Oxford University Press
A Discovery of Cinema
By
THOROLD DICKINSON,
University of London.
A unique and seasoned
overview of the film's development as an international art medium, technology,
and industry - from 1895 to 1970. More than 80 stills and nearly 60 portraits of
actors, directors, and producers are included. "Acutely well-infomed ... hand–
somely produced and illustrated." - GAVIN MILLAR,
The Listener
(London)
$8.50
The Jewish Writer in America
ASSIMILATION AND THE CRISIS OF IDENTITY
By
ALLEN GUTTMANN,
Amherst College.
Professor Guttmann sets into full
social context for the first time the "postwar flowering" of Jewish writers: the
fiction of Bellow, Roth, Mailer, and Malamud; the essays of Kazin and Good–
man; and the poetry of Shapiro and Ginsberg.
$7.95
Fact and Symbol
ESSAYS IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF ART AND LITERATURE
By
CESAR GRANA,
University of California, Santa Cruz.
Professor Grana con–
fronts in seven essays the issue of a "sociology of aesthetics" by providing con–
vincing case studies of the links between tradition, circumstance, and imagery of
particular societies, and styles and ideas of particular artists. 3
halftones.
$7.50
This Sacred Trust
AMERICAN NATIONALITY, 1798-1898
By
PAUL C. NAGEL,
University of Missouri.
A perceptive exploration of
America's growing sense of national identity in its religious, political, social,
economic, and literary implications throughout the nineteenth century.
$9.50
A Reading of Stephen Crane
By
MARSTON LA FRANCE,
Carleton University, Ottawa.
A fresh and thorough
interpretation of this increasingly important writer. The author considers the
whole of Crane's fiction and poetry and his major newspaper writings, making
clear the distinctive form of Crane's ironic vision, and the true scope of his
achievement.
$9.50
Blindness and Insight
ESSAYS IN THE RHETORIC OF
CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM
By
PAUL
~)E
MAN,
Yale University.
In these nine interpretive essays Professor
de Man dIscusses recurrent patterns in contemporary European citicism. His
emphasis is upon such writers as Ludwig Binswanger, Georg Lukacs, Georges
Poul,et, and Jacques Derrida, and on broad questions of literary history and
modernity.
$6.95
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