"
. .
. long overdue
is the general recognition
of the critical stature
of Joseph Frank. This
can no longer be delayed."
-Allen Tate
THE
WIDENING GYRE
CRISIS AND MASTERY
IN MODERN LITERATURE
by Joseph Frank
A brilliant study of the dialectic of modern culture suggested
in the works of Malraux, Mann, Joyce, Proust, Djuna
Barnes, and other twentieth-century poets and novelists. His
essays combine the formal insights of the New Critics with
a renewed attention to historical, thematic, and philosoph–
ical implications.
$6.00
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS
New Brunswick, New Jersey
