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Redefining Redefinitions: Some More Specific Cultural Perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

Gerry Cobb
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Gerry Cobb is a A postgraduate student in the School of English and American Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, England.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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3 Ibid., 413.

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8 See Williams for the original version.

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