In this insightful study, Rochelle Tobias explores images inPaul Celan's poetry drawn from three of the sciences: geology,astrology, and physiologythe scientific discourses ofthe earth, the heavens, and the human body. Celan's workborrows from each of these disciplines to represent itself asif it were a physical phenomenon or a body in ......
This work explores the troubledrelationship and unfinishedintellectual dialoguebetween Paul Celan, regardedby many as the most importantEuropean poet after1945, and Martin Heidegger,perhaps the most influentialfigure in twentieth-centuryphilosophy. It centers onthe persistent ambivalenceCelan, a Holocaust survivor,felt toward a thinker ......
The doll in Julie Cevalier's story leads a new brigade of commentators - arbiters of the writing that estabished authors are turning to, and new writers keep inventing. Their wry acquiescence in the quaint ways of the 3rd Millennium makes for a collection which is hard to put down.
In recent decades, Latin love poetry has become a significant site for feminist and other literary critics studying conceptions of gender and sexuality in ancient Roman culture.This new volume, the first to focus specifically on gender dynamics in Latin love poetry, moves beyond the polarized critical positions that argue that this poetry either ......
Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity
Charles Baudelaire is usually read as a paradigmatically modern poet, whose work ushered in a new era of French literature. But the common emphasis on his use of new forms and styles overlooks the complex role of the past in his work. In Grotesque Figures, Virginia E. Swain explores how the specter of the eighteenth century made itself felt in ......
Ballads are memorable. This book was finished when the poet was fifty, with too much to remember: the shadows of the greater world, the bulldozers down the street tearing through a Victorian school, the generosity of its founders, its green graceful bell tower and its nesting jackdaws turned to a cry in the air.
The bricks go off to salvage and ......
Originally published in 1848, Eureka is Poe's book on how the universe was formed, how it functions, and what its future might be. Poe provides a physical, scientific explanation for the interconnectedness of all things--an idea at the heart of much of nineteenth-century romanticism and American Transcendentalism in particular. This user-friendly ......
