Despite its original publication date, the book explores topics which are still of great interest to us today. ¡¥This is indeed an outstanding book; perhaps the best study in philosophical psychology to appear since Ryle and a work which [ ...

The paradox of myth is shown to lie in its simultaneity of its corruption with the growth of its power over the modern literary mind. This book will be of interest to students of literature and history.

First published in 1951, the two volumes of An Introduction to the English Novel discuss how and why the novel developed in England in the eighteenth century.

The book traces the history of riddles from their origins in antiquity through the golden age of the Renaissance, to their decline into the nursery and the first few signs of their modern revival, and draws together all the strands of the ...

First published between 1982 and 1983, this series examines the peculiarly American cultural context out of which the nation¡¦s literature has developed.

No one interested in the problems of life, as these are presented to us day by day, can fail to be the wiser and better by a perusal of Professor Lowes Dickinson¡¦s admirable statement of these problems and the hints he gives on their ...

First published between 1982 and 1983, this series examines the peculiarly American cultural context out of which the nation¡¦s literature has developed.

First published in 1937, this book presents itself as a philosophic dialogue, starting with the diversity of men¡¦s ideas about Good.

First published in 1896 (this twenty-third edition in 1957), this book provides a general introduction to Greek literature and thought.

First published in 1896 (this twenty-third edition in 1957), this book provides a general introduction to Greek literature and thought.