Negative Capability
Studies in the New Literature and the Religious Situation
by Nathan
A.
Sc:ott, Jr.
Through II sensitive IInlllysis of todllY's IIrtistic imoginlltion ond with much
reference to philosophicol ond theologicol thought, Mr. Scott suggests the
ever-widening interrelotion between literoture ond religion on the contemporllry
scene. With exomples ronging from the films of Godord through the nouveau
roman of Robbe-Grillet ond others to the philosophy of Heidegger, the outhor
explores the distonce between troditionolist movements in literoture lind the
IIrts. "Among U.S. Protestllnts, no theologilln hils probed contemporllry literll–
ture with more effect thlln Nllthon
A.
Scott, Jr."-Newsweek.
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The Design of the Present
Essays on TIme and Form in Americ:an Literature
by John F. Lynen
Through detlliled expliclltions of individulIl works, Mr. Lynen synthesizes two
theoreticlIl concepts-the idell thllt the formlll structure of II literllry work is
determined in pllrt by its IIssumptions concerning time, lind the belief thllt the
mllin trlldition of Americlln Iiterllture is revellied in II distinctive species of forms
stemming both from Puritlln theology lind the individulliism chllrllcteristic of
Americlln thought in 1111 periods.
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The Interpreted Design as a Structural Principle
in American Prose
by David
L.
Minter
In trlleing the development of lin importllnt prose genre in AmericlI, Dllvid
Minter IInlllyzes works rllnging from colonilll writings to Willillm Fllulkner's
Absalom, Absaloml He uses the concept of interpreted design liS II metllphor
for works structured by the juxtllPosition of two chllrllcters: II mlln of design
or designed IIctivity, who dominlltes the IIction of his world, lind II mlln of in–
terpretlltion through whose mind lind voice the story of the mlln of design is
trllnsmitted.
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Yale Poet
Uranium Poems
by Judith Johnson Sherwin
Yale Series of Younger Poets
"Uranium Poems is not just Mother morlll polemic IIbout nuclellr energy lind
the culture thllt produced it. Mrs. Sherwin's poems hove
0
vigorous, solid, un–
sentimentol musicolity obout them which goes beyond morol indignotion. Let
me stress the word ',musicolity' lind be c1eor obout it. The poems ore not imi–
tations of music. They ore ossocioted, os words, with music."-A1on Dugon.
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