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30:3, Reviews, Briefer Mention, Books Received ity of modem theory. BelUng the Derridean cat seems to be the ultimate project of his book. In the end Felperin recommends an eclectic approach. He advocates using reader-response, feminist, and Lacanian psychoanalytical methods in conjunction with mainstream schools to avoid a "sectarian" institution that "tyrannizes the reader." Interestingly, a deconstractionist would see this final solution as the "scandal" in Felperin's text. Felperin's eclecticism embarrasses the very thesis of his text: he grants a certain power to these peripheral critical methods, but only after having denied these very methods a place in his book. Ironically, then, the strength of Felperin's Beyond Deconstruction kes in his playfully meticulous examination of the various mainstream theories "beyond" which he does not go. Gita Rajan ____________________________________Arizona State University_____________ Briefer Mention Mallarmé, Stéphane. Poésies. Trans. Arthur Symons. Selected and Edited with Notes and a Bibliography by Brace Morris. Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1986. Paper £12.50 Says Professor Morris of this 50-page work: "My chief Ï• υφοβÎμ then is to collect within a single volume all of the translations from the Poésies published by Symons during his own lifetime together with the best of the previously inaccessible material at Princetion. Now a modem reader will be able to enter the same 'labyrinthe illuminé par des fleurs' Yeats explored in his youth and perhaps discover there 'a serene and gem-like quality' Symons believed fulfilled the highest ideal of the intérieur school of French Symbolist poetry ." This volume, published in a limited edition of 150 copies, is beautifully printed and certainly should be of keen interest to students of Symons. It may be obtained by writing A. A. Anderson, Director; Tragara Press, 43 Maybum Ave., Loarrhead, Midlothian EH20 9EY, Scotland. Books Received Barbera, Jack, and WiUiam McBrien. Stevie: A Biography ofStevie Smith. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. $24.95 Bennett, Arnold. Whom God Hath Joined. 1906; Glouster: Alan Sutton Publishing; Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1985. Paper £2.95 Bergonzi, Bernard. The Myth of Modernism and Twentieth Century Literature . New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986. $27.50 383 30:3, Reviews, Briefer Mention, Books Received Blamires, Harry. A Short History of English Literature. Second Edition . New York: Methuen, 1985. Paper $9.95 Bogardus, Ralph F. Pictures and Texts: Henry James, A. L. Coburn, and New Ways of Seeing in Literary Culture. Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1984. $42.95 Brodetsky, Tessa. Elizabeth Gaskell. Berg Women's Series. Leamington Spa: Berg Publishers, 1986. Paper £3.95 Bronson, Bertrand H., ed. Selections from Johnson on Shakespeare. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986. Cloth $40.00 Paper $12.95 Carlson, Patricia Ann, ed. Literature and Lore of the Sea. Amsterdam: Rodopi; Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1986. Paper $29.95 Carpenter, Mary Wilson. George Eliot and the Landscape of Time: Narrative Form and Protestant Apocalyptic History. Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press, 1986. $25.00 TAe Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Trans, with Intro. JackZipes, IUust. John B. Graelle. New York: Bantam, 1987. $21.95 Davidson, Cathy N. Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. $22.95 Devlin, D. D. TAe Novels and Journals of Fanny Burney. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. $27.50 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Vol. II. Intro. Loren D. Estleman. New York: Bantam Books, 1986. Paper $4.95 Druce, Robert, ed. A Centre of Excellence: Essays Presented to Seymour Betsky. Amsterdam: Rodopi; Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1987. Paper $50.00 (Yes, that is correct: 50 U.S. dollars) Enright, D. J. The Alluring Problem: An Essay on Irony. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. $19.95 Fitch, Raymond E. 77ie Poison Sky: Myth and Apocalypse in Ruskin. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 1986. Paper $18.95 Fontana, Biancamaria. Rethinking the Politics of Commercial Society: 'The Edinburgh Review' 1802-1832. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985. $42.00 384 ...