Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere"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."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... fact that Auden removed them , and many other exquisite poems and passages , from his own canon in a boring attempt to re - establish himself as a man of Anglican integrity . ( Also , the rehabilitation of Paul Claudel may take a little ...
... fact that Auden removed them , and many other exquisite poems and passages , from his own canon in a boring attempt to re - establish himself as a man of Anglican integrity . ( Also , the rehabilitation of Paul Claudel may take a little ...
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... fact becomes important later on . The line about ' the deep conspiracy of silence about the source of the family income ' is never quoted by him , because it is tougher and more accurate than the rest of the analogy , and because it ...
... fact becomes important later on . The line about ' the deep conspiracy of silence about the source of the family income ' is never quoted by him , because it is tougher and more accurate than the rest of the analogy , and because it ...
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... fact that Conor Cruise O'Brien has been one of the great stylists of our time , whether writing about France , Britain , Ireland or Africa . It further remains a fact that his has been a voice attuned to the discourse of reason , and ...
... fact that Conor Cruise O'Brien has been one of the great stylists of our time , whether writing about France , Britain , Ireland or Africa . It further remains a fact that his has been a voice attuned to the discourse of reason , and ...
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Oscar Wildes Socialism | 9 |
George Orwell and Raymond Williams | 26 |
Oh Lionel | 44 |
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