a truth-seeking process; and the threat to society posed an official vendetta against an individual. Missing, however, is the gradual acceptance of guilt by Kafka's protagonists.
Kafka both resented and accepted authority. Biographers have traced his "self-corrosive guilt" to a threatening, domineering father. In Beiliss's undeserved plight, Band suggests, Kafka glimpsed a vehicle for expressing his own feelings.
"Andrew Wyeth: Popular Painting and Not Nostalgia Populism" by...
Sheldon Liebman, in Ameri-AS Critic can Literature (May 1980), Duke Univer- sity Press Bldg., East Campus, Duke Uni- versity, Durham, N.C. 27706.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) adamantly refused to publicize his theories about poetry. He nevertheless established himself as a major critic of verse in letters to friends and in interviews, writes Liebman, professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle.
Frost believed that the creative process begins with a descent into "chaos."...
Sheldon Liebman, in Ameri-AS Critic can Literature (May 1980), Duke Univer- sity Press Bldg., East Campus, Duke Uni- versity, Durham, N.C. 27706.
Robert Frost (1874-1963) adamantly refused to publicize his theories about poetry. He nevertheless established himself as a major critic of verse in letters to friends and in interviews, writes Liebman, professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle.
Frost believed that the creative process begins with a descent into "chaos."...
Stanley Reed, SYY~~'S in Foreign Policy (Summer 1980) P.O. Box
984, Farmingdale, N.Y. 1 1737.
Before Syria's President Hafez al-Assad seized power in November 1970, the nation had suffered through 20 military coups in 24 years. Since then, Syria's once stagnant economy has grown nearly 8 per-cent annually (though per capita national output is only $goo), in a decade of unprecedented political stability. But growing resentment against Assad at home and Syria's failures abroad may doom the re- gime,...
Donald Ro-
World Series den, in American Historical Review (Summer 1980), 400 A St. S.E., Washing- ton. D.C. 20003.
With an intimidating show of force, Commodore Matthew C. Perry opened Japan to trade with the West in 1853. The jolt he dealt to Japanese national pride did not wear off until the 1890s. Helping to ease the loss of face, writes Roden, a Rutgers historian, was Japan's military victory over China (in 1895), the development of a strong Western-style constitutional government, the growth...
the West in 1975 (at an East-West conference in Helsinki). Finland's independence, he reasons, is part of a comfortable status quo. A greater threat to Finland's future are "the bright lights of the open society in the West," notably Sweden, which has drawn 200,000 Finnish emig- rants since 1945.
A Woman's Place "Ideology, ~yth, and Reality: Sex Equal-ity in Israel" Selma Koss Brandow, in
in Israel Sex Roles: A Journal ofResearch (vol. 6,no. 3, 1980), Plenum Publishing Corp.,...
the West in 1975 (at an East-West conference in Helsinki). Finland's independence, he reasons, is part of a comfortable status quo. A greater threat to Finland's future are "the bright lights of the open society in the West," notably Sweden, which has drawn 200,000 Finnish emig- rants since 1945.
A Woman's Place "Ideology, ~yth, and Reality: Sex Equal-ity in Israel" Selma Koss Brandow, in
in Israel Sex Roles: A Journal ofResearch (vol. 6,no. 3, 1980), Plenum Publishing Corp.,...
Ronald Lawson, in Journal of Social His- tory (Summer 1980), ~arnk~ie- ello on
University, Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213.
In 1893, historian Frederick Jackson Turner told Americans to look to the newly closed frontier for the origins of their national character. More recently, many Australian scholars have viewed the rugged "bushworkers" who manned the vast farms and sheep ranches of the arid Outback during the 19th century as the source of their country's own indigenous ethos-egalitarian, collectivist,...
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