Table of Contents

1 Spatial Form in Modern Literature
2 Spatial Form: An Answer to Crisis
3 Spatial Form: Some Further Reflection
4 Andre Malraux: A Metaphysics of Modern Art
5 Formal Criticism and Abstract Art
6 E.H. Gombrich: The Language of Art

About the Author

Joseph Frank is professor emeritus of Slavic and comparative literature at Stanford and Princeton. The five volumes of his Dostoevsky biography, published between 1976 and 2002, won a National Book Critics Circle Award, a "Los Angeles Times" book prize, two James Russell Lowell Prizes, two Christian Gauss Awards, and other honors. In 2008, the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies awarded Frank its highest honor.