Published 1962
by Scorpion Press in [Lowestoft, Suffolk] .
Written in English
Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. 41-64.
| Statement | With a bibliography by Bernard Stone. |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PR6037.N58 Z67 1962 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 64 p. : |
| Number of Pages | 64 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL5969465M |
| LC Control Number | 65073234 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 300499 |
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The Two Cultures is probably more famous as an idea which ignited discussion than as the lecture it is. This edition of C.P. Snow's classic includes a brilliant introduction by Stefan Collini. I'm surprised that none of the other reviewers mention this portion of the edition, a substantial 64 pages, because for me it was the most interesting by: "The Masters" examines the personal and university politics that shape this decision through the narrative style of C. P. Snow. This captures a brainy professorial world through heavy reliance on complex and conditional dialogue, acute but unspoken observations, and highly abstract character analysis.4/5(50). "This is the first American publication of the answer to C.P. Snow that caused an international controversy. Dr. F.R. Leavis, England's foremost literary critic, sees the widespread acceptance of Snow's View of the two cultures -- humanist and scientific -- as the mark of a new "publicity-created culture" imposed by a pretentious and ignorant. Looking for books by C.P. Snow? See all books authored by C.P. Snow, including The Two Cultures, and The Masters, and more on
C.P. Snow, in full Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow Of The City Of Leicester, (born Oct. 15, , Leicester, Leicestershire, Eng.—died July 1, , London), British novelist, scientist, and government administrator.. Snow was graduated from Leicester University and earned a doctorate in physics at the University of Cambridge, where, at the age of 25, he became a fellow of . The personal life of Lewis Eliot, the central figure and narrator of C. P. Snow’s Strangers and Brothers, takes centre stage in this moving account of his wartime suicide of Lewis’s desperately vulnerable wife, Sheila, ends a marriage fraught with difficulty and pain and shakes his world to the foundations. As Britain enters the Second World War he is . By C. P. Snow. pp. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $ Anthony Trollope titled one of his novels “The Way We Live Now.” On one level it might apply to the Snow cycle, but Lord Snow. Our two universities roughly correspond to the “two cultures” of science and humanism that C. P. Snow described 59 years ago in a famous lecture, “Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution.” Snow was both a scientist and a novelist and saw himself as a bridge uniting the cultures, but he worried that for others, they were drawing apart.
