TY  - BOOK
AU  - Robert F. Fleissner
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Ascending the Prufrockian Stair
T2  - Studies in a Dissociated Sensibility
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1078554
N2  - 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.
LA  - English
ER  -