Reading Old Books: Writing with Traditions

by Peter Mack and Professor Peter Mack

Book Overview

A wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from Chaucer to the present

In literary and cultural studies, "tradition" is a word everyone uses but few address critically. In Reading Old Books, Peter Mack offers a wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from the middle ages to the twenty-first century, revealing in new ways how it helps writers and readers make new works...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691194009
• ISBN13: 9780691194004
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.4"