Books on Criticism & Theory
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Comedy: An Essay on Comedy by George Meredith; Laughter by Henri Bergson.
xvi 260p paperback, a fresh and tight copy, square spine, no names or stamps, light soiling to ...
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Novelists on the Novel.
xv 336p paperback, brown cover, good condition, minimal wear, light pencil marks on some pages, ...
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Nobel Lecture.
22p card cover, includes appreciation of author's work by Lars Gyllensten, a clean and fresh copy
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Poet of the People: An Evaluation of James Whitcombe Riley.
108p 18cm quarter cloth, from a Cambridge college library, very good
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La Crise dans la Tête. (L'Arc, Vol 70).
104p paperback, plates, includes articles by Foucault, Thibaudeau, some markings but very good
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Other Worlds: Fantasy and Science Fiction Since 1939.
xiv 226p cloth hardback with illustration, preface by Ray Bradbury, 18 critical essays, very good
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Shakespeare and the Elizabethans.
254p paperback, black and purple cover, very good condition, very light wear to covers, binding ...
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The Semantics of Desire: Changing Models of Identity from Dickens to Joyce.
xiv 310p cloth dustjacket, (back of jacket slightly soiled), bibliography, index, nice fresh copy
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Aspects of E M Forster: Essays and Recollections written for his Ninetieth Birthday 1st January 1969.
viii 196p cloth, fresh dustjacket, private bookplate, frontispiece, 15 essays by Elizabeth Bowen, K ...
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Feminist Literary Studies: An Introduction.
viii 152p paperback, bibliography, index, library stamp and marks but otherwise as new
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The Medieval Latin 'Poetics'.
28p pamphlet, sewn, card wrapper, a very good copy from a Cambridge college library (multiple)
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Stages of New Testament Criticism. Offprint from Journal of the History of Ideas Vol 30 Nº 2 (1969).
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The New History: The 1980s and Beyond.
[x] 334p large paperback, 19 essays reprinted from two nºs of Journal of Interdisciplinary History ...
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A Thing Divided: Representation in the Novels of Henry James.
188p cloth, dustjacket, bibliography, index, slightly shelf-soiled but otherwise as new
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New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation. Index to Volumes 3 and 4 (1971 - 1973), 5 & 6 (1973 - 1975): contents, Selected Names, Subjects, Terms.
40p each, stapled, indices to periodical volumes, includes some tacit disciplinary claims
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Everyman his Own Historian: Essays on History and Politics.
[x] 325p large paperback, fresh clean period volume
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West African Poetry. A Critical History.
ix 351p large paperback, turquoise cover, very good condition, minimal wear, covers lightly sunned, ...
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Form in Modern Poetry.
xiii 81p paper covered boards pink, from a Cambridge college library, cover somewhat hurt where ...
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Selected Literary Criticism.
xii 435p rebound in plain green cloth, index, few neat marginal pencil marks, excellent and fresh, ...
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Fire-Bird: A Study of D H Lawrence.
vi 81p cloth black striking dustjacket, (yellowed, spine edges marginally worn), fresh clean copy, ...
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L'Epoque Conradienne (Mar 1975).
39p large paperback, 6 articles including essays by Morina, Renucci, Lombard, editor inscription ...
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Essays on Style and Language. Linguistic and Critical Approaches to Literary Style.
ix 188p paperback, pink cover, very good condition, sunned spine, binding intact, pages clean and ...
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Narrative Situations in the Novel: Tom Jones, Moby Dick, The Ambassadors, Ulysses. Translated by James Pusack.
vi 186p cloth hardback, fresh dustjacket green and yellow, a tight and clean copy of the first ...
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The Tragic Pageant of 'Timon of Athens': An Inaugural Lecture.
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Le Roman Américain 1865 - 1917: Mythes de la Frontière et de la Ville.
270p paperback, appendices, bibliography, index, complimentary copy with publisher's compliments ...
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The Gallo-Roman Muse: Aspects of Roman Literary Tradition in Sixteenth-Century France.
