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(Urban) Sacred Places and Profane Spaces—Theological Topography in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land

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(Urban) Sacred Places and Profane Spaces—Theological Topography in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. / Keidel, Verena.
Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity. ed. / Martin Kindermann; Rebekka Rohleder. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. p. 45-64 (Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies).

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Keidel, V 2020, (Urban) Sacred Places and Profane Spaces—Theological Topography in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. in M Kindermann & R Rohleder (eds), Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity. Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, pp. 45-64. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55269-5_3

APA

Keidel, V. (2020). (Urban) Sacred Places and Profane Spaces—Theological Topography in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. In M. Kindermann, & R. Rohleder (Eds.), Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity (pp. 45-64). (Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-55269-5_3

Vancouver

Keidel V. (Urban) Sacred Places and Profane Spaces—Theological Topography in T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. In Kindermann M, Rohleder R, editors, Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 2020. p. 45-64. (Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-55269-5_3

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