The Grove of the Eumenides: Essays on Literature, Criticism, and Culture

Frederick Glaysher privately studied writing at the University of Michigan with the poet Robert Hayden, lived for more than fifteen years outside Michigan in Maebashi, Japan, on the Colorado River Indian Tribes Reservation in Arizona, and on the Mississippi, ultimately returning to his suburban hometown of Rochester Hills. Glaysher is the editor of both Hayden's Collected Prose (University of Michigan Press) and his Collected Poems (Liveright). He has also published two books of poetry. A Fulbright-Hays scholar to China in 1994, Glaysher studied at Beijing University, the Buddhist Mogao Caves on the Silk Road, and elsewhere in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. While a National Endowment for the Humanities scholar in 1995 on India, he further explored the conflicts between the traditional regional civilizations of Islamic and Hindu cultures and modernity. In Frederick Glaysher¿s collection of literary essays, The Grove of the Eumenides, East and West meet in a new synthesis of a global vision of humankind¿ranging over classic literature, ancient and modern, both Western and non-Western, from mimesis and deconstruction to the United Nations, with extensive essays on Chinese, Japanese, and South-Asian literature. Frederick Glaysher invokes a global vision beyond the prevailing conceptions of life and literature that have become firmly entrenched in contemporary culture.Glaysher, Frederick is the author of 'The Grove of the Eumenides: Essays on Literature, Criticism, and Culture', published 2007 under ISBN 9780967042183 and ISBN 0967042186.