Towards a transnational turn in narrative theory: Literary narratives, traveling tropes, and the case of Virginia Woolf and the Tagores

Narrative

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-32

  Friedman, Susan Stanford ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 79959804927     PISSN: 10633685     EISSN: 1538974X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/nar.2011.0003     Document Type: Review

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