Books on Criticism & Theory
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Some Studies in the Modern Novel.
154p cloth, very good: Henry James, V Woolf, E M Forster, D H Lawrence, Hardy, Conrad, Joyce, ...
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A Close Look at Magazines and Comics.
91p hardback with dustjacket, illustrations, teachers' notes, from a Cambridge college library
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Histoire de la Littérature Contemporaine en Angleterre, 1830 - 1874.
511p half cloth firm, marbled boards, paper white, fresh and clean
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Literacy and Development of the West.
143p paperback, firm binding, cover a little yellowed but firm, a very good copy
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Poetic Love.
x 310p raspberry hardback with blue and gilt title label to spine, a little foxing to extremities, ...
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La Figura dell'Antitesi nelle Massime di La Rochefoucauld.
168p wrappers, index, very good: Paradosso etico e scandalo logico, Pascal, Voltaire
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Paul Elmer More and American Criticism.
325p blue cloth, index, appendix, very good copy from a Cambridge college library, largely uncut: ...
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Russian Formalist Theory and its Poetic Ambience.
126p cloth, large hardback, fresh dustjacket, excellent copy, without names or stamps
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Determinism. SubStance, No 40.
121p large paperback, very good: Thom, Morin, Prigogine, Atlan, Serres etc
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Sub-Stance, No 48.
121p large paperback, fresh and clean: Chertok, Barthes, Deleuze, Nietzsche
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Notes towards the Definition of Culture.
128p black cloth fresh, text clean, binding tight, no names or stamps, a very nice copy of the ...
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Zur Erinnerung an die Säcular-Feier des Geburtstages Friedrich Schiller's, gehalten zu Mannheim, 8 - 11 November 1858.
100p green paper cover intact, name stamp to cover, subscribers list for Schillerdenkmal, very ...
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Warum feiern wir Schillers Todestag.
46p paper cover, 2 illustrations, Lied von der Glocke with pencil marks, dusty, original
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Vivants Piliers. Le Roman anglo-saxon et les Symboles. 2e edition.
324p large paperback, fresh and clean
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Sinclair Lewis und die endgültige Emanzipation der amerikanischen Literatur.
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Rhetoric 1: Rhetorical Analysis. (= Special Issue of New Literary History 1978)
[204]p card cover, very good: Vernant, Brombert, Culler, Brooks, etc
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Children and Literature: Views and Reviews.
xii 468p cloth, dustjacket, review copy with inserts, very good
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From Childhood to Childhood: Children's Books and Their Creators.
xiv 178p embossed cloth, bibliography, fresh and clean
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Libraries and Literature for Teenagers.
302p cloth, dustjacket, bibliography, index, nice fresh copy
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A Life with Books and Children.
16p stapled pamphlet, very good, printed in blue ink, issued by Childrens Literature New England
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Literature For Today's Young Adults. 3rd ed.
[xvi] 622p hardback, illustrations, appendices, indices, as new
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Multicultural Children's and Young Adult's Literature.
viii 40p large format, stapled, illustration on cover, slightly worn but in very good condition
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Von Trakl zu Brecht. Dichter des Expressionismus.
380p red cloth fresh, index, very good: Hofmannsthal, Lasker-Schüler, Kraus, Döblin, Jahnn, ...
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The Sense of Beauty. Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory.
190p paperback, grey and red cover, very good condition, light marks to covers and spine, slightly ...
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Jane Austen.
[vi] 153p paperback, many illustrations, bibliography, appendix, index, fresh and clean
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Mark Twain and the Feminine Aesthetic.
xvi 205p cloth, dustjacket, illustrations, index, review copy, a firm and clean copy
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Reason and Energy: Studies in German Literature.
319p large paperback, appendix, bibliography, index, cover with interesting design a little ...
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Jews and Americans.
xiv 193p quarter cloth, dustjacket, index, postcard from author and offprint laid in, few marginal ...
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D H Lawrence: The Failure and the Triumph of Art.
xviii 302p cloth, dustjacket (fresh), appendix, index, few marginal pencil marks, excellent copy
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Fiction of the Forties.
[xii] 392p cloth, dustjacket (worn), index, a few marginal pencil marks
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New Comparison. A Journal of Comparative and General Literary Studies. No 1 (1986) - No 11 ( 1991). Published by the British Comparative Literature Association.
11 issues, as issued, very good condition. Most issues devoted to one central theme as: Literary ...
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Poetry and Crisis.
viii 88p orange hardback, bibliography, few marginal pencil marks, cover a little soiled: ...
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The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England.
156p terracotta cloth fresh, private bookplate, few marginal pencil marks, second impression, a ...
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Phases of English Poetry.
148p hardback, brown cloth, fair condition, pen marks and underlining, binding firm, pages bright ...
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T S Eliot: The Design of his Poetry.
xvi 256p green cloth, bibliography, postcard laid in, spine a little faded
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Poetry and Drama.
35p cloth, spine faded, an excellent copy of the first edition without dustjacket
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Obituary of Oliver Elton (1861 - 1945). Offprint, Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol 31.
20p sewn paper cover, frontispiece, cover marginally soiled
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Obituary of George Charles Moore Smith (1858 - 1940). Offprint, Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol 30.
19p sewn paper cover, frontispiece, very good
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Revolutionary Writers: Literature and Authority in the New Republic 1725 - 1810.
xii 324p cloth, dustjacket (tear), bibliography, index, covers warped otherwise very good
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Cinema Tedesco. Da "Gabinetto del Dottor Caligari" a Hitler.
379p paperback, white and violet covers, very good condition, text block a bit bent, binding firm ...
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Chapters on Spanish Literature.
259p cloth, index, VG ex lib: Cid, Hita, Literary Court, Romancero, Cervantes, Vega, Calderon, ...
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The Age of Tennyson. Offprint, Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol 25.
20p sewn paper cover, large format, nice clean copy
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Obituary of Sir Sidney Lee (1859 - 1926). Offprint, Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol 15.
20p sewn paper cover, notes, short bibliography, very good
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An Introduction to the Fifth Book of Hooker's Treatise of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity.
x 335p faint cloth, appendices, index, large table well folded, old name to endpaper, second ...
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Velocities of Change: Critical Essays from MLN.
xxvii 370p yellow cloth, bibliography, index, very good: a collection of essays from Modern ...
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Eight American Authors: A Review of Research and Criticism.
xv 418p cloth, few neat pencil underlinings: essays on Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Melville, ...
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