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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Cultural passions
    sub title: fans, aesthetes and tarot readers
  name:
    name part: Wilson, Elizabeth
    name part: 1936-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Ebook Library
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (232 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: Elizabeth Wilson is one of our most radical cultural critics. In Cultural Passions she transcends the division between 'high' and 'low' culture, exploring the emotional commitment people bring to the books, performances, objects and rituals in which they find meaning and challenging an enduring suspicion of the pleasure of the aesthetic. Ranging from Marcel Proust to tarot readings, from urban planning to interiors, Elizabeth Wilson investigates an underlying Puritanism in critical commentary on matters as wide ranging as Roger Federer and C S Lewis, Surrealism and fashion and the relationship of religion to fan culture. She questions why pleasure appears suspect, even as consumer society incites it and turns life into entertainment. She questions why there is such fear of elitism when at the same time the fans of mass culture are held in contempt. Subverting conventional views, her oblique point of view provides startling insights on both familiar and marginal cultural experiences.
  note: Elizabeth Wilson.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Culture
  subject:
    topic: Aesthetics
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
  classification: HM621 .W55 2013eb
  classification: 306
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Cultural passions
    name:
      name part: Wilson, Elizabeth, 1936- author.
    identifier: (OCoLC)826659573
  identifier: 9780857722188 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0857722182 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781780762852
  identifier: 1780762852
  identifier: 1780762860
  identifier: 9781780762869
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 130626
    record change date: 20250816223759.9
    record identifier: in00003390844