"Parts I and II are substantial and useful surveys of cultural and literary theory and its development, and are pretty well packed with suggestive general ideas. But for many readers the twenty-one essays of Part III, dealing with specific and more of less familiar works, may be the most provocative. These studies exemplify mythic criticism in action, in interpretations of a wide variety of authors and works, mainly of prose fiction. . . . This volume helps to consolidate the value and the diverse uses of myth for both artist and critic. . . . Professor Vickery's] book should appeal both to...
"Parts I and II are substantial and useful surveys of cultural and literary theory and its development, and are pretty well packed with suggestive gen...
Traditional English poetic elegists offer both writers and readers hope. After lamenting an individual's death and confronting the mortality of all living things, these poets seek consolation from religion, philosophy, or culture for the inevitability of death. The modern prose elegy, however, follows a different path -- one that determinedly questions all possible resolutions. In The Prose Elegy, John B. Vickery continues the work he began in The Modern Elegiac Temper, which examined the form in British and American poetry. He now considers the works of American and British fiction...
Traditional English poetic elegists offer both writers and readers hope. After lamenting an individual's death and confronting the mortality of all...
