ON THE MARGINS OF DISCOURSE
The Re/ation of Literature to Language
Barbara Herrnstein Smith
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discourse , and relate it to other arts; consider the nature and interpretation of
poetry (this section is the 1977 Witter Bynner Lectures in Poetry at Berkeley) ; and
review a collection of essays in stylistic and structuralist literary theory. making nice
points against the analogizing of literature to language on which studies are
predicated ."
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ADVERBS, VOWELS, AND OTHER OBJECTS
OF WONDER
James D. McCawley
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essays is as much to be welcomed as was his
Grammar and Meaning.
"-John Robert
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THE ORIGIN OF CERTAINTY
Means and Meanings
in
Pascal's "Pensees"
Hugh M. Davidson
In five concise and elegantly written chapters, Davidson analyzes Pascal's search for a
supreme certainty-an unshakeable faith in God.
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176
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BROOKLYN BRIDGE
Fact and Symbol
Second Edition
Alan Trachtenberg
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. . . Mr. Trachtenberg is always exciting and illuminating."- Times
Literary
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224
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CHINESE THEORIES OF LITERATURE
James
J.
Y.
liu
"The book is a clear and worthwhile contribution to both Chinese literary studies and
literary theory in general. All we might ask is that it beget a much longer sequel."
-Stephen Owen,
Modern Language Notes
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