LANGUAGE AND THE POET
Verbal Artistry
in
Frost, Stevens, and Moore
Marie Borroff
Demonstrating an original approach to the study of literary style, Miss Borroff
examines language not only in terms of its intrinsic characteristics, but as part of the
cultural inheritance in which all speakers participate.
Cloth 20Bpages $15.00 March
LITERATURE AGAINST ITSELF
Literary Ideas
in
Modern Society
Gerald Graff
This forcefully argued critique of what has become a pervasive view of culture , stands
as a refreshing defense of the representational , broadly realistic approach to literature
and humanistic thought.
Cloth
272
pages
$15.00
March
NEW READINGS VS. OLD PLAYS
Recent Trends
in
the Reinterpretation of English Renaissance Drama
Richard Levin
This volume suggests new alternatives to the thematic, ironic, and historical critical
approaches which have long dominated contemporary criticism of English Renais–
sance drama and have resulted in a bewildering proliferation of "new readings ."
Cloth
288
pages
$19.00 April
A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT
and Other Stories
Norman Maclean
"These stories have that magical balance of the particular and the universal that good
literature is all about . .
He writes brilliantly about work and sport."- John G .
Cawelti, New
Republic
Paper
232
pages
$3.95 April
D. H. LAWRENCE: NOVELIST
F. R. Leavis
"Altogether, his book, with all its fervor and cantankerousness, stands out monumen–
tally in the criticism in its field ."- Harry T. Moore,
New Republic
Paper
416
pages
$6.95
March
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