"This book covers playwright Martin Crimp's recent work showing how it captures the nuances in our interpersonal contemporary experience. Examining the bold and exciting body of writing by Crimp, the book delves into his depiction of intersections between narratives, as well as …
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The rise of the novel in the mid-18th century was also the rise of sentimentalism. This study explores the attitudes which led novelists to associate virtuous feeling with disabling suffering. It also examines the role of women in fiction and in society during that period.
"Misanthropoetics explores the reemergence and appeal of the literary misanthrope in a number of key examples from Shakespeare, Jonson, Spenser, and the satirical milieu of Marston, to exemplify a seemingly unresolvable set of paradoxes of social life"--
Misanthropoetics explores efforts by Renaissance writers to represent social flight and withdrawal as a fictional escape from the incongruous demands of culture.
Introduction: "How we are with each other" -- Charting a Radical Geography -- Poems toward an Aesthetics of Experience, 1951-1970 -- Feminism and a Relational Solitude, 1970-1981 -- The Fugitive Condition of Social Solitude, 1981-1991 -- Fugitive and Dissident Solitude Mobilized…
"The first scholarly study of Adrienne Rich's full career examines the poet through her developing approach to the transformative potential of relationships"--
"The first scholarly study of Adrienne Rich's full career examines the poet through her developing approach to the transformative potential of relationships"--
Novel Relations engages twentieth-century post-Freudian British psychoanalysis in an unprecedented way: as literary theory. Placing the writing of figures like D. W. Winnicott, W. R. Bion, Michael and Enid Balint, Joan Riviere, Paula Heimann, and Betty Joseph in conversation wit…
