APPLES AND ORANGES: In Praise of Comparisons. by Asscher, Maarten.

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APPLES AND ORANGES: In Praise of Comparisons.

Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

San Francisco: Four Winds Press, (2015). First edition - A collection of essays which maintains that comparisons can be the highest form of argument, using "examples drawn from classical to contemporary history, art, and literature: Hamlet in Ithaca and Telemachus in Elsinore, the Mediterranean and the North Sea, writing from a prison cell and writing from a room at home, the 'suicide; of Primo Levi and Japanese Kamikaze pilots. . [He] demonstrates how the comparative method can provide insight not only into two subjects simultaneously, but also into fundamental issues they may have in common." Translated from the Dutch by Brian Doyle-Du Breuil. Issued as a trade paperback original. 238 pp.

Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

Book ID: 80365
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