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Reading as Poaching
This foundational text of the Polity of Literature series was written by a Jesuit scholar in the long wake of the May 1968 student uprisings.
Steven Rendall is Professor Emeritus of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon and Editor Emeritus of the journal Comparative Literature. He has translated ninety books and many articles, stories, and poems from both French and German. His translations have won the French-American Foundation/Florence Gould Foundation prize, the American Historical Association’s James Henry Breasted prize, the MLA’s Scaglione prize, and the National Jewish Book Council’s Sandra Brand and Arik Weintraub Award.
This foundational text of the Polity of Literature series was written by a Jesuit scholar in the long wake of the May 1968 student uprisings.