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No island is an island : four glances at English literature in a world perspective / Carlo Ginzburg ; introduction translated by John Tedeschi.
LIBRA - Special PR99 .G516 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ginzburg, Carlo.
- Series:
- Italian Academy lectures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894.
- English literature--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768. Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman.
- Sterne, Laurence.
- More, Thomas, Saint, 1478-1535. Utopia.
- More, Thomas.
- Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894--Influence.
- Stevenson, Robert Louis.
- Difference (Psychology) in literature.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1884-1942.
- Malinowski, Bronislaw.
- Literature and anthropology.
- Utopias.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 121 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- From the author of "The Cheese and the Worms" comes a quartet of luminous explorations into English literature, from Sir Thomas More to Robert Louis Stevenson. 14 illustrations.
- Contents:
- The Old World and the New seen from nowhere
- Selfhood and otherness: constructing English identity in the Elizabethan age
- A search for origins: rereading Tristram shandy
- Tusitala and his Polish reader.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [89]-112) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 0231116284
- OCLC:
- 44090503
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