Incarnation & metamorphosis : can literature change us? /
"Literary criticism," David Mason writes, "ought to entertain as well as illuminate." In these essays, Mason tells stories about embodiment and change, incarnation and metamorphosis, drawing connections between art and life without confusing the two. Mason considers the many kind...
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Philadelphia :
Paul Dry Books,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part One: The Way of Literature
- Incarnation and Metamorphosis: an essay in metaphors
- At Home in the Imaginal
- The Minefield and the Soul: notes on identity and literature
- Poet and Moralist: Claudia Rankine and Kay Ryan
- Daughters of Memory: the sibling rivalry of history and poetry
- Beloved Immoralist: one man's love of a fictional character
- Part Two: Voices, Dead and Living
- The Freedom of Montaigne
- Digging Up Diderot
- Neruda's voice
- The Perils of Fame: Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney
- Homage to Tom Stoppard
- Two Poet-Critics: Clive James and John Burnside
- The Searching Stories of Helen Garner
- Robert Stone and American Wreckage
- The Inner Exile of Dana Gioia
- "The song is drowned": Michael Donaghy.