Can we conclude that T.S.Eliot's ideas about culture are 'elitist' and leave it at that?
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 02:40:07
Category: / History / War & Conflicts
Length: 7 pages (1868 words)
Category: / History / War & Conflicts
Length: 7 pages (1868 words)
Eliot writes of culture as "the way of life of a particular people living together in one place. That culture is made visible in their arts, in their social system, in their habits and customs, in their religion.(Milner, A (1994) Contemporary Cultural Theory: An Introduction. London: UCC Press.)
A culture, then according to Eliot is one which is shared in common by a whole people, although he believed it was not shared equally between the …
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