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Eminent Domain
YEATS AMONG WILDE, JOYCE, POUND, ELIOT, AND AUDEN
By
RICHARD ELLMANN,
Northwestern University.
To speak of writers as
influencing each other is to make tender what is often harshly acquisitive. Writers
expropriate, by force of youth or age, what they require. Richard EHmann,
whose writings on modern litcrature have won considerable attention, exhibits
here the complicated attitudes of great contemporaries toward each other. With
Yeats as the focus, he demonstrates the interactions among these figures in a
series of sharp pictures of their personal meetings as well as their professional
impingements.
$4.95
The Fabulators
By
ROBERT SCHOLES,
University of Iowa.
"Fabulation," the author says,
"means a return to a more verbal kind of fiction . It also means a return to a
more fictional kind. By this I mean a less realistic and more artistic kind of
narrative: more shapely, more evocative; more concerned with ideas and ideals,
less concerned with things." The authors Professor Scholes singles out for ex–
tended treatment are Lawrence Durrell, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Terry Southern,
John Hawkes, Iris Murdoch, and John Barth.
$5.00
The Future as Nightmare
H. C. WELLS AND THE ANTI-UTOPIANS
By
MARK R. HILLEGAS,
Southern Illinois University.
The proliferation of
anti-utopian literature-a revealing index to the anxieties of our age-is traced
from Wells to the present in this penetrating study of a significant branch of
science fiction. Since the better practitioners of latter-day SF are all deeply
indebted to Wells, the first half of this book probes his views of the future, his
form and structure, images, details, and features of plot. The author then follows
the course of anti-utopian fiction through the works of a host of writers, in–
cluding: Karel Capek, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, William
Golding, and Evelyn Waugh.
$5.75
The Conservative Tradition in America
By
ALLEN GUTTMANN,
Amherst College.
In tracing the main line of Con–
servative thought and action in America since the eighteenth century, Professor
Guttmann illuminates all its ramifications-showing how Conservatism has really
survived only as an important, and usually unrecognized, aspect of American
literature. "A provocative book. Guttmann's scholarship is sharp in this exam–
ination of the Conservative tradition in American religious, literary, military, and
political experience."-NoRMAN HOLMES PEARSON, Yale University
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