Writers as Public Intellectuals [electronic resource] : Literature, Celebrity, Democracy /
Heynders, Odile.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Democracy.
Literary History.