{"product_id":"tirana-modern-matthew-rosen-9780826504814","title":"Tirana Modern: Biblio-Ethnography on the Margins of Europe","description":"Guided by the thesis that literature can transform social reality, \u003ci\u003eTirana Modern\u003c\/i\u003e draws on ethnographic and historical material to examine the public culture of reading in modern Albania. As its starting point, this book asks: How has Albanian literature and literary translation shaped social action during the longue durée of Albanian modernity? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on material collected through fieldwork with a community of readers, writers, and translators attached to the independent Albanian publisher Pika pa sipërfaqe (Point without Surface), \u003ci\u003eTirana Modern\u003c\/i\u003e provides a tightly focused ethnography of literary culture in Albania that brings into relief the more general dialectic between social imagination and social reality as mediated by reading and literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Matthew Rosen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0826504817\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826504814\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vanderbilt University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/31\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d","brand":"Matthew Rosen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44070867828991,"sku":"9780826504814","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_23f66797-787b-4a6d-96d9-36e2ea4b761b.jpg?v=1685432797","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tirana-modern-matthew-rosen-9780826504814","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}