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Jewish Writers/Irish Writers : Selected Essays on the Love of Words /
"These essays on representative Jewish and Irish writers are true to the form's definition as an attempt or experiment rather than a credo. Wohlgelernter defines the author's "excited imagination" by thoroughgoing analysis of the work's constituent parts. He gives parti...
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London :
Taylor and Francis,
2017.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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