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Beneath the Veil of the Strange Verses : Reading Scandalous Texts /

This book explores a phenomenon almost every news reader has experienced: the curious tendency to skim over dispatches from war zones, political battlefields, and economic centers, only to be drawn in by headlines announcing a late-breaking scandal. Rationally we would agree that the former are of m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Alberg, Jeremiah, 1957- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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