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“This undiscovered country” in Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille and George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo Cover

“This undiscovered country” in Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s Cré na Cille and George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo

By: Donald E. Morse  
Open Access
|Feb 2019

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Language: English, German
Page range: 25 - 33
Published on: Feb 25, 2019
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 3 issues per year

© 2019 Donald E. Morse, published by Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania
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