THE MYSTERIES OF IDENTITY
A Theme in Modern Literature
Robert Langbaum,
University of Virginia.
Blending intellectual history
and literary criticism, Langbaum examines changing attitudes toward
the question of identity in modern literature - specifically in the works
of Wordsworth, Arnold , Eliot, Beckett, Yeats and Lawrence. $13.95
UNDER SIEGE
Literary Life in London,1939-45
Robert Hewison. Exhilarating, frustrating, myth-making, cynical- all
the diversity of intellectual and artistic life in the London of the Blitz is
vividly evoked in this unusual , anecdote filled social and literary history.
With 16 illustrations, $11.95
THE FIRE AND THE SUN
Why Plato Banished the Artists
Iris Murdoch,
Oxford University.
The eminent philosopher and novelist
takes a stimulating look at Plato's theories of art, providing a sympathetic
explanation of his hostility to it and a wide-ranging discussion of the ways
his thinking influenced later ideas about the role of art in society. $5.95
PAPERS TIGERS
The Ideal Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges
John Sturrock. In analyzing the intricate short fictions of Borges, Sturrock
finds narratives that do not simply dramatize ideas but also make impor–
tant statements, in ingeniously dramatic form, about the very process by
which narrative fiction is made. $12.95
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