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.
Victoria Frenkel Harris traces the aesthetic journey of poet Robert Bly from his early structured works of mystical imagery and lyrical landscapes to his recent explorations of intimate relationships and male socialization. Examining the various ways Bly's prose poems articulate his opposition to the Vietnam War and his recent writings manipulate ......
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 ......
For years, Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel has wrestled with his haunting memories of the Holocaust, his work animated by the struggle between silence and revelation. This book focuses on the literary, theological and philosophical issues that emerge from his written work.
Defeated in World War I, living in a troubled and insecure peace, Germans under the Weimar Republic were a ready audience for visionary writers who indulged in elaborate fantasies of victorious wars of revenge and of German renewal through wondrous technological inventions. Largely ignored by the literary establishment, these writers created an ......
From the creation of a neuter pronoun in her earliest work, L'Opoponax, to the confusion of genres in her most recent fiction, Virgile, non, Monique Wittig uses literary subversion and invention to accomplish what Erika Ostrovsky appropriately defines as renversement, the annihilation of existing literary canons and the creation of highly ......
