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A Death in Delhi
Modern Hindi Short Stories
Translated and edited
by
Gordon C. Roadannel
The short story has become the most important, controversial and exciting
genre in contemporary Indian literature. Roadarmel has collected 15 such
stories that shatter our preconceived image of India by revealing a changing
middle-class society and its problems with alienation in a traditional world.
The Fiction of Samuel Beckett
Form and Effect
H. Porter Abbott
LC: 74-187871 224 pages $6.95
Between 1944 and 1955, Samuel Beckett conducted a series of extraordinary
experiments with imitative form in fiction. In this volume, Mr. Abbott stresses
Beckett the craftsman, disengaged from his characters, seeking not to under–
take but to present their quest. The account of these experiments provides a
drama of its own.
LC: 79-186102 180 pages $6.50
Modern Heroifm
Essays on D. H. Lawrence, William Empson, and
J.
R. R. Tolkien
Roger Sale
Vanished heroism, the author contends, is part of what he calls the Myth of
Lost Unity : a belief that the world was once "whole" but in recent centuries
has gradually disintegrated. Within this unusual context, Mr. Sale achieves
some searching criticism of th-ree very different writers.
LC: 73-186106 280 pages $12.00
WordfWorth and the Suhlinw
An Essay on Romantic Self-Consciousness
Albert O . Wlecke
With the aim of understanding the "visionary" imagination of Wordsworth,
Mr. Wlecke investigates the experience termed "a sense sublime" by the poet's
Tintern Abbey:
a dramatic act of self-consciousness in which the mind sustains
a creative tension between its perception and the objective world.
LC : 79-189218 192 pages $7.95
Cryftal Land
Patterns of Artifice in Vladimir Nabokov's English Novels
Julia Bader
Ms. Bader provides a textual analysis of Nabokov's six English novels with
emphasis on the theme of artistic creation and his treatment of the psychol–
ogical and structural possibilities of novels within novels and about novels.
LC: 72-182277 192 pages $6.75
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