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21%OFFJohn Hollander - The Substance of Shadow: A Darkening Trope in Poetic History - 9780226354279 - V9780226354279
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The Substance of Shadow: A Darkening Trope in Poetic History

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Description for The Substance of Shadow: A Darkening Trope in Poetic History Hardcover. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 227 x 20. Weight in Grams: 352.
John Hollander, poet and scholar, was a master whose work joined luminous learning and imaginative risk. This book, based on the unpublished Clark Lectures Hollander delivered in 1999 at Cambridge University, witnesses his power to shift the horizons of our thinking, as he traces the history of shadow in British and American poetry from the Renaissance to the end of the twentieth century. Shadow shows itself here in myriad literary identities, revealing its force as a way of seeing and a form of knowing, as material for fable and parable. Taking up a vast range of ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226354279
SKU
V9780226354279
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About John Hollander
John Hollander (1929-2013) was the Sterling Professor of English at Yale University and the author of more than thirty books of poetry and literary criticism. Kenneth Gross is the Alan F. Hilfiker Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Rochester. He is the author, most recently, of Puppet: An Essay on Uncanny Life, also published by the University of ... Read more

Reviews for The Substance of Shadow: A Darkening Trope in Poetic History
Who knows what shadows lurk in the hearts, and around the margins, and in the allusive connections of poems great and minor, English and American, classical and European? Nobody knew as much, perhaps, as John Hollander, who explored the binaries, the dualities, the implications of literary shadows in these splendid, memorable lectures, tracing the shadow as topos and trope over ... Read more

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