No Island Is an Island: Four Glances at English Literature in a World Perspective by Ginzburg, Carlo

No Island Is an Island: Four Glances at English Literature in a World Perspective (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780231116282)

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No Island Is an Island: Four Glances at English Literature in a World Perspective by Ginzburg, Carlo

No Island Is an Island: Four Glances at English Literature in a World Perspective

$55.00
No Island Is an Island: Four Glances at English Literature in a World Perspective by Ginzburg, Carlo

No Island Is an Island: Four Glances at English Literature in a World Perspective

$55.00
Format: Hardcover
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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 is informed by his unique microhistorical sensibility, his attention to minute detail, and his extraordinary synthesizing imagination.

Author: Carlo Ginzburg
ISBN-10: 0231116284
ISBN-13: 9780231116282
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/14/2000
Pages: 128
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 7.31h x 5.75w x 0.72d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/2000 pg. 95
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2001 pg. 185
By Carlo Ginzburg
By Carlo Ginzburg
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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 Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches'Sabbath.

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