Synopses & Reviews
Two languagesand#8212;German and Romanianand#8212;inform the novels, essays, and collage poetry of Nobel laureate Herta Mand#252;ller. Describing her writing as and#8220;autofictional,and#8221; Mand#252;ller depicts the effects of violence, cruelty, and terror on her characters based on her own experiences in Communist Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceauand#351;escu regime.
Herta Mand#252;ller: Politics and Aesthetics explores Mand#252;llerand#8217;s writings from different literary, cultural, and historical perspectives. Part 1 features Mand#252;llerand#8217;s Nobel lecture, five new collage poems, and an interview with Ernest Wichner, a German-Romanian author who has traveled with her and sheds light on her writing. Parts 2 and 3, featuring essays by scholars from across Europe and the United States, address the political and poetical aspects of Mand#252;llerand#8217;s texts. Contributors discuss life under the Romanian Communist dictatorship while also stressing key elements of Mand#252;llerand#8217;s poetics, which promises both self-conscious formal experimentation and political intervention.
One of the firstand#160;books in Englishand#160;to thoroughly examine Mand#252;llerand#8217;s writing, this volume addresses audiences with an interest in dissident, exile, migration, experimental, and transnational literature.
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Two languages German and Romanian inform the novels, essays, and collage poetry of Nobel laureate Herta Muller. Describing her writing as autofictional, Muller depicts the effects of violence, cruelty, and terror on her characters based on her own experiences in Communist Romania under the repressive Nicolae Ceau escu regime.
Herta Muller: Politics and Aesthetics explores Muller s writings from different literary, cultural, and historical perspectives. Part 1 features Muller s Nobel lecture, five new collage poems, and an interview with Ernest Wichner, a German-Romanian author who has traveled with her and sheds light on her writing. Parts 2 and 3, featuring essays by scholars from across Europe and the United States, address the political and poetical aspects of Muller s texts. Contributors discuss life under the Romanian Communist dictatorship while also stressing key elements of Muller s poetics, which promises both self-conscious formal experimentation and political intervention.
One of the firstbooks in Englishto thoroughly examine Muller s writing, this volume addresses audiences with an interest in dissident, exile, migration, experimental, and transnational literature.
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This comprehensive volume celebrates the 150th anniversary of the 1855 edition of Walt Whitmanand#8217;s Leaves of Grass with twenty essays by preeminent scholars representing a variety of critical perspectives that focus exclusively on the original edition. Once regarded as primarily a collectorand#8217;s item, this edition is now viewed as the poetand#8217;s most bold and compelling articulation of the possibilities of American democracy.and#160;The essays weave a rich tapestry of the most current, innovative criticism on this foundational book of American poetry. The contributors treat Whitmanand#8217;s poetry, his biography, his politics, his reception in the United States and abroad, race and ethnic issues, nineteenth-century America, and even the complex typographical history of the first edition of Leaves of Grass. The volume also includes a tribute from the renowned poet Galway Kinnell.
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From Chaucers Pardoner to Eliots Edward Casaubon, from Behns Oroonoko to Woolfs Clarissa Dalloway—the multifarious perceptions, inferences, memories, attitudes, and emotions of such characters are in some cases as vividly familiar to us readers as those of the living, breathing individuals we know from our own day-to-day experiences in the world at large. Equally diverse are the investigative frameworks that have been developed to study such fictional minds, their operations and qualities, and the narrative means used to portray them.
The Emergence of Mind provides new perspectives on the strategies used to represent minds in stories and suggests the variety of analytic approaches that illuminate those strategies.
In this interdisciplinary and groundbreaking collection of essays, distinguished scholars such as Monika Fludernik, Alan Palmer, and Lisa Zunshine examine trends in the representation of consciousness in English-language narrative discourse from 700 to the present. Tracing commonalities and differences in the portrayal of fictional minds over virtually the entire time span during which narrative discourse in English has been written and read, The Emergence of Mind will have a lasting impact on literary studies, narratology, and other fields.
About the Author
Susan Belasco is a professor of English at the University of Nebraskaand#8211;Lincoln and the editor of Whitman's Poems in Periodicals for The Walt Whitman Archive. Ed Folsom is the Carver Professor of English at the University of Iowa, coeditor of The Walt Whitman Archive, and editor of Whitman East and West: New Contexts for Reading Walt Whitman. Kenneth M. Price is the Hillegass Professor of American Literature at the University of Nebraskaand#8211;Lincoln, coeditor of The Walt Whitman Archive, and the author of To Walt Whitman, America.and#160;Contributors: Susan Belasco, Lawrence Buell, Matt Cohen, Betsy Erkkila, Ed Folsom, Thomas C. Gannon, Ted Genoways, Jay Grossman, Walter Grand#252;nzweig, M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Galway Kinnell, Donald D. Kummings, Jerome Loving, Joel Myerson, William Pannapacker, Vivian R. Pollak, Kenneth M. Price, David S. Reynolds, M. Wynn Thomas, and Alan Trachtenberg