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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mack, Peter, 1955- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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