Books on Criticism & Theory
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Mythology. Ed. Piere Maranda.
320p paperback, index, bibliography, Superman to cover, very good indeed: Cassirer, Leach, Propp, ...
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Bridges of Light. The Domains of Literature and Medicine.
22p large cream paperback, Aberdeen University review, Chalmers Centenary Lecture
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Jean Paul Sartre: The Philosopher as a Literary Critic.
xi 311p blue cloth, index, bibliography, from a Cambridge college library, a hint warped and a few ...
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Gattungsproblem in der Anglo-Amerikanischen Literatur. Ulrich Suerbaum Festschrift.
270p cloth, dustjacket, library stamp, as new, clean and tight copy, no traces of use
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Chr Collin og Georg Brandes. Fra Humanismens og Naturalismens Kamptid i Norden.
2 volumes 467p paper cover, fresh set
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Einstein as Myth and Muse.
xiv 224p laminated hardback, index, many illustrations, the literary transformations of a physicist
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Criticism and Creation, with some other Essays.
vii 127p cloth fresh, index, nice fresh copy: Donne, Milton, Verse Translation, etc
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Mythical Bards and the Life of William Wallace [ -1305].
xiii 381p original burgundy cloth, index, fresh copy from a Cambridge college library: Blind Harry, ...
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Further Explorations. Essays in Criticism.
204p hardback, dustjacket, index, very good: Shakespeare's Politics, King Lear, Marlowe, Clarendon, ...
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The Whispered Meanings. Selected Essays of Simon O. Lesser.
viii 237p first edition hardback, white dustjacket with sphinx design, slightly darkened to spine ...
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Structures of Experience. Essays on the Affinity between Literature and Philosophy.
274p cloth, brown dustjacket, index, very good: Powerful association: How is experience possible
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The Strength to Dream. Literature and the Imagination.
224p hardback, yellow dustjacket well preserved but a little dusty, a tight copy, no names or ...
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The Hard Journey. The Myth of Man's Rebirth.
208p brown hardback, index, clean copy from a Cambridge college library: Ibsen, Kafka, Beckett, ...
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Convention and Revolt in Poetry.
228p cloth, index, important, nice paper, a few faint pencil marks
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Cultural Criticism, Literary Theory, Poststructuralism.
xvi 186p cloth, dustjacket, index, bibliography, marginal pencil notes
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The 'Q' Tradition. An Inaugural Lecture.
35p cream card cover, green titles, very good condition, fresh and clean
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The Poetic Vision. Signposts and Landmarks in Poetry. Essays and Lectures.
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A History of Erotic Literature.
192p hardback, dustjacket, notes, index, bibliography, many illustrations, chapters on 17, 18, 19, ...
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Subject to History: Ideology, Class, Gender.
vii 221p cloth, index, as new. Gallagher on Our Mutual Friend, Poovey on Chadwick's 1842 Sanitary ...
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Inventions of Reading. Rhetoric and the Literary Imagination.
xiv 265p cloth, dustjacket, index, bibliography, new: Rhetorical construction, producing writing ...
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Germanistenkongress. Spätzeiten und Spätzeitlichkeiten. 2. Internationalen Germanisten-Kongresses, Kopenhagen 1960.
176p card cover, a clean and fresh copy
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Germanistenkongress. Tradition und Ursprünglichkeit. 3. Internationalen Germanisten-Kongress, Amsterdam 1965.
210p card cover, clean copy
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Periplus: Poetry in Translation. Ed. D Weissbort, Arvind Mehrotra.
viii 194p hardback with dustjacket, stamped, very good. Collection of translations, critical essays ...
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Faith, Text and History. The Bible in English.
x 203p hardback, dustjacket, index, bibliography, new: Negotiating the distinction between bible as ...
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Ideology and the Imagination.
ix 244p paperback, bibliography, useful copy from a Cambridge college library: ideology and the ...
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New Lamps for Old. A Sequel to The Enchanted Glass.
viii 244p hardback, dustjacket in good condition, clean pages, firm binding, a very good copy
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Taking Off. An Anthology of Parodies, Send-Ups and Imitations.
259p hardback with dustjacket, very good
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Studies in European Realism. A Sociological Survey of the Writings of Balzak, Stendhal, Zola, Tolstoy, Gorki and others. Translated by Edith Bone. Foreword by Roy Pascal.
ix 277p hardback, red cloth, tan dustjacket mostly complete, tight clean copy, first edition, no ...
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Politics and Letters. Interviews with New Left Review.
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The Partial Critics.
xi 273p cloth, dustjacket, index, very good, the constant inconstancy of criticism, unused, from a ...
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Die Schillerverehrung in der Sozialdemokratie. Zur ideologischen Formation proletarischer Kulturpolitik vor 1914.
xliii 257p card cover, very good copy from a University library
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Deconstruction: Theory and Practice.
xiii 157p green paperback, spine dull, index, bibliography, very good, first edition
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The Strategy of Letters.
267p cloth, dustjacket, index, as new. Analysis of the terminology of strategy in recent theory.
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English Verse. Voice and Movement from Wyatt to Yeats.
ix 324p hardback, dustjacket, index, from a Cambridge college library, slight traces of use
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The Charted Mirror. Literary & Critical Essays.
xi 226p cloth, dustjacket, fresh and clean copy from a Cambridge college library
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The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature.
xiv 1094p cloth (worn) index, an abstract (concise) of the 14 vol CHEL
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Graces of Harmony. Alliteration, Assonance and Consonance in 18th Century British Poetry.
xii 253p cloth, yellow jacket, very fresh copy, from a Cambridge college library, never used
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The Direct Method in German Poetry. Inaugural Lecture. First Edition.
32p wrappers, as new: post-war Germanistik
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Schriftsteller der DDR.
656p cloth, dustjacket, appendix, very good but paper yellows a little
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E T A Hoffmann and the Rhetoric of Terror. Aspects of Language Used for the Evocation of Fear.
viii 307p grey card cover, bibliography, a fresh and clean copy, reproduced from typescript
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Letters to the Future. An Approach to Sinyavsky-Tertz.
221p brown cloth, index, bibliography, very good copy
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The Case Against Pornography.
xvi 394p hardback, pink dustjacket oversized, tired and edge-worn, text clean, binding tight, from ...
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Sex and Gender.
ix 355p paperback, indices, bibliography, notes, stamped, as new. Commonsense Beliefs, Research ...
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