Abstract:The purpose of this chapter is, as our first extended examination of Said's writings and ideas, to sketch out the manifold influences that help shape, and also are re-inflected in, that work. Said had...The purpose of this chapter is, as our first extended examination of Said's writings and ideas, to sketch out the manifold influences that help shape, and also are re-inflected in, that work. Said had a long and varied career as academic critic, political analyst, and public intellectual, and he absorbed and re-processed various intellectual currents and traditions over that period. It has often been said of him, even by his admirers, that his work was characterised by eclecticism. Here, however, we may be able to discern a greater continuity than is conventionally allowed to him.Read More
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-07-22
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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