Author: Eastman, Max [1883-1969]
Title: The Literary Mind : Its Place in an Age of Science
Description: New York, Charles Scribners Sons, 1935. orig.cloth. 22x14cm, ix,343 pp. Some rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: The March of Science; Literature on the Defensive: The Swan-Song of Humane Letters; The Resurrection of the Scholar-Gentleman; Literature in Retreat: The Cult of Unintelligibility; The Tendency Toward Pure Poetry;Poets Talking to Themselves; Division of Labor in Literature; Toward a Science of Literature: What Poetry Is; Art & Biology; The Future of Literature: Are Poetry & Drama Dying? Is the Novel at a Dead End? The Realm of Literary Truth; The Problem of Criticism; The Teacher of Literature: A Note on I.A. Richards' Psychology of Poetry.

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