Mark Axelrod Sokolov: 2 books
Madness in Fiction
Literary Essays from Poe to Fowles
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
This book examines one work dealing with madness from each of five prominent authors. Including discussion of Fowles, Hamsun, Hesse, Kafka, and Poe, it delineates the specific type of madness the author associates with each text, and explores the reason for that - such as a historical moment, physical...
Notions of Otherness
Literary Essays from Abraham Cahan to Dacia Maraini
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Defining what one means by the notion of ‘otherness’ is no mean feat. Typing the word into JSTOR results in no fewer than 39,000 citations. One can be overwhelmed with notions of what constitutes ‘otherness’.
To a great extent, the essays in ‘Notions of Otherness’ approach specific...