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Names, Proverbs, Riddles, and Material Text in Robert Frost T. O'Brien

Names, Proverbs, Riddles, and Material Text in Robert Frost By T. O'Brien

Names, Proverbs, Riddles, and Material Text in Robert Frost by T. O'Brien


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This study examines several unexplored aspects of the poetry of Robert Frost, one of the most widely read and studied American poets, and shows how they contribute to the reader's experience and modernism in general.

Names, Proverbs, Riddles, and Material Text in Robert Frost Summary

Names, Proverbs, Riddles, and Material Text in Robert Frost by T. O'Brien

This study examines several unexplored aspects of the poetry of Robert Frost, one of the most widely read and studied American poets, and shows how they contribute to the reader's experience and modernism in general.

Names, Proverbs, Riddles, and Material Text in Robert Frost Reviews

A thorough treatment of the oft-neglected postmodern strains of Frost's poetry. Such a book on Frost's linguistic play is long overdue. - Robert Bernard Hass, author of Going by Contraries: Robert Frost's Conflict with Science and former President of the Robert Frost Society

O'Brien's attention to genre, to Frost's elusive and 'tricky' philosophy makes this book not only timely but also necessary to the current discussion on Frost. . .this book will be of great interest to all scholars and students of modernism generally. - Jonathan Barron, Associate Professor of English, University of Southern Mississippi and author of New Formalist Poets

About T. O'Brien

TIMOTHY O'BRIEN is Professor of English at the US Naval Academy, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction The Quest for a Name in 'Frost' Proverbs and the Quest for Certainty The Riddle of It All The Material Text as Witness Tree Coda

Additional information

NLS9781349287055
9781349287055
1349287059
Names, Proverbs, Riddles, and Material Text in Robert Frost by T. O'Brien
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
2015-10-28
210
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