Isbn: 9780874137156 - comparative literary dimensions: essays in honor of melvin j. friedman (1 Ergebnisse)

Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 224 pages ; 24 cm. Contents: Theory of comedy from Dante to Joyce / Haskell M. Block -- The medium o fhistory: Robert Graves and the ancient past / Clayton Koelb -- Bakhtin, Joyce, and the epic tradition / Zack Bowen -- "I pity your oldself I was used to: Finnegans wake and the aesthetics of aging / Michael Patrick Gillespie -- The washerwoman skit adapted from Finnegans wake / Margaret Rogers -- Beckett's Happy days, Burton, and Schopenhauer / James Acheson -- Beckett [f]or nothing / Raymond Federman -- Beckett briefly on the nature of everything: a reading of Texts for nothing in the half-light of Greek philosophy / Livio Dobrez -- "A sup of the hawk's, or the saints": Beckett and Irish Theater / James Liddy -- Virginia Woolf's construction of masculinity: a narrative model, a reading of Mrs. Dalloway / Richard Pearce -- Zangwill's The melting pot and Nichols's Abie's Irish rose / Owen Aldridge -- Ce?line's ultimate focalization, or the two faces of paranoia in Bagatelles pour un massacre and Fe?erie pour une autre fois: toward a theory of paranoid writing / David Hayman -- Writing to overcome (Escribir superar): Luisa Valenzuela / Debra A. Castillo -- Ethnicity and authenticity: Wilson Harris and other "Black" writing / Mark Williams. Subject: European literature History and criticism. 1 Kg.…