Category: Literary Criticism

Strains of Discord: Studies in Literary Openness

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Cornell Univ Press : 1958

Seller ID: 25472

Condition: Good

Unmarked text. No dust jacket. Index. 226p. Remainder mark on edge. Topics include Oedipus Rex and The Bacchae, two plays by Ibsen, Trompe-l'Oeil in Shakespeare and Keats, Cervantes, Swift, Kafka, Romantic openness, the unconscious, and more.
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Representations 12 (Fall 1985)

By: Alpers, Svetlana (editor)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: University of California Press : 1985

Seller ID: 15195

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Symposium topic: Art of Society: Must we Choose? with Thomas Crow, Stephen Greenblatt, Natalie Zemon Davis and Michael Baxandall. Also includes "Hume's Social Composition" by Jerome Christensen, "A Timely reading of Naven: Gregory Bateson as Oracular Essayist" by George E. Marcus, "Pastoral and the Domain of Lyric in Spenser's Shepheardes Calender" by Paul Alpers, "The Script in the Marketplace" by Joseph Loewenstein and "The Comfort of Civilization" by Franco Moretti. 140p. Advertisements.
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Representations 25: Special Forum on Engendering Art (Winter 1989)

By: Alpers, Svetlana; Greenblatt, Stephen (editors)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press : 1989

Seller ID: 21068

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. 151p. Special Forum on Engendering Art with Margaret D. Carroll, Edward Snow, Anne M. Wagner and Carol Armstrong. Also includes "An American Tragedy, or the Promise of American Life" by Walter Benn Michaels, "Pynchon, Paranoia, and Literature" by Leo Bersani, "The Life of the Land: The Text Beyond Canaan" by Harry Berger, Jr., and "Language Inscribed by History on the Bodies of Living Beings: Midrash and Martyrdom" by Daniel Boyarin. Illustrated.
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Representations 44 (Fall 1993)

By: Alpers, Svetlana; Greenblatt, Stephen (editors)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press : 1993

Seller ID: 21071

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Includes "Regardless of Sex: Men, Women, and Power in Early Northern Europe" by Carol J. Clover, "Preachers and Players in Shakespeare's England" by Jeffrey Knapp, "Othello and Hamlet: Dilation, Spying the Secret Place of Women" by Patricia Parker, "In the Name of God and Profit: Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait" by Margaret D. Carroll and "The Beholder's Tale: Ancient Sculpture, Renaissance Narratives" by Leonard Barkan. 169p. Illustrated.
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Representations 5 (Winter 1984)

By: Alpers, Svetlana; Greenblatt, Stephen (editors)

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press : 1984

Seller ID: 21065

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Illustrated 147p. Includes "Policing Writers in Paris circa 1750" by Robert Darnton, "Representing War in the Renaissance: The Shield of Paolo Uccello" by Randolph Starn and Loren Patridge, "Facing Sophists: Socrates' Charismatic Bondage in Protagoras" by Harry Berger, Jr., "Ricardo's Representations" by Stephen Greenblatt, and "The Politics of Culture and the Debate over Representation" by Catherine Gallagher.
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Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It

By: Aronson, Ronald

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : 2004

Seller ID: 31301

ISBN-13: 9780226000244

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Combining biography and intellectual history, philosophical and political passion, Camus and Sartre demonstrates how Camus and Sartre developed first in connection with and then against each other, each keeping the other in his sights long after their break. 291p. Notes. References. Index.
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English Writers and Venice 1350-1950 (Scrittori Inglesi e Venezia)

By: Battilana, Marilla

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: La Stamperia Di Venezia Editrice : 1981

Seller ID: 30398

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. English text and Italian translation printed side-by-side. Translated into Italian by Dario Calimani. 198p. Dust jacket over paperback.

