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Autumn 1959 • Vol. XXI No. 4 • Book Reviews |

Democracy of the Sick

By Kenneth Burke

Freud: The Mind Of The Moralist by Philip Rief. Viking. $6.00.

 

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Key Words for Critics

By Kenneth Burke

The Intent of the Critic by Edmund Wilson, Norman Foerster, John Crowe Ransom, and W. H. Auden, with an Introduction by Donald A. Stauffer. Princeton. $2.50The New Criticism by John […]

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The Dialectics of Imagery

By Kenneth Burke

Symbolism And American Literature by Charles Feidelson, Jr. University of Chicago Press. $6.50. Since symbolism means many things to many people, perhaps in seeking to place Mr. Feidelson’s interesting book […]

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