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Obras por Marc Shell
Money, Language, and Thought: Literary and Philosophic Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era (1982) 52 exemplares
The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature: A Reader of Original Texts with English Translations (2000) 20 exemplares
The End of Kinship: Measure for Measure, Incest, and the Ideal of Universal Siblinghood (1988) 17 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1947
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Canada
- Locais de residência
- Montréal, Québec, Canada (birth)
- Ocupações
- professor (English)
- Organizações
- Harvard University
Membros
Críticas
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 14
- Membros
- 217
- Popularidade
- #102,846
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 2
- ISBN
- 37
- Línguas
- 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?… (mais)