WATCHING THE CATHER-WATCHERS
Willa Cather and Her Crities
Edited by
JAMES SCHROETER. Here collected for the first time are key critical
, statements about Willa Cather's life and work - reviews, articles, reminis–
cences, and excerpts irom books - by H. L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, Henry
Steele Commager, Maxwell Geismar, Granville Hicks, Howard Mumford
Jones, Joseph Wood Krutch, Morton D. Zabel, Lionel Trilling, Carl Van
Doren, Edmund Wilson, and others.
Frontispiece.
376 pages. $10.00
WHO'S AFRAID OF
STEPPENWOLFP
Rermann Hesse
His Mind and Art
By
MARK BOULBY. In the first book to discuss in detail the early novels
Peter
Camenzind
and
Beneath the Wheel,
Professor Boulby analyzes the full range
of Hesse's work - his eight major novels, many of his sltort stories and
novellas, and his critical and autobiographical writings. Professor Boulby
discovers
in
Hesse's work complex and coherent thematic and symbolic
patterns, which he links to the emotional and spiritual conflicts with which
the novels are· concerned.
Frontispiece.
352
pages. $8.75
ON EXPRESSING THE INEXPRESSIBLE
The Limits
0'
Metaphor
A Study of MelvilIe, Con.rad, and Faulkner
By
JAMES GUETTl. By studying the rhetorical elements of
Moby-Dick, Heart
of Darkness,
and
Absalom, Absalom!,
Professor Guetti demonstrates the dis–
integration of traditional structure and form.in the modem novel. He shows
that this disintegration is the result of a fundamental imbalance
in
the nature
of language itseU and in our expectations about the function of metaphor.
SHORT STORY SAMPLER
Stories from "Epoeh"
The First Fifty Issues (1947-1964)
206 pages. $6.50
Edited by
BAXTER HATHAWAY. Since its beginning in 1947,
Epoch
has been
an influential literary quarterly, consistently publishing original work of high
quality. Among the writers represented in this collection of stories from its
pages are such significant figures in contemporary American fiction as Philip
Roth, George P. Elliott, Thomas Pynchon, Harvey Swados, R. V. Cassill,
James B. Hall. Leslie A. Fiedler, Joyce Carol Oates, and Daniel Curley.
352 pages. $7.50
Cornell
Vnlverslt~
Press
ITHACA, NEW YORK 14850
