Poetics of Prose

Mark Axelrod is a Professor of Comparative Literature at Chapman University, USA.

• A Poetics Introduction, Mostly.- The Psychoanalytic Poetics of Weltschmerz in Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Times.- The Poetics of Dramatic Prose in Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons.- The Poetics of the Quest in Chekhov’s “The Lady with the Dog”.- The Poetics of Stagecraft & Dialogue in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard.- The Architectonics of Prose in Camus' The Stranger.- The Poetics of Reading in Calvino’s if on a winter’s night a traveler.