Tropes, parables, performatives : essays on twentieth-century literature / by Miller, J. Hillis 1928-2021

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence: The Fox and the perspective glass -- Franz Kafka and the metaphysics of alienation -- Wallace Stevens' poetry of being -- Williams' poetry of resignation -- Thomas Hardy: a sketch for a portrait Williams' Spring and All and the progress of poetry -- History as repetition in Thomas Hardy's poetry: the example of "Wessex Heights" -- Parable and performative in the Gospels and in modern literature -- Mr Carmichael and Lily Briscoe: The rhythm of creativity in To the Lighthouse -- Thomas Hardy, Jacques Derrida, and the "Dislocation of Souls" -- Heart of Darkness revisited -- Topography and tropography in Thomas Hardy's "In Front of the Landscape" -- Impossible metaphor: (Stevens' "The Red Fern" asexample) -- When is a Primitive like an Orb? …”
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Modernism's inhuman worlds / by Tazudeen, Rasheed, 1983-

Table of Contents: “…-- Growth: multispecies metaphor and the riddle of being -- Sediments: ground and under ground in Alice and On the origin of species -- Dust: metaphorics of contagion: Flaubert and Joyce -- Soils: Kafka's inhuman fidelities -- Sky: the inhuman comedy of Woolf's Between the acts -- Forest, ocean, planet (green & blue): metamodernism's post-extinction archives.…”
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