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MARK TWAIN'S
FABLE OF PROGRESS
Political and Economic Ideas in
A Connecticut Yankee
by Henry Nash Smith
What happened to Mark Twain in the course of writing
A
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court?
"At some point in the
composition of this fable," says Henry Nash Smith, "he passed the great
divide in his career as a writer." This brief, lively study discusses the
impact of Twain's own book as work-in-progress on one of the major
American writers. It has grown out of a reconsideration by the foreru.ost
Twain authority of a tragic American hero, Hank Morgan, "a stranger
and forlorn," who dies an exile from any hope of redemption. Short
and incisive,
Mark Twain's Fable of Progress
is a bench mark in the
survey of American literary criticism.
$3.50
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RILKE, VALERY
and YEATS
The Domain of the Self
by Priscilla Washburn Shaw
The interaction of the private, inner preserve of the self and the
outer world beyond the personal is explored here in a critical study of
marked originality and authority. Dr. Shaw commences her analysis with
a group of Rilke's poems, and goes on to contrast them with the work
of Valery. Her discussion leads forward into a further clarification of
both men's poetry through the work of a third poet, Yeats whose
domain of the self and whose philosophy occupy a middle Position.
Rilke, Valery and Yeats
makes an important contribution to a central
body of contemporary analysis.
$6.00
RUTGERS
UNIVERSITY PRESS
New Brunswick
New Jersey
