No island is an island
four glances at English literature in a world perspective
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Author
Publication
2000 - Columbia University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
30,250 words, Guess
Page Count
121 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL6784239M
- ISBN-100231116284
- OCLC Control Number44090503
- OCLC Control Numbernoislandisisland0000ginz
- Library of Congress Control Number00035844
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- Goodreads237784
- LibraryThing1287716
Classifications
- DDC820.9/353
- LCCPR99 .G516 2000
Description
"In No Island Is an Island, an internationally renowned historian approaches four works of English literature from unexpected angles. Following in the footsteps of a sixteenth-century Spanish bishop we gain a fresh view of Thomas More's Utopia. Comparing Bayle's Dictionary with Tristram Shandy we suddenly enter into Laurence Sterne's mind. A seemingly narrow dispute among Elizabethan critics for and against rhyme turns into an early debate on English national identity. Robert Louis Stevenson's story "The Bottle Imp" throws a new light on Bronislaw Malinowsky's attempts to discover meaning in the "kula" trading system among the Trobriand Islanders. Throughout, Ginsburg's inquiry is informed by his unique microhistorical sensibility, his attention to minute detail, and his extraordinary synthesizing imagination."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Italian Academy lectures
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