Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1859847862
ISBN 13
9781859847862
Category
920
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Publication Year
2001
Publisher
Pages
320
Description
A celebration of Percy Shelley’s assertion that ‘poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world’, these thirty-plus essays on writers from Oscar Wilde to Salman Rushdie dispel the myth of politics as a stone tied to the neck of literature; Norman Podhoretz’s ‘bloody crossroads’. Instead Hitchens argues that when all parties in the state were agreed on a matter, it was the individual pens that created the space for a true moral argument. - from Amzon
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