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No island is an island : four glances at English literature in a world perspective

Title
No island is an island : four glances at English literature in a world perspective / Carlo Ginzburg ; introduction translated by John Tedeschi.
Author
Ginzburg, Carlo.
Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, [2000], ©2000.

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xiv, 121 pages : illustrations; 19 cm.
Summary
  • "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, Ginsburg's inquiry is informed by his unique microhistorical sensibility, his attention to minute detail, and his extraordinary synthesizing imagination."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
Italian Academy lectures
Uniform Title
Italian Academy lectures.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [89]-112) and index.
Contents
The Old World and the New seen from nowhere -- Selfhood and otherness: constructing English identity in the Elizabethan age -- A search for origins: rereading Tristram shandy -- Tusitala and his Polish reader.
ISBN
0231116284 (alk. paper)
LCCN
00035844
OCLC
  • ocm44090503
  • SCSB-4017492
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries