Books on Criticism & Theory
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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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Schiller, The Dramatic Writer: A Study of Style in the Plays.
301p blue cloth, dustjacket, bibliography, inscribed by the author, some faint pencil markings, ...
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Specimens of English Dramatic Criticism. 17th - 20th Centuries.
x 355p 15cm blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, top edge blue, index, very good
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Sémiologies des Textes Litteraires.
24p paperback, stapled, bibliography, some faint pencil markings, otherwise very good, uncommon ...
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Structuralism and Semiotics.
192p yellow paperback, fresh and clean and without name or stamps
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Vergleichung Shakespears und Andreas Gryphs.
51p paperback, includes facsimile reprint of 1741 edition, edited by Hugh Powell, nice clean copy, ...
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Homenaje Universitario a Dámaso Alonso, reunido por los Estudiantes de Filología Románica.
358p cloth, dustjacket (yellowed), frontispiece, bibliography, indices, excellent copy
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The Emergence of German as a Literary Language 1700 - 1775.
xi 538p hardback, sky-blue cloth with blue jacket, good condition, wear commensurate with age, some ...
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Die Poesie in der Volksschule. Vierzig vaterländische Dichtungen ausgewählt und erläutert. 2. Ausgabe für Lehrer.
xii 200p quarter cloth with handsome yellow & black marbled boards, rose endpapers, 40 commentaries ...
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Deutsches Schrifttum der Gegenwart in der Englischen Kritik der Nachkriegszeit (1919 - 1935): ein Versuch über die Lebensbedingungenud das kulturpolitische Wirken des deutschen Buches im Ausland.
x 580p large blue paperback, bibliography, index, German exploration of British reception of German ...
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Die Karikatur als Quelle der Publikumsforschung.
40p+38p plates, wrappers, 86 repro plates, very good
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Rainer Maria Rilke: "Alles ist Spiel, aber Spiele/...". Textperspektivische Betrachtungen anhand "eines Begriffes mit verschwommenen Rändern".
184p paperback, bibliography, hardly used, as new
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King Lear. Ed. Frank Green. 2nd ed.
xii 308p large white paperback with illustrated laminated cover, plot synopsis & playtext with ...
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Fridrