Editions Rodopi BV is pleased to announce the following new publication(s)
in Comparative Studies:
Patrick Bridgwater:
De Quincey's Gothic Masquerade.
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2004. 183 pp.
(Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden
Literaturwissenschaft 80)
ISBN: 90-420-1813-5 € 37,-
http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=IFAVL+80
Architectures of Poetry.
Edited by María Eugenia Díaz Sánchez and Craig Douglas Dworkin.
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2004. 143 pp.
(Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden
Literaturwissenschaft 79)
ISBN: 90-420-1892-5 € 34,-
http://www.rodopi.nl/senj.asp?BookId=IFAVL+79
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Architectures of Poetry.
Edited by María Eugenia Díaz Sánchez and Craig Douglas Dworkin.
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2004. 143 pp.
(Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden
Literaturwissenschaft 79)
ISBN: 90-420-1892-5 € 34,-
Architectures of Poetry is the first comprehensive accounting of the
currently intense dialogue between the sister arts of poetry and
architecture. Refusing to take either term in a metaphoric sense, the
eleven essays collected in this volume exemplify an exciting methodological
direction for work in the humanities: a "literal wager" that is willing to
take the unintended suggestions of language as reality. At the same time,
they also provide close readings of the work of a number of important
writers. In addition to a suite of essays devoted to the team of Arakawa
and Madeline Gins, chapters focus on figures as diverse as Francesco
Borromini, Rainer Maria Rilke, Stéphane Mallarmé, Friedrich Achleitner, John
Cage and Lyn Hejinian.
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Patrick Bridgwater:
De Quincey’s Gothic Masquerade.
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2004. 183 pp.
(Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden
Literaturwissenschaft 80)
ISBN: 90-420-1813-5 € 37,-
De Quincey's Gothic Masquerade is what has long been needed, a study of
Thomas De Quincey's Gothic and Gothic-related texts by a Germanist working
on Gothic and specializing in Anglo-German literary relations. Variously
identified as Gothic Hero, Gothic Parasite, and author of a Gothick sport,
De Quincey is the dark horse of Gothicism, for while his work has,
increasingly, been associated with Gothic, not one of the recent companions
to Gothic so much as mentions his name. Definitions of what is meant by
'Gothic' have changed, of course, and are still evolving, claiming more
territory all the time, but Gothic specialists also have their blind spots,
of whom De Quincey is one. One reason for this state of affairs will be the
fact that in his work the Gothic is interwoven with the German, to which
modern English studies all too often turn a blind eye. In this timely study
of his work in relation to Gothic convention the author addresses the
question of De Quincey's reputed knowledge of German 'Gothic' Romantic
literature and the related question of supposed German influences on his
Gothic work, and shows that his fiction is not less but more original than
has been thought. The texts examined are those on which, for better or
worse, his reputation as a writer both of autobiography and of fiction
depends. Focusing on the Gothic takes one to the heart of his literary
masquerade, and more especially to the heart of his masked autobiographical
enterprise. Gothic, because of its formulaic nature, represents a place
where he belongs, a place where his sense of guilt can be seen as part of a
wider pattern, thus countering his pariah self-image and enabling him to
make some sort of sense of the Gothic ruin of his life. Addressed to all who
are interested in De Quincey's work and its place in literary history, and
to the many readers in the English and German-speaking worlds who share De
Quincey's and the author's enthusiasm for Gothic, this book adds
considerably to the scope of De Quincey studies, which it enables to move on
from some of the main unanswered questions of the past.
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