Parables of disfiguration
Subtitle: reason and excess from romanticism to the avant-garde
By: Robert Eisenhauer.
Series: Studies on themes and motifs in literature,; v. 79
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism.; Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- English-speaking countries.; Romanticism -- English-speaking countries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [375]-389) and index.
Table of contents: title: Chance operator-Shelley's pelagic dissemination of knowledge; title: Dionysiac vocations for melancholy anatomists : Whitman and Crane reasses; title: Greek aliases and Roman icons : comedic motivation from the Odes of Horace to Fellini's La dolce vita; title: Paying back the colors : Burroughs, Kerouac, Mahfouz and the avant-garde legend of the underclass; title: A precarious de-distancing : Edward Dorn's S/Zlinger; title: "Like nothing i've ever seen; title: " : notes on cities, utopias, simulacra; title: On the negativity of the ephemeral in modernist aesthetics; title: Exquisition in the Americas : of blackbirds and black shadows.