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The outstanding quality of Richard Hoggart's new book is its charm. Throughout, Hoggart considers the public ideas and events which have interested him, and their intertwinings with his personal life.

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The outstanding quality of Richard Hoggart's new book is its charm. In the style of Montaigne, Hoggart looks back over his years and pinpoints those human qualities which have come to mean most to him and which he has appreciated in others. Part of this man's charm derives from the fact that like most truly great men he is also extremely self-effacing. Literacy and the use of language remain an abiding concern of Professor Hoggart but he also analyses in these pages the nature of human courage, the uses of memory, the true purposes of education, love and charity, and the approach of the Grim Reaper. Throughout, Hoggart considers the public ideas and events which have interested him, and their intertwinings with his personal life. Examples would be- the family, politics, the intellectual life, beliefs and morals, words and writing. All of these are looked at through what the author describes as his 'time telescope'. Thus this book is not a theoretical or abstract record. Its argument is illustrated from life. We live in the age of the cult of youth and personality. Our lives are increasingly driven and influenced by The Media.But in these pages is contained the wisdom of one of the most astute and perceptive of our contemporary critics - a literary, social and cultural judge who is also very greatly loved by his admirers. >

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Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
ISBN-10
0826482732
ISBN-13
9780826482730
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Author
Richard Hoggart
Publication Name
Promises to Keep : Thoughts in Old Age
Format
Uk-Trade PAPER
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
160 Pages

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8in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
5.9 Oz

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'Part of the book's charm is its unpredictability. You can never be sure what is waiting for you as you turn the page... a beguiling melange of anecdote and consideration... we can be grateful for Richard Hoggart's unemphatic words.' Times Literary Supplement, 'A revealing and amusing book... although he writes as an agnostic, he returns again and again to Christianity.', 'this is a timely and important book, and a very good one. Alongside quotations garnered from a lifetime's reading, there is much to treasure....The elderly should read this, find comfort and enjoy their sunset's many consolations. The young should read it, take stock and relearn to respect their elders.' The Times, 04/11/2006, "Hoggart's accounts are rich in detail and in personal leaps of imagination, doubts and tremors." "a reflective book, with a conversational style, which made me think about the 'discourse of empathy' and the potential contribution of cultural studies to enlarge gerontology's disciplinary foundations." Ageing and Society Vol.27-2007, Cambridge University Press
Table of Content
1. Realising that Old Age Approaches 2. Great and Terrible Happenings 3. Family Matters 4. Uncertainties and After 5. Introduction to Intellectual Life 6. Self Love, Belief, Morals 7. Words and Writing 8. Memory 9. Among Thoughts of Death
Copyright Date
2006
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Literary, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Europe / Great Britain / General
Dewey Decimal
001.1092
Dewey Edition
22
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science

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