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Irish Elegies

Irish Elegies

Chris Arthur

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Springer Nature B.V.
Año de edición:
2009
Materia
Literatura: historia y crítica
ISBN:
9780230615342
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In this book, critically acclaimed author Chris Arthur continues his experiments with the mercurial literary genre of the essay, using it in innovative ways to explore aspects of family, place, memory, loss, and meaning. Through these unique prose meditations, readers are led to a dozen unexpected windows on Ireland.

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