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Author Ganguly, Debjani

Title Edward Said : Legacy of a Public Intellectual
Published Melbourne : Melbourne University Publishing, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (267 pages)
Contents Intro; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; Representing public intellectuals; 1 Edward Said and the style of the public intellectual; 2 Edward Said and the sociology of intellectuals; 3 Blogging Said: Public intellectuals in the Internet age; 4 Exile and representation: Edward Said as public intellectual; 5 Reluctant prophets and gadfly laureates: The Australian writer as public intellectual; Humanism as worldly affiliation; 6 The worldliness of intimacy; 7 Edward Said's unhoused philological humanism
8 Edward Said, world literature and global comparatismContrapuntal rhythms: Music as critical metaphor; 9 Edward Said and Theodor Adorno: The musician as public intellectual; 10 Said, Grainger and the ethics of polyphony; Europe, orientalism and popular culture; 11 Orientalism and mass market romance novels in the twentieth century; 12 The question of Europe: Said and Derrida; Palestine and settler-colonial contexts; 13 Interacting imaginaries in Israel and the United States; 14 Palestine, Project Europe and the (un- )making of the new Jew: In memory of Edward W. Said; Index
Summary This collection is an enterprise of discovery and critical inquiry into the legacy of one of late modernity's greatest public intellectuals, Edward Said. Noted contributors, including Bill Ashcroft, John Docker, Lisa Lowe, Hsu-ming Teo and Patrick Wolfe, address an array of intellectual, political and cultural issues in their engagement with Said's oeuvre
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Subject Said, Edward W. -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Said, Edward W. fast
Subject Critics -- United States -- 20th century
Critics -- United States -- 21st century
Intellectuals -- United States -- 20th century
Intellectuals -- United States -- 21st century
Critics
Intellectuals
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Curthoys, Ned
ISBN 0522853579
9780522853575