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Speaking with the dead : explorations in literature and history /
This book deals with the special power of literary texts to put us in contact with the past. A large number of authors, coming from different ages, have described this power in terms of 'the conversation with the dead': when we read these texts, we somehow find ourselves conducting a speci...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Among ancient men : Petrarch, Machiavelli, Sidney and Huygens
- The gaze of Medusa and the practice of the historian : Rubens and Huygens
- The historical shiver : Flaubert, Michelet and Keats
- 'Now let us go into this blind world' : Dante, Virgil, Homer and T.S. Eliot
- The sounds of silence : Roland Barthes.