Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
book
BookBook
Author Kaplan, Charles, 1919-2009

Title The overwrought urn; a potpourri of parodies of critics who triumphantly present the real meaning of authors from Jane Austen to J. D. Salinger.

Publication Info. New York : Pegasus [1969]

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  801 K14    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  809 K17O    Check Shelf
Description xii, 216 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Pierre Menard, author of Don Quixote, by J. L. Borges.--The romantic triumph: the warp and the wolf, by R. M. Myers.--The transcendentalists, by R. Armour.--Thomas Mann and eighteenth-century comic fiction, by W. Booth.--How to criticize a poem, by T. Spencer.--The greatest English lyric? A new reading of Joe E. Skilmer's Therese, by J. F. Nims.--Eliot among the nightingales: fair and foul, by C. Kaplan.--Invictus: a regurgitation, by I. Wallach.--The ghost of Christmas
past: Stopping by woods on a snowy evening, by H. R. Coursen, Jr.--The secret of The secret sharer bared, by B. Harkness.--Mrs. Bennet and the dark gods: the key to Jane Austen, by D. Bush.--Eloise disclosed, by F. Lamport.--Patristic exegesis: a medieval Tom Sawyer, by J. Halverson.--Six, sex, sick: Seymour, some comments, by C. V. Genthe.--Christian symbolism in Lucky Jim, by R. Conquest.--A. A. Milne's honey-balloon-pit-gun-tail-bathtubcomplex, by F. C.
Crews.--Shakespeare explained, by R. Benchley.--An imaginary review, by J. C. Squire.--Notes and comments, by motley hands.--My memories of D. H. Lawrence, by J. Thurber.--Tiptoeing down memory lane, by R. Benchley.--The critics: a conversation, by E. Wilson.--Chicago letter, by W. B. Scott.--Dover Beach revisited, by T. Morrison.--Contributors to this issue, by R. Benchley.
Subject Criticism -- Humor.
Criticism -- Anecdotes.
-->
Add a Review