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Imagining Selves
Rivka Swenson
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Description for Imagining Selves
Hardback. Num Pages: 325 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 164 x 22. Weight in Grams: 590.
The thirteen essays in Imagining Selves survey diverse cultural artifacts that include memoirs, histories, plays, poems, courtesy manuals, children's tales, novels, paintings, and even resin from the early seventeenth century to the threshold of the twenty-first. These essays explore relationships between character, context, and text and engage genres from realism to magic realism and geographies from England, America, Afghanistan, and Spain. They are organized into three overlapping sections: 'Genre and Image,' 'Reputation and Reception,' and 'Re-reading and Retelling.' While the bulk of the essays focus on the eighteenth century, some extend backward or forward in chronology to engage the overarching ... Read more
The thirteen essays in Imagining Selves survey diverse cultural artifacts that include memoirs, histories, plays, poems, courtesy manuals, children's tales, novels, paintings, and even resin from the early seventeenth century to the threshold of the twenty-first. These essays explore relationships between character, context, and text and engage genres from realism to magic realism and geographies from England, America, Afghanistan, and Spain. They are organized into three overlapping sections: 'Genre and Image,' 'Reputation and Reception,' and 'Re-reading and Retelling.' While the bulk of the essays focus on the eighteenth century, some extend backward or forward in chronology to engage the overarching ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Delaware Press United States
Number of pages
325
Condition
New
Number of Pages
325
Place of Publication
Delaware, United States
ISBN
9781611493412
SKU
V9781611493412
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About Rivka Swenson
Rivka Swenson is assistant professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. Elise Lauterbach is an instructor at Rhodes College.
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