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Nostalgia

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Nostalgia

By Barbara Cassin

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About the book

Winner, French Voices Grand PrizeNostalgia makes claims on us both as individuals and as members of a political community. In this short book, Barbara Cassin provides an eloquent and sophisticated treatment of exile and of desire for a homeland, while showing how it has been possible for many to reimagine home in terms of language rather than territory.Moving from Homer's and Virgil's foundational accounts of nostalgia to the exilic writings of Hannah Arendt, Cassin revisits the dangerous implic...Show more

Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800

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9780823269518

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published year

2016

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1

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Nostalgia

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Paperback

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