[x] 196p cloth, dustjacket, bibliography, index, unused and as new, inscribed by the author
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Literary Theory Today.
viii 254p large mauve paperback, printed from typescript, papers include "Notes on the Obvious" by ...
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Catastrophe and Imagination: An Interpretation of the Recent English and American Novel.
xii 328p brown cloth, brown marbled top edge, dustjacket (top of spine missing, chipped at corners, ...
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The Royal Society of Literature: A Portrait.
102p paperback, preface by the Librarian of Cambridge University Library, foreword by the President ...
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'Mr Prior' and Alexander Pope. Offprint, Review of English Studies, 33.
7p stapled, notes, very good
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Seeing Things.
viii 341p cloth, yellow jacket (edges worn and torn), index, Rylands bookplate, first edition
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Early Christian Rhetoric: The Language of the Gospel.
143p cloth, dustjacket (few small hurts to edges), indices, occasional small neat marginal pen ...
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Akten des 5. Internationalen Germanisten-Kongresses, Cambridge 1975. Heft 1. (= Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik, Reihe A, Band 2, 1)
154p large yellow paperback, very good: Montinari re Nietzsche, Trim re Junggrammatiker, S Gilman: ...
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Akten des 8. Internationalen Germanisten-Kongresses, Tokyo 1990: Begegnungen mit dem "Fremden". Band 1: Ansprachen, Plenarvorträge.
182p hardback: K Mommsen, Helbig (Valenztheorie), S P Stern (Prag), Schöne: Motivery goodeschichte, ...
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The Novel and Revolution.
288p cloth, jacket, index, bibliography, very good, hardly used, Hegemony, realism, bureaucracy, ...
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Special Issue of Literatur und Kritik, Österreichische Monatsschrift. No 54/55, 1971.
[140]p library stamp, very good: Politische Pamphlete, Musil / Broch, Briefe, etc
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Ästhetik und Literaturgeschichte: Aufsätze 1940 - 1972.
551p paperback, notes, index, very good, includes essays on Marx, Hegels, Dostoevsky, Pushkin
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E M Forster. The Great Writers: Their Lives, Works and Inspiration, Vol 27.
pp626 - 648 [22]p very large blue paperback with illustrated card cover, many colour illustrations, ...
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Eight Essays.
238p paperback, reprinted essays on Shaw, Theodore Roosevelt, Dickens, Housman, de Sade, Lincoln, ...
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Tra Il Burlamachi e Il Rousseau: Nota Critica. (Extract from La Cultura Contemporanea Vol 2, No 4, 1910).
8p stapled offprint, brown card wrapper, a little aged, well preserved
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Collected Essays.
2 volumes, viii 326p & viii 344p burgundy cloth, gilt titles to spines, few faint pencil markings, ...
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The Theatre and Dramatic Theory.
222p burgundy boards with gilt lettering to spine, dustjacket (protected), index, some underlining, ...
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Form and Meaning in Drama: A Study of Six Greek Plays and of Hamlet.
x 342p blue cloth fresh, dustjacket present, light library markings, text is clean and binding is ...
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Teorie Americane del Romanzo 1800 - 1900.
240p paperback, bibliography, author inscription, very good
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Renaissance in the South: A Critical History of the Literature, 1920 - 1960.
222p cloth with light blue dustjacket, appendix, index, marginal pencil marks, pages clean but ...
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A Journey of Discovery: On Writing for Children.
102p hardback with dustjacket, occasional marginal pencil marks, from a Cambridge college library
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Sieben politische Gedichte der Hs. B.L. Harley 2253: Textausgabe und Kommentar.
x lxxx 225p green paperback, author iscription, notes, bibliography, index, excellent copy
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Edmund Spenser: An Essay on Renaissance Poetry.
198p hardback, jacket, appendix, index, clean copy from a Cambridge college library
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Intercourses in the Book of Genesis: Mythic Motifs in Creator-Created Relationships.
xix 306p paperback, notes, bibliography, as new
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