UNIVERSITY PRESS
The Examined Self
Benjamin Franklin, Henry Adams, Henry James
By Robert
F.
Sayre
This book is concerned with the art of autobiography, with its significance
in giving literary form to the diverse and confused memories of experience.
Americans, said de Tocqueville, habitually "fix the standard of their judgment
in themselves alone." Autobiography is thus an almost predestined American
form, and its richness makes this book a constant inquiry into American
experience itself.
250 pages. $4.75
The Mortal No
Death and the Modern Imagination
By Frederick
J.
Hoffman
The Mortal No
is concerned with a major phenomenon in modern literature:
the metaphors associated with death. Mr. Hoffman organizes his study around
three governing terms: grace, violence, self. Ranging broadly and deeply, the
author discusses a host of writers and their confrontation of these issues. The
result of Mr. Hoffman's study is a rich and probing discussion of one of the central
issues of literature in our time.
520 pages. $8.50
A Window to Criticism
Shakespeare's "Sonnets" and Modern Poetics
By Murray Krieger
Mr. Krieger attempts to extract a total mythology from Shakespeare's
Sonnets
and to use this mythology in their interpretation. He uses the metaphor
of window and mirror to explore the implications of moving into a poem's closed
context and outward to history and existence.
240 pages. $5.00
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
