Edward Clarke. The Later Affluence of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens.

Edward Clarke’s book entitled The Later Affluence of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens (2012) constitutes an important addition to the scholarship that keeps on being steadily produced about W. B. Yeats’ and Wallace Stevens’ poetic practice. The uniqueness of Clarke’s publication lies in the in-depth commentary it provides on particular poems by these two major poets in an attempt to highlight the inventiveness in their conception and philosophical depth as these poems converse with old verse fo..

Language Amplifications and Visualisations in Michael Joyce’s was and Alexandra Grant’s babel

This article focuses on Michael Joyce‘s novel was and Alexandra Grant‘s painting babel in an attempt to explore what changes occur when moving between media, language codes and materials. Grant‘s painting is a response to Joyce‘s print-bound novel. Her work serves as a remediation as well as a reconceptualisation of Joyce‘s textual endeavor. In examining these works, we can locate a dynamic relation across the patterns of visual and verbal communication that they create. Joyce‘s and Grant‘s collaboration breaks new ground not only in terms of understanding how different media function but also by introducing an experiential and participatory form of narrative development. Through their engagement with different media, these works create narratives that are visually, verbally, spatially and conceptually challenging

Baelo-Allué, Sonia.Bret Easton Ellis’s Controversial Fiction : Writing Between High and Low Culture

Sonia Baelo-Allué’s monograph with the title Bret Easton Ellis’s Controversial Fiction: Writing Between High and Low Culture was published in 2011, a year during which two other volumes about Ellis’s works emerged: Naomi Mandel’s edited collection of essays with the title Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho, Glamorama, Lunar Park and Georgia Colby’s monograph entitled Bret Easton Ellis: Underwriting the Contemporary. The publication of these three volumes in the same year with two of them emer..

David Sanders. A Divided Poet: Robert Frost, North of Boston, and the Drama of Disappearance.

David Sanders in his monograph entitled A Divided Poet: Robert Frost, North of Boston, and the Drama of Disappearance (2011) sheds light on the dilemmas, doubts and personal conflicts Frost confronted while composing his poetic collection North of Boston in which some of his most well-known lyrics, such as “Mending Wall,” “After Apple-Picking,” and “The Wood-Pile,” are contained. This book should be considered alongside a number of other publications either in monograph or essay form that app..