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Pierre Daniel Huet: "The History of Romances." an Annotated Text Edited, with Introduction (France).
(1983)
This edition, following Stephen Lewis's 1715 English translation, presents the complete form of Pierre Daniel Huet's The History of Romances, unpublished since 1720. Huet's discussion of prose romances, prefixed to the ...
Haunting Encounters: The Ethics of Global Reading.
(2011)
In this dissertation, the term “haunting” describes not just an experience of the supernatural, but a wide rage of encounters that are uncanny or unsettling, in which unacknowledged connections and enduring differences ...
Abstract Concrete: Experimental Poetry in Post-WWII New York City.
(2011)
After World War II, New York City became an international cultural capital, and poets and artists flocked to it. In Abstract Concrete, I group three such poets—ones who rarely keep company in literary criticism: Mina Loy, ...
The Narrator's Persona in "Piers Plowman B".
(1981)
This study describes patterns in Piers Plowman B that explain the apparently self-contradictory behavior manifested by its narrator. Many students of the poem simply identify its first person with its author, even though ...
Tom Stoppard and the Comedy of Ideas.
(1983)
Not since G. B. Shaw has a British playwright attempted to stage a play of ideas in a comic milieu. Tom Stoppard's works to date are taking the British tradition of high comedy in a new direction by adapting its conventions ...
More "there" than "here": The special space and time of Nabokov's fiction.
(1989)
The world of objective time and space is essentially a mirage in Nabokov's fiction, a prison of collective cliches that torments consciousness by attempting to both create and confine it. Nabokov's literary exploration of ...