Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. 1. D. H. Lawrence: The Fox and the perspective glass 1
6. 2. Franz Kafka and the metaphysics of alienation 15
7. 3. Wallace Stevens' poetry of being 33
8. 4. Williams' poetry of resignation 51
9. 5. Thomas Hardy: a sketch for a portrait 65
10. 6. Williams' Spring and All and the progress of poetry 79
11. 7. History as repetition in Thomas Hardy's poetry: the example of "Wessex Heights" 107
12. 8. Parable and performative in the Gospels and in modern literature 135
13. 9. Mr Carmichael and Lily Briscoe: The rhythm of creativity in To the Lighthouse 151
14. 10. Thomas Hardy, Jacques Derrida, and the "Dislocation of Souls" 171
15. 11. Heart of Darkness revisited 181
16. 12. Topography and tropography in Thomas Hardy's "In Front of the Landscape" 195
17. 13. Impossible metaphor: (Stevens' "The Red Fern" as example) 213
18. 14. When is a·Primitive like an Orb? 227
19. 15. Prosopopoeia in Hardy and Stevens 245
20. Index 261