Susan Howe's Renaissance period: Metamorphosis and representation in Pythagorean Silence and Defenestration of Prague

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American poet Susan Howe's use of motifs drawn from the literature of Renaissance, notion of metamorphosis and use of the aesthetics of the masque and of Renaissance pastoral is addressed. Howe's anachronistic achievement in two poems, "Pythagorean Silence" and "Defenestration of Prague" is to present late 20th-century anxieties about identity and authority through a Renaissance understanding of classical notion.

Analysis, Aesthetics, 20th century AD, European literature, Critical essay, Pythagorean Silence (Poem), Defenestration of Prague (Poem), Renaissance literature, Metamorphosis (Literature), Howe, Susan

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Carrying the burden of representation: Paul Auster's 'The Book of Illusions'

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'The Book of Illusions' investigates to what extent illusions obscure an underlying reality, or serve only to mask the fundamental lack of any reality. The book chooses to foreground a particular medium of representation and framing, that is, cinema, and it actuates a peculiarly symbiotic relationship between art and death.

All Other Publishers, Scientific & Technical Reports, Evaluation, Scientific literature, Science literature, The Book of Illusions (Book), Auster, Paul

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Paul Auster's specters

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Paul Aster's Ghosts is on e of those few works which deserve unmitigated admiration. Ghosts literally teems with intertexual references, with embedded narratives, and what finally takes over is a foreboding sense of what lies ahead when hyperreality, the logical development of postmodernist era.

Novelists, Critical Essay, Ghosts (Book), Aster, Paul

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