Author: Melchiori, Giorgio
Title: The Tightrope Walkers: Studies of Mannerism in Modern English Literature
Description: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1956). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, ix, 278 pp, Reverse of dustwrapper repaired with cellophane tape. A chip to dustwrapper. Some light page-edge soil.. Top binding edge rubbed. Good. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Introduction to Funambulism; Two Mannerists: James & Hopkins; Jouyce & the Tradition of the Novel; Echoes in 'The Waste Land'; The Lotus & the Rose; Eliot & the Theatre; Fry: The Popular Theatre; The Moment as a Time Unit in Fiction; The Abstract Art of Henry Green; Dylan Thomas: The Poetry of Vision; The Baroque Theatre.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, English Literature, Mannerist, Mannerism, Henry Green, Dylan Thomas, Christopher Fry, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot