2 Volume Set
John Hollander
2 Volume Set
John Hollander
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A volume on the early writings of the science fiction author Octavia E. Butler that offers an illustrated background of her juvenilia and extraordinary literary career. Professor Yang recounts her own memories of childhood in which she, like Octavia, found sanctuary in the public library.
Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics examines the role the Greco-Roman classics play in Susan Sontag's intellectual and literary achievement. The collected chapters consider Sontag as a case of a thinker in whom the classical tradition emerges through traces, connections, and references in a broader context.
Explores the way that numbers interact with literary forms in the nineteenth century. The close literary readings ask why some writers engage particularly with numbers; what kinds of work numbers perform for writers and readers when they are encountered within a text; and how numbers relate to the formal elements of poetry and fiction.
