Poetics of Prose: Literary Essays from Lermontov to Calvino
Mark Axelrod
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Description for Poetics of Prose: Literary Essays from Lermontov to Calvino
hardcover. Num Pages: 101 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148 x 12. Weight in Grams: 273.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan Switzerland
Number of pages
101
Condition
New
Number of Pages
97
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319435572
SKU
V9783319435572
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About Mark Axelrod
Mark Axelrod is a Professor of Comparative Literature at Chapman University, USA.
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