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The Widening Gyre: Crisis and Mastery in Modern Literature
by Joseph Frank
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About This Item
Rutgers University Press, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 278 pages, with index. Foreword by Allen Tate. Essays by the comparative literature scholar include discussions of the emergence of modernist poetry, Malraux, Thomas Mann, Robert Penn Warren, John Peale Bishop, R.P. Blackmur, Lionel Trilling. 8vo, gray cloth with white and black lettering on spine, dark gray end papers, faded bluish topstain, foxing to fore-edge, in unclipped, worn and soiled DJ with tears and chips to crown and heel. Inscribed by the author on the half-title to his friends Profs. Ann and Warner Berthoff, their marginalia in pencil on approximately 80 pages. Bonus is a laid-in clipping of a 1963 letter by Frank to the editor of the TLS disputing a piece of analysis in an article on James Baldwin.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Widening Gyre: Crisis and Mastery in Modern Literature
- Author
- Joseph Frank
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Date Published
- 1963
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- MODERNISM, FLAUBERT, JOYCE, PROUST, SPATIAL FORM, MALRAUX, THOMAS MANN, ROBERT PENN WARREN, JOHN PEALE BISHOP, ALLEN TATE, R.P. BLACKMUR, LIONEL TRILLING, ESSAYS
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- Literary history; Literary criticism; Inscribed books;
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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.
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