Writing and responsibility
By: Carl Tighe.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Literature and morals.; Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Description: "Writing and Responsibility encourages its readers to interrogate the choices they make as writers. A look at the public consequences of the private act of writing, Carl Tighe's book is a must-read for everyone who writes or studies writing."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Tradition; title: Power; title: Accuracy; title: Kitsch; title: Censorship; title: Political correctness; title: New kinds of sex: J.G. Ballard, crash; title: Sex, satire, and sadism: Bret Easton Ellis, American psycho; title: Faking a life: Binjamin Wilkomirski, Fragments; title: Between Poland and Germany: Gunter Grass, The tin drum; title: African reality: Wole Soyinka, 'The writer in a modern African state'; title: Witches of Croatia: Dubravka Ugresic, The culture of lies.