Poetics of the Americas
Cowan, Bainard / Humphries, Jefferson
Emanating from a colloquium held at Louisiana State University entitled "Intertextuality and Civilization in the Americas, " this volume features some of the best minds now writing in comparative and interdisciplinary fields. Through lively discussions of topics ranging from Sigmund Freud to Zora Neale Hurston, from Christopher Columbus to the Holocaust, and including latter-day cultural icons such as Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the contr...