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Fotografie: via Harvard University Department of Comparative Literature
Werken van Marc Shell
Money, Language, and Thought: Literary and Philosophic Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era (1982) 52 exemplaren
The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature: A Reader of Original Texts with English Translations (2000) 20 exemplaren
The End of Kinship: Measure for Measure, Incest, and the Ideal of Universal Siblinghood (1988) 17 exemplaren
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Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1947
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Canada
- Woonplaatsen
- Montréal, Québec, Canada (birth)
- Beroepen
- professor (English)
- Organisaties
- Harvard University
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- Werken
- 14
- Leden
- 218
- Populariteit
- #102,474
- Waardering
- 3.8
- Besprekingen
- 2
- ISBNs
- 37
- Talen
- 3
Shell's prolific and deeply learned, but this book needed a more savage editor. Anecdotes too often repeat themselves in what I might as well call an expository form of palilalia, "a speech condition 'characterized by repetition of words, phrases, or sentences'" (48). Form and content merge, but, then, one wonders, what of the tendency in the book as a whole to characterize the stutter as trapped in his (and it's usually he) body, buried alive almost, in an agonizing dissociation of form--the inhuman inability to speak--and content--the thought?… (meer)