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Belsey, Catherine Critical Practice
New York, New York, U.S.A. Routledge 1980 041502563X / 9780415025638 Trade Paperback Very Good + 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Very-good+, clean copy. NO remainder marks or clippings. 168 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 168 pages.
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Beowulf; Tuso, Joseph F. (Editor) Beowulf: The Donaldson Translation, Backgrounds and Sources, Criticism
W W Norton & Co Inc 1975 0393092259 / 9780393092257 Trade Paperback Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A Norton Critical Edition. Near-new copy. NO writing, marks or tears. NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages. 205 pages. This Norton Critical Edition presents the highly acclaimed Donaldson prose translation of Beowulf in its entirety. This accurate translation together with its useful annotation fully conveys the meaning and spirit of the Anglo-Saxon original.
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Blackmur, R. F.; Makowsky, Veronica A. (Edited with Introduction); Donoghue, Denis (Foreword) Henry Adams
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1980 0151399972 / 9780151399970 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good + Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A photo of this book is available. Stated First Edition. Very-nice, clean condition. NO remainder marks. Inside-top-front dustcover flap has been price-clipped. Dustcover is clean, show only light wear. ONLY writing/mark inside book is gift inscription in book front on blank page (To Bill from Joy - Christmas '80). Tight spine, bright pages. 354 pages. Frontispiece drawing of Henry Adams by John Briggs Potter.
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Bloom, Harold Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
New York, New York, U.S.A. Riverhead Books 1998 1573221201 / 9781573221207 Hard Cover Fine Fine 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Near-new condition. Price inside dustcover: $35.00. NO remainder marks or price clippings - Tight spine - Bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 745 pages. - The New York Times bestseller from Harold Bloom... A National Book Award Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and a Publishers Weekly best book of the year. "The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer."--Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. Preeminent literary critic Harold Bloom leads us through a comprehensive reading of every one of the dramatist's plays, brilliantly illuminating each work with unrivaled warmth, wit and insight. At the same time, Bloom presents one of the boldest theses of Shakespearean scholarships--that Shakespeare not only invented the English language, but also created human nature as we know it today. * A New York Times bestseller * A National Book Award Finalist * A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist * A New York Times Notable Book * One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year * A Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club * An ALA Booklist Editors Choice for 1998 * The culmination of Bloom's celebrated career--a long-awaited, complete assessment of his most beloved subject * Includes in-depth readings of every Shakespeare play * An essential reference volume for every home and school library "A huge cloak-bag of ideas...It is a feast."--Wall Street Journal "An enraptured, incantatory epic...dazzling...You could hardly ask for a more capacious and beneficent work than Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human."--The New Yorker "A fiercely argued exegesis of Shakespeare's plays in the tradition of Samuel Johnson, Hazlitt, and A.C. Bradley, a study that is as passionate as it is erudite." --Michiko Kakutani, New York Times "Bloom has given us the crowning achievement of his career...If any piece of literary criticism can have a practical effect--on our stage and imaginations--this is the one."--Salon "Should this be the one book you read if you're going to read one book about Shakespeare? Yes."--The New York Observer "Bloom...is a master entertainer." --Newsweek "Very nearly perfect."--Kirkus Synopsis Remember the controversy attending the publication of The Western Canon? Well, hold on to your mortarboards -- critic, scholar, and Falstaffian gadfly Harold Bloom returns with his magnum opus, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. Whether deriding the tenets of the so-called "School of Resentment" or trumpeting the 39 plays of William Shakespeare as "the fixed center of the Western canon," Bloom is here at his audacious best, offering a passionate analysis of the ways Shakespeare not only represented human nature as we know it today but actually created it. Infusing literary criticism with an unusual narrative force, Bloom helps us to understand ourselves through literature, revealing "not only of how meaning gets started...but also of how new modes of consciousness come into being." From The Critics Newsweek Bloom..is a master entertainer and proselytizer....We get a thrill of recognition when Bloom articulates what we hadn't quite known we'd known. Jodie Morse - Time Magazine Bloom may feel spent after 745 pages, but his essays will energize readers to go right out and pick up -- or see -- a play. James Wood - The New Republic ...[A]n excellent work of popular criticism, overflowing with Bloom's personality, and often acute about Shakespeare's art. Michiko Kakutani - The New York Times . . .[B]est read as an old-fashioned humanistic commentary . ..that gives us a renewed appreciation of the playwright's staggering achievement. . .[and] points up limitations. . . .It is . . .a study that is as passionate as it is erudite, as provocative as it is perverse. James Shapiro - The New York Times Book Review Had Bloom, one of the most gifted of contemporary critics, stuck to the plays and characters that he deeply understands, this book would have been a third as long and far more compelling.
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Bloom, Harold (Edited & With An Introduction) Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Chelsea House Publishers 2003 0791075664 / 9780791075661 Hard Cover Fine No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Like-new condition. Appears unread. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears. Product Description Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, part of Chelsea House Publishers' Bloom's Guides collection, presents concise critical excerpts from Brave New World to provide a scholarly overview of the work. This comprehensive study guide also features "The Story Behind the Story" which details the conditions under which Brave New World was written. This title also includes a short biography on Aldous Huxley and a descriptive list of characters.
