This study places Djuna Barnes's early work in the context of symbolist ideas and practices. It presents Barnes not only as a woman writer, but also as an American writer, especially in her attention to the search for identity and to the conflict between individual values and those of society.

Fancy's Craft: Art and Identity in the Early Works of Djuna Barnes

Literature & Fiction

Plumb, Cheyrl

Literary

Susquehanna University Press

Focuses on unpublished manuscripts and closely examines Dos Passos's first novels. This book reveals how his practical aesthetics and use of myth come together in a triumph of form that presents an important vision of America.

Dos Passos's Early Fiction, 1912-1938

Michael Clark

History & Criticism

Presents a methodological basis for a philosophy of concrete actuality. Also breaks new ground in its mediation between two varied traditions of speculative philosophy.

Search For Concreteness: Reflections on Hegel and Whitehead: A Treatise on Self-Evidence and Critical Methods in Philosophy

Politics & Social Sciences

Christensen, Darrel E.

Philosophy

Reevaluates the accomplishments of the British writer within the context of major literary movements and cross-currents. It considers all areas of his work including his stories of country life; war stories and novels; his best work, Love for Lydia; and his highly acclaimed nonfiction on environmental issues.

H. E. Bates: A Literary Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Baldwin, Dean

Arts & Literature

This work closely analyzes and evaluates the literary achievement and the sociopolitical impact of three eighteenth-century Anglo-African authors -- Ignatius Sancho, Ottobah Cugoano, and Olaudah Equiano -- and their work, which collectively represents the earliest emergence of black self-consciousness in England.

Measuring Moment: Strategies of Protest in Eighteenth-Century Afro-English Writing

Sandiford, Keith

Bringing together translation theory and literary history, this volume conveys how Pound in his influential and controversial Homage to Sextus Propertius enriched the art of translation. The work of Louis Zukofsky, Basil Bunting, J. V. Cunningham, and Peter Porter is also discussed.

Classics in Paraphrase: Ezra Pound and Modern Translators of Latin Poetry

Hooley, Daniel M.

The hospitality offered by John Calvin and his supporters in Geneva to Protestant refugees from Catholic areas was institutionalized in the 1540s into a welfare fund known as the Bourse francaise. This history of the institution and its influence is set within the larger social and cultural context of sixteenth-century Reformation Europe and of welfare and the diaconate in the early and medieval church.

Calvin And Social Welfare: Deacons and the Bourse Francaise

History

Olson, Jeannine E.

Europe

This study intends principally to isolate and describe the function of myth in the Phaedo in order to show its effect on the complex metaphysics developed throughout the dialogue. It further illustrates how these metaphysical concepts structure the dialogue's concluding eschatological myth.

Myth & Metaphysics in Plato's Phaedo

White, David A.

First published in 1923, Streets of Night has long been out of print. This edition, based on the first American printing, includes the autograph changes Dos Passos made in the manuscripts and provides supplementary material, textual notes, the substantive variants between the American and British first editions, and Dos Passos's diary entries about the novel.

Streets of Night

Dos, Passos John.

United States

This work reflects the search for proof of the existence of a mind that may be accurately called surrealist. Concentrating on painting and poetry, it shows how the surrealists envisaged, reacted to, and practiced art as a creative activity.

Surrealist Mind

Matthews, J. H.

Arts & Photography

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