The author as character : representing historical writers in Western literature / edited by Paul Franssen and Ton Hoenselaars.

Other author Franssen, Paul, 1955-
Other author Hoenselaars, A. J., 1956-
Format Book
Publication InfoMadison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©1999.
Description313 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction: the author as character, defining a genre / Paul Franssen and Tom Hoenselaars -- The author: postmodernism's stock character / Aleid Fokkema -- Virgil in Dante's Divine Comedy / Christopher Kleinhenz -- François Villon: character within or without his own poetry? / Jelle Koopmans -- A voice restored: Louise Labé's impersonation of Sappho / Phyllis R. Brown -- Plato as protagonist in Sir Thomas Elyot's Of the Knowledge Which Maketh a Wise Man / Robert Haynes -- The Bard, the Bible, and the desert island / Paul Franssen -- Horace the second, or, Ben Jonson, Thomas Dekker, and the battle for Augustan Rome / Matthew Steggle -- Encores: the dialogue of the dead within English literature / Frederick M. Keener -- Aurore Dupin Dudevant and Jean-Baptiste Poquelin: George Sand reconstructs Molière / Gretchen Elizabeth Smith -- Venetian mirrors: Barrett or Browning as the artist? / Rosella Mamoli Zorzi -- Joyce the postmodern: Shakespeare as character in Ulysses / Lois Feuer -- One author in search of a character: Ezra Pound's "Homage to Sextus Propertius" / Martine L. de Vos -- Displacing Goethe: tribute and exorcism in Thomas Mann's The Beloved Returns / Gamin Bartle -- Herman Broch and Virgil / Jattie Enklaar -- Canões: a Portuguese renaissance poet in Brazilian popular literature / Ria Lemaire -- The gender of mourning: A.S. Byatt's "The Conjugal Angel" and Alfred Lord Tennyson's In Memoriam / Christien Franken -- Tennessee Williams "outs" Scott and Ernest / Peter L. Hays -- The truthful fiction of the death and life of the author: Cervantes and Marlowe / Harm den Boer -- Hella S. Haasse's In a Dark Wood Wandering: Charles d'Orléans in an "existentialist" Bildungsroman / Martijn Rus.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 98033962
ISBN0838637868 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PN56.5.A84 A88 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold