If Don DeLillo's Underworld
anatomized the end of the Cold War's fraught dialectic, then a number of recent novels have traced the imaginative fall-out of the nuclear age beyond those limits.
In most of his plays up to now, Ayckbourn has
anatomized the closing-off of emotions out of embarrassment or fear, not to mention the suspicions that uneasily unite people who would be far happier kept apart.
Throughout his career, William Kennedy has
anatomized life in Albany, New York, city of his birth and muse to his imagination.
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anatomized. He was very thorough in his work about listing and picturing the various body parts and organs.
One example will have to suffice: in the fine chapter on Paradise Lost, one welcomes an emphasis on Milton's transformation of the epic by "making the self-governance of the Edenic couple central to his poem" (256), but self-governance is no less central to The Faerie Queene, and many aspects of that endeavor are more elaborately
anatomized by Spenser than by Milton.
Moving further afield, Levi-Strauss's bricolage--"one of the few technical terms which [Simon] uses with any regularity and confidence"--is
anatomized in connection with Simon and the work of Louise Nevelson and Robert Rauschenberg.