Parables of disfiguration : reason and excess from romanticism to the avant-garde / Robert Eisenhauer.
| Author/creator | Eisenhauer, Robert G., 1946- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Peter Lang, ©2005. |
| Description | xii, 404 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-389) and index. |
| LCCN | 2005006770 |
| ISBN | 0820478873 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | PS88 .E37 2005 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |