Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public SphereHitchens provides rich evidence that his own sallies as a political journalist are nourished by a close engagement with a broad sweep of novelists. |
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Inhalt
Powells Way | 187 |
Something about the Poems | 204 |
The EggHeads EggerOn | 217 |
Themes | 229 |
Hooked on Ebonics | 231 |
In Defence of Plagiarism | 236 |
Ode to the West Wing | 243 |
For Their Own Sake | 255 |
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Ireland | 81 |
Stuck in Neutral | 94 |
A Regular Bull | 101 |
Not Dead Yet | 109 |
In Spite of Themselves | 119 |
Old Man Kipling | 121 |
Critic of the Booboisie | 130 |
Goodbye to Berlin | 138 |
The Grimmest Tales | 165 |
The Importance of Being Andy | 171 |
How Unpleasant to Meet Mr Eliot | 184 |
OBrians Great Voyage | 257 |
The Case of Arthur Conan Doyle | 271 |
The Road to West Egg | 281 |
Rebel in Evening Clothes | 288 |
The Long Littleness of Life | 295 |
Enemies List | 309 |
Running on Empty | 311 |
Unmaking Friends | 320 |
Something for the Boys | 327 |
The Cruiser | 335 |
Index | 347 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 154 - How small , of all that human hearts endure , That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Seite xiii - Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration ; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present...
Seite 285 - They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
Seite xvi - Time that is intolerant Of the brave and innocent, And indifferent in a week To a beautiful physique, Worships language and forgives Everyone by whom it lives; Pardons cowardice, conceit, Lays its honours at their feet.
Seite 152 - Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.
Seite 95 - In this frame of mind it occurred to me to put the question directly to myself, 'Suppose that all your objects in life were realized, that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to could be completely effected at this very instant, would this be a great joy and happiness to you?
Seite 129 - When lo! an angel called him out of heaven, Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad, Neither do anything to him. Behold, A ram, caught in a thicket by its horns; Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere |
| Autor/in | Christopher Hitchens |
| Ausgabe | Neuauflage |
| Verlag | Verso, 2000 |
| ISBN | 1859847862, 9781859847862 |
| Länge | 358 Seiten |
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