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- catalog abstract ""Many have seen the encounter between literature and politics as necessarily fraught. Norman Podhoretz, for instance, examined the intersection under the rubric 'The Bloody Crossroads' (a term he borrowed from Lionel Trilling). Christopher Hitchens, in this sparkling engagement with literature and its producers, prefers a different approach. Taking inspiration from Shelley's description of the poet as an 'unacknowledged legislator', he shows that whilst the engagement between writers and those in power is not always smooth, it generally embodies a dialectic that is worth investigation." "Hitchens provides rich evidence that his own sallies as a political journalist are nourished by an erudite familiarity with a broad sweep of novelists, essayists and poets. In these pages Oscar Wilde's profound radicalism is uncovered; George Orwell's role as a fulcrum between left and right is carefully appraised; the languid irony and cosmopolitanism of Gore Vidal are celebrated; and a discussion of the fatwah issued against Salman Rushdie prompts a meditation on the West's misunderstood encounter with Islam. Along the way, a refined and knowledgeable palate samples offerings from, amongst others, P.G. Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T.S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, Anthony Powell, Saul Bellow, Alan Bloom, Philip Larkin and Patrick O'Brian, and dethrones the overrated, conspicuous among them such figures as Tom Wolfe and Isaiah Berlin."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12049562.
- catalog contributor b12049563.
- catalog contributor b12049564.
- catalog coverage "England London.".
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Many have seen the encounter between literature and politics as necessarily fraught. Norman Podhoretz, for instance, examined the intersection under the rubric 'The Bloody Crossroads' (a term he borrowed from Lionel Trilling). Christopher Hitchens, in this sparkling engagement with literature and its producers, prefers a different approach. Taking inspiration from Shelley's description of the poet as an 'unacknowledged legislator', he shows that whilst the engagement between writers and those in power is not always smooth, it generally embodies a dialectic that is worth investigation." "Hitchens provides rich evidence that his own sallies as a political journalist are nourished by an erudite familiarity with a broad sweep of novelists, essayists and poets. In these pages Oscar Wilde's profound radicalism is uncovered; George Orwell's role as a fulcrum between left and right is carefully appraised; the languid irony and cosmopolitanism of Gore Vidal are celebrated; and a discussion of the fatwah issued against Salman Rushdie prompts a meditation on the West's misunderstood encounter with Islam. Along the way, a refined and knowledgeable palate samples offerings from, amongst others, P.G. Wodehouse, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy Parker, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T.S. Eliot, Christopher Isherwood, Anthony Powell, Saul Bellow, Alan Bloom, Philip Larkin and Patrick O'Brian, and dethrones the overrated, conspicuous among them such figures as Tom Wolfe and Isaiah Berlin."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xx, 358 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Unacknowledged legislation.".
- catalog identifier "1859847862".
- catalog isFormatOf "Unacknowledged legislation.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Verso,".
- catalog relation "Unacknowledged legislation.".
- catalog spatial "England London.".
- catalog spatial "English-speaking countries.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "820.9/358 21".
- catalog subject "American literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Authors, American Political and social views.".
- catalog subject "Authors, English Political and social views.".
- catalog subject "English literature 19th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "English literature 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PR478.P64 H58 2000".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature English-speaking countries.".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature Great Britain History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature Great Britain History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature United States History.".
- catalog title "Unacknowledged legislation : writers in the public sphere / Christopher Hitchens.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".