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

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

Ginzburg, Carlo

Hardcover

Series: Italian Academy Lectures

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0231116284
ISBN13: 9780231116282
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: Nov 14 2000
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.75 Depth: 7.31
Language: English
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.

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