Lyrical Symbols and Narrative Transformations
Essays in Honour of Ralph Freedman
Published on 1. February 1998
Book
Hardback
270 pages
978-1-57113-120-1 (ISBN)
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This collection of critical essays examines nineteenth and twentieth-century European and American poetry and prose from the perspective of aesthetic transformations. These transformations encompass revisions from one genre to another, from classical to modern, from one country to another, or among varying gendered perspectives.
This collection of critical essays examines nineteenth and twentieth-century European and American poetry and prose from the perspective of aesthetic transformations. These transformations encompass revisions from one genre to another, from classical to modern, from one country to another, or among varying gendered perspectives.
This collection of critical essays examines nineteenth and twentieth-century European and American poetry and prose from the perspective of aesthetic transformations. These transformations encompass revisions from one genre to another, from classical to modern, from one country to another, or among varying gendered perspectives.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Columbia, MD
United States
Publishing group
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Cloth over boards
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2 s/w Abbildungen
2 b/w illus.
Dimensions
Height: 579 mm
Width: 386 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-57113-120-1 (9781571131201)
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Lyric transformation and the poetics of gender in Rilke's "Sonnets to Orpheus", Helen Sword; Rilke's "Die Insel der Sirenen" and the music of silence, Thomas Kovach; Homer - "The Odyssey", Book Eight - a day for songs and contests, Robert Fagles; Rilke, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy - the unpublished chapter, Anna Tavis; Antigone's lyric heart - Marguerite Yourcenar's revision of Sophocles's "Antigone", Katherine Callen King; "that comes before the swallow dares" (thinking about Leonardo's "St Anne" cartoon), Ellen Waldinger; ptyx - the metaphysics of the symbol, David Lenson; free-floating marginals and contagious degeneracy in the London and Paris of the mid- and late-19th century, Anca Vlasopolos; Hardy, Darwin, "Tess" and the father's changing name, Ross Shideler; mania and the middlebrow - the case of "Trilby", Jonathan Freedman; whatever happened to the lyrical novel? - madness and the lyrical in Bessie Head's "A Question of Power" and Ingeborg Bachmann's "Malina", Kathleen L. Komar; Atwood on women, war and history - "the loneliness of the military historian", Martine Watson Brownley; Atwood's "Robber Bride" - at the borders of feminist narrative, Lore Metzger; Foucault and Najibullah, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.