Authorship as alchemy : subversive writing in Pushkin, Scott, Hoffmann / David Glenn Kropf
1994, 1st edition. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #407188
ISBN: 0804723001
Physical description; 273 pp.: illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents; 1. The Libertine: Seduction (Introduction) -- 2. The Author: Signs as Life (Pushkin) -- 3. The Novelist: "To One Thing Constant Never" (Scott) -- Rearticulation: A Triple Fugue in Three Parts (Hoffmann). 1. The Libertine: "Don Juan" 2. The Author: "Das Fraulein von Scuderi" 3. The Novelist: 'Kater Murr'. Coda Literary Subversions. Subjects; Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich 1799-1837 Criticism and interpretation. Scott, Walter 1771-1832. Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) 1776-1822.
Price: €45.00