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Author Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982.

Title The elastic retort; essays in literature and ideas.

Publication Info. New York : Seabury Press, [1973]

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Description viii, 280 pages ; 22 cm.
Series A Continuum book
Continuum book.
Contents [1.] More classics revisited: Song of songs -- Tao Te Ching -- Euripides' Hippolytus -- Aristotle's Poetics -- Bhagavad-gita -- Catullus -- Aeneid -- Early Irish epic -- Abelard and Héloise -- St. Thomas Aquinas -- English and Scottish popular ballad -- Racine's Phèdre -- Gulliver's travels -- Robinson Crusoe -- Dangerous acquaintances -- Gilbert White's Natural history of Selbourne -- Robert Burns -- William Blake -- Goethe -- Balzac -- Journal of John Woolman -- Francis Parkman's France and England in North America -- Pickwick papers -- Uncle Tom's cabin -- Frederick Douglass -- Fathers and sons -- Sherlock Holmes -- H.G. Wells -- Ford Madox Ford's Parade's end -- [2.] Japan: Japan and the second greater East Asia co-prosperity sphere -- World of the shining prince -- Nō plays -- Influence of classical Japanese poetry on modern American poetry -- Six Japanese novelists: Hiroshi Noma, Osamu Dazai, Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Shohei Ooka, Junichiro Tanizaki -- Japanese poetry now -- [3.] Religion: Lamennais -- Evolution of Anglo-Catholicism -- Some notes on Newman -- Surprising journey of Father Longergan.
Form Also issued online.
Subject Literature -- History and criticism.
Literature.
Littérature.
ISBN 0816491682
9780816491681