Dartmouth Authors

Robert Cohen '60, Theatre. Illustrated by John von Szeliski. Mayfield, 1981. 456 pp. A new text for courses in theater which shuns the traditional survey or anthology approach and instead concentrates on supplying beginning students the imaginative tools by which they can visualize for themselves actual theatrical performances. Condensed versions of eight model plays from Aeschylus to Beckett are annotated and discussed in terms of their staging and their literary, historical, and dramatic significance; full-color drawings and photographs illustrate important aspects of stagecraft and play production.

Frederic V. Bogel '65, Acts ofKnowledge: Pope's Later Poems. Bucknell, 1981. 248 pp. The modern critical emphasis on Alexander Pope as a moral poet "concerned with the world of human conduct and human truths: what men do, what they believe, what they think and feel" is not so much wrong, Bogel argues, as it is incomplete. Especially in his mature, later poems "An Essay on Man," the "Epistles," or "The Dunciad," for instance "one of Pope's major themes is human knowledge . . . viewed as a form of human life, a human activity as much cognitive as evaluative. . . . "

Therefore his poems, Bogel believes, "are best understood as structures of knowledge and acts of self-definition, and the poet as a man striving to know the world and himself."

William L. Reynolds '67, JudicialProcess in a Nutshell. West Publishing Company, 1981. 292 pp. Designed for use by both beginning and advanced law-school students, this new text examines the techreally niques and methods by which judges arrive at decisions in cases brought before them. It explores the areas of judicial craftsmanship and the mechanisms of decision-making, the exercise of the court's power to make law by its decisions, and judicial interpretation of statutes. Reynolds teaches at the University of Maryland School of Law.

Robert Boylestad, assistant dean, Thayer Schools, Devices, Discrete and Integrated. Prentice-Hall, 1981. 428 pp. Designed for classroom use in engineering and technological schools. Boylestad's fourth engineering text examines all aspects of the rapidly changing technology involved in producing single and integrated electronic circuits, including the characteristics, modes of operation, and areas of application of such devices as field effect transistors, unijunctions, LCD's, and opto-isolators.