Dualisms: The Agons of the Modern World (Book Review‪)‬

DUALISMS: THE AGONS OF THE MODERN WORLD, Richard J. Quinones. Toronto and London: University Press, 2007. Pp. 451 + xvi. Cloth, npi. Reviewed by J. Harold Ellens. Ricardo J. Quinones is the notable Professor of Comparative Literature Emeritus in the Department of English, and Director of the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies at Claremont's McKenna College. He has previously given us Renaissance Discovery of Time, Cambridge University Press, 1972; Dante Alighieri, Twayne, 1985; Mapping Literary Modernism, Princeton University Press, 1985; Modernism: Challenges and Perspectives, University of Illinois Press, 1986; The Changes of Cain: Violence and the Lost Brother in Cain and Abel Literature, Princeton University Press, 1991; Foundation Sacrifice in Dante's Comedia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994; Dante Alighieri, Updated Edition, G. K. Hall, 1998; numerous professional journal articles; and substantial reviews.