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Islandology: Geography, Rhetoric, Politics
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Islandology: Geography, Rhetoric, Politics Open ebook -

de Marc Shell


Detalles

  • Título Islandology: Geography, Rhetoric, Politics
  • Autor Marc Shell
  • Encuadernación Open Ebook
  • Páginas 392
  • Volúmenes 1
  • Idioma ENG
  • Editorial Stanford University Press
  • Ilustrado
  • ISBN 9780804789264 / 0804789266
  • Library of Congress subjects Islands, Islands in literature
  • Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2013040186
  • Dewey Decimal Code 910.914

Acerca del autor

Marc Shell, a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow, is the Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at Harvard University, where he is also a professor in the graduate program in History of American Civilization. He is the author of a number of books. These include three influential studies of the relations between linguistic and literary economies: The Economy of Literature (1978), Money, Language, and Thought (1982), and Art and Money (1995) as well as books on nationalism, kinship, and multilingualism, such as The End of Kinship (1986) and American Babel (2002), and on disability, including the recent titles, Polio and Its Aftermath (2005) and Stutter (2006). A Canadian citizen, Shell has long been interested in the relations between Canada and the United States. With his wife, Professor Susan Shell, he co-directs The Seven Days Work Educational Foundation, Grand Manan Island, Canada, which sponsors conferences and educational outreach programs in the greater Gulf of Maine region in both countries.