Vidyan Ravinthiran

Gebundenes Buch

Spontaneity and Form in Modern Prose

Beschreibung

Studies the afterlife of the Romantic idea of spontaneity in transatlantic modern prose in the work of William Hazlitt, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Herman Melville, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and Saul Bellow, to provide a broad-based historical enquiry into what it means to read, write, and live as a modern person.

Autor

Vidyan Ravinthiran is Associate Professor of English Literature at Harvard and he is author of two award-winning books of verse. His first monograph, Elizabeth Bishop's Prosaic (Bucknell UP, 2015) won both the University English Prize and the Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism. He has compiled editions of Indian poets and has published a range of both scholarly and journalistic articles on the cognitions of form in both poetry and prose, encompassing works from multiple time-periods and nations. He helps organize Ledbury Emerging Critics, a UK/US scheme for increasing racial diversity in review-culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 165mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780198852155
• ISBN-10: 0198852150
• Artikelnr.: 66171237