions of ancient Greece and Rome. For, as Kopff demonstrates convincingly, a truly informed, nuanced view of American culture must rest upon an appreciation of our debt to the classical past."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Section I: Civilization as narrative -- Tradition and the lunatics -- Learning to tell your story -- The Latin invasions of English -- Back to the future -- The classics, the founding, and American creativity -- Federalism and Christianity -- The enlightenment project -- The Ghost dance: liberalism in crisis -- The classics and the traditional liberal arts curriculum -- Section II: The good, the bad, and the postmodern -- Postmodernism and the end of humanities -- The final solution of the philological problem -- Scholarship and bricolage -- Margaret Fuller in Rome -- Passion and pedantry -- J R R Tolkien: inventing lost worlds -- Section III: Contemporary chronicles: role models and popular culture -- Russell Kirk: Bohemian tory -- Douglas Young: a free-minded Scot -- Still a saigon in my mind -- Paying and praying on the old homestead -- Arms and the man: Clint Eastwood as hero and filmmaker -- Publishers and sinners: arousing interest in the century's top 100 novels -- Things you see better in the dark: the fate of American Cinema.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 327 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Devil knows Latin.".
- catalog identifier "1882926250".
- catalog isFormatOf "Devil knows Latin.".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Wilmington, Del. : ISI Books,".
- catalog relation "Devil knows Latin.".
- catalog spatial "United States Civilization Classical influences.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "480/.071/073 21".
- catalog subject "Civilization, Classical Study and teaching United States.".
- catalog subject "Classical education United States.".
- catalog subject "Classical philology Study and teaching United States.".
- catalog subject "Classicism United States.".
- catalog subject "PA78.U6 K67 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Section I: Civilization as narrative -- Tradition and the lunatics -- Learning to tell your story -- The Latin invasions of English -- Back to the future -- The classics, the founding, and American creativity -- Federalism and Christianity -- The enlightenment project -- The Ghost dance: liberalism in crisis -- The classics and the traditional liberal arts curriculum -- Section II: The good, the bad, and the postmodern -- Postmodernism and the end of humanities -- The final solution of the philological problem -- Scholarship and bricolage -- Margaret Fuller in Rome -- Passion and pedantry -- J R R Tolkien: inventing lost worlds -- Section III: Contemporary chronicles: role models and popular culture -- Russell Kirk: Bohemian tory -- Douglas Young: a free-minded Scot -- Still a saigon in my mind -- Paying and praying on the old homestead -- Arms and the man: Clint Eastwood as hero and filmmaker -- Publishers and sinners: arousing interest in the century's top 100 novels -- Things you see better in the dark: the fate of American Cinema.".
- catalog title "The devil knows Latin : why America needs the classical tradition / E. Christian Kopff.".
- catalog type "text".