The Forg232d Feature Towards a Poetics of Uncertainty by Ben Belitt PAPERBACK

The Forgd FeatureTowards a Poetics of Uncertainty, New and Selected Essays\nAuthor(s): Ben Belitt\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823216048, 978-0823216048\nSynopsis\nThe scope of The Forged Feature is two-fold: to bring together a representative selection of critical essays bearing on Belitt's interests as poet, critic, teacher, and translator; and to furnish an on-going review of his concern with the encoding of languages and the exigencies of their imaginative retrieval. The collection begins with three pieces on the uses of belief, linguistic and place as shaping forces in the concretizing of the literary artifact. The second section of essays examines the fictive medium in terms of a number of \""predicaments.\"" The discussion embraces texts such as parables, novels, and autobiographical meoirs covering a broad range of twentieth century talents: Kafka, Borges, [url] Naipaul, Saul Bellows, and.