Max Rieser
An Analysis of Poetic Thinking.
Wayne State University Press, 1969. First US edition. Translation by Herbert M. Schueller of "Analyse des poetischen Denkens" (A. Sexl, 1954). 169 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", is bound in light brown cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book is like new. Dust jacket, with price of $6.50 on front flap, displays sunning to spine and edges. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
"Dr. Max Rieser attempts to deduce the essence of poetic thinking not from the content of the poem, as is usually done, but from the poem's form. Accordingly, he analyzes the rhythm and rime patterns, the sound patterns and their symbolic meaning, the figures of speech and other such formal components. Thus, he regards himself as departing from the methods of Freudian and Jungian interpreters."