BACK TO BECKETT
RUBY COHN
Although a leading Beckett scholar, in this book Ruby Cohn leans lightly
on objective scholarship in an attempt to get back to
Beck~tt,
to
the
basic being in the works themselves. She draws on her personal response
to his works, on the inherent human interest of his biography, on her
discussions with him, and on her own fascination with the theater in
general and Beckett in particular. All his ouqiut, published and unpub–
lished, is examined.to show how Beckett investigates the anatomy of
a particular genre and uses it to delineate the human situation
$12.50
TELL ME AFRICA
An
Approach to African Literature
JAMES OLNEY
Since the African artist's commitment to individualism is sharply quali–
fied by the traditional African view of social reality, African autobiog–
raphy is considered less an individual phenomenon than a social one.
James Olney demonstrates that autobiography, because it provides the
most direct narrative enactments of the ways, motives, and beliefs of a
culture, is an excellent way to approach African literature. Thus, after a
general discussion of the African ethos, each chapter takes up the "auto–
biographical" literature of a specific group in African society and treats
it as both an expression of a personal vision and as a revelation of a
permeating social reality.
Cloth, $15.00; paper, $3.45
THE CONCEPT OF NEGRITUDE IN THE POETRY
OF LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR
SYLVIA WASHINGTON BA
Negritude has been defined by Leopold Sedar Senghor as " the sum of
the cultural values of the black world as they are expressed in the life,
the institutions, and the works. of black men." Sylvia Washington Ba
analyzes Senghor's poetry to show how the concept of negritude infuses
it at every level. The author has translated a large selection of Senghor's
poems from the French, and a long poem on Martin Luther King is pub–
lished here for the first time.
$11.00
ESSAYS ON EUROPEAN LITERATURE
Kritische Essays zur europiiischen Literature
E.
R. CURTIUS
translated by MICHAEL KOWAL
These 24 essays, written over a period of nearly 30 years, range widely
in time and scope and consider some of the greatest figures in European
literature, among them Virgil, Goethe, Balzac, Joyce, Eliot, Ortega y
Gasset, and Hesse. Available together for the first time
in
English, these
essays show the qualities that made Curtius one of the great critics of
our age: his lucid, penetrating mind, his comprehensive erudition, his
cosmopolitan outlook, and above all his passionate concern for European
culture.
Cloth, $20.00; Limited paperback, $9.75
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS Princeton, New Jersey 08540