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Bone, Robert A. The Negro Novel in America - Revised Edition
Yale University Press 1968 Trade Paperback Very Good Ex-Library 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Very-good ex-libris copy. Usual library markings - Inner pages are free from writing and tears. Tight spine, bright pages - 289 PAGES - LOC# 58-11249 Robert Bone assumes the double role of literary critic and literary historian in evaluating Negro writing - from the first novel, which appeared in 1853, to the works of James Baldwin. "Bone has skillfully interwoven these varied themes into a highly sophisticated social and aesthetic critique. His technical facility as a critic, combined with a shrewd insight, a lively style and a flair for the well-turned phrase, combine to make THE NEGRO NOVEL IN AMERICA a remarkable piece of scholarship." - College Language Association Journal
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Booth, Wayne C. My Many Selves: The Quest for a Plausible Harmony
Logan, Utah Utah State Univ Pr 2006 0874216311 / 9780874216318 Trade Paperback Near-Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-fine condition. NO remainder marks or clippings. Tight spine, bright pages. Covers are bright and clean (NO tears). 321 pages. Illustrated with photos. NO writing or tears inside book. Synopsis: In his autobiography, My Many Selves, Wayne C. Booth is less concerned with his professional achievements---though the book by no means ignores his distinguished career---than with the personal vision that emerges from a long life lived thoughtfully. For Booth, even the autobiographical process becomes part of a quest to harmonize the diverse, often conflicting aspects of who he was. To see himself clearly and whole, he broke the self down, personified the fragments, uncovered their roots in his experience and background, and engaged those selves and experiences in dialogue. Basic to his story and to its lifelong concern with ethics and rhetoric was his Mormon youth in rural Utah. In adulthood he struggled with that background, abandoning most Mormon doctrines, but he retained the identity, ethical questions, and concern with communication that this upbringing gave him. The uncommon wisdom and careful attention that empower Wayne Booth's many other books cause My Many Selves to transcend its genre, as the best memoirs always do. The book becomes a window through which we who read it will see our own conflicts, our own ongoing struggle to live honestly and ethically in the world. Wayne Booth died in October 2005, soon after completing work on this autobiography. Biography: Wayne C. Booth was born February 22, 1921, and died October 10, 2005. Descended from Mormon pioneers, he began as a young man to wrestle with church teachings, a struggle that informed both his decision to root himself in the secular world and his particular interest in the field of rhetoric. He earned a bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University in 1944, a master's in 1947, and a PhD in 1950, both from the University of Chicago. He was the author of several books, including the highly influential The Rhetoric of Fiction. He argued that as a technique rhetoric can enhance communication between author and reader, not merely manipulate the reader's response. To Professor Booth, literature was not so much words on paper as it was a complex ethical act. The author's task, then, is to draw readers into the web of narrative and hold them there. The critic's task is to tease out the specific rhetorical devices. He later considered rhetoric in a number of forms beyond the narrative, from political discourse to television commercials. Booth was until 1992 professor of English at the University of Chicago, where he was associated with the Chicago school of literary criticism and became especially well known for his works on rhetoric. A former president of the Modern Language Association and founder and editor of the journal Critical Inquiry, his widely influential books have included The Rhetoric of Fiction, Now Don't Try to Reason with Me: Essays and Ironies for a Credulous Age, A Rhetoric of Irony, Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent, Critical Understanding: The Powers and Limits of Pluralism, The Company We Keep: An Ethics ofFiction, and For the Love of It: Amateuring and Its Rivals (based largely on his devotion to cello playing).
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Brantly, Susan C. Understanding Isak Dinesen
Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.A. Univ of South Carolina Pr 2002 1570034281 / 9781570034282 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A photo of this book is available. Fine condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Blue boards with silver lettering (clean and bright). Tight spine, bright pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 235 pages. Synopsis: Brantly addresses the ambiguous qualities of Dinesen's life and literature that have caused critics to disagree on fundamental points of interpretation, examines her tics to English Gothic, German Romanticism, and other nineteenth-century trends, and considers her work within the contexts of modernism and postmodernism. With close readings of Seven Gothic Tales, Out of Africa. Shadows on the Grass, Winter's Tales, Last Tales, Anecdotes of Destiny, and Ehrengard, Brantly explores the clues, details, and subplots in texts that critics often describe as puzzles and labyrinths. Brantly reveals the thought and care that Dinesen devoted to the construction of her stories, her expansive knowledge of world literature, and the great pleasure awaiting readers as they unravel the mysteries embedded in her texts.
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Cather, Willa American Pioneer Writers
Gallery Books 1991 0831703172 / 9780831703172 Hard Cover Fine Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Near-new condition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. 347 pages. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. Tight spine, bright pages. Includes: Willa Cather - O Pioneers!; Gertrude Atherton - Before The Gringo Game; Bret Harte - The Luck Of Roaring Camp; Gustave Aimard - The Trappers Of Arkansas.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey; Robinson, F.N. (Editor) The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: The New Cambridge Edition
Houghton Mifflin Company 1961 Hard Cover Very Good + No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A photo of this book is available. Stated Second Edition. Very-good+, clean condition. Blue boards with gilt decoration and lettering ( clean - shows light wear). NO remainder marks or clippings. Previous owner's signature in book front on blank page (Mimi Irwin - McAfee Hall). 8 other pages show light writing/highlighting. Does NOT interefere with reading. Tight spine, bright pages. NO tears inside book. 1,002 pages. Over-sized hardback.
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Croce, Arlene Going to the Dance
Knopf Publishing Group 1982 0394524411 / 9780394524412 First Edition Hard Cover Very Good Very Good 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
A photo of this book is available. Stated First Edition. NO remainder marks or price clippings. Price inside dustcover: $20.00. NO writing, marks or tears inside book. 427 pages. Tight spine, clean pages.
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