Quest for Eros : Browning and 'Fifine' /

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Students of Browning have long been puzzled by the discrepancies between the dramatic framework of Fifine and its symbolic development, but these difficulties are resolved in Southwell's explication by a biographical hypothesis. The powerful influence of the memory of his beloved wife, Elizabet...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Southwell, Samuel B. (Author)
Other Authors: Browning, Robert, 1812-1889
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 1980.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Browning, Robert, > 1812-1889. > Fifine at the fair.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Fifine and the Love Letters; 3. Truth; 4. Modalities of Woman; 5. The Elegiac Process; 6. Affirmation of the World and the Flesh; 7. Translation of the Quest into Mind; 8. The Cultural Vision; 9. Abandonment of the Quest; 10. Fifine and Browning's Poetic Structure; 11. Background and Milieu; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.

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