No Island is an Island: Four Glances at English Literature in a World Perspective (Italian Academy Lectures) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

No Island is an Island: Four Glances at English Literature in a World Perspective (Italian Academy Lectures) Book

A world-renowned historian presents a series of four brilliant forays into English literature from Sir Thomas More to Robert Louis Stevenson.Read More

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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.

  • 0231116284
  • 9780231116282
  • C Ginzburg
  • 24 November 2000
  • Columbia University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 128
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