Download or read book Cultural Cohesion: The Essential Essays written by Clive James and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clive James presents the "prequel" to his celebrated Cultural Amnesia, forty-nine essays that form a cultural education in one brilliant volume. Following his much-heralded publication of Cultural Amnesia, Clive James presents here his "prequel"-forty-nine essays, which he has selected as representing the best of his half-century career. Cultural Cohesion examines the twisted cultural terrain of the twentieth century in a volume that is not only erudite but also endlessly entertaining. Dividing his book into four sections-"Poetry," "Fiction and Literature," "Culture and Criticism," and ''Visual Images"-James comments on poets like W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin, novelists like D. H. Lawrence and Raymond Chandler, and filmmakers like Fellini and Bogdanovich. Book jacket.