TY - GEN digital ID - 131559549 TI - Writers as Public Intellectuals : Literature, Celebrity, Democracy PY - 2016 SN - 9781137467645 PB - London Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Philosophy KW - Sociology of culture KW - Political systems KW - Didactics of the arts KW - Linguistics KW - Literature KW - History KW - geletterdheid KW - cultuur KW - filosofie KW - literatuur KW - culturele antropologie KW - democratie KW - literatuurgeschiedenis KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - Europe UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131559549 AB - This book demonstrates how authors performing the role of a public intellectual discuss ideas and opinions regarding society while using literary strategies and devices in and beyond the text. Their assumed persona thereby reads the world as a book - interpreting it and offering alternative scenarios for understanding it. ER -