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The Kenyon Critics: Studies in Modern Literature from the Kenyon Review

by John Crowe Ransom. 344 pgs.

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Contributors:

   John Crowe Ransom

Publisher:

   World Pub. Co

Place of Publication:

  Cleveland, OH  

Publication Year:

  1951
Subjects:   Fiction, Literature, Modern--20th Century--History And Criticism
Table of contents
CONTENTS
Introduction vii
Essays
JOHN PEALE BISHOP The Sorrows of Thomas Wolfe 3
PHILIP RAHV Paleface and Redskin 12
ROBERT PENN WARREN Pure and Impure Poetry 17
AUSTIN WARREN Myth and Dialectic in the Later Novels of Henry James 42
ELISIO VIVAS Kafka's Distorted Mask 58
ADRIENNE MONNIER Joyce's Ulysses and the French Public 75
DONAT O'DONNEL The Pieties of Evelyn Waugh 88
RICHARD ELMANN Robartes and Aherne: Two Sides of a Penny 98
W. H. AUDEN Yeats as an Example 107
RICHARD CHASE The Stone and the Crucifixion: Faulkner's Light in August 115
WILLIAM EMPSON Emotions in Poems 127
ERIC BENTLY Monsieur Verdoux as Theatre 138
ROBIE MACAULEY The Good Ford 151
VIVIENNE KOCH The Poetry of Allen Tate 169
R. P. BLACKMUR Parody and Critique: Notes on Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus 182
PHILIP BLAIR RICE Existentialism and the Self 200
PARKER TYLER Novel into Film: All the King's Men 225
LIONEL TRILLING Wordsworth and the Iron Time 233
Book Reviews
JOHN BERRYMAN The Lord Hill of Wales 255
ELEANOR CLARK The Myth of Sainthood 259
RICHARD EBERHART Q's Revisions 263
CLEANTH JR. BROOKS The Whole of Housman 267
DELMORE SCHWARTZ Neither Historian nor Critic 272
RANDALL JARRELL The Humble Animal 277
C. G. WALLIS Satan and Denis de Rougemont 281
MARTIN LEBOWITZ The Everlasting Mr. Huxley 289
HAROLD WHITEHALL Linguistic Patriot 293
ISAAC ROSENFELD Dry Watershed 298
DUDLEY FITTS The Hellenism of Robinson Jeffers 307
PAUL GOODMAN Tardy and Partial Recognition 312
IRVING HOWE The Cost of Distraction 319
WILLIAM BARRET Aristocracy and/or Christianity 324
W. R. FLINT I Will Teach You My Townspeople 333
Bibliography 341
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