Desperate Storytelling
Post-Romantic Elaborations of the
Mock-Heroic Mode
Roger B . Salomon
Desperate Storytelling
demonstrates how writers from Byron to Saul
Bellow, from Mark Twain
to
Nabokov, have embraced Cervantes's
vision of the artist as CJ'eative exile, born
to
tell tales of valor and
nobility, yet doomed to recognize the world's banal reality. $32.50
The Art of Prophesying
New England Sermons and the Shaping of Belief
Teresa Toulouse
Exploring the ways that four Boston ministers shaped belief for
their communities, Teresa Toulouse shows how each preacher ad–
dressed in the language and forms of his sermons both the un–
changing word of doctrine and the changing needs of a fa llen
world. $23.00
Hope Among Us Yet
Social Criticism and Social Solace in Depression
America
David P. Peeler
In
Hope Among Us Yet,
David Peeler examines art and literature of
the Depression to reveal a common pursuit and common dream
among the painters, photographers, and writers-Ben Shahn, Dor–
othea Lange, John Steinbeck, and Erskine Caldwell , among them–
who turned their talents toward the shattered world of 1930S
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black-and!white illustrations
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