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THE MODERN CULTURAL MYTH OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMA IBD

JONATHAN THEODORE
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
12 / 2018
9781349848935
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This book investigates the âÇÖdecline and fallâÇÖ of Rome as perceived and imagined in aspects of British and American culture and thought from the late nineteenth through the early twenty-first centuries. It explores the ways in which writers, filmmakers and the media have conceptualized this process and the parallels they have drawn, deliberately or unconsciously, to their contemporary world. Jonathan Theodore argues that the decline and fall of Rome is no straightforward historical fact, but a âÇÖmythâÇÖ in terms coined by Claude Lévi-Strauss, meaning not a âÇÖfalsehoodâÇÖ but a complex social and ideological construct. Instead, it represents the fears of European and American thinkers as they confront the perceived instability and pitfalls of the civilization to which they belonged. The material gathered in this book illustrates the value of this idea as a spatiotemporal concept, rather than a historical event - a narrative with its own unique moral purpose.á

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35,80€