No Island is an Island von Carlo Ginzburg

Four Glances at English Literature in a World Perspective
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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.

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.

AutorGinzburg, Carlo
EinbandFester Einband
Erscheinungsjahr2000
Seitenangabe128 S.
LieferstatusFolgt in ca. 15 Arbeitstagen
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
Abbildungen14 illus
MasseH21.9 cm x B14.9 cm x D1.5 cm 308 g
ReiheItalian Academy Lectures
VerlagColumbia University Press

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Über den Autor Carlo Ginzburg

Carlo Ginzburg wurde 1939 als Sohn von Leone und Natalia Ginzburg in Turin geboren. Er lehrte Neuere Geschichte an der Universität von Bologna und der California State University in Los Angeles und seit 2006 in Pisa. Sein Werk wurde in fünfzehn Sprachen übersetzt und mit mehreren Preisen ausgezeichnet, unter anderem mit dem Premio Salento, dem Premio Viareggio sowie dem Aby-M.-Warburg-Preis der Stadt Hamburg und dem Balzan-Preis. Ginzburg ist Ehrenmitglied der amerikanischen Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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