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Insect Poetics.(Book review)

From: ForeWord  |  Date: 11/1/2006  |  Author: Brewton, Vince

Work Title: Insect Poetics

Work Author(s): Eric. C. Brown, editor

University of Minnesota Press

464 pages, Hardcover $75.00, Softcover $25.00, 0-8166-4696-1

Anthologies

ISBN: 0816646953

Reviewer: Vince Brewton

While writers since Hesiod have employed insect imagery to make their metaphors crawl, no writer in the entomological tradition has as much "street cred" as Franz Kafka, whose hero Gregor Samsa in The Metamorphosis awakens to find himself ...

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