Target audience, hurdle audience, and the general reader: Varlam Shalamov's art of testimony

Poetics Today

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 281-303

  Toker, Leona ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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EID: 62449125543     PISSN: 03335372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/03335372-26-2-281     Document Type: Article

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