Reading old books : writing with traditions / Peter Mack.
Reading old books : writing with traditions / Peter Mack.
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
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G 2019/5661
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English
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Physical content
xii, 237 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Content type
text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
Introduction: ideas of literary tradition -- Petrarch, scholarship, and traditions of love poetry -- Chaucer and Boccaccio's Il Filostrato -- Renaissance epics: Ariosto, Tasso, and Spenser -- Reading and community as a support for the new in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton -- European and African li...
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Publisher
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
[2019]
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"In literary and cultural studies, "tradition" is a word everyone uses but few address critically. In Reading Old Books, Pter Mack offers a wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from the middle ages to the twenty-first century, revealing in new ways how it helps writers a...
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Reading old books : writing with traditions / Peter Mack.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-231) and index.
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G 2019/5661
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74VKa2W80yxb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKa2W80yxb
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9780691194004 (hardcover)
0691194009 (hardcover)
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809.02
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991024277219502626
