Walt Whitman, the critical heritage (The Critical heritage series)

Hindus, Milton

Literature & Fiction

Routledge and K. Paul

The Proustian Vision

History & Criticism

Southern Illinois University Press

Southern Illinois University Press, 1954. 288 pages including Selected Bibliography and Index. Paperback.

This title seeks to show through detailed analysis of Proust's philosophical and literary influences as well as his conscious aesthetic, how the various motifs in his works intertwine. It includes sections on Proust's earlier works.

A Reader's Guide to Marcel Proust (Reader's Guides) (Reader's Guides Series)

Syracuse University Press

A new version of a classic work on France’s controversial writer, including selections from Hindus’s extensive correspondence and meetings with Céline during his postwar exile in Denmark.

The Crippled Giant: A Literary Relationship with Louis-Ferdinand Céline. New and expanded ed., with Selections from the Céline-Hindus Correspondence

Brandeis University Press

First edition Morrow and Cooney 263a . Biographical sketch of the author follows text. 67, 3 pages. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo..

Charles Reznikoff: A Critical Essay

Biographies & Memoirs

Black Sparrow Press

In 1988, at the age of 72, Milton Hindus, Brandeis professor and biographer and critic of Proust, CÃ©line, Whitman, and Reznikoff, collected his miscellaneous essays. Some of them are personal (memoir and autobiography), others impersonal (criticism). The emphasis, Hindus writes, is on criticism "and the autobiographical revelations are present for whatever light they may shed upon the choice of subjects and the attitudes expressed in the criticism. My conviction is that the most important life is that of the mind, and if this does not transpire through all the author's work, then indeed he has written in vain." Contents: Pieces Out of A Man's Life: 1. The Tombstone, a portrait of the author's father 2. Portrait of an Uncle, on the Russian scholar Maurice Hindus 3. Politics, on the "Romance" of American Communism Literary History and Criticism: 4. Walt Whitman's Critical Reception: From 1855 to the Present 5. Charles Reznikoff's first novel, By the Waters of Manhattan 6. Whittaker Chambers's Witness 7. Three Essays on Irving Babbitt: - The Achievement of Irving Babbitt - Babbitt's Masters of Modern French Criticism - Babbitt's Version of the Buddha's Dhammapada 8. Socrates vs. Thoreau on Civil Disobedience 9. Patterns of Proustian Love 10. On CÃ©line Once More 11. Reminiscences of Robert Frost

Essays: Personal & Impersonal

In 1988, at the age of 72, Milton Hindus, Brandeis professor and biographer and critic of Proust, CÃ©line, Whitman, and Reznikoff, collected his miscellaneous essays. Some of them are personal (memoir and autobiography), others impersonal (criticism). The emphasis, Hindus writes, is on criticism "and the autobiographical revelations are present for whatever light they may shed upon the choice of subjects and the attitudes expressed in the criticism. My conviction is that the most important life is that of the mind, and if this does not transpire through all the author's work, then indeed he has written in vain."Contents:Pieces Out of A Man's Life:1. The Tombstone, a portrait of the author's father2. Portrait of an Uncle, on the Russian scholar Maurice Hindus3. Politics, on the "Romance" of American CommunismLiterary History and Criticism:4. Walt Whitman's Critical Reception: From 1855 to the Present5. Charles Reznikoff's first novel, By the Waters of Manhattan6. Whittaker Chambers's Witness7. Three Essays on Irving Babbitt: - The Achievement of Irving Babbitt - Babbitt's Masters of Modern French Criticism - Babbitt's Version of the Buddha's Dhammapada8. Socrates vs. Thoreau on Civil Disobedience9. Patterns of Proustian Love10. On CÃ©line Once More11. Reminiscences of Robert Frost

Essays: Personal and Impersonal

Poetry

Black Sparrow Pr

The causal problem has become topical once again. While we are no longer causalists or believers in the universal truth of the causal principle we continue to think of causes and effects, as well as of causal and noncausal relations among them. Instead of becoming indeterminists we have enlarged determinism to include noncausal categories. And we are still in the process of characterizing our basic concepts and principles concerning causes and effects with the help of exact tools. This is because we want to explain, not just describe, the ways of things. The causal principle is not the only means of understanding the world but it is one of them.The demand for a fourth edition of this distinguished book on the subject of causality is clear evidence that this principle continues to be an important and popular area of philosophic enquiry. Non-technical and clearly written, this book focuses on the ontological problem of causality, with specific emphasis on the place of the causal principle in modern science. Mario Bunge first defines the terminology employed and describes various formulations of the causal principle. He then examines the two primary critiques of causality, the empiricist and the romantic, as a prelude to the detailed explanation of the actual assertions of causal determinism.Bunge analyzes the function of the causal principle in science, touching on such subjects as scientific law, scientific explanation, and scientific prediction. In so doing, he offers an education to layman and specialist alike on the history of a concept and its opponents. Professor William A. Wallace, author of Causality and Scientific Explanation said of an earlier edition of this work: "I regard it as a truly seminal work in this field."

Causality and Modern Science

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Routledge

Louis Ferdinand Céline (the pseudonym of Louis Destouches) was a famous novelist and ferocious anti-Semitic pamphleteer who rose to fame before Hitler, but perfectly represented the fascist mind-set that swept across Europe between 1932 and 1944. Never a Nazi himself, he was author of Journey to the End of the Night, Death on the Installment Plan, Guignol's Band, Homage to Zola, and a series of "pamphlets." The latter are a potpourri of racist editorials, ballet scenarios, and anti-Semitic confessions so violent that an aesthete like Andre Gide thought them parodies of other anti-Semitic literature. Little wonder the Nazis regarded Céline as a fellow-traveler. He retreated with the Nazis across the Rhine and sought refuge with them, first in Germany and then in Denmark. In 1951, he benefitted from an amnesty as a wounded veteran of both World Wars. Before his death in 1961 he had regained his popularity with the public and was regarded as a classic writer. Now that the body of his work is in translation, Céline's fame in the literary world circles the globe.Céline, perhaps more than any other analysis, helps shed some light on this enigmatic figure. It establishes his literary importance, and, at the same time, examines his anti-Semitism. After a final meeting, Hindus declared that "Celine is a splinter in my mind that I've got either to absorb completely or eject completely." The reader of this fascinating critical memoir of one of the twentieth century's most controversial literary figures is apt to be left with a similar dilemma.

Celine the Crippled Giant: The Crippled Giant

Dramas & Plays

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Walt Whitman, the critical heritage (The Critical heritage series)

The Proustian Vision

The Proustian Vision

A Reader's Guide to Marcel Proust (Reader's Guides) (Reader's Guides Series)

The Crippled Giant: A Literary Relationship with Louis-Ferdinand Céline. New and expanded ed., with Selections from the Céline-Hindus Correspondence

Charles Reznikoff: A Critical Essay

Essays: Personal & Impersonal

Essays: Personal and Impersonal

Causality and Modern Science

Celine the Crippled Giant: The Crippled Giant