Oxford University Press
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Shakespeare's Lives
By
S. SCHOENBAUM,
Northwestern University.
"Professor Schoenbaum's mas–
sive study is a richly readable summing up and synthesis of all the attempts by
an amazing number of writers to spin a 'life' of Shakespeare out of the very little
solid documentation that exists..•. He covers the entire spectrum of legends,
hoaxes, fables, 'biographies,' theories . . . in detail comprehensive enough to
win the admiration of his fellow-scholars and to enlighten delightfully students
and general
readers."-Publishers' Weekly.
8
pages of halftones.
$12.50
The Heirs of Donne and Jonson
By
JOSEPH H. SUMMERS,
University of Rochester.
This new critical work
provides a fresh view of a number of early seventeenth-century poets-among
them, Suckling, Herrick, Marvell, Carew, and Herbert-and focuses upon the
individual quality of their poetry. In an opening essay the author sums up the
contrasts between Donne and Jonson.
$6.00
Balzac to Beckett
CENTER AND CIRCUMFERENCE IN FRENCH FICTION
By
LEO BERSANI,
Rutgers University.
Many modern literary critics, particular–
ly in France, have tended to separate the writer's "self" from his biography,
and to seek for the "profound and secret thematic selves" that inform his work.
Showing that such an approach to literature may reveal unsuspected psycho–
logical depths, Mr. Bersani's critique further suggests that much of a writer's
individuality is to be found in his assumptions about the relation between words
and reality.
$8.50
Dionysus and the City
MODERNISM IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY POETRY
By
MONROE
K.
SPEARS,
Rice University.
Using the d ark, mythic image of
lhe Greek God, resurrected by Nietzsche at the last century's close, as a proto–
type of the modern spirit in literature, Mr. Spears provides an inclusive defini–
tion of modernism as word, idea, and historical movement.
$7.50
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