Book Reviews
Summer 1984
The Virtues of Opera Reconsidered
Opera: The Extravagant Art by Herbert Lindenberger. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984. 446 pages. $25.00. Of all the forms of art, opera often seems the most “in between”; it belongs […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1983
Aesthetic Experience and Literary Hermeneutics
Aesthetic Experience and Literary Hermeneutics by Hans Robert Jauss. Translated from the German by Michael Shaw. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 357 pages. 1982. $29.50. Hans Robert Jauss’s Aesthetic Experience […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1983
Form and Measure in the Postmodern World
Many of the greatest moments in Western culture have been essentially connected to a rigorous postulation of the ends of life and to the sense of significance that results from […]