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Born in Switzerland in 1878, Robert Walser worked as a bank clerk, a butler in a castle, and an inventor's assistant before discovering what William H. Gass calls his ''true profession.'' From 1899 until he was misdiagnosed a schizophrenic and hospitalized in 1933, Walser produced nine novels and more than a thousand short stories and prose ......
Homer: Poet of the ''Iliad'' is the perfect companion both for readers deepening their appreciation of the poem and its form and for those encountering Homer's work for the first time. Mark Edwards combines the advantages of a general introduction and a detailed commentary to make the insights of recent Homeric scholarship accessible to students ......
''It almost goes without saying that a new book by Michael Riffaterre is an important book . . . and Fictional Truth does not disappoint . . . Essential reading for everyone interested in the way narrative works.''--Modern Fiction Studies.''There is no doubt that this book is indispensable not only for critics and students of the novel but for ......
A valuable, provoking, important addition to any theatre scholar or practitioner's library, especially since feminist theory is a relative newcomer to the world of theatre.
In this now-classic work in legal and constitutional theory, Stanley Kutler examines one of the Supreme Court's most celebrated decisions: the right of the state of Massachusetts to erect a free bridge over the Charles River in 1837--even though the state had previously chartered a privately owned toll bridge at the same location. (Legal ......
Aspects of Intertextuality in Folklore and Literature
From a 'comic strip' papyrus dating from Egypt's New Kingdom to the works of Stein, Joyce, and Barth, 'nonsense' texts reveal a set of possibilities as rich and complex as the more conventional system of 'making sense' from which they are derived. Examining palindromes, children's rhymes, puns, anagrams, code languages, and other texts, Susan ......
In these new verse translations, Martin makes newly accessible the work of one of ancient Rome's most widely read poets who wrote about the life and language of the people in the streets. (Poetry)
'Suburban Ambush' tells the story of the reinvention of American fiction. It draws its title from a piece by Ron Kolm which has appeared in several versions and nearly twenty magazines around the world: the conceit of a military strike on the heart of Suburbia has considerable resonance.
