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Balzac, Henry James, and theMode of
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Excess
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SOCIAL CHANGE AND
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Richard Lowenthal. Th e fi rst Eng lish
translation of a collec tion of seminal essays
all of whi ch sur vey the impac t of
accelerated economic and social change on
Western society.
European Perspectives .
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REVOLUTION IN POETIC
LANGUAGE
jt<lia Kns teva; 'rramlated by Margaret Wa ller;
With
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Leon
S.
Roudtez. The
most systematic formulation of Kristeva's
theories ava ilable, this hook revea ls the
basis for her later works and gives further
proof of her importance 1n contemporary
French thought.
European Perspectives.
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AMERICAN BEAUTY
l'<tcr
Brook1. Argues that this rea lm of
hyperbolic deed and extravagant expression
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A FUTURE FOR ASTYANAX
Character and Desire in Literature
Leo Ber'>!ltll . A striking study of the correla–
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of conce1ving des ire and different ways of
conce iv1ng character.
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WALTER BENJAMIN
An Aesthetic of Redemption
Rtchanl Wolin. Now in paperback. 316 pp.,
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END AND BEGINNING
On the Generations of Cultures and
the Origins of the West
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William Carlos Williams
Modernist Whitman
and the THEORIES OF ART
Stcpl•en
'rapscott.
Demonstrates that the con-
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Carlos Williams is the ax is around wh 1ch
twentieth-century American poetry sp1ns.
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