No Symbols Where None Intended : Literary Essays from Laclos to Beckett /
In Nabokov's Lectures on Literature, he writes: "Style and structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash." The essays in No Symbols Where None Intended: Literary Essays from Laclos to Beckett use Nabokov's stylistic approach to well-known texts (fiction, drama and...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Palgrave pivot.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Narrateur, Narratrice: Polyphonia in Laclos' Les liaisons dangereuses
- 2. The Theatre of Fiction in Turgenev's Rudin
- 3. Architectonics in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler
- 4. Notions of Melancholia and Misogyny in August Strindberg and The Father
- 5. Jewish mysticism, the Commodification of Art and the Notion of Aura in Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"
- 6. The Poetics of Prose Poetry in Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
- 7. The Poetics of Repetition in Beckett's Watt.