Best of
Criticism
1960
The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I
Roger Shattuck - 1960
Shattuck focuses on the careers of Alfred Jarry, Henri Rousseau, Erik Satie, and Guillaume Apollinaire, using the quartet as window into the era as he explores a culture whose influence is at the very foundation of modern art.
Agee on Film: Criticism and Comment on the Movies
James Agee - 1960
H. AudenJames Agee was passionately involved with the movies throughout his life. A master of both fiction and nonfiction, he wrote about film in clean, smart prose as the reviewer for Time magazine and as a columnist for The Nation. Agee was particularly perceptive about the work of his friend John Huston and recognized the artistic merit of certain B films such as The Curse of the Cat People and other movies produced by Val Lewton.
The Books at the Wake: A Study of Literary Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
James S. Atherton - 1960
Setting out to explore these literary allusions, Mr. Atherton sheds a great deal of light upon other aspects of Joyce’s work. Entire chapters are devoted to such major figures as Swift and Lewis Carroll, while less important influences are grouped together under such headings as “The Irish Writers” and “The Fathers of the Church.” He also surveys the various interpretations of Finnegans Wake, and makes use of the Letters of James Joyce and the manuscript of Finnegans Wake in the British Museum.
Love and Death in the American Novel
Leslie A. Fiedler - 1960
. . an accepted major work.” This groundbreaking work views in depth both American literature and character from the time of the American Revolution to the present. From it, there emerges Fiedler’s once scandalous―now increasingly accepted―judgment that our literature is incapable of dealing with adult sexuality and is pathologically obsessed with death.
Parodies: An Anthology from Chaucer to Beerbohm--And After
Dwight Macdonald - 1960
Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare
Samuel Johnson - 1960
It looks at Johnson's studies on Shakespeare in their 18th century context and analyzes their significance and achievement.
The Critics of Keynesian Economics
Henry HazlittJoseph Stagg Lawrence - 1960
The editor has added a new introduction and preface to this volume. An outstanding anthology which includes a number of important essays otherwise hard or impossible to find in English.
The Power of Satire: Magic, Ritual, Art
Robert C. Elliott - 1960
The description for this book, The Power of Satire: Magic, Ritual, Art, will be forthcoming.