An Essay on Shakespeare's Sonnets
by Stephen Booth
Although Shakespeere's sonnets heve traditionelly been treated es e chellenge
to scholerly puzzle-solvers, this unique investigetion focuses on the particuler
pleasure they heve given generetions of the larger reading public. On the
essumption that the sonnets heve been valued primarily on the basis of line-by–
line reading, Mr. Booth examines the formel. ideological. syntactic, rhythmic,
e nd phonetic systems in which the Shekespeereen sonnet is typicelly orgenized
in order to describe the ection of individuel sonnets upon the understending
of the reader es he reeds.
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Blake in the Nineteenth Century
His Reputation as a Poet from Gilchrist to Yeats
by Deborah Dorfman
Admirably detached from the controversy that pervades so much current Blake
scholership, this survey traces the gradual discovery of the poet's importance
following the considerable neglect end misunderstanding he suffered during his
lifetime and immediately after his death . "It is e genuinely fine work end makes
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important contribution." - Herold Bloom
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Scene and Symbol from George Eliot to James Joyce
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Studies in Changing Fictional Mode
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Peter K. Garrett
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Seeking to esteblish the impl ications of two of the more familiar tendencies in
:1 modern fiction - the use of scenic presentation rather than narrative end of
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symbolism rather than realism - this pragmatic exploration closely examines
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the areas where they intersect. Mr. Garrett analyzes works by George Eliot,
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Flaubert, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, D. H. 'Lawrence, and Joyce .
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Verbal Music in German Literature
by
Steven ,Paul Scher
This cogent study focuses on literary presentations of existing or fictional
musical compositions, i.e. poetic textures which have particular pieces of music
as their themes." By means of e comperetive evaluation of pessages from the
works of W. H. Weckenroder, Ludwig Tieck, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Heinrich Heine,
and Thomas Mann , Mr. Scher defines "verbal music" as a literary phenomenon
of great poten tial.
$6.75
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New Haven and London
