The Nature of Narrative
By Robert Scholes,
University of Iowa, and
Robert Kellogg,
University of
Virginia.
Purposely wide in scope, this study provides an antidote to the
current critical practice of judging all narrative literature by standards
appropriate only to the novel. The authors believe that such a narrow view
obscures the real tradition of narrative literature in the Western world.
They thoroughly examine the narrative art, and place its most dominant
form-the realistic novel-in proper perspective. The resulting work is an
historical as well as analytical study which provides a balanced approach
to modern narrative.
$7.00
The Poem of the Mind
Essays on Poetry English and American
By Louis L. Martz,
Yale University.
"The poem of the mind in the act of
finding / What will suffice." These lines from Wallace Stevens provide
the theme for the poetry this book examines-a mode of poetry that consists
primarily in a dramatization of the self, 'an interior action of the mind,
an introspective quest performed "for the purpose of seizing and stating
what makes life intelligible." The poets Professor Martz covers include
John Donne, Edward Taylor, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot,
William -Carlos Williams, Theodore Roethke, and Wallace Stevens.
$6.00
Future Perfect
American Science Fiction of the Nineteenth Century
By H. Bruce Franklin,
Stanford University.
Science fiction did not, as
many incorrectly believe, begin either in the 20th century or with Jules
Verne and H. G. Wells. Although the form can be traced to Lucian of Samo–
sata, it flourished during the 19th century. In the only anthology of its
kind-presenting both fiction and criticism-the author examines this
hitherto neglected aspect of American literature. "An unusually stimulating
collection-not only because of the stories brought together here, but
also because of Franklin's illuminating and suggestive introductory
notes."-HENRY NASH SMITH
$6.50
Richard Strauss
A Critical Study of the Operas
By William Mann. This is the first exhaustive study in the English language
of Strauss's fifteen operas. Its style is both scholarly and accessible, pene–
trating and witty, illuminating and critical. From the early
Guntram
to
Capriccio
Mr. Mann conducts the reader through each of the fifteen operas,
analyzing each work in fascinating detail, examining Strauss's lifelong
preoccupation with the unity of music and libretto, and throwing new light
on
the unique relationship between the composer and the poet von Hof–
mannsthal. "An indispensable mine of information for anyone at all
interested in Strauss."-DERYCK
COOKE,
Musical Times.
92
pages of half–
tonss.
$12.50
Oxford University Press
/
New York
