No Symbols Where None Intended
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No Symbols Where None Intended: Literary Essays from Laclos to Beckett Mark Axelrod Professor of Comparative Literature, Chapman University, USA
no symbols where none intended Copyright Mark Axelrod, 2014. SoFtcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-45609-0 All rights reserved. First published 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN in the US a division of St Martin s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave and Macmillan are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries ISBN 978-1-349-49835-2 ISBN 978-1-137-44732-6 (ebook) DOI 10.1057/9781137447326 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Axelrod, Mark. No Symbols Where None Intended : Literary Essays from Laclos to Beckett / Mark Axelrod, Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Comparative Literature, Chapman University, USA. pages cm 1. Literature Philosophy. I. Title. PN45.A89 2014 801 dc23 2014028134 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. First edition: 2014 www.palgrave.com/pivot
As always, to my son, Matías
Contents Introduction 1 1 Narrateur, Narratrice: Polyphonia in Laclos Les Liaisons Dangereuses 4 2 The Theatre of Fiction in Turgenev s Rudin 13 3 Theatrical Architectonics and the Poetics of Dialogue in Ibsen s Hedda Gabler 34 4 Poetics of Melancholia and Misogyny in August Strindberg and The Father 48 5 Jewish Mysticism, the Commodification of Art, and the Notion of Aura in Walter Benjamin s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 59 6 The Poetics of Repetition in Beckett s Watt 68 7 Elizabeth Smart s By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept and the Poetics of Prose Poetry 80 Index 96 vi