03431nam 22007095 450 991025524400332120200930192310.01-137-46764-910.1057/9781137467645(CKB)3710000000526507(EBL)4185096(DE-He213)978-1-137-46764-5(MiAaPQ)EBC4185096(EXLCZ)99371000000052650720160209d2016 u| 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWriters as Public Intellectuals Literature, Celebrity, Democracy /by Odile Heynders1st ed. 2016.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (231 p.)Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature,2634-6478Description based upon print version of record.1-349-58118-6 1-137-46763-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexThis 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.Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature,2634-6478European literatureLiterature, Modern—20th centuryLiterature—PhilosophyCulture—Study and teachingDemocracyLiterature—History and criticismEuropean Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/832000Twentieth-Century Literaturehttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/822000Literary Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/812000Cultural Theoryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/411130Democracyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/911050Literary Historyhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/813000European literature.Literature, Modern—20th century.Literature—Philosophy.Culture—Study and teaching.Democracy.Literature—History and criticism.European Literature.Twentieth-Century Literature.Literary Theory.Cultural Theory.Democracy.Literary History.809.4Heynders Odileauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1059496BOOK9910255244003321Writers as Public Intellectuals2506177UNINA