Ascending the Prufrockian Stair
Studies in a Dissociated Sensibility
©1988
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XXIV,
228 Pages
Series:
American University Studies , Volume 86
Summary
If «nearly every important innovation in the English verse of the last thirty years is implicit» in Prufrock, as has recently been said, an in-depth study of this monologue is now warranted. The present collection comprises various key approaches: onomastic, typological, genetic, and aesthetic. The common theme tying them together is the speaker's split self, his «dissociated sensibility.» Special attention is paid to possible biographical connections and the poem's light-hearted humor. The richness of the sources (among them Shakespeare, Dickens, Pater, Conrad, and Conan Doyle) is stressed.
Details
- Pages
- XXIV, 228
- Publication Year
- 1988
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9780820408293
- Language
- English
- Published
- New York, Bern, Frankfurt/M., Paris, 1988. XXIV, 228 pp.
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