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Book Title: Writing And Difference
Item Weight: 0.95 lbs
Number of Pages: 362 Pages
Publication Name: Writing and Difference
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Subject: Movements / Deconstruction, European / General, Rhetoric
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 2017
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Jacques. Derrida
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
