No Symbols Where None Intended: Literary Essays from Laclos to Beckett

Mark Axelrod is a Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Chapman University, USA.

1. Narrateur, Narratrice: Polyphonia in Laclos' Les liaisons dangereuses 2. The Theatre of Fiction in Turgenev's Rudin 3. Architectonics in Ibsen's Hedda Gabler 4. Notions of Melancholia and Misogyny in August Strindberg and The Father 5. Jewish mysticism, the Commodification of Art and the Notion of Aura in Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" 6. The Poetics of Prose Poetry in Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept 7. The Poetics of Repetition in Beckett's Watt ?