A World Elsewhere
The Place of Style in American Literature
By Richard Poirier,
Rutgers University,
and an editor of
Part'isan Review.
"It
is a profoundly penetrating study that exposes the very roots of the
American literary imagination and it does this with extraordinary subtlety
and sensitivity. It is not often that one reads a long work of literary
criticism that is characterized by such quiet and sustained acuteness of
perception."-MARK SCHORER, University of California, Berkeley. "A
notable experiment in the criticism of American fiction, an unusually
successful union of 'close reading' with a power to bring out modes of
thought and expression characteristic of individual writers and of Ameri–
can literature since Emerson."-REUBEN A. BROWER, Harvard University
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Episodes in the Literary Conquest of Void
During the Nineteenth Century
$5.75
By Robert Martin Adams,
Cornell Univ'ersity.
"Remarkable. . . has a
tremendous range, yet nowhere falls into the superficiality and pedantry
of much comparative literature.
It
goes in depth into Senancour, Poe,
Baudelaire, Leconte de Lisle, German and Russian writers-and it treats
one of the important subjects never yet adequately approached in modern
philosophical and literary criticism.
It
is learned, but always concise,
elegantly and naturally written-Qne of the important books of the last
ten years or more."-HENRI PEYRE, Yale University
$6.00
The Breaking String
The Plays of Anton Chekhov
By Maurice Valency,
Columbia University.
"An original and important
contribution
to
the subject of Chekhov's theatre and plays. Valency's
interpretation is perceptive, sensitive, and often brilliant in its insights.
The work reveals a wealth of knowledge of the theatre and drama in
general. . . . The analysis of the development of Chekhov's creative art as
a playwright, and of the major plays is the most thoughtful and con–
vincing one that I have read in any language."-ERNEST
J.
SIMMONS,
Formerly, Columbia University
$7.QO
The TUl'n of the Novel
By Alan Friedman,
.columbia University.
"A bold and witty argument
that should interest all students of the novel, and especially those who
may be wondering what precisely is 'modern' about modern fiction. With–
out a trace of pedantry or methodological self-importance, Friedman puts
forth a provocatively simple thesis and defends it with conviction, taste,
and abundant evidence.... An exceptionally engaging book."-FREDERICK
C. CREWS, University of California, Berkeley
$6.50
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