No Symbols Where None Intended: Literary Essays from Laclos to Beckett [electronic resource] /
Axelrod, M.author.
An homage to Nabokov's Lectures on Literature, this collection of essays sheds new light on canonical authors such as Ibsen, Beckett, and Strindberg. Using style and structure as the connective thread, Mark Axelrod joins a wide and deep conversation on writers on writing.
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Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; 1 Narrateur, Narratrice:Polyphonia in Laclos'Les Liaisons Dangereuses; 2 The Theatre of Fictionin Turgenev's Rudin; 3 Theatrical Architectonicsand the Poetics of Dialoguein Ibsen's Hedda Gabler; 4 Poetics of Melancholiaand Misogyny in AugustStrindberg and The Father; 5 Jewish Mysticism, theCommodification of Art,and the Notion of Aurain Walter Benjamin's "TheWork of Art in the Age ofMechanical Reproduction"; 6 The Poetics of Repetitionin Beckett's Watt
7 Elizabeth Smart's By GrandCentral Station I Sat Downand Wept and the Poeticsof Prose PoetryIndex
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
An homage to Nabokov's Lectures on Literature, this collection of essays sheds new light on canonical authors such as Ibsen, Beckett, and Strindberg. Using style and structure as the connective thread, Mark Axelrod joins a wide and deep conversation on writers on writing.
Poetry.
Fiction.
Literature-History and criticism.
Poetry and Poetics.
Fiction.
Literary History.