Deny All Knowledge (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Syracuse University Press, New York, 1996
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- Title
- Deny All Knowledge (Paperback)
- Author
- David Lavery
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press, New York
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0815604076
- ISBN 13
- 9780815604075
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About the Author
David Lavery is the author of more than one hundred published essays, chapters, and reviews. He is also coeditor of Screwball Television: Critical Perspectives on Gilmore Girls and Reading Joss Whedon.
Angela Hague is professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University.
Marla Cartwright is the director for the Center of Teaching and Learning at Purdue University Global.
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