Consolatory Criticism

  • Paul West
    The Wine of Absurdity: Essays on Literature and Consolation. University of Pennsylvania Press
Reviewed by George Woodcock
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This review “Consolatory Criticism” originally appeared in Apprenticeships in Discovery. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 29 (Summer 1966): 72-73.

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