Parables of Disfiguration: Reason and Excess from Romanticism to the Avant-garde by Robert Eisenhauer (Hardcover, 2005)

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Author: Robert Eisenhauer. Format: Hardback. Country/Region of Manufacture: US. Topic: Literary Criticism, Films & TV. Item Weight: 740g. Item Length: 160mm. Item Height: 230mm. Language: English.

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Parables of Disfiguration examines literary and cinematic texts from the Romantic period forward, offering fresh perspectives on the vicissitudes of reason and excess - seen as moments leading to a seizure by sophia (wisdom). Reading canonical works by Percy Bysshe Shelley, but also less familiar poems such as The Revolt of Islam, Robert Eisenhauer draws attention to a series of transits involving the operation of chance and the playful distortions of the scholarly anagram. Hart Crane and Walt Whitman are seen pursuing Dionysiac vocations in the attempt to advance a poetics of melancholy anatomy. Fellini's landmark film La Dolce Vita recuperates or re-Vamps Roman and more exotic (American) character-types, while parabolically excavating ancient names. Further essays are devoted to William Burroughs's representation of the Arab underclass (with reference to the Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz), Edward Dorn's Heideggerian epic Gunslinger, the city in twentieth-century utopian vision, and the concept of the ephemeral in modernist aesthetics. Parables of Disfiguration concludes by reading Wallace Stevens's wintry and complex Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird tropically - in the context of haiku verse, the Yucatan, Hunter Thompson's Gonzo journalism, Plutarch, and an exquisite vehicle combining excess with vindictive righteousness, the Vincent Black Shadow motorcycle.

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PublisherPeter Lang Publishing Inc
ISBN-139780820478876
eBay Product ID (ePID)116033988

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Book TitleParables of Disfiguration: Reason and Excess from Romanticism to the Avantgarde
Publication Year2005
FormatHardcover
LanguageEnglish
AuthorRobert Eisenhauer
TopicLiterature
Number of Pages404 Pages

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Item Height230 mm
Item Width160 mm
Item Weight740 g
Volume79

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorRobert Eisenhauer
Issn1056-3970
Series TitleStudies on Themes and Motifs in Literature
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