The Tradition of Return The Implicit History of Modern Literature [Paperback]

Jeffrey Perl presents in this book a comprehensive reassessment of modernism and an effort to enrich our understanding of the direction literary culture has taken since the Renaissance.

Originally published in 1984.

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