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Critiques and Essays
on
MODERN
FICTION
192.0-1951
Representing the Achievement of
Modern American and British
Critics
JOHN W. ALDRIDGE
University of Vermont
Foreword by Mark Schorer
WITH MASTERLY
discrimination,
Robert Stallman has brought to–
gether the essays best represent–
ing tho criticism which thirty years
ago was considered the
enfant terri–
ble
of literary thought. The "new
criticism" has now come of age-a
fact supported by the selections in
this stimulating presentation.
The essays are notable for the in–
sight they give into the methods of
the new critics. They include works
of T. S. Eliot, John Crowe Ransom,
Stephen Spender, Robert Penn War–
ren, Yvor Winters, I. A. Richards,
Delmore Schwartz, Edmund Wilson,
William Empson, and others.
The bibliography represents the
most comprehensive listing of books
and articles
in
the field.
"A man-sized selection of the best
in critical writing appearing during
the period 1920-1948 ... the heart
of the new
type
of criticism."-Louis
D. Rubin, RICHMOND TIMES–
DISPATCH. 571
pages.
$5.50
FOR THE FIRST TIME,
a truly
comprehensive collection of the
key critical studies on the work
of modem novelists. These essays re–
flect the sustained effort by which,
in recent years, the criticism of fic–
tion has at last caught up with poetry.
The volume organizes into a mean–
ingful pattern the best results of this
effort, thus providing a basis for an
enlightened standard of judgment with
respect to the novel and short story.
The studies serve to heighten the
reader's appreciation of fiction writ–
ing as an art, with emphasis on
technique and form. However, no–
where is this emphasis rigidly en–
forced, and of the several approach–
es to modem criticism, the best have
here found recognition.
Included are critiques of works by
Joyce, Faulkner, Farrell, Stephen
Crane, Graham Greene, and others.
A feature is the 60-page bibliography
of critical publications on modem
fiction to date. 662
pages.
$6.00
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Critiques and Essays
In
CRITICISM
192.0-1948
Representing the Achievement of
Modern American and British
Critics
ROBERT W. STALLMAN
University of Connecticut
Foreword by Cleanth Brooks
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