Book Reviews

THE DEATH OF LITERATURE
By Alvin Kernan.
Yale. 230 pp. $22.50

BEFORE NOVELS: The Cultural Contexts of Eighteenth-Century English Fiction. By J. Paul Hunter.
Norton. 421 pp.$25

By Homer. Trans. by Robert Fagles, with introduction and notes by Bernard Knox.
Viking. 683 pp. $35

By Brian Boyd.
Princeton. 607 pp. $25

By David Sweebnan. Crown. 391 pp. $30

By Bohdan Nahaylo and Victor Swoboda.
Free Press. 432pp. $29.95

By Donald L.Miller. Weidenfeld & Nicholson. 628 pp. $24.95

By Claude Quetel. Trans. by Judith Braddock and Brian Pike. Johns Hopkins. 342 pp. $35.95

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