Freedman explores Hesse's life to discover what led to his absorption in certain themes and traces the author's impassioned quest for meaning in a fragmented era filled with crises that posed philosophical contradictions for the artist

A biography of the German poet combines detailed interpretations of his life with an intimate reading of his verse and prose and shows how he grew from an ambitious versifier into a great poet (view table of contents)

Product Description: This collection of critical essays examines nineteenth and twentieth-century European and American poetry and prose from the perspective of aesthetic transformations. These transformations encompass revisions from one genre to another, from classical to modern, from one country to another, or among varying gendered perspectives...read more

Explores Hesse's life to discover what led to his absorption in certain themes and traces the author's impassioned quest for meaning in a fragmented era filled with crises that posed philosophical contradictions for the artist (view table of contents)

Product Description: The Description for this book, The Lyrical Novel: Studies in Herman Hesse, Andre Gide, and Virginia Woolf, will be forthcoming.