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No Island Is an Island: Four Glances at English Literature in a World Perspective
Carlo Ginzburg
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Description for No Island Is an Island: Four Glances at English Literature in a World Perspective
Hardback. A world-renowned historian presents a series of four brilliant forays into English literature, from Sir Thomas More to Robert Louis Stevenson. Series: Italian Academy Lectures. Num Pages: 128 pages, 14 illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 149 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear in good dustwrapper
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, Ginzburg's inquiry ... Read more
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, Ginzburg's inquiry ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Series
Italian Academy Lectures
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231116282
SKU
KSS0009520
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About Carlo Ginzburg
Carlo Ginzburg's work has been published in eighteen languages. He teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is the Franklin D. Murphy Chair of Italian Renaissance Studies. His books in English include The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller, The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, and ... Read more
Reviews for No Island Is an Island: Four Glances at English Literature in a World Perspective
These complex, clever essays... will appeal to scholars who choose to view literature and history in an international, comparative context. Library Journal