Megan Becker-Leckrone
Biographic Data
| ID | 1230417 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Megan Becker-Leckrone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Megan |
| FAMILY NAME | Becker-Leckrone |
| SIGNATURE | BECKER-LECKRONE M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Extraordinary Aesthetes
The fin de siècle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes critically examines literary and visual artists from England, Ireland, and Scotland whose careers in poetry, fiction, and illustration flourished during the concluding years of the nineteenth century. This collection draws special attention to the exceptional contributions that artists, poets, and nove…
Wilde and Pater's Strange Appreciations
This essay explores the intertextuality of Oscar Wilde's ‘Pen, Pencil and Poison’, one of four essays collected in Wilde's 1891 Intentions. It argues that, while its obvious provocation is its subject – notorious nineteenth-century murder, forger, and aesthete, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, especially the seemingly sympathetic treatment Wilde gives that subject, the essay is also doing other significant things. It does not merely set out to shock…
Sole Author I, Sole cause
“Sole Author I, Sole cause”: Wordsworth and the Poetics of Importance 1 Megan Becker-Leckrone You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe. —William Shakespeare, Macbeth, III. iv. 111–12 In The End of the Line, Neil Hertz describes a characteristic moment of crisis, what he calls “blockage,” in Immanuel Kant’s idealist aesthetic: “There is, according to Kant, a sense of the sublime—he calls it the mathematical sublime—arising out of she…
Salome(c)
New Literary History - Volume 26, Number 2, Spring 1995
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Salome(c)
New Literary History - Volume 26, Number 2, Spring 1995
Sole Author I, Sole cause
“Sole Author I, Sole cause”: Wordsworth and the Poetics of Importance 1 Megan Becker-Leckrone You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe. —William Shakespeare, Macbeth, III. iv. 111–12 In The End of the Line, Neil Hertz describes a characteristic moment of crisis, what he calls “blockage,” in Immanuel Kant’s idealist aesthetic: “There is, according to Kant, a sense of the sublime—he calls it the mathematical sublime—arising out of she…
Wilde and Pater's Strange Appreciations
This essay explores the intertextuality of Oscar Wilde's ‘Pen, Pencil and Poison’, one of four essays collected in Wilde's 1891 Intentions. It argues that, while its obvious provocation is its subject – notorious nineteenth-century murder, forger, and aesthete, Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, especially the seemingly sympathetic treatment Wilde gives that subject, the essay is also doing other significant things. It does not merely set out to shock…
Extraordinary Aesthetes
The fin de siècle not only designated the end of the Victorian epoch but also marked a significant turn towards modernism. Extraordinary Aesthetes critically examines literary and visual artists from England, Ireland, and Scotland whose careers in poetry, fiction, and illustration flourished during the concluding years of the nineteenth century. This collection draws special attention to the exceptional contributions that artists, poets, and nove…
Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Modernist Literature and Criticism (2 works) · Nothing (2 works) · Poetry (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)