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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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1. Transformations of the Public Intellectual 2. Conscientious Chronicler; H.M. Enzensberger (1929) 3. Eastern European Voices; Slavenka Drakulic (1949) and Dubravka Ugresic (1949) 4. Public Man as Actor; Bernard-Henri Levy (1948) 5. A Protean Public Figure; Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969) 6. Public Intellectual in Brussels; David van Reybrouck (1971) and Geert van Istendael (1947) 7. Responsible Satire; Hamed Abdel-Samad (1972) 8. Popular Fiction; Elif Shafak (1971) Bibliography Index

Writers as Public Intellectuals Literature Celebrity Democracy Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature

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      Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan UK
      Publication Date: 11/11/2015 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781137467638, 978-1137467638
      ISBN10: 1137467630
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      Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary theory Literature: history and criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      1. Transformations of the Public Intellectual 2. Conscientious Chronicler; H.M. Enzensberger (1929) 3. Eastern European Voices; Slavenka Drakulic (1949) and Dubravka Ugresic (1949) 4. Public Man as Actor; Bernard-Henri Levy (1948) 5. A Protean Public Figure; Ayaan Hirsi Ali (1969) 6. Public Intellectual in Brussels; David van Reybrouck (1971) and Geert van Istendael (1947) 7. Responsible Satire; Hamed Abdel-Samad (1972) 8. Popular Fiction; Elif Shafak (1971) Bibliography Index

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