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Summer 1988 • Vol. X No. 3 • Book Reviews |

Alexandrian Circles

By John Chioles

The Poetics of Cavafy: Textuality, Eroticism, History by Gregory Jusdanis. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987. 193 pages. $29.00.

 

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An Artificial Wilderness: Essays in Twentieth-Century Literature by Sven Birkerts. New York: William Morrow. 1987. 431 pages. $20.95.  Already have an account? Log in Join KR for even more to […]

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