The Unbeliever (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Dale Parker
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Arts
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Poetry or poets, Poetics, Literary criticism
Robert Dale Parker, assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is fascinated by that which lies below the surface in life and in art. His first book, Faulkner and the Novelistic Imagination (1985), explores William Faulkner's use of revelation of a secret to create the suspense that gives the novels their dynamic.
Parker's examination of the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop in this second critical book also explores the hidden. This time, his scholarship shows how the inner secret of self-doubt becomes the tension behind the poetic...
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