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基本説明
Carlo Ginzburg, one of the founding fathers of the paradigm of "microhistory", explores here into English Literature from Thomas More to Stevenson, in the broad historical context.
Full Description
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.
Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Notes Index 1. The Old World and the New Seen from Nowhere 2. Selfhood as Otherness: Constructing English Identity in the Elizabethan Age 3. A Search for Origins: Rereading Tristram Shandy 4. Tusitala and His Polish Reader