Metaphors of Projection in the Works of Wyndham Lewis, Charles Williams, and Graham Greene
How typical of his generation was T.S. Eliot when he complained that Hitler made an intelligent anti-semitism impossible for a generation? In her new book, Loathsome Jews and Engulfing Women, novelist and critic, Andrea Freud Loewenstein examines the persistent anti-semitic tendencies in modernist, British intellectual culture. Pursuing her ......
Alcatraz, the first winner of the Verna Emery Poetry Competition, was selected as the best of 500 manuscripts submitted to the Purdue University Press in 1991. The collection begins with "Bay Cruise," a reminiscence of the author's boat tour of San Francisco Bay on the eve of his induction physical in 1966, and ends with "Memorial," an account of ......
Gatsby's Party contributes to the ongoing research on, and application of systems theory and information theory to, literary texts. White applies current research toward an architectural understanding of narrative structure, moving beyond interpretations (and applications) of systems theory that have been largely thematic or author-centered. it ......
A Psychological Study of Rainer Maria Rilke's Life and Work
Beginning with Rilke's novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Briggs, this psychological study examines how the poet mastered the illness that is so frightening and crippling in Malte and made the illness a resource for his art. It also draws upon his relationships with his parents.
Examines the ways in which the experiences of the text, and the experiences of characters, diverge and converge with the writer's own biography. Meese considers such issues as authorial intention, the intersection of life and work and the semiotic/erotic space of the woman writer's body.
Examines the ways in which the experiences of the text, and the experiences of characters, diverge and converge with the writer's own biography. Meese considers such issues as authorial intention, the intersection of life and work and the semiotic/erotic space of the woman writer's body.
This study examines Edgar Allan Poe's influence on the 20th-century French writer Paul Valery, arguing that it was profound. The author shows that Valery's poetics and approach to literary criticism have direct connections to Poe's Philosophy of Composition and Poetic Principle.
This comparative approach to the works of two key contemporary Egyptian writers identifies existentialism as a major force in their work. The examination of the images and metaphors that recur in their writings shows strong affinities with the works of Hemingway and Camus.
Sarah Cotterill's poems bring together the dramas of ordinary life and a complex understanding of the natural world. The poems are moments of suspension: early bridges braided of things found on the ground, in the wild. They are meant for travel on foot and in solitude. When we trust our weight to one, the whole of the bridge shifts, though the ......
