New York, NY—2 December 2008—The Modern Language Association of America today announced it is awarding its sixteenth annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies to Daniel Heller-Roazen, of Princeton University, for his book /The Inner Touch:Archaeology of a Sensation/, published by Zone Books. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding scholarly work that is written by a member of the association and that involves at least two literatures.
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