The Science fiction novel : imagination and social criticism

Versions of the past : the historical imagination in American fiction

The imagination of disaster; evil in the fiction of Henry James.

New worlds for old: the apocalyptic imagination, science fiction, and American literature.

New worlds for old: The apocalyptic imagination, science fiction, and American literature: Science fiction ; A prophecy of America, the moon, and Mars -- Other worlds: Other worlds out of space and time: Edgar Allan Poe and the visionary tradition of science fiction ; The left hand of darkness: Ursula K. LeGuin's archetypal "Winter-journey" -- Other worlds in space and time: Utopian fantasy as millennial motive and science-fictional motif ; The means and ends of science fiction -- The present world in other terms: Human, more or less: The transformed world of Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland ; Solaris and the illegitimate suns of science fiction -- Its a flat world!: Epoch-eclipse and apocalypse: special "effects" in A Connecticut yankee ; New dimensions of time, space, and literature -- Somebody up there: Melville's The confidence-man and the fiction of science ; Vonnegut's spiral siren call: from Dresden's lunar vistas to Tralfamadore.

New worlds for old; the apocalyptic imagination, science fiction, and American literature.

Society and self in the novel

English Institute essays ;

Self and society / The example of Cervantes / The unpoetic compromise : on the relation between private vision and social order in nineteenth-century English fiction / Marcel Proust and the imagination of duchesses / A portrait of the artist as friend / James Joyce and an Irish tradition / Sinclair Lewis and the methods of half-truths

Poetry in our time, a critical survey of poetry in the English-speaking world, 1900 to 1960.

Anchor Books

Anchor Books.

A look at the worst -- Farewell, romance -- The glove of a neighborhood -- The earthly and the definite -- Speech and song -- The auditory imagination -- Wit as the wall -- The ghostly member -- The supreme fiction -- A vision of reality -- The forgèd feature -- Alchemists of the word -- Wars and rumors of wars -- Science and poetry.

Patterns of commitment in American literature

Canadian university paperbacks ;

Canadian university paperbooks ;

The hero and the heroic in American literature: an essay in definition / Hawthorne: tradition versus innovation / Melville's tragic imagination: the hero without a home / The two poets of Leaves of grass / Mark Twain and Victorian nostalgia / The many marriages of Henry James / Stephen Crane's Private Fleming: his various battles / Wallace Stevens and Santayana / The grotesque in recent Southern Fiction / William Faulkner: the problem of point of view / Contemporary American poetry

Wallace Stevens : An Anatomy of Figuration

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- PART ONE. An Anatomy of Specific Figures -- Chapter One. The Two Minds of Wallace Stevens -- Chapter Two. Figures of the Mind (Reason and the Imagination) -- Chapter Four. Figures of Order -- Chapter Five. Figures of Change -- PART TWO. Structural Figuration -- Chapter Six. Double Vision in Whole Poems -- Chapter Seven. Peter Quince at the Clavier -- Chapter Eight. Le Monocle de Mon Oncle -- Chapter Nine. The Comedian as the Letter C -- Chapter Ten. Credences of Summer -- Chapter Eleven. Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction -- Index to Figures -- Index of Poems Cited -- A Selective Bibliography

Fiction and the figures of life

Philosophy and the Form of Fiction -- The Medium of Fiction -- The Concept of Character in Fiction -- In Terms of the Toenail: Fiction and the Figures of Life -- Gertrude Stein: Her Escape from Protective Language -- The Leading Edge of the Trash Phenomenon -- Pricksongs & Descants -- Mirror, Mirror -- Imaginary Borges and His Books -- The Bingo Game at the Foot of the Cross -- The Shut-In -- A Spirit in Search of Itself -- In the Cage -- The High Brutality of Good Intentions -- The Stylization of Desire -- Cock-a-doodle-doo -- From Some Ashes No Bird Rises -- The Case of the Obliging Stranger -- Russell's Memoirs -- A Memory of a Master -- The Evil Demiurge -- The Imagination of an Insurrection -- Even if, by All the Oxen in the World -- The Artist and Society.

Literary criticism : a short history

Socrates and the rhapsode -- Aristotle's answer: poetry as structure -- Aristotle: tragedy and comedy -- The verbal medium: Plato and Aristotle -- Roman classicism: Horace -- Roman classicism: Longinus -- The neo-Platonic conclusion: Plotinus and some medieval themes -- Further medieval themes -- The sixteenth century -- English neo-classicism: Jonson and Dryden -- Dryden and some later seventeenth-century themes -- Rhetoric and neo-classic wit -- Addison and Lessing: poetry as pictures -- Genius, emotion, and association -- The neo-classic universal: Samuel Johnson -- Poetic diction: Wordsworth and Coleridge -- German ideas -- Imagination: Wordsworth and Coleridge -- Peacock vs. Shelley: rhapsodic didacticism -- The Arnoldian prophecy -- The real and the social: art as propaganda -- Art for art's sake -- Expressionism: Benedetto Croce -- The historical method: a retrospect -- Tragedy and comedy: the internal focus -- Symbolism -- I.A. Richards: a poetics of tension -- The semantic principle -- Eliot and Pound: an impersonal art -- Fiction and drama: the gross structure -- Myth and archetype -- Epilogue.

Collected essays.

Essays. Selections

Preface to Reactionary essays on poetry and ideas -- Preface of Reason in madness -- The present function of criticism -- Literature as knowledge -- Miss Emily and the bibliographer -- The function of the critical quarterly -- Tension in poetry -- Three types of poetry -- Understanding modern poetry -- Techniques of fiction -- The hovering fly -- A reading of Keats -- Hardy's philosophic metaphors -- Emily Dickinson -- Yeats' romanticism -- Hart Crane -- John Peale Bishop -- Narcissus as Narcissus -- The profession of letters in the South -- The new provincialism -- What is a traditional society? -- Religion and the old South -- A note on Donne -- A note on Elizabethan satire -- T.S. Eliot -- Ezra Pound -- Edwin Arlington Robinson -- MacLeish's conquistador -- g[6.] The forlorn demon: The man of letters in the modern world -- To whom is the poet responsible? -- The symbolic imagination: the mirrors of Dante -- The angelic imagination: Poe as God -- Our cousin, Mr. Poe -- Is literary criticism possible? -- Johnson on the metaphysical poets -- Longinus and the "new criticism" -- A miscellany: Crane: the poet as hero ; Ezra Pound and the Bollingen Prize ; A note on critical "autotelism" ; Modern poets and conventions ; The point of dying: Donne's "virtuous men" -- A Southern mode of the imagination.