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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Page 37
... whole of the third sentence and the whole middle clause of the fourth one . He continued to do this , in reprints of his dull polemic , despite being advised of the fact that he had been rumbled . Williams , by contrast , - chose to ...
... whole of the third sentence and the whole middle clause of the fourth one . He continued to do this , in reprints of his dull polemic , despite being advised of the fact that he had been rumbled . Williams , by contrast , - chose to ...
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... whole man , or the whole woman , and that law and criticism must become more capacious and subtle in consequence . Only as the author proceeds does this ambition reveal its difficulties . - ' The point , then ' , she avers , ' is that ...
... whole man , or the whole woman , and that law and criticism must become more capacious and subtle in consequence . Only as the author proceeds does this ambition reveal its difficulties . - ' The point , then ' , she avers , ' is that ...
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... whole of the Vietnam memorial . In the Battle of Verdun , which began the preceding February , 675,000 lives were lost . Between them , Britain , France , the United States , Germany , Turkey , and Russia sacri- ficed at least 10 ...
... whole of the Vietnam memorial . In the Battle of Verdun , which began the preceding February , 675,000 lives were lost . Between them , Britain , France , the United States , Germany , Turkey , and Russia sacri- ficed at least 10 ...
Contents
Oscar Wildes Socialism | 9 |
George Orwell and Raymond Williams | 26 |
Oh Lionel | 44 |
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