The Grove of the Eumenides: Essays on Literature, Criticism, and Culture |  | Author: Frederick Glaysher
Publisher: Earthrise Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 337
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0967042186
Dewey Decimal Number: 801.95
EAN: 9780967042183
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Publication Date: October 1, 2007
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In the poet Frederick Glaysher's collection of literary essays, The Grove of the Eumenides, East and West meet in a newsynthesis of a global vision of humankind ranging over classic literature, ancient and modern, both Western and non-Western, from the dilemmas of modernity in Yeats, Eliot, Milosz, Bellow, Dostoevsky, to Lu Xun, Tamura Ryuichi, Kenzaburo Oe, Naguib Mahfouz, R. K. Narayan, among others, from mimesis and deconstruction to the United Nations, with extensive essays on Chinese, Japanese, and South-Asian literature. Clearly the work of a poet-critic attempting to embrace a larger portion of human experience than the personal postmodern self, The Grove of the Eumenides reaches toward an epic vision of the twenty-first century. All the muck and glory of American and international experience and history mix in the complex tension of a mind struggling with itself and its age. Acutely perceptive of the spiritual and moral nuances of literature, criticism, and culture, Glaysher confronts the loss of religious faith in the modern world and breaks through to a vision of the unity of the human longing for transcendence.
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