Poetics of Prose Literary Essays from Lermontov to Calvino
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 su
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Mark Axelrod
Poetics of Prose Literary Essays from Lermontov to Calvino
Mark Axelrod Chapman University Orange, California, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-43557-2 ISBN 978-3-319-43558-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-43558-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016948405 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
CONTENTS
A Poetics Introduction, Mostly
1
The Psychoanalytic Poetics of Weltschmerz in Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Times
9
The Poetics of Dramatic Prose in Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons
19
The Poetics of the Quest in Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Dog”
33
The Poetics of Stagecraft and Dialogue in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard
45
The Architectonics of Poetic Prose in Camus’s The Stranger
67
The Poetics of Reading in Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
83
Index
97
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A Poetics Introduction, Mostly
Abstract Like the notion of “postmodernism,” there’s a kind of enigma to the notion of “poetics.” Forms often undermine the Aristotelian notion of fair game, fair play, of what Leonard Orr writes of as “Aristotelian novels” versus “non-Aristotelian” ones; of a seemingly corporeal harmony for Socrates. Just as we are left pondering Brian McHale’s question “whose postmodernism is it anyway?” when he writes “we can discriminate among constructions of postmodernism, none of them any less ‘true’ or less fictional than the others, since all of them are finally fictions. To work on the notion of a poetics is to work on a disputational system of erecting monomyths in order to destroy them.” Keywords Poetics Literary form Poetic prose The novel
These are the truly stupid things: 1. literary criticism, whatever it may be, good or bad; 2. The Temperance S
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