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The Origin of Language: A New Edition - Softcover

Gans, Eric

 
9781949966138: The Origin of Language: A New Edition
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1949966135 ISBN 13: 9781949966138
Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil Publishing, 2019

Synopsis

“Mysteries should not be multiplied beyond necessity.”

The Origin of Language remains as completely original and unprecedented (and intellectually demanding and satisfying) today as when it was originally published, so much so as to constitute a kind of intellectual scandal.

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About the Author

Eric Gans is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), where he taught 19th-century French literature for 45 years. He is the author of two critical studies on Flaubert, including Madame Bovary: The End of Romance (G.K. Hall, 1989), and (in French) of book-length essays on Alfred de Musset and Prosper Mérimée. His theoretical works include Signs of Paradox: Irony, Resentment, and Other Mimetic Structures (Stanford University Press, 1997) and A New Way of Thinking: Generative Anthropology in Religion, Philosophy, Art (The Davies Group, 2011). He lives in Santa Monica, California.

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Publisher
Spuyten Duyvil Publishing
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1949966135
ISBN 13 
9781949966138
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
154