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Nicholas Birns - Barbarian Memory - 9781137364555 - V9781137364555
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Barbarian Memory

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Description for Barbarian Memory Hardcover. An investigation of the use of Late Antique European history by late medieval and Renaissance writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Davenant, Trissino, and Corneille. The liminality of the late antique period and the issues of ethnicity and religion it raises makes it very different from that of the classical world in analogous writers. Num Pages: 137 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: DSBB; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 314.
An investigation of the use of Late Antique European history by late medieval and Renaissance writers such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Davenant, Trissino, and Corneille. The liminality of the late antique period and the issues of ethnicity and religion it raises makes it very different from that of the classical world in analogous writers.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Number of Pages
131
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137364555
SKU
V9781137364555
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Ref
99-15

About Nicholas Birns
Nicholas Birns is Associate Teaching Professor at the New School, USA. He is the author of Understanding Anthony Powell and Theory After Theory: An Intellectual History of Literary Theory From 1950 to the Early 21st Century, as well as the co-editor of A Companion to Australian Literature Since 1900, which was named a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book in 2008.

Reviews for Barbarian Memory
Barbarian Memory will be of interest to a variety of early-period scholars. It urges us to recognize the paradoxical and conflicted narrative of history and religion that emerges when we cast into relief the matter of the barbarian as part of a cultural tapestry extending from the late antique to the early modern period. Birns uncovers a barbarian uncanny that ... Read more

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