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The Frenzy of Renown: Fame & Its History by Braudy, Leo
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195040031
ISBN-13
9780195040036
eBay Product ID (ePID)
61443
Product Key Features
Book Title
Frenzy of Renown : Fame and Its History
Number of Pages
662 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1986
Topic
Popular Culture, General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
43 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
85-029659
Dewey Edition
19
Reviews
"An impressive tour de force in which the author is at various times historian, art and literary critic, philosopher, philologist--and media maven." --Erich Segal, Washington Post Book World, "An admirably polished, dispassionate and illuminating account...Braudy's erudition is formidable, and the grace and intelligence with which he puts his immense range of sources to work make for a book of exceptional breadth and power."--The Nation, "One of the year's most impressive cultural critiques, a wide-ranging examination of fame from Alexander the Great to Farrah Fawcett."--The Philadelphia Inquirer, "The Frenzy of Renown...makes one think about famous people, deeds and ideas in a new way....[It] is rich in original insights and...surprisingly free of received opinion."--Susan Jacoby, The New York Times Book Review, "A well-knit and compelling narrative... Mr. Braudy moves easily across centuries and cultures...[and] has a keen eye for the history encapsulated in words." --John Gross, The New York Times
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The
Dewey Decimal
306/.4
Synopsis
The lust for recognition has become so great in the twentieth century as to manifest itself in outright insanities--ranging from mass murderers in search of headlines to the frustrated author who buzzed the UN in order to force his publisher to give his book more attention. What is behind the drive to become famous? How did fame become such a pervasive feature of modern culture? In The Frenzy of Renown, Leo Braudy shows that, far from being just a twentieth-century obsession, fame has a history and that the twists and turns of that history have set up the terms by which we now understand the whole phenomenon. Beginning with Alexander the Great and coming right up to the present-day idolatry of media figures, Braudy explains how the definition of fame depends on the political and social system in which it is found, the culture's conception of what a person is, and of course, the media available for dissemination of images. Over the past 2,500 years, fame has meant a variety of things: the Roman commitment to public action, as well as the Christian belief that God is the only suitable audience; the Renaissance idea of the heroic artist, as well as the nineteenth-century notions of posterity and the avant garde; the assumption that the king is ideal human being, as well as the view that the movie star is the consummate role model. Drawing freely upon art, literature, political history, religion, and philosophy, The Frenzy of Renown offers a fascinating parade of personalities--Julius Caesar and Jesus, Charlemagne and Shakespeare, Napoleon and Byron, Emily Dickinson and Abraham Lincoln, Adolf Hitler and Marily Monroe--who have changed the nature of fame and thereby changed the way everyone appears in public, in the eyes of others., Beginning with the Homeric epics and the exploits of Alexander the Great and proceeding right up to the current idolatry of media figures, Braudy explains how the definition of fame depends on the political and social system in which it is found, the culture's conception of what a person is, and, of course, the media available for the dissemination of images.
LC Classification Number
BJ1470.5.B73 1986
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