Format:
xii, 237 Seiten :
,
eine Illustration.
ISBN:
978-0-691-19400-4
Content:
"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 and readers make new works and meanings."--Dust jacket
Note:
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 literary traditions in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's Wizard of the Crow -- Conclusion: writers' and readers' traditions
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-691-19535-3
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Italienisch
;
Literatur
;
Tradition
;
Literatur
;
Tradition
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
;
History
Author information:
Mack, Peter, 1955-,
