Vol. 6 No. 9 · 17 May 1984
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Vol. 6 No. 9 · 17 May 1984
Richard Rorty
Intentionality: An Essay in the Philosophy of Mind by John Searle. Cambridge, 278 pp., £20, July 1983, 0 521 22895 6
Letters
Nancy Dunstable, Basil Greenslade, Michael Humphrey, Vanessa Ayer, Peter Parker
W.G. Runciman
Caste Marks: Style and Status in the USA by Paul Fussell. Heinemann, 202 pp., £8.95, May 1984, 9780434275007
Judith Shklar
The Pursuit of Happiness by Jan Lewis. Cambridge, 290 pp., £20, November 1983, 0 521 25306 3 Jefferson’s Extracts from the Gospels: ‘The Philosophy of Jesus’ and ‘The Life and Morals of Jesus’ edited by Dickinson Adams. Princeton, 438 pp., £28.50, September 1983, 0 691 04699 9
Mary Lefkowitz
Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behaviour by Judith Martin. Hamish Hamilton, 745 pp., £9.95, September 1983, 0 241 11100 5 Gilbert: A Comedy of Manners by Judith Martin. Hamish Hamilton, 303 pp., £8.95, January 1984, 0 241 11157 9
Craig Raine
The Collected Prose of Elizabeth Bishop edited by Robert Giroux. Chatto, 278 pp., £12.95, March 1984, 0 7011 2809 7
Peter Parsons
Vindolanda: The Latin Writing-Tablets by A.K. Bowman and J.D. Thomas. Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 157 pp., £16.50, November 1983, 0 907764 02 9 The Christians as the Romans saw them by Robert Wilken. Yale, 214 pp., £12.95, February 1983, 0 300 03066 5 The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul by Wayne Meeks. Yale, 299 pp., £15, June 1983, 0 300 02876 8 Life in Egypt under Roman Rule by Naphtali Lewis. Oxford, 239 pp., £15, August 1983, 0 19 814848 8
Hugh Lloyd-Jones
Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship by Anthony Grafton. Oxford, 359 pp., £27.50, June 1983, 9780198148500
Keith Kyle
Caveat by Alexander Haig. Weidenfeld, 367 pp., £12.95, April 1984, 9780297783848
Francis Wyndham
Story: ‘Eating Alone’
Raymond Williams
Record of a Life: An Autobiography by Georg Lukacs, edited by Istvan Eörsi. Verso, 204 pp., £15, March 1984, 0 86091 071 7 Lukacs Revalued edited by Agnes Heller. Blackwell, 204 pp., £17.50, September 1983, 0 631 13159 0 The Young Lukacs by Lee Congdon. North Carolina, 235 pp., £15.75, May 1983, 0 8078 1538 1
Angus Calder
The Common People: A History from the Norman Conquest to the Present by J.F.C. Harrison. Croom Helm and Flamingo, 445 pp., £12.95, March 1984, 0 7099 0125 9 British Society 1914-45 by John Stevenson. Allen Lane/Penguin, 503 pp., £16.95, March 1984, 0 7139 1390 8 The World We Left Behind: A Chronicle of the Year 1939 by Robert Kee. Weidenfeld, 369 pp., £11.95, April 1984, 0 297 78287 8 Wigan Pier Revisited: Poverty and Politics in the Eighties by Beatrix Campbell. Virago, 272 pp., £4.50, April 1984, 0 86068 417 2
Richard Mayne
Essays on Detective Fiction edited by Bernard Benstock. Macmillan, 218 pp., £20, February 1984, 0 333 32195 2 Dashiell Hammett: A Life at the Edge by William Nolan. Arthur Barker, 276 pp., £9.95, September 1983, 0 213 16886 3 The Life of Dashiell Hammett by Diane Johnson. Chatto, 344 pp., £12.95, January 1984, 9780701127664 Hellman in Hollywood by Bernard Dick. Associated University Presses, 183 pp., £14.95, September 1983, 0 8386 3140 1
Michael Hofmann
Poem: ‘From Kensal Rise to Heaven’
Nicholas Spice
Present Times by David Storey. Cape, 270 pp., £8.95, May 1984, 0 224 02188 5 The Uses of Fiction: Essays on the Modern Novel in Honour of Arnold Kettle edited by Douglas Jefferson and Graham Martin. Open University, 296 pp., £15, December 1982, 9780335101818 The Hawthorn Goddess by Glyn Hughes. Chatto, 232 pp., £8.95, April 1984, 0 7011 2818 6
Jonathan Steinberg
Diary: My Jolly Corner
Tom Paulin
Poetry and Metamorphosis by Charles Tomlinson. Cambridge, 97 pp., £9.95, March 1983, 0 521 24848 5 Translations by Charles Tomlinson. Oxford, 120 pp., £7.95, October 1983, 0 19 211958 3 Conversation with the Prince by Tadeusz Rozewicz, translated by Adam Czerniawski. Anvil, 206 pp., £4.95, March 1982, 0 85646 079 6 Passions and Impressions by Pablo Neruda, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. Farrar, Straus/Faber, 396 pp., £16.50, October 1983, 0 571 12054 7 An Empty Room by Leopold Staff, translated by Adam Czerniawski. Bloodaxe, 64 pp., £3.25, March 1983, 0 906427 52 5
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