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Knowledge and Experience Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 140
ISBN: 9780822983842
Pub Date: 15 Nov 1963
Description:
The fifteen papers in this volume deal with the two overlapping topics of knowledge and experience from the perspective of analytic philosophical inquiry. The topics addressed are prominent in the work of such modern philosophers as Ludwig Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell, C. I.
Composition of Tender is the Night, The Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9780822983835
Pub Date: 15 Oct 1963
Description:
Working with the complete collection of Tender is the Night manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, Matthew J. Bruccoli reconstructs seventeen drafts and three versions of the novel to answer questions about F. Scott FitzgeraldÆs major work that have long puzzled critics of modern literature.
Al-Farabi's Short Commentary on Aristotle's Prior Analytics Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 132
ISBN: 9780822983828
Pub Date: 15 Sep 1963
Description:
During the years 800-1200 A.D., Arabic scholars studied many of the works of Greek philosophy, and recorded their interpretations.
James Gould Cozzens Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 196
ISBN: 9780822950592
Pub Date: 15 Sep 1963
Description:
During the early 1930s, after James Gould Cozzens had published four romantic novels and then withdrawn them from circulation, he wrote the first three of what Brenden Gill called his eight \u201ccanonical works.\u201d But it was only after the publication of By Love Possessed in 1957 that he achieved wide popularity. Mooney closely examines each of CozzensÆ novels, isolating and defining his main themes and addressing the critical acclaim and condemnation of his works.
The Branch Will Not Break Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 59
ISBN: 9780819510181
Pub Date: 01 May 1963
Description:
These new poems by the author of Saint Judas and The Green Wall embody a sharp break with his earlier work. Their impact is well described by the British critic Michael Hamburger: "He has absorbed the work of modern Spanish and other continental poets and evolved a medium of his own. This medium dispenses with argument and rhetoric, and presents the pure substance of poetry, images which are 'the objective correlatives' of emotion and feeling.
Silence in the Snowy Fields Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 60
ISBN: 9780819510150
Pub Date: 01 Apr 1962
Description:
The poems of Robert Bly are rooted deep in the earth. Snow and sunshine, barns and cornfields and cars on the empty nighttime roads, abandoned Minnesota lakes and the mood of America now-these are his materials. He sees and talks clearly: he uses no rhetoric nor mannered striving for effect, but instead the simple statement that in nine lines can embody a mood, reveal a profound truth, illuminate in an important way the inward and hidden life.
Samuel Pepys in the Diary Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9780822960508
Pub Date: 15 Nov 1958
Description:
In this work, the reader experiences the life of Samuel Pepys and his freinds, great and small, in seventeenth-century London. We see great men of war, business and letters, enhanced by Percival HuntÆs comprehensive bibliography.

The Verbal Icon

Studies in the Meaning of Poetry
Format: Paperback
Pages: 318
ISBN: 9780813101118
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1954
Description:
The sixteen essays in this volume form a series of related focuses upon various levels and areas of literary criticism. W.K.
From “Superman” to Man Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 132
ISBN: 9780960229444
Pub Date: 01 Jun 1941
Description:
Joel Augustus Roger's seminal work, this novel first published in 1917 is a polemic against the ignorance that fuels racism. The central plot revolves around a debate between a Pullman porter and a white racist Southern politician.