Volume 16, Number 9 · May 20, 1971
Out of Order
By Christopher Ricks
Beyond the Tragic Vision
by Morse Peckham
Braziller, 380 pp., $3.25 (paper)
Man's Rage for Chaos
by Morse Peckham
Schocken, 340 pp., $2.95 (paper)
Art and Pornography
by Morse Peckham
Basic Books, 306 pp., $6.95
Victorian Revolutionaries
by Morse Peckham
Braziller, 310 pp., $7.50
The Triumph of Romanticism
by Morse Peckham
University of South Carolina, 462 pp., $10.00
Nomen est omen. Christened Morse, he was likely to find himself in semiology, sign behavior. (The Morse code surfaces in his arguments.) The intellectual experience which he offers has its similarities to that offered by another polymath professor who has chafed his way out through the confines of the English Department: Marshall McLuhan.
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