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Book SynopsisAfter Romanticism explores the ground common to European romanticism and American modernism, a space of translation and echoing where gulfs of ironic difference open between islands of topographic similarity, where literary history is subject to fictive renegotiation. Robert Eisenhauer situates Truman Capote's texts within the artistic/philosophical orbit of Novalis and Friedrich Schlegel, at the same time reading
Answered Prayers as a validation of Baroque mysticism, a revisiting of controversies surrounding
Lucinde, and a modernist take on Shelley's
Triumph of Life. In the second essay, the author unpacks the signifiers Cristal and crystal, assessing their role in the rhetoric of metahistory.
Breakfast at Tiffany's is seen embodying the exotic trans underlying representation itself, the disappointed searching of Schiller's sentimental consciousness.
Discussing two cinematic interpretations of Terence Rattigan's play
The Browning Version,
