Best of
Criticism

1966

Against Interpretation and Other Essays


Susan Sontag - 1966
    Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes the famous essays "Notes on Camp" and "Against Interpretation," as well as her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Lévi-Strauss, science-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thought.This edition has a new afterword, "Thirty Years Later," in which Sontag restates the terms of her battle against philistinism and against ethical shallowness and indifference.

Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature, and Method


Kenneth Burke - 1966
    And much of the material presented here was used in that course. The title should serve well to convey the gist of these various pieces. For all of them are explicitly concerned with the attempt to define and track down the implications of the term "symbolic action," and to show how the marvels of literature and language look when considered form that point of view.

Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature


C.S. Lewis - 1966
    S. Lewis, whose constant aim was to show the twentieth century reader how to read and how to understand old books and manuscripts.

A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality


Donald W. Sherburne - 1966
    It is the only work in which his metaphysical ideas are stated systematically and completely, and his metaphysics are the heart of his philosophical system as a whole. Sherburne has rearranged the text in a way designed to lead the student logically and coherently through the intricacies of the system without losing the vigor of Whitehead's often brilliant prose. "The Key renders Process and Reality pedagogically accessible for the first time."—Journal of Religion

The Essays, Vol. 2: 1912-1918


Virginia Woolf - 1966
    More than half have not been collected previously. "In these essays we see both Woolf's work and her self afresh" (Chicago Tribune). Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.

The Aesthetics of Chaosmos: The Middle Ages of James Joyce


Umberto Eco - 1966
    Eco discusses how Joyce's fiction was suffused by its author's reading of St Thomas Aquinas, Giordano Bruno, and Nicola De Cusa.

The Cave and the Mountain: A Study of E. M. Forster


Wilfred Healey Stone - 1966
    

Art and Architecture in Medieval France: Medieval Architecture, Sculpture, Stained Glass, Manuscripts, the Art of the Church Treasuries


Whitney S. Stoddard - 1966
    In addition to essays on individual monuments there are general discussions of given periods & specific problems such as: why did Gothic come into being? Whitney Stoddard explores the interrelationship between all forms of medieval ecclesiastical art & characterization of the Gothic cathedral, which he believes to have an almost metaphysical basis.PrefaceRomanesque FranceEarly Gothic of the twelfth centuryHigh Gothic of the early thirteenth centuryFrom Rayonnant to FlamboyantThe Treasuries of Monasteries & CathedralsBibliographyIndex