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This succinct and lucid study examines the thought of the philosopher Charles Peirce as it applies to literary theory and…

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A poet's tradition provides him with a sense of community that may be regarded as a necessary condition for poetry. Jenijoy…

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"The poems are elegies for everything, including myself," writes James Richardson. "Beyond this, I cannot pretend to be…

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This volume contains revised versions of the papers presented in 1971 at the Princeton University Conference on…

Argues that among democracy's supporters there is a belief in the need to "transform" human beings in order to reconcile the…

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These translations are a book length selection in English of the poetry of Robert Marteau, a distinguished contemporary…

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An English translation of a major work by the great Neoplatonist philosopher, whose commentary greatly influenced later…

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