Writers as public intellectuals [electronic resource] : literature, celebrity, democracy / Odile Heynders.
2016
PN51
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Title
Writers as public intellectuals [electronic resource] : literature, celebrity, democracy / Odile Heynders.
Author
Heynders, Odile, author.
ISBN
9781137467645 (electronic book)
1137467649 (electronic book)
9781137467638
1137467630
1137467649 (electronic book)
9781137467638
1137467630
Published
Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
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PN51
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.933581
Summary
This book demonstrates how authors performing the role of a public intellectual discuss ideas and opinions regarding society while using literary strategies and devices in and beyond the text. Their assumed persona thereby reads the world as a book - interpreting it and offering alternative scenarios for understanding it.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on print version record.
Series
Palgrave studies in modern European literature.
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Table of Contents
Cover; Contents; Series Editors' Preface; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Transformations of the Public Intellectual; 2 Conscientious Chronicler; 3 Eastern European Voices; 4 Public Man as Actor; 5 A Protean Public Figure; 6 Public Intellectuals from Brussels; 7 Responsible Satire; 8 Popular Fiction; Notes; Bibliography; Index