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Reading Old Books : Writing with Traditions /
A wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from Chaucer to the presentIn literary and cultural studies, "tradition" is a word everyone uses but few address critically. In Reading Old Books, Peter Mack offers a wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of l...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction. Ideas of Literary Tradition
- Chapter one. Petrarch, Scholarship, and Traditions of Love Poetry
- Chapter Two. Chaucer and Boccaccio's Il Filostrato
- Chapter Three. Renaissance Epics: Ariosto, Tasso, and Spenser
- Chapter Four. Reading and Community as a Support for the New in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton
- Chapter Five. European and African Literary Traditions in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow
- Conclusion. Writers' and Readers' Traditions
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index