PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
THROUGH THE
RUSSIAN PRISM
Essays on Literature and Culture
Joseph Frank
Joseph Frank's continuing biography of Dostoevsky is by
now recognized as one of the major achievements of this
century in this form, and perhaps the best work on the author in
any language. Frank has also produced articles, introductions,
and occasional pieces, collected here, that arise from his acute
awareness of how Western ideas are changed, transformed, and
given new meanings and implications when they are reflected
through the Russian prism.
It
is
this interaction between Russia and the West that has
fascinated Frank for many years and that provides the focus for
these essays. Gathered together, they reveal one of the powerful
critical intelligences of our time.
Paper: $9.95 ISBN D-691-01456-6 Cloth: $29.50 ISBN 0-691 -06821-6
THE DIDACTIC MUSE
Scenes of Instruction in Contemporary
American Poetry
Willard Spiegelman
Writing with the vigor and elan that readers have come to
expect from his many astute reviews and essays, Willard
Spiegelman maintains that contemporary American poets have
returned to the poetic
aims
of an earlier era: to edify, as well as
to delight, and thus to serve the "didactic muse."
".
..By [Spiegelman's] brilliant studies of individual poets he
illuminates poetry itself, its resources, and accomplishments."
- Theodore Weiss, Princeton University
Paper: $10.95 ISBN 0-691-01460-4 Cloth: $39.50 ISBN 0-691-06799-6
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