Princeton: Ontario Review Press, 2006. First Edition. Trade Paperback.
First edition. Faint edge wear.
Includes "Dissecting the Way a Writer Works" by Graeme Gibson, "A Question of Metamorphosis" by Linda Sandler, "My Mother Would Rather Skate Than Scrub Floors" by Joyce Carol Oates, "Dancing on the Edge of a Precipice".....
Stuttgart / Bonn / Berlin / Gotha. / Hamburg: J.G. Cotta'scher Verlag / Adolph Marcus / Ferd. Dummler's Verlagsbuchhandlung / C.F. Thienemann / Agentur des Kauhen Hauses. 1861. Half-Leather.
Former library copy (College of St. Scholastica), and likely bound together by them, with just a few marks on new end.....
London and New York: Routledge, 2008. Soft Cover.
Spine creased, light general wear to covers, highlighting.
xii, 452 pp. The Routledge Critical and Cultural Theory Reader brings together 29 key pieces from the last century and a half that have shaped the field. Topics include: subjectivity, language, gender, ethnicity, sexuality.....
United Kingdom: Pearson Education, 2010. Second Edition. Trade Paperback.
Second edition. Corners lightly dog-eared, spine base bumped.
xiv, 355 pp. Women's writing in any period remains of critical concern, both at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Alexandra Barratt's edition offers a wide range of texts from the period 1300-1500, including: Original.....
Toronto, Ontario: Harbourfront Reading Series, 1997. Signed Copy. Stapled Binding.
Signed by author without inscription. #48 of 150 signed, numbered copies, from a total edition of 550. Faint smudge to rear wrapper.
25 pp. Ann Beattie discusses what it is to be a writer, analyzing her own writings and the.....
New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. A couple minor tears to jacket edges.
viii, 218 pp. Focusing, framing, scanning―the language of film―and Gombrich's studies in the psychology of perception are used by John Bender to isolate pictorial effects and devices in literature. The theory.....
New York: Mariner, 2019. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing of 2019 reissue. Moderate highlighting throughout.
238 pp. An icon of criticism, Walter Benjamin was renowned for his insights on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his.....
New York: HarperCollins, 1999. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages very faintly toned.
xv, 223 pp. "Bestselling, award-winning novelist Elizabeth Berg knows a thing or two about writing, having graced the world with wonderful works of fiction including Talk Before Sleep, The Year of.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. Second Edition. Hard Cover.
Second edition. No jacket. Top corners of boards bumped.
xiii, 464 pp. Includes black-and-white plates. A biography of Emily Dickinson with a collection of her letters and poetry.
University of California, 1985. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Front hinge just starting, jacket in near fine condition.
A scholarly examination of Biblical imagery in the poetry of George Herbert.
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New York: Riverhead Books, 1998. 7th Printing. Hard Cover.
Seventh printing. Dust jacket lightly bumped. Light green ink stain on top pages, light green stain on page before page 1.
xx, 745 pp. America's uncontested expert on Shakespeare and author of The Western Canon presents a monumental analysis of each.....
Tokyo: The Hokuseido Press, 1951. Reprint. Hard Cover.
1950-52 printings. No jackets. Hinges of volume 4 loose but easily repairable, pages toned, minor ink underlining in preface of first volume.
Complete in four volumes. xviii, 422; iv, 382; xv, 443; xli, 396 pp. Fold-out timeline of English and Japanese literature.....
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback.
2nd printing. Faint stain on page ridge.
470 pp. ""Pays an impressive tribute to the new renaissance in African-American literature." --New York Times Book Review "The cultural and literary achievements of black American women are examined and celebrated in some.....
London: Collier, 1969. 4th Printing. Mass Market Paperback.
4th printing. Faint edge wear.
220 pp. An introduction to English poetry and prose dating from the emergence of Dryden and the early satirists of the Stuart restoration to the rise of the leading forerunners of romanticism, Cowper, Burns, and Blake, in.....
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1914. Reprint. Hard Cover.
Reprint. No jacket. Ink name and bookplate on front paste-down endpaper.
xiv, 502 pp. Four pages of publisher ads follow text. CONTENTS: Widsith, Deor, and the Scop; Beowulf--Introduction; Beowulf--The Poem; The Episodes of "Beowulf" and the "Fight at Finnsburg"; The Mythical.....
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1979. Hard Cover.
Smoke odor, otherwise a very good copy in a very good jacket.
185 pp. "Analyzes Austen's novels in terms of their structure, ironic comedy, satiric realism, and their perception of the cultural significance of marriage."
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Cambridge: Hilliard and Brown, 1831. Half-Leather.
Boards and gilt on spine rubbed, tear on front free endpaper, light stain on first few pages.
xxxii, 304 pp. Half binding with marbled boards, marbled page ridges, and marbled endpapers. "Sir Thomas Browne (/braʊn/; 19 October 1605 – 19 October 1682) was an.....
Ohio / Washington, D.C. National Cash Register / Microcard Editions, 1969. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Ink gift note on front paste-down endpaper.
146 pp. A yearly publication of articles written about F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
New York: Random House, 1978. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover.
Second printing. One inch tear along bottom edge of front jacket panel.
xv, 168 pp. ...gives the richest account to date of the Fitzgerald/Hemingway relationship. Not only does it set the dates, but it also provides psychological profiles of two of.....
Ohio / Washington, D.C. National Cash Register / Microcard Editions, 1970. Hard Cover.
No jacket. Light general wear.
276 pp. A yearly publication of articles written about F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
St. Louis: F.L. Rand Company, 1927. Small Hard Cover.
Pages toned, pencil name on front paste-down endpaper and front free endpaper verso.
324 pp. A dictionary released as an advertising premium by Buster Brown Shoe Company. Abbott's Selected Webster Dictionary of the English Language: Modernized, Self-pronouncing, and with Illustrations for.....
New York: Overlook Duckworth, 2003. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback.
1st printing. An exceptional copy.
119 pp. "The "Overlook Illustrated Lives" series offers visual literary biographies, informatively written by leading experts, accompanied by over a hundred photographs and illustrations, some unpublished and rarely seen, that bring to life the author's world.....
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1898. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. No jacket. Rear joint has been repaired.
247 pp. CONTENTS: Emerson; Walt Whitman; A Study of Romeo; Michael Angelo's Sonnets; The Fourth Canto of the Inferno; Robert Browning; Robert Louis Stevenson.
Denton: North Texas State University, 1974. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. Lacks jacket.
x, [4], 266 pp. 8vo. CONTENTS: Periodization and Self-Understanding in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times; Clio and The Lawyers; History and Prophecy in Medieval Thought; Beowulf As Heroic History; The Trouble with Muscovy; A......
Rochester, New York: Camden House, 2010. First Edition. Hard Cover.
First edition. An exceptional copy.
viii, 326 pp. The concept of the generation in today's German culture and literature, and its role in German identity. In the debates since 1945 on German history and culture, the concept of generations has.....