Authors include William Shakespeare, Joseph Addison, Oliver Goldsmith, Ann Radcliffe, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Walter Pter, David Herbert Lawrence, Sir Richard Guylforde, Richard Torkington, Roger Ascham, Thomas Coryat, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Sharp, William Beckford, and others.
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Women of the Left Bank: Paris 1900-1940

By: Benstock, Shari (editor)

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: University of Texas Press : 1997

Seller ID: 30628

ISBN-13: 9780292790407

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Some crinkling of cover lamination. Illustrated. Explores the work of two dozen women, including Djuna Barnes, Sylvia Beach, Kay Boyle, Colette, Anais Nin, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and others. Index. 518p.
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Die Kunstlerische Entwicklung Heines im Buch der Lieder Struktur- Und Stilstudien

By: Berendsohm, Walter A.

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: Almqvist & Wiksell : 1970

Seller ID: 25572

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Text in German. Unmarked. 209p. Surplus duplicate stamped on front cover, with a "Released by Catholic University Library" stamp on front end page. Soft crease on front cover.
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Thomas Mann: Artisan and Partisan in Troubled Times

By: Berendsohn, Walter A.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: University of Alabama Press : 1975

Seller ID: 29195

ISBN-13: 9780817380625

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket with some edge wear and age tanning. Translated by George C. Buck. Classic study of Mann's artistic achievement and the conflict in his public life. Bibliography. Index of Mann's work. Index of names. 261p. Measures 5.75x8.75 inches.
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Wordsworth's Fun

By: Bevis, Matthew

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : 2019

Seller ID: 32037

ISBN-13: 9780226652191

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very good

Unmarked. Explores Wordsworth's debts to the ludic and the ludicrous in classical tradition; his reworkings of Ariosto, Erasmus, and Cervantes; his engagement with forms of English poetic humor; and his love of comic prose. 303p. Index. Notes.
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The Creative Vision; Modern European Writers on Their Art

By: Block, Haskell M.; Salinger, Herman (editors)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Grove Press : 1960

Seller ID: 23962

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Previous owner's name on front end page. 197p. Introduction by editors

Thirteen writers: Proust, Rilke, Gide, Thomas Mann, Pirandello, Lorca, Brecht, Sartre, Valery, Giraudoux, Anouilh, Durrenmatt, and Malraux.
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Literary Rivals: Feuds and Antagonisms in the World of Books

By: Bradford, Richard

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: The Robson Press : 2015

Seller ID: 23775

ISBN-13: 9781849546027

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Dust jacket. 316p. Index. Includes Vladimir Nabokov against Edmund Wilson; Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, Virginia Wolfe, and John Updike against each other; Ernest Hemingway's spectacular and very public falling-out with former friends Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas; Lillian Hellman against Mary McCarthy; plus many more.
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My Venice

By: Brodkey, Harold

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Metropolitan Books : 1998

Seller ID: 29023

ISBN-13: 9780805048339

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Unclipped dust jacket. First American edition. Eleven black-and-white portraits by the legendary Italian photographer Giuseppe Bruno. 115p. Measures 5.25x7.75 inches.

Harold Brodkey's (1930-1996) portrait of his most beloved city combines passages from several of Brodkey's great works with previously unpublished notes and essays.
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Eighteenth-Century Literary History: An MLQ Reader

By: Brown, Marshall (editor)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Duke University Press : 1999

Seller ID: 23109

ISBN-13: 9780822322672

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. 280p. Contributors. Nancy Armstrong, Marshall Brown, Sanford Budick, Catherine Gallagher, Thomas M. Kavanagh, Jon Klancher, Jill Kowalik, Jonathan Brody Kramnick, Christie McDonald, Jerome McGann, Ruth Perry, Michael B. Prince, Leonard Tennenhouse.
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Lewis Carroll Keepsake/Poster: White Rabbit Woodblock by George Walker

By: Burch, Kathleen; McBride, John; Walker George

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: San Francisco, San Francisco Center for the Book : 2016

Seller ID: 32463

Binding: Ephemera

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Keepsake about the "unprinted" White Rabbit woodblock by George A. Walker, with a folded 12x18 inch image of the woodblock.

