Four
Bedfi~narks
in
Criticism
STUDIES IN HUMAN TIME
By Georges Poulet, translated by Elliott Coleman
When
Studies £n Human Ti-me
was published in France, it was awarded
the Prix Sainte-Beuve, the Durchon Prize in Philosophy of the F r ench
Academy, and the Grand Prize of the Syndicate of Critics in Paris. Now,
with the addition of an important new chapter on American authors, this
brilliant and authoritative work of literary criticism has been translated
for the English-speaking reader. French reviews were unstinting in their
praise of this revolutionary method of philosophical criticism: "A master–
work."
La Croix.
"It could very well r eshape the methods of literary
criticism."
Le Soir.
To be published May 21
384 pages
$5.00
ISHMAEL
By James Baird
What, in our time, is the relationship between art and religious conscious–
ness? To arrive at his answer, the author examines the work of some
twenty recent writers-led by Melville-who created a system of symbols
referring to the primitivistic cultures of the Orient as opposed to the
Christian cultures of Western man.
"It
is quite a brilliant piece of work, but brilliance is not really its most
important trait.
It
is, I think, a profound book ... a truly philosophical
study of literature."-Susanne
K. Langer.
To be published May 7
468 pages
$5.50
MALLARM~
Selected Prose Poems, Essays, and Letters
Translated with Introductions by Bradford Cook
Stephane Mallarme, the leader of the French Symbolist movement, has
been widely known and appreciated for his poetry in countries outside of
France. Now, for the f irst time, it is :possible for the English-speaking
reader to have access to Mallarme's critical writings on literature, music,
theater, ballet, and individual artists. These critical writings include the
most important, most original, and often the most beautiful pronounce–
ments on art that French literature possesses. The translations are faith–
ful both to the elegant style and the meaning of the extremely difficult
French original.
To be published May 14
200 pages
$4.00
THE ARTIST AS CREATOR
By Milton C. Nahm
What is the place of human freedom in the arts and fine arts? To what
extent does the artist freely create, and to what extent is he a technician
limited by his
tool~?
These basic questions of aesthetics and the philosophy
of art form the main theme of Professor Nahm's new book. In it he in–
vestigates the artistic process of
creation,
as opposed to the act of
ap–
preciation
which he considered in his previous work,
Aesthetic Experience
and its Presuppositions.
Ready now
364 peges
$5.50
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