Parables of disfiguration : reason and excess from romanticism to the avant-garde / Robert Eisenhauer.

Author/creator Eisenhauer, Robert G., 1946-
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Peter Lang, ©2005.
Descriptionxii, 404 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

SeriesStudies on themes and motifs in literature ; v. 79, 1056-3970 ;
Studies on themes and motifs in literature v. 79. ^A682571
Contents Chance operator-Shelley's pelagic dissemination of knowledge -- Dionysiac vocations for melancholy anatomists : Whitman and Crane reassessed -- Greek aliases and Roman icons : comedic motivation from the Odes of Horace to Fellini's La dolce vita -- Paying back the colors : Burroughs, Kerouac, Mahfouz and the avant-garde legend of the underclass -- A precarious de-distancing : Edward Dorn's S/Zlinger -- "Like nothing i've ever seen-- " : notes on cities, utopias, simulacra -- On the negativity of the ephemeral in modernist aesthetics -- Exquisition in the Americas : of blackbirds and black shadows.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [341]-389) and index.
LCCN 2005006770
ISBN0820478873 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PS88 .E37 2005 ✔ Available Place Hold