The Dialectic of Selfhood
in Montaigne
Frederick Rider.
This study is essentially a close reading of six essays
by Montaigne in the light of what ego psychology and existential
psychoanalysis have taught us about the development and structure
of the self. It attempts to show how Montaigne's growth as a man
is reflected in successive revisions of the essays over a span of twenty
years, and how some of his most rambling essays cohere when viewed
as expressions of his continuin& psychological integration. $4.95
The Positive Hero in Russian Literature
Rufus
W.
Mathewson, Jr.
SECOND EDITION. The positive hero is
defined by the Soviets as one who "sets an example for the reader's
behavior." As early as
1860,
this ideal model was a central issue in
the war between Russian literary imagination and ideological
criticism. This new edition of a widely acclaimed work includes a
new chapter dealing primarily with Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn, and
Sinyavsky, demonstrating how much has happened and how little
has changed in the past twenty-five years. July. About
$10.00
The World and the Book
A Study of Modern Fiction
Gabriel Josipovici.
Following the example of the great moderns
-Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot-this book questions both the
foundations of fiction and the norms of the Western artistic tradition.
In the process it analyzes the work of such disparate writers as Dante,
Langland, Chaucer, Rabelais, Swift, and Hawthorne, as well as
Proust, Nabokov, Bellow, and Golding, showing that these constitute
what might well be called a tradition of the anti-novel.
$10.00
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