Independent scholar and critic Eisenhauer, who holds a PhD in comparative literature and German from Johns Hopkins U., picks up where he left off in his 2004 work, Mythic Paradigms in Literature, Phil
Poet and scholar Eisenhauer presents eight essays looking at literary portrayals of reason and excess as moments leading to wisdom. Among his perspectives are Shelley's dissemination of knowledge; Dio
In the second of three collections of his essays on literature, the visual arts, and philosophy, Eisenhauer addresses a reversion to and/or recuperation of the ancient past, especially Latin antiquity
An American scholar of comparative literature and German, Eisenhauer explains that he is here focusing on a context of identificatory representation analogous to the Hesperia or West to which Virgil's
After Romanticism explores the ground common to European romanticism and American modernism, a space of translation and echoing where gulfs of ironic difference open between islands of topographic si
From the venerable Chinese I Jing, Book of Changes, Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn," and Goethe's Werther, to modern/ postmodern evocations of odes such as Pablo Neruda's "Ode to a Chestnut on the Groun
US literary critic Eisenhauer presents four meditations on the work of Latin lyric poet Gaius Valerius Catullus (84-54 BC) concerned with who he thought he was, the logodaedal hypercube, the irony of
American poet, photographer, and literary scholar Eisenhower traces the role of invective in literature from Virgil to the present. The derogation of colleagues, schools of thought, or styles of writi
