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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Main Author: Axelrod, Mark (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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.