No Island Is an Island: Four Glances at English Literature in a World Perspective (Italian Academy Lectures) - Hardcover

Ginzburg, Carlo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231116284 ISBN 13: 9780231116282

Verlag: Columbia University Press, 2000

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Book by Ginzburg Carlo

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These complex, clever essays... will appeal to scholars who choose to view literature and history in an international, comparative context. Library Journal

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In No Island Is an Island an internationally renowned historian approaches four works of English literature from unexpected angles. Following in the footsteps of a sixteenth-century Spanish bishop we gain a fresh view of Thomas More's Utopia. Comparing Bayle's Dictionary with Tristram Shandy we suddenly enter into Laurence Sterne's mind. A seemingly narrow dispute among Elizabethan critics for and against rhyme turns into an early debate on English national identity. Robert Louis Stevenson's story "The Bottle Imp" throws a new light on Bronislaw Malinowsky's attempts to discover meaning in the "kula" trading system among the Trobriand Islanders. Throughout, Ginzburg's inquiry is informed by his unique microhistorical sensibility, his attention to minute detail, and his extraordinary synthesizing imagination.

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• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0231116284
• ISBN 13: 9780231116282
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128