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Hardcover Speaking with the Dead: Explorations in Literature and History Book

ISBN: 0748615881

ISBN13: 9780748615889

Speaking with the Dead: Explorations in Literature and History

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. The book covers a number of texts and authors that make use of this metaphor - Petrarch, Machiavelli, Sidney, Flaubert, Michelet,...

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