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Title: |
Political Animal |
| Sub-title: |
Gore Vidal on Power |
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| By (author): |
Heather Neilson |
| ISBN10-13: |
192186768X : 9781921867682 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
234x153mm |
| Pages: |
260 |
| Weight: |
.000 Kg. |
| Published: |
Monash University Publishing - December 2014 |
| List Price: |
26.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
Reprint under Consideration
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| Subjects: |
Political science & theory |
| The late Gore Vidal occupied a unique position within American letters. Born into a political family, he ran for office several times, but was consistently critical of his nationâ s political system and its leaders. A prolific writer in several genres, he was also widely known â particularly in the United States â on the basis of his frequent appearances in the various electronic media. In this groundbreaking work examining the central theme of power throughout Vidalâ s writings, Heather Neilson focuses primarily on Vidalâ s historical fiction. In his novels depicting American history and those set in ancient times, Vidal evokes a world in which deliberately propagated falsehood â â disinformationâ â becomes established as truth. Neilson engages with Vidalâ s representations of political and religious leaders, and with his deeply ambivalent fascination with the increasingly inescapable influence of the media. She asserts that Vidalâ s oeuvre has a Shakespearean resonance in its persistent obsession with the question of what constitutes legitimate power and authority. |
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Heather Neilson is one of the most gifted, cleareyed readers of Gore Vidal that we have. She reads not only the sentences but sees through them, ushering us gently toward a fresh understanding of this controversial, often misunderstood writer. -- Jay Parini, D.E. Axinn Professor of English and Creative Writing, Middlebury College
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The most significant monograph on Vidal's archive of political and historical writing. -- Donald E. Pease Jnr, Professor of English and Comparative Literature and The Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor in the Humanities, Dartmouth
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