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...Stephen J. Whitfield Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical . Edited by Olney James . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1980 . Pp. 360 . $28.50 (cloth), $9.75 (paper). Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 234 The South Atlantic Quarterly gests...

...George Mills Harper The Rhizome and the Flower: The Perennial Philosophy—Yeats and Jung . By Olney James . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1980 . Pp. ix , 379 . $20.00 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 BOOKS The Rhizome and the Flower: The Perennial...

...Barrett John Mandel Metaphors of Self: The Meaning of Autobiography . By Olney James . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1972 . Pp. 342 . $12.50 . Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 BOOKS Metaphors of Self: The Meaning oj Autobiography. By James Olney...

...James Olney Copyright © 1975 by Duke University Press 1975 Most Extraordinary : Sybille Bedford and Aldous Huxley James Olney But for such as these a portrait is not an identificative paper but rather the curve of an emotion. James Joyce Ah life, G. M. Hopkins once exclaimed, in a brief...

...James Olney Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 Father and Son: J. B. Yeats and W. B. Yeats James Olney Writing to his father in 1914 to tell him that he had completed the manu­ script of what turned out to be the first volume of his Autobiographies (Reveries over Childhood...

...James Olney Black Fiction . By Rosenblatt Roger . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1974 . Pp. 211 . $8.50 . Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Book Reviews 261 Black Fiction. By Roger Rosenblatt. Cambridge: Harvard Univer­ sity Press, 1974. Pp. 211. $8.50...

...James Olney A History of Greek Philosophy . By Guthrie W. K. C. . Volume IV . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1975 . Pp. v , 603 , $34.50 . Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 390 The South Atlantic Quarterly dent means by which he was driven to express...

...James Olney Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 Autos Bios Graphein: The Study of Autobiographical Literature James Olney Five or six years ago, in a book treating of the psychological and philosophical implications of autobiographical literature, I remarked...

...James Olney The Forms of Autobiography: Episodes in the History of a Literary Genre . By Spengemann William C. . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1980 . Pp. xvii , 254 . $19.50 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 369 The Forms of Autobiography...

...James Olney Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 The African Novel in Transition: Chinua Achebe James Olney Chinua Achebe, who is probably the most highly regarded novelist of West Africa and perhaps of all of black Africa, presents the student of African literature...

...James Olney Copyright © 1973 by Duke University Press 1973 A Powerful Emblem : The Towers of Yeats and Jung James Olney C. G. Jung, in his free-ranging, unconventional, and extraordi­ narily interesting autobiography {Memories, Dreams, Reflections devotes one entire chapter which, on first...

...James Olney From Behind the Veil: A Study of Afro-American Narrative . By Stepto Robert B. . Urbana and London : University of Illinois Press , 1979 . Pp. xv , 203 . $12.50 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 483 sentimental view that Medicine...

... of that country or bring to a conclusion the long drawn-out controversy between Venezuela and the British Empire, it was by a Southern Unionist that the threads of this controversy were woven into a fabric which could sustain the strain which President Cleveland and his Secretary, Olney, subjected...

... is to stay apace with writing about autobiography. James Olney has gallantly managed to do this, and his anthology is a successful effort to make sense of this elusive and intriguing genre. After the fifteen contributors have defined the meaning and explored il­ lustrations of autobiography, the composite...

...-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life . New York : New York University Press . Olney James . 1991 . “ ‘I Was Born’: Slave Narratives, Their Status as Autobiography and as Literature .”In The Slave’s Narrative , edited by Davis Charles T. Gates Henry Louis . New York : Oxford...

... of criticism I know on the subject. NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY JAMES OLNEY The Last Days of United Pakistan. By G. W. Choudhury. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1974. Pp. xiv, 239. $12.00. This is a participant observer s account of the policies and events leading to Pakistan s dismemberment...

..., and a conclu­ sion. Chapters 11 to V are headed: Isaac Watt s Divine Delight ; Charles Wesley: Self, Sense, & the Revival ; John Newton, Olney Prophet ; and ...

... of thought and feeling. In reading Olney, not only does one discover new ways of perceiving the dimensions of autobiog­ raphy, but one also feels privileged to be in the presence, so to speak, of the kind of richness which enhances understanding of life itself. RUTGERS UNIVERSITY BARRETT JOHN MANDEL Charles...

... are kept always aware of the great world outside Olney, where Cow­ per s family and friends moved so securely as lord chancellors and generals, fine ladies and reformers, painters and poets and parsons. No wonder the lacemakers in the village called him Sir Cowper, as rumors of that out­ side connection...

... aware of the great world outside Olney, where Cow­ per s family and friends moved so securely as lord chancellors and generals, fine ladies and reformers, painters and poets and parsons. No wonder the lacemakers in the village called him Sir Cowper, as rumors of that out­ side connection reached...