The Fiction
of the Poet
From Mallarme to the
Post-Symbolist Mode
Anna Balakian
Addressing all readers who value the
beauty of language, Anna Bolakian
examines the work of five twentieth–
century p::>ets-Yeats, Valery, Rilke,
Stevens, and Guillen-lo show how
the linguistic richness of the symbolist
tradition continued well into the modern
period.
These writers, all of whom learned
the p::>etry of language from tv'ollarme,
compensated for the disappearance of
metaphysical inclinations in early twenti–
eth-century p::>etry by instituting a p::>etic
fiction.
Cloth: $74.95 ISBN 0691{)6946-8
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The Skeptic
Disposition
Deconstruction, Ideology,
and Other
~tters
Eugene
Goodheart
"[This book] is a fair-minded, generous
critique of the deconstructionist theories
of
Jacques Derrida, Paul de tv'on, and their
followers. He suggests that the philosophi–
cal orientation of deconstructive critics
leads them to overemphasize the tricky
propositional sense of wards at the
expense of the broader impact of
literature-its power
to
wound, thrill,
or
transform us.
"-Morris Dickstein,
The
New
York Times Book Review
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