Douglas Robillard

A Critical Study

The Poetry of Conrad Aiken

Kent State University Press

Venetian Tint

Melville's allusions to works of art embellish his poems and novels. In this study, his use of the art analogy as a literary technique is traced, along with the influence of his predecessors and comtemporaries and how his sense of form was instructed by design in works of art.

Ionian Form, Venetian Tint

Melville and the Visual Arts

Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects of the play: the love/friendship debate.

From Edith Wharton to the Weird Tales Writers

American Supernatural Fiction

With an emphasis on examining Flannery O'Connor's literary reputation during her lifetime, and the growth of that reputation after her death, this collection brings together 50 years of critical reactions to her work.

Douglas Robillard

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