« In a glass lightly »: frames of reflection from James Merrill’s Mirror and John Hollander’s Picture Window to Philip Larkin’s High Windows
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3 janvier 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.pufc.39035
- isbn: 9782848676616
- eisbn: 9782848678825
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Philip H. Christensen, « « In a glass lightly »: frames of reflection from James Merrill’s Mirror and John Hollander’s Picture Window to Philip Larkin’s High Windows », Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, ID : 10.4000/books.pufc.39035
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John Lienhard, emeritus professor of engineering at the University of Houston, describes windows as « unobtrusive bridges to the outer world ». As bridges, windows are « the quintessential figure of the dialectic between inside and outside… a place of fracture between the familiar and the foreign », and they « belong to the public and private spheres simultaneously ». Susannah Mintz, in her essay on Donne’s A Valediction of my name in the window, defines: « The casement… as a barrier and a pa...