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Autore: | Heynders Odile |
Titolo: | Writers as Public Intellectuals [[electronic resource] ] : Literature, Celebrity, Democracy / / by Odile Heynders |
Pubblicazione: | London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. 2016. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (231 p.) |
Disciplina: | 809.4 |
Soggetto topico: | European 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 | |
Literary History | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Writers as Public Intellectuals |
ISBN: | 1-137-46764-9 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910255244003321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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