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Balzac: Melodrama and Metaphor

by Peter Brooks

The Hudson Review, Summer 1969, pp. 213-228

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    4. In the Middle of America by John Haines, pp. 40-47
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    12. Theatre by John Simon, pp. 100-110
    13. Dada, Surrealism and the Academy of the Avant-Garde by Charles W. Millard, pp. 111-117
    14. Music and Ballet by B.H. Haggin, pp. 118-127
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    17. Notes on Contributors, p. 138
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      3. Reading Spenser: An Introduction to the Faerie Queene by Roger Sale
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      4. Beneath the Wheel by Hermann Hesse
      5. The London Novels by Colin MacInnes
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    2. An Obliging Captain, Sailing Light by Harry Brown, pp. 185-192
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    4. Gain; Poetics; Classics; Concerning the Exclusions of the Object; Making; Help; Script;... by A.R. Ammons, pp. 207-212
    5. Balzac: Melodrama and Metaphor by Peter Brooks, pp. 213-228
    6. Pool Place by John Holloway, p. 229
    7. The Stranding by Philip Booth, pp. 230-231
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