Books on Criticism & Theory
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Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristram. Journey through the Realm of Eros.
vi 303p cloth, index, new, excellent copy, unused
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The Theatre of the Absurd.
463p paperback, very good copy, first Penguin printing, spine not creased
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Tragedy and Tragicomedy in the Plays of John Webster.
151p hardback, dustjacket, index, bibliography, as new
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English Drama: Forms and Development. Essays in Honour of M C Bradbrook.
x 263p hardback, dustjacket, index, nice and clean copy from a Cambridge library
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Der mitleidigste Mensch ist der beste Mensch. Poetik des Mitleids von Lessing bis Büchner.
116p card cover, index, notes, fresh and clean with author inscription: bürgerliches Trauerspiel
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The Critic, Or: A Tragedy Rehearsed. A Dramatic Piece in Three Acts.
v 96p engraved title page, removed from binding, firm and clean
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Giraudoux. Three Faces of Destiny.
viii 164p cloth, dustjacket, bibliography, as new, Sexual, metaphysical, political plays, excellent ...
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Dickens Encyclopaedia.
xii 174p illustrated hardback, dustjacket, plates, as new: Reprint of 1924 edition, a dictionary of ...
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Thomas Hardy.
xiii 195p hardback, dustjacket, index, bibliography, front endpaper missing
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Nineteenth Century Studies.
288p cloth, index, fresh copy of the second printing: Coleridge, Arnold, Newman, Carlyle, Mill, ...
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The Faith of Robert Louis Stevenson.
302p cloth (slight humidity spotting to blue cloth), morocco label, a nice book, indices, very good
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Disruption and Delight in the Nineteenth Century Novel.
95p cloth, index, bibliography, notes, as new: The Nosy Narrator, Imagistic Energy, Past Tense ...
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Sesame and Lilies.
xiii 288p green cloth, "EL" monogram to spine, light library markings to endpaper, spine a bit ...
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Die Quellen zu Walter Scotts Roman "The Fortunes of Nigel".
ix 187p bibliography, very good Dissertation Leipzig
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The Oxford Literary Guide to the British Isles.
xii 413p cloth, dustjacket, maps, effectively arranged into an alphabet of places and an index of ...
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This Merrie English. First Slips in Literature.
96p hardback with dustjacket, illustrations (Sillince), very good
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Nathalie Sarraute.
192p cloth, index, bibliography, chronolog, very good unsused, from a Cambridge college library
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Collected Essays. Volume 5: George Darley.
xiii 175 - 201 grey paper cover, fresh and clean copy
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Art and Social Responsibility. Lectures on the Ideology of Romanticism.
90p slim paperback, green illustrated cover, crease to front, a well preserved copy, clean and ...
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The Novelist as Thinker.
168p cloth, dustjacket, transparent film, fresh and clean copy from a Cambridge college library ...
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Seeing Through Everything. English Writers 1918 - 1940.
234p hardback with dustjacket transparent film, index, a fresh and clean copy from a Cambridge ...
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Politics and the Novel.
251p hardback, white dustjacket scuffed to front cover, pages very fresh and clean, binding firm, ...
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Living Writers. Being Critical Studies Broadcast in the BBC 3rd Programme.
157p orange cloth fresh, first publication of essays by Betjeman, Dylan Thomas, VS Pritchett, Rose ...
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Public Voices. Literature and Politics with Special Reference to the 17th Century.
133p hardback, bright yellow dustjacket, inscribed by the author, fresh and clean
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Boundless Function.
96p card cover, many photographs, enigmatic book, minor traces of library acquisition (adhesive ...
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Destabilizing Theory. Contemporary Feminist Debates.
viii 224p large paperback, highlighting to about 2 dozen pages
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Axel's Castle. A Study of Imaginative Literature of 1870 - 1930.
319p hardback, moss-green cloth without jacket, good condition, covers a bit sunned, binding ...
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John Churton Collins. The Louse in the Locks of Literature.
xii 185p hardback, dustjacket, index, appendix, new: Establishing English as an academic subjexct
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Musil in Focus. Papers from a Centenary Symposium.
xvii 147p grey paperback, index, a clean and fresh copy: Swales, Stern, Payne etc
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Milton's Minor Poems. Ed. G Tillotson.
360p cloth, dustjacket, index, bookplate, fresh and clean
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Collected Essays. Nos 16 - 20.
half cloth, in the authorical typography (with explanations), contains: The Bible; Bunyans Pilgrim; ...
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Wine that Maketh Glad . . The Interplay of Reality and Symbol in Goethe's Life and Work.
iv 64p red card cover, frontispiece, very good
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Literary Taste. How to Form it, with detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature.
143p red cloth dusty and soiled, one page creased, no imprint year information in book
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Edith Sitwell.
42p wrapper, large format, frontispiece, faint discolouration (water damage), very good
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Ever a Fighter. A Modern Approach to the Work of Robert Browning.
viii 96p paper cover, very good
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Virginia Woolf.
184p hardback, green jacket with portrait, index, bibliography, very good, a tight and clean copy, ...
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Unamuno. A Philosophy of Tragedy. Translated by Philip Silver.
vii 136p purple paperback, paper yellowing, text clean, no names or stamps, a well preserved co py
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Revolutions and Censorship. = Comparative Criticism, Volume 16.
xxiv 301p hardback, blue dustjacket, essays by Holub, Rayfield, Semilansky etc, a very good copy
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Soviet Literature in the Sixties. An International Symposion.
vi 221p hardback, dustjacket, tables, very good+: Novel in Russia, The 1962 Thaw, Literary Output ...
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The Development of English Prose between 1918 and 1939.
23p brown card cover, stapled, very good fresh copy
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Roland Barthes. A Conservative Estimate.
180p hardback with dustjacket, index, very good with library bookplate
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Currents of Thought in French Literature. Essays in Memory of G T Clapton.
xi 370p cloth, dustjacket, index, subscribers, very good: Medieval lit, poetry, drama & novel, ...
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Prose Literature Since 1939.
53p paper cover, plates, very good: Interesting study of literature and WW2, plates in very good ...
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Virginia Woolf. Her Art as a Novelist.
viii 131p cloth, worn dustjacket, some pencil marks, original
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