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Record ID marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-029.mrc:119680455:2404
Source marc_columbia
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LEADER: 02404cam a2200421 i 4500
001 14401770
005 20191125104059.0
008 190314s2019 njua b 001 0 eng c
024 $a40029532836
035 $a(OCoLC)on1089572210
040 $aYDX$beng$erda$cYDX$dPUL$dOCLCO$dOCLCF$dBKL$dYDXIT$dNYP
020 $a0691194009$q(hardcover)
020 $a9780691194004$q(hardcover)
035 $a(OCoLC)1089572210
042 $apcc
050 4 $aPN671$b.M33 2019
082 04 $a809/.02$223
100 1 $aMack, Peter,$d1955-$eauthor.
245 10 $aReading old books :$bwriting with traditions /$cPeter Mack.
264 1 $aPrinceton, New Jersey :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[2019]
300 $axii, 237 pages :$billustration ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 227-231) and index.
520 $a"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.
505 0 $aIntroduction: 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.
650 0 $aLiterature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aLiterature, Modern$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)$xHistory.
650 0 $aAuthorship$xHistory.
650 7 $aAuthorship.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00822442
650 7 $aInfluence (Literary, artistic, etc.)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00972484
650 7 $aLiterature, Medieval.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01000151
650 7 $aLiterature, Modern.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01000172
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411628
852 00 $bglx$hPN671$i.M33 2019