Schad (modern literature, U. of Lancaster, UK) collects his essays from 1993-2013 (most previously published), along with five new autobiographical poems and new pieces that combine critical
and creative modes of writing. The works are arranged chronologically and reflect the development of his work from a conventional literary-critical mode based on traditional argumentation to an
experimental kind of writing that is based on devices and strategies drawn from literature. He analyze works like Thomas Hardy’s early poetry and A Laodicean, Graham Swift’s Waterland, Alfred
Tennyson’s In Memoriam, Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot, W.M. Thakeray’s Vanity Fair, and other topics. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
(booknews.com)
