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The Modern Century
By
NORTHROP FRYE,
University of T oronto.
In this book of major importance
Professor Frye discusses " the outlines of the pictures that contemporary imagina–
tion has drawn of its world." He presents a brilliant array of ideas and observa–
tions on the mythology of our day and its central elements, alienation and
progress; the effects of technology on the structure of our society; the characteristics
we associate with "modern"; anti-social attitudes in modern culture; the role of the
arts in forming the contemporary imagination; and finally the way in which the
creative arts are absorbed into society through education.
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By
RICHARD ELLMANN,
Northwestern University.
Writers don't "influence"
each other, they expropriate--by force of youth or age--what they require. "Mr.
Ellmann's method is to set up a dialectic between Yeats and each of these poets
whose purses he picked or furbished. This synoptic presentation helps to clarify
the achievement of each by contrast to that of a rival worthy of his steel. Such
an enterprise requires of its practitioner a whole arsenal of interpretive skills,
skills that Ellmann uses with clarity, grace, and wit."- DANIEL HOFFMAN,
Th e
R eporter
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Th e Fabulators
By
ROBERT SCHOLES,
University
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Iowa.
"Today's important novelists, says
Professor Scholes, are turning away from realism and toward a more verbal, artis–
tic kind of fiction. He has chosen for analysis six modern fabulators : Lawrence
Durrell, I ris Murdoch, J ohn Barth, John Hawkes, Terry Southern, and Kurt
Vonnegut, Jr.. . . All six are exciting contemporary writers, and our appreciation
and understanding of them will be extended by Professor Scholes's enthusiastic
critiques. His comparative commentary on black humor and traditional satire is
particularly
worthwhile."-L ibrary Journal
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The Oxford Companion
to English Literature
FOURTH EDITION
Compiled and edited by
SIR PAUL HARVEY;
revised by
DOROTHY EAGLE.
T he first of the Oxford Companions has maintained its reputation as a standard
work of reference for over thirty years. This new edition, completely revised and
reset, brings this essential volume completely up to date. In reviewing an earlier
edition,
Th e New York Times Book Review
said : "A very usable volume .. .
for anybody and everybody who reads or writes, it would be a daily companion
of constant service, a desk book comparable in usefulness to the dictionary." $12.50
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