NEW FROM YALE
The Wild Prayer of Longing
Poetry and the Sacred
by Nathan A. Scott, Jr.
In his newest book Nathan A. Scott continues his exploration of the new forms
in which the religious imagination finds expression in contemporary cultural
life. He uses the immensely fruitful ideas of Martin Heidegger to suggest how
a sacramental vision of the world may define itself without resort to super–
naturalism. Finally, he analyzes the poetry of Theodore Roethke as a significant
example in recent literature of a sacramental vision unencumbered by super–
naturalist illusion. This volume is the clearest and most penetrating statement
Mr. Scott has yet made about the relationship between contemporary develop–
ments in the arts and theological dilemmas.
$6.75
Dickens as Satirist
by Sylvia Manning
This lucid analysis of Dickens's increasingly complex vision of life's struggle
against the forces of stagnation and rigidity shows that clashes of style, par–
ticularly those engendered between satiric and novelistic interest, are not
merely necessary but crucial to the special power of the Dickensian novel.
Pickwick Papers, Dombey and Son, Bleak House, Hard Times, Little Dorrit, and
Our Mutual Friend are all discussed, illustrating the techniques and devices by
which Dickens achieved the full expression of his indictment of society. $8.75
The Techniques of Strangeness in
Symbolist Poetry
by James
L.
Kugel
Equally at home in French and Russian as well as English, Mr. Kugel approaches
Symbolism from an international point of view. Surveying both the rhetorical
and structural devices crucial to the sense of "strangeness" in such verse, he
provides fresh readings of works by Nerval, Rimbaud, and Mallarme, Brjusov,
Blok, and Mandel'stam, Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane, among others. "A
testimony to a remarkably wide range of reading and insight, to a genuine liter–
ary sensibility and sophistication."-Victor Erlich
$5.75
Poetry in East Germany
Adjustments, Visions, and ,Provocations, 1945-1970
by John Flores
The first survey in English of the problems and achievements of poetry in the
"other Germany," this remarkably balanced study fuses the methods and interests
of the cultural historian with those of the literary critic. It devotes particular
attention to the responses of eight individual poets, covering two generations,
to the demands and challenges of East German society. "Fluent, full of under–
standing detail, this will be a standard reference work in America for some
years."-Geoffrey H. Hartman
$12.50
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