The Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
General Editor, ALE-X PREMINGER. FRANK
J.
WARNKE
and O. B. HARDISON, Jr., associate editors. A comprehensive
reference work dealing with all aspects of poetry and poetics
from history and prosody to types, movements and critical
terminology. Prepared by recognized authorities, its articles
possess 'Sufficient depth to be of value to the scholar as well as
to the general reader.
920 pages. $25.00
The Novels of Hermann Hesse:
A Study in Theme and Structure
By THEODORE ZIOLKOWSKI. The twofold intention of this
critical study of the Nobel Prize-winning author of
The Step–
penwolf
and
The Glass Bead Game
is to focus on Hermann
Hesse's craftsmanship as an artist and to locate him in the
context of twentieth-century literature and thought. "Theodore
Ziolkowski's study is likely to be received as an important book.
It
is the first comprehensive book on Hermann Hesse in Eng–
lish, evaluating a widely known but little understood author in
terms of the European development of modern literature as a
whole."-Ralph Freedman
374 pages. $7.50
Confrontations: Studies in the Intellectual and
Literary Relations between Germany, England,
and the United States during the 19th Century
By RENE WELLEK.
Confrontations
brings together in one
volume six essays by the distinguished critic Rene Wellek. The
book's main emphasis is on the spread of German philosophical
and critical ideas to England and the United States.
224 pages. $5.00
Frontier: American Literature and the
American West
By EDWIN FUSSELL. This is a radically new interpretation
of American literature in its formative phase, from 1820-1960.
It invites a re-reading of Cooper, Hawthorne, Poe, Thoreau,
Melville, and Whitman, who are shown here as writers through
whom the frontier passed into American culture and became a
formal principle in our literature. "Immense in its scholarship,
wide in its appreciations, a challenging contribution indeed."
-Virginia Kirkus
460 pages. $8.50
Princeton University Press
