Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-221) and index.
Contents
The poetics of the quest in Cervantes' Don Quixote -- The poetics of (p)ostmode(r)n(e) parody in Austen's Northanger abbey -- The poetics of climate in Brontë's Wuthering heights -- The poetics of irony in Flaubert's Madame Bovary -- The poetics of sacrifice in Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles -- The poetics of peripatetics and peripety in Hamsun's Hunger -- The poetics of prose poetry in Elizabeth Smart's By Grand Central Station I sat down and wept -- The poetics of mortality in Lispector's The hour of the star -- The poetics of voice in Beckett's Company.