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This book deals with the special power of literary texts to put us in contact with the past. A large number of authors, coming from different ages, have described this power in terms of 'the conversation with the dead': when we read these texts, we somehow find ourselves conducting a special kind of dialogue with dead authors.

Hardcover:

9780748615889 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, April 15, 2006, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: This book deals with the special power of literary texts to put us in contact with the past.

Product Description: This volume brings together a number of scholarly theoretical articles on Stephen Greenblatt and the New Historicism. Contributors include literary and cultural theorists, Shakespeareans and literary historians, all of whom address Greenblatt's work from an interdisciplinary angle...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Jurgen Pieters (editor)

Paperback:

9780820436401 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, January 1, 1999, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: This volume brings together a number of scholarly theoretical articles on Stephen Greenblatt and the New Historicism.

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