10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYPERCIVILIZED»
Discover the use of
hypercivilized in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
hypercivilized and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
...[Inge] has probed gently and with sympathy into the characters...Since he writes with skill and clarity, Inge has transferred this sympathy to me. --NY Daily News.
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The Conquest of Happiness
As a conscious sentiment, expressed in set terms, this involves no doubt a
hypercivilized and intellectual outlook upon the world, but as a vague instinctive
emotion it is primitive and natural, and it is its absence that is hypercivilized. A
man ...
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Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives
On his long travels home, Odysseus visits (voluntarily or not) a variety of cultures
— islands with a single inhabitant (Calypso, Circe), primitive societies, and
hypercivilized ones; his travels are an education into the possibilities of social life
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Marianna Torgovnick, 1991
The screenplay for Kubrik's 1962 film tells the story of an older man's obsession with a young girl
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, 1974
Awe and exhiliration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet ...
Humbert Humbert - scholar, aesthete and romantic - has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze, his landlady's gum-snapping, silky skinned twelve-year-old daughter.
The result of all these swift advances is that the youth at 18 has a man's body, at
least when excessive indoor life and hypercivilized regimen have not checked
and enfeebled his bodily health and growth, as unfortunately they too often do in
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Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew, 1909
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature
But even the Romans of the hypercivilized days of the empire had not lost all
vestiges of this feeling, as many passages besides those quoted by M. Friedl'
ander from Seneca, Pliny, and others, tend to show. The second source of their
interest ...
John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele, 1865
By his side stands Dr. Leete, a physician of that hypercivilized epoch, and from
him he learns the antecedents of his remarkably sound sleep. His old house has
perished by fire, leaving him immured in the subterranean chamber. In dan
course ...
us back to the primitive conditions of savage life. The wide gulf that separates the
civilized, and only too often hypercivilized woman of the twentieth century from
the oft-cited squaw who almost literally sheds her pappouses by the wayside, ...
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HYPERCIVILIZED»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
hypercivilized is used in the context of the following news items.
Don't Eat Fried Chicken
Diamond asks instead: Are there things that we hypercivilized humans can learn from our vanishing primitive past? If so, what are they? «TheStranger.com, Jan 13»
Daniel Mendelsohn's essays in 'Waiting for the Barbarians' take a …
... the problem is the movie's intellectually incoherent portrayal of its fictional heroes as both admirably precivilized and admirably hypercivilized ... «Plain Dealer, Nov 12»
Internet and social media behavior 101
But what they forget, or don't know, is that in America (and in hypercivilized England), people used to spit on the street all the time, up through ... «Christian Science Monitor, May 10»
Mr. Sammler's City
You opened a jeweled door into degradation, from hypercivilized Byzantine luxury straight into the state of nature.” The novel's personification ... «City Journal, May 08»
Upper East Side Reinforces Its Own Worst Stereotypes
In these hypercivilized parts, even vandals are reprimanded politely. [flickr/Stu_Jo] Upper West Side: Philip Milstein, who just bought Leonard ... «New York Magazine, Mar 07»
Flower, Song and Kitsch: A Story of How Immigration Rescues Irony
... “La Raza Cosmica”—the Cosmic Race—that claims that Mexican culture is hypercivilized because of its hybridity). Consequently, in the midst ... «Brooklyn Rail, Jun 06»
