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Summer 1969 • Vol. XXXI No. 3 • Book Reviews |

Myth or Criticism

By Ronald Berman

Continuites by Frank Kermode. Random House, $5.95.

The Urgent West by Walter Allen. E. P. Dutton and Company, $5.95.

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The Revolutionary Personality by E. Victor Wolfenstein. Princeton University Press, $7.50. The Revolutionary Personality is a distillate of modern orthodoxy. Essentially Freudian, it attempts yet once more to assert that, […]

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