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Irony in the mind's life : essays on novels by James Agee, Elizabeth Bowen, and George Eliot

Title
Irony in the mind's life : essays on novels by James Agee, Elizabeth Bowen, and George Eliot / Robert Coles.
Author
Coles, Robert
Publication
  • New York : New Directions Publishing Corp., 1978.
  • ©1974

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TextRestricted use Berg Coll 22-699Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Additional Authors
  • Laughlin, James, 1914-1997
  • Strohbach, Hermann (Designer)
  • Murray Printing Co. (Toronto, Ont.), printer.
  • New Directions Publishing, publisher.
  • James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.
Description
210 pages; 21 cm
Summary
"Represents an effort to examine certain psychological tensions, or "ironies" that develop and persist in our mental life form infancy though the adult years."-- back cover.
Series Statement
New Directions paperbook ; NDP459
Subject
  • Agee, James, 1909-1955
  • Bowen, Elizabeth, 1899-1973
  • Eliot, George, 1819-1880
  • Death in the family (Agee, James)
  • Death of the heart (Bowen, Elizabeth)
  • Middlemarch (Eliot, George)
  • English fiction > History and criticism
  • Psychoanalysis and literature
  • English fiction
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • "First published clothbound by the University Press of Virginia in 1974 as the Page-Barbour Lectures for 1973" -- title page verso.
  • "A New Directions book" -- title page.
  • "New Directions Books are published for James Laughlin by New Directions Publishing Corporation" -- title page verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Indexed In (note)
  • Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin
Binding (note)
  • bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Hermann Strohbach.
Contents
Introduction -- Human nature in Christian and secular thought -- Childhood: James Agee's A death in the family -- Youth: Elizabeth Bowen's The death of the heart -- Maturity: George Eliot's Middlemarch.
Call Number
Berg Coll 22-699
ISBN
  • 0811206890
  • 9780811206891
LCCN
78006651
OCLC
3844195
Author
Coles, Robert, author.
Title
Irony in the mind's life : essays on novels by James Agee, Elizabeth Bowen, and George Eliot / Robert Coles.
Publisher
New York : New Directions Publishing Corp., 1978.
Copyright Date
©1974
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
New Directions paperbook ; NDP459
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Indexed In:
Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 93
Binding
Copy in Berg Coll 22-699 bound in publishers' paperback binding, cover designed by Hermann Strohbach. NN
Local Note
Copy in Berg Coll 22-699 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.
Added Author
Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.
Strohbach, Hermann (Designer)
Murray Printing Co. (Toronto, Ont.), printer.
New Directions Publishing, publisher.
Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.
Javitch, Daniel, donor.
Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.
James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.
Other Form:
Online version: Coles, Robert. Irony in the mind's life. New York : New Directions Books 1978, ©1974 (OCoLC)648550464
Research Call Number
Berg Coll 22-699
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