CRITICAL UNDERSTANDING
The Powers and Limits
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Pluralism
Wayne
C.
Booth
CHICAGO
Through extended accounts of three major
pluralists, Ronald S. Crane, Kenneth Burke
and M. H . Abrams, and shorter considerations
of many others, Booth pursues the problems
raised for anyone who rejects the search for
some single, unitary, perhaps even "scientific"
resolution
to
conflicting critical methods.
Cloth 400 pages $20.00 June
1HE FINE ARTS IN AMERICA
Joshua
C.
Taylor
Taylor shows how, over the course of three
centuries,
art
has become a vital part of
American society. His discussion, supported
by more than 250 illustrations, testifies
to
the significance of American artis-
tic expression.
Chicago History of American Civilization series,
edited by Daniel
J.
Boorstin
Cloth 280 pages 250 iI/us. $15.00 until
12131179; $17.50 thereafter June
THE UNIVERSITY OF
CHICAGO PRESS
Chicago 60637
THE AMERICAN QUEST FOR
A SUPREME FICTION
Whitman's Legacy in the Personal Epic
James E. Miller, Jr.
"This study displays the sensitivity we have
come
to
expect from Professor Miller. It offers
an outstanding number of fresh and often quite
exciting perceptions. Especially, one learns
about the poets as critics: their theories of the
long poem, their search for a 'supreme fiction,'
their persisting use of Whitman as a base line
for their thinking."-John
C.
Gerber, SUNY,
Albany
Cloth
376
pages $20.00 May
YEATS
The Poetics
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the Self
David Lynch
This book presents a new and controversial
approach to the psychoanalytic study of art.
In
it, Lynch shows the intimate connection be–
tween self-image and works of art that charac–
terizes those faced with what Yeats called "the
choice"-choosing or being chosen for the cre–
ative life.
"David Lynch makes a convincing case for
the importance of reading Yeats's work in the
light of recent theories of narcissism, and
clari–
fies in frequently brilliant ways the function
in
Yeats of the idealized self."-Helen Vendler,
Boston University
Cloth
288
pages $19.50 May
THE COMIC MIND
Comedy and the Movies
Second Edition
Gerald Mast
Paper
366
pages IIIus.
$7.95
May
Aslo available in cloth
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