1985 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner
![Habitations of the Word](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581013418-4947-image-3.jpg)
Habitations of the Word
William Gass
Brings together the author’s reflections on literature, philosophy and the theory of language in pieces that examine a diversity of ideas and writers, including Emerson, Joyce, Dickens, and Pound…
1985 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Shortlist
![Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581012934-4907-image-3.jpg)
Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the American Novel
Phillip Fisher
![Occasional Prose: Essays](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580974642-3173-image-3.jpg)
Occasional Prose: Essays
Mary McCarthy
![Opera and Ideas: From Mozart to Strauss](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580973649-3091-image-3.jpg)
Opera and Ideas: From Mozart to Strauss
Paul Robinson
![Pierrots on the Stage of Desire: 19th Century French Literary Artistis and Comic Pantomime](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581060077-7895-image-3.jpg)