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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255252303321

Autore

Axelrod Mark

Titolo

Poetics of Prose [[electronic resource] ] : Literary Essays from Lermontov to Calvino / / by Mark Axelrod

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

3-319-43558-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IV, 97 p. 1 illus.)

Disciplina

809

Soggetti

Comparative literature

Fiction

Poetry

Comparative Literature

Poetry and Poetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

A Poetics Introduction, Mostly -- The Psychoanalytic Poetics of Weltschmerz in Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Times -- The Poetics of Dramatic Prose in Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons -- The Poetics of the Quest in Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Dog” -- The Poetics of Stagecraft & Dialogue in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard -- The Architectonics of Prose in Camus' The Stranger -- The Poetics of Reading in Calvino’s if on a winter’s night a traveler.

Sommario/riassunto

This creative yet scholarly book discusses prose's important relationship to close literary analysis, showing how such an approach can be beneficial for readers, scholars, and writers alike. Bringing together a literary history that consists of writers such as Lermontov, Chekhov, Camus, and Calvino, Mark Axelrod masterfully interweaves discussions of structure, context, genre, plot, and other key elements often applied to poetry but seldom applied to various forms of prose in order to offer bold and surprisingly fresh claims about the writer's purpose. By peeling back these layers of technique and style, this book opens up discussions to better understand and appreciate great dramatists, writers, and poets throughout time by returning back to the



core elements that originally comprised their writing crafts. Mark Axelrod is a Professor of Comparative Literature at Chapman University, USA.