Wallace Stevens:
The Poem
as
Act
By Merle E. Brown
In this volume Merle Brown
presents his theory of the Ideal
relationship between criticism
and poetry, Justifying It through
the whole of his perceptive
analysis of Wallace Stevens. He
clarifies some essential prob–
lems in the poetry and demon–
strates an understanding that
has eluded Stevens's critics for
some time.
220
pages
$8.50
Katherine Anne
Porter's Fiction
By
M.
M.
Liberman
Mr. Liberman discusses
ShIp of
Fools,
"Old Morality," "Flower–
Ing Judas," Miss Porter's debt
to Henry James, her attitude to–
ward D. H. Lawrence. He de–
fends
Ship of Fools
against Its
critics in what Miss Porter has
termed: "The best analysis I
have ever seen and the most
understanding analysiS of the
book."
115
pages
$5.50
A Psychoanalytic
Study of the Double
in Literature
By
Robert Rogers
A study of the psychologIcal
mechanisms underlying the lit–
erary theme of the double.
Characters like Claggart and
Biliy Budd, lago and Othello,
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are
seen as "latent" doubles, char–
acters who appear as autono–
mous personages but who can
be viewed as two components
of a decomposed psychological
whole.
192
pages
$7.96
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NOTES
PETER WEISS has just com–
pleted Holderlin, another new
play. The sections of Trotsky
in Exile which PR is running
this issue are parts of a long
play which will be produced
in London soon. (All inquiries
concerning the rights for am–
ateur stock production should
be directed
ro
the Lantz–
Donadio Literary Agency, 111
West 57th Street, New York
10019.J ... JOHN HOLLAN–
DER's new book, The Night
Mirror, will appear this fall.
... JEROME NATHANSON
graduated from Columbia in
October '70 with a B.A. in
Greek. . . . DORIS LESSING
writes us that "I am about to
write a serial novel for a new
un d e rg rou ndis h newspaper
called Ink run by Ed Victor.
This is very exciting for me.
We haven't had serial novels
in this country for a long time.
Probably not since Dickens."
Miss Lessing's latest book,
Briefing for a Descent into
Hell, was just published by
Knopf.... WILLIAM APPLE–
MAN WILLIAMS lives in a
small fishing and log-shipping
port on the Oregon coast
and teaches at Oregon State
University. Mr. Williams "left
the Ph.D. factory assembly
(Continued
on
page 128)
