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Natural magic :
(1980)
Though integration rather than alienation is the aim of Wharton's ironic method, alienation is a crucial unifying theme threaded throughout her best work, a motif so insistently explored that it, rather than manners or ...
Irony and the self in the lyric poetry of James Merrill.
(1982)
The paper also discusses Merrill's use of form and formal poetic convention in his early lyric poetry, as well as the function of form in his two novels. His use of form suggests that it is a distancing device so that the ...
The ironic vision in the fiction of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and William Faulkner /
(1983)
Similarly, these authors debunk the myth of the brave new future. In a fallen, "irremediably flawed" world there is a disjunction between past and present which prevents continuity of culture, ethics, traditions, and family ...
Language and the void :
(1982)
This study examines the connection between language and horror in Poe's horror tales, generally termed the arabesques, which, like Poe's poems, attempt to bring about the effect of beauty that Poe regarded as the aim of ...