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The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays

In the 40 essays that constitute this collection, Guy Davenport, one of America's major literary critics, elucidates a range of literary history, encompassing literature, art, philosophy and music, from the ancients to the grand old men of modernism.

Subject
literary criticismphilosophyhistorysciencegeography
Themes
artwriters
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 384 pages
Form
essayspoetry

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