The dictator's dictation : the politics of novels and novelists /
"In these essays, many of them originally written for The New Republic and Harper's, Robert Boyers examines the role of the political imagination in shaping the works of such important contemporary writers as W.G. Sebald and Philip Roth, Nadine Gordimer and Mario Vargas Llosa, Natalia Ginz...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2005.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 0231510071 9780231510073 0231136749 9780231136747 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | "In these essays, many of them originally written for The New Republic and Harper's, Robert Boyers examines the role of the political imagination in shaping the works of such important contemporary writers as W.G. Sebald and Philip Roth, Nadine Gordimer and Mario Vargas Llosa, Natalia Ginzburg and Pat Barker, J.M. Coetzee and John Updike, V.S. Naipaul and Anita Desai. Occasionally he finds that politics actually figures very little in works that only pretend to be interested in politics. Elsewhere he discovers that certain writers are not equal to the political issues they take on or that their work is fatally compromised by complacency or wishful thinking."--Jacket |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (218 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218). |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Library Staff: | View instance in FOLIO |