Response to Failure: Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Francis Thompson, Lionel Johnson, and Dylan Thomas

From the Publisher
"The thesis of Dr. Parekh's pioneering study is a fascinating one and argued with an unusual breadth of scholarship. Students of Hopkins, Francis Thompson, Lionel Johnson and Dylan Thomas gain new insights here-but this book is valuable also for its sensitive understanding of the relationship between writer's own life and the way in which it both contributes-to and is simultaneously distanced-from his/her art. In exploring this, Dr. Parekh never loses sight of the distinction between the human writer and the always-different protagonist of the writing. A real contribution in an important but neglected area-and a most stimulating read." Desmond Egan Poet/Artistic Director, The G. M. Hopkins International Summer School, Monasterevin, Ireland


Buy from Amazon     Compare Prices

A US citizen born in India, Parekh demonstrates how authors traditionally studied as part of the Eurocentric literary canon, and therefore shunned by multiculturalists, can be interpreted from such perspectives as third-world feminism and post-colonial criticism. One of her major interests is developing a methodology that allows exchange and interchange between cultural regions often considered The Center and The Margin. Substantially revised and updated from a doctoral dissertation for Louisiana State University; no date noted. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.


Buy from Barnes & Noble     Compare Prices