1st Edition

A Gallery of Mirrors Observations on Novelists and Poets

By Harry Levin Copyright 1959
306 Pages
by Routledge

305 Pages
by Routledge

305 Pages
by Routledge

The essays in this classic volume range from broad concerns with critical theory and aesthetic formulation to specific analysis of forms and texts. Levin discusses such matters as the symbolic interpretation of literature, the development of literary criticism during the past half-century, European attitudes toward contemporary American writers, and re-evaluations of Joyce, Proust, Balzac,... Read more
I: Working Definitions; New Frontiers in the Humanities; Art as Knowledge; Contexts of the Classical; The Tradition of Tradition; What is Realism?; II: Notations on Novelists; The Example of Cervantes; Don Quixote and Moby-Dick; Balzac and Proust; Joyce's Sentimental Journey through France and Italy; Observations on the Style of Ernest Hemingway; I: Long Views; Society as Its Own Historian; Symbolism and Fiction; The War of Words in English Poetry; A Gallery of Mirrors; Criticism in Crisis; I: Appendix; James Joyce et Videe de Littérature Mondiale

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