This book is about literary and educational questions that are off the beaten track. Topics range from modern American fiction to classical comedy. All are discussed in a reader-friendly style.
作者簡介
Michael Skupin(周德客)
Michael Skupin(周德客) received his doctorate from the University of Houston (USA), specializing in Merlin. He has taught at Chinese Culture University since 2005.
Preface
A False Etymology in Moby-Dick
Gambling in The House of Mirth
Chaucer the Alchemist
Ahab and Cellini’s Perseus
Two Samuels: Tzara, Beckett and Communism
Localization
A Case of Modernist Poetic
Modernizing Chaucer’s Anelida and Arcite
Saroyan in Taiwan
Ahab Astray
Sixteen Hamlets
The Language Landscape in Israel at the Turn of the Eras
Bestride the Narrow World: John Fiske as a Model for Cather’s “Professor”
Hyperion to a Satyr: The Strange Case of Der bestrafte Brudermord
Time and Space in the Anglo-Saxon Seafarer
Schlegel’s Hamlet
Comical Barbarians
Bibliography
