Piero Boitani

The Genius to Improve an Invention

Literary Transitions

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume derives its title from John Dryden's phrase for the British tendency to take up literary masterpieces from the past and ""perfect"" them. It adopts Dryden's notion as a framework for exploring ways in which classical and medieval texts have been rewritten by modern authors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 139mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9780268029517
• ISBN-10: 0268029512
• Artikelnr.: 22097329

Autorenporträt

Piero Boitani is professor of comparative literature at the University of Rome, "La Sapienza." He is the founding president of the European Society for English Studies and a fellow of the British Academy. In 2002, he was awarded the Feltrinelli Prize for Literary Criticism-Italy's most prestigious literary award. Boitani is the author of numerous books, including The Shadow of Ulysses and The Bible and Its Rewritings.