Prepared by Kathleen Burch and John McBride for those attending the 2016 FABS tour of the San Francisco Bay Area as well ad for the family and friends of Sandor Burstein. Packet distributed at the annual meeting of The Lewis Carroll Society of North America, 1 April 2017.
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Anthropos: Literatura Popular: Conceptos, Argumentos y Temas 166/167

By: Cardona, Ramon Gabarros

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Anthropos : 1995

Seller ID: 23287

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Illustrated. 190p. Text in Spanish.
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The Cultural Theory of Matthew Arnold

By: Carroll, Joseph

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: University of California Press : 1982

Seller ID: 26631

ISBN-13: 9780520046160

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Index. Topics include aesthetics, poetry, Lessing , Goethe, Heine, etc. 275p. Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) was a British poet and cultural critic.
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Alternation: Journal of the Centre for the Study of Southern African Literature and Language (Vol 5, No. 2, 1998)

By: Centre for the Study of Southern African Literature and Language

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Centre for the Study of Southern African Literature and Language (CSSALL) : 1998

Seller ID: 26635

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Contributors include Johannes A. Smit, Graham Stewart, James Ogude, and others. 321p.
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Brochure: The Charleston Festival 1995 (26--29 May)

By: Charleston Trust

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Charleston Trust : 1995

Seller ID: 33014

Binding: Brochure

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. 6-panel, folded brochure for the 26--29 May 1995 festival. Cover image by Vanessa Bell.

Includes information about the program. Thumbnails of speakers, including Iris Murdoch, John Bayley, Frances Partridge, Margaret Drabble, and others.

Lain in 4-sided folded brochure soliciting donations for the "Help Preserve Charleston For Future Generations" campaign.
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Representations 73 (Winter 2001)

By: Clover, Carol J.; Hess, Carla (editors)

Price: $18.00 USD

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press : 2001

Seller ID: 21063

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. 144p. Illustrated. Includes "Idols and Insight: An Enlightenment Topgraphy of Knowledge" by David Bates, "Signs, Idols and the Incarnation in Augustinian Metaphysics" by Clifford Ando, "Pompadour's Touch: Difference in Representation" by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, "Versailles, Meet Less Halles: Masks, Carnival and the French Revolution" by James H. Johnson, and "Austen's Nostalgics" by Nicholas Dames.
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The Ladder Review (Issue 4, Spring 2004)

By: Coates, Bella; Gordon, Edmund (editors)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford University : 2004

Seller ID: 16719

Binding: Paperback (Saddle Stitched)

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked. Small saddle-stitched booklet. Includes interviews with Matt Thorne and Tibor Fischer. 34p.
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Critical Sense: A Journal of Political and Cultural Theory (Vol 4, Number 2, Fall 1996)

By: Critical Sense: A Journal of Political and Cultural Theory

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley : 1996

Seller ID: 11342

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Articles include Charlie Bertsch on Walter Benjamin, Jesse R. Goldhammer on Walt Whitman, Kathleen Inman on Margery Kempe's Book and Heather MacDonald on Jacques-Louis David. Book Reviews. 137p.
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Re-Imagining Wales: Contemporary Welsh Writing (Special issue of The Literary Review, Vol 44 No 2 Winter 2001)

By: Curtis, Tony and Christopher Meredith (Guest editors)

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University : 2001

Seller ID: 11696

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. 396p. Slightly bumped corner.
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Virginia Woolf (Revised edition)

By: Daiches, David

Price: $12.00 USD

Publisher: New Directions : 1963

Seller ID: 32690

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Unmarked text. Fourth printing. Revised edition with a new introduction and an updated bibliography. Index. 169p. Measures 5.25x8 inches.

This book is a practical guidebook to the work of Virginia Woolf that uses many of her own writings to present a critical summary of her method and achievement.
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Category: Literary Criticism