New
from
Vere
War - Civilization
The Children of Pride
A
True Story of Georgia and the Civil War
edHed by Robert Manson Mye...
This intimate record of a Georgia plantation family brings to life a proud but flawed
society from its halcyon antebellum days through the shattering climaxes of defeat
and occupation. Nowhere has the impact of the Civil War upon the South been
portrayed with more immediacy than in these 1200 letters by the family and friends
of the Reverend Dr. Charles Colcock Jones of Liberty County, Georgia. Arranged
by Robert Manson Myers into a chronological narrative of the crucial years
between 1854 and 1868, they read like an epistolary novel. The collapse of a
civilization is a momentous thing. In
The Chiidren of Pride
,it pursues its
inexorable course day by day, with the actors in the drama unaware of their
destiny. Oniy the reader perceives the tragic Ironies. $19.95
Lawrentian - Aesthetic
Toward "Women In Love"
The Emergence of
a
Lawrentian Aesthetic
by
Stephen
J.
Mlko
Stephen,Miko sees the Lawrentian aesthetic as based on a correlation of the
novelist's emerging Ideas about the world with developments in his art. The
climactic discussion of
Women in Love,
like the readings of the other novels,
cencentrates on scenes and passages often overlooked by earlier critics which
reflect the patterns of unresolved conflict central to Lawrence's art and meaning.
Yale Studies in English, 177 $9.75
Barth, Vonnegut, Pynchon, etc.
Beyond the Waste Land
A
Study of the American Novel in the Nineteen-Sixties
by
Raymond M. Olderman
The controlling metaphor of the novel of the,sixties is the Image of the waste land,
not the "American Dream." The form of the novel continues the American
tradition of romance but moves specifically toward the fable, using black humor
tq evoke and describe dual emotions aAd ideas, juxtaposing painful experiences
with exorbitantly inadequate responses,,Fact and fiction have become completely
Indistinguishable; individual alienation has led to the driving need to affirm life
and deny death. Mr. alderman discusses thirteen novels, including the works of
Ken Kesey, John Barth,
Jose~h, HEllller,
John Hawkes, and Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., to
illustrate his vision of the theme,'Of the sixties $7.95
Poetry - Vietnam
Obscenities
by
Michael Casey
Michael Casey. the winner of the 1971 Yale Younger Poets competition,'has
written'a collection of humorous and powerful poems about his experiences In
Vietnam. Employing the slang of the American GI, he explores relations between
I
the soldier, his comrades, officers, and the Vietnamese people. Stanley Kunitz,
judge of the annual competition, has described this volume as " unique in style,
substance, and power•••• Casey has Invented a new poetic idiom out of Gllingo,
for which he has a matchless'ear. In the midst of nightmare, Casey never loses his
cool. .•.
Obscenities
has the pace and excitement of first-rate fiction, complete
with a mad cast'of characters." cloth $5.00 paper $1.75
Vale University Press New Haven and London
