| This dissertation is a series of analyses of literary texts with regard for the political aesthetics that inform them. I discuss works of both poetry and prose in terms of the ways in which texts operate variously to construct and make sense of different types of social spaces. Included in my discussion are disparate works by Dorothy Parker, A.R. Ammons, Ernest Hemingway, Salman Rushdie, Norman Mailer, Paul Auster, and Charles Bukowski, contextualized by social, political, and literary theory as it provides for the "thinking through" of the different types of social spaces that the texts represent. |
