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Book Title: Affective Mapping: Melancholia And The Politics Of Modernism
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Author: Jonathan Flatley
Publication Name: Affective Mapping : Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Year: 2008
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 21.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
