Title
No Symbols where None Intended: Literary Essays from Laclos to Beckett
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Description
In Nabokov's Lectures on Literature, he writes: "Style and structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash." The essays in No Symbols Where None Intended: Literary Essays from Laclos to Beckett use Nabokov's stylistic approach to well-known texts (fiction, drama and criticism) as a point of departure. Notions of style and structure link the three prose pieces discussed in the text, (Beckett, Smart, and Turgenev,) to the fiction and drama of Ibsen and Strindberg. Mark Axelrod joins a wide and deep conversation on writers on writing.
ISBN
9781137456090
Publication Date
2014
Publisher
Routledge
City
New York, NY
Keywords
poetics, polyphonia, voice
Disciplines
English Language and Literature | Modern Literature
Recommended Citation
Axelrod, Mark. No Symbols where None Intended: Literary Essays from Laclos to Beckett. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
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