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Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere
Unacknowledged Legislation Writers in the Public Sphere
Author: Christopher Hitchens
A celebration of Percy Shelley's assertion that 'poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world', these thirty-five 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 w...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781859843833
ISBN-10: 1859843832
Publication Date: 1/2003
Pages: 358
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Publisher: Verso
Book Type: Paperback
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