Evans Lansing Smith is a professor of English at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. He is the author of seven books, including The Myth of the Descent to the Underworld in Postmodern Literature, Figuring Poesis: A Mythical Geometry of Postmodernism, Ricorso and Revelation: An Archetypal Poetics of Modernism, and Rape and Revelation: The Descent into the Underworld in Modernism.

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