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Cornell
~
University
Press
In Search of
Literary Theory
Edited by MORTON W. BLOOMFIELD. Six outstanding critics here explore the
diverse views represented In the process of studying literature. In these essays,
M. H. Abrams, Morton W. Bloomfield, Northrop Frye, Geoffrey Hartman,
E.
D.
Hirsch, and Paul de Man offer stimulating examInations of the axioms and basic
assumptions Involved In thIs humanistic discipline, and raise provocative ques–
tions for further discussion.
(Studies In the Humanities}
$9.75
Telling it Again and Again
Repetition in Literature and Film
By BRUCE F. KAWIN. How do writers anc! film-makers
use repetition? In a new and provocative approach
to this question, Mr. Kawln shows how repetition has
an Important function as a manipulator of our sense
of time-and of the timeless-and explores the use of
this technique In plays, prose, films, and relevant
works of pornography, metaphysics, psychology, and
religion.
$6.95
By DOMINICK LaCAPRA. this comprehen–
sIve analysIs, Interpretation, and eval(Iation
of the social and philosophIcal thought of
Emile Durkhelm (1858-1917) places hIs Ideas
In theIr hIstorical and Intellectual context.
Professor LaCapra examines Durkhelm's
concepts of prImitive and modern socIety,
of anomIe,
communltas,
suIcIde, and the
functIon of labor, and relates his doctrInes
to the period In whIch he lived, to those of
other major socIal.thinkers, and to continu–
ing problems In modern SOCiety.
$12.50
Emile
Durkheim
Sociologist
and Philosopher
DOSTOEVSKY
ANDTHE
LEGENDOF
THE GRAND
INQUISITOR
By V. V. ROZANOV. Translated with
an
After–
word by Spencer E. Roberts. An important
Russian literary figure In hIs own 'right, VasUy
Rozanov wrote thIs searching analysis of
Dostoevsky In 1191.
It
was the first serious
attempt to fathom the complexities of the
great novelist's ideological and artistic de–
velopment, and It is here translated.Into Eng–
lish for the first time.
$9.50
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