In this classic work, Maud Ellmann examines T. S. Eliot’s and Ezra Pound’s criticism in terms of what she calls the ‘poetics of impersonality’. Her superb and entirely original readings of the major poems of the modernist canon have earned a lasting place in criticism.
Provides examples of the literary criticism which has emerged from the conjunction between psychoanalysis and post-structuralism. The book defines concepts and methods... Læs mere
In this authoritative introduction to her life and work, Maud Ellmann teases out Bowen’s strangeness through close readings informed by historical, psychoanalytic, and deconstructive methods of interpretation.
Originally published: London: Longman Group Limited, 1994.
This study offers an authoritative introduction to Bowen’s works, revealing both their pleasures for the fiction-addict and their fascinations for the literary critic, theorist, and historian.
The iconic appliance of twentieth-century domestic revolution, the vacuum cleaner stands at the forefront of radical changes in technology, automation, finance, marketing, hygiene, infrastructure, time-management, domestic labour, and the history of dirt.