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408 pages • first pub 2009 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781906694821
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Maclehose Press Quercus
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
In the history of Western culture we find lists of saints, ranks of soldiers, catalogues of grotesque creatures or medicinal plants, and hordes of treasure. This infinity of lists is no coincidence: a culture prefers enclosed, stable forms when it...
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408 pages • first pub 2009 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9781906694821
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Maclehose Press Quercus
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
In the history of Western culture we find lists of saints, ranks of soldiers, catalogues of grotesque creatures or medicinal plants, and hordes of treasure. This infinity of lists is no coincidence: a culture prefers enclosed, stable forms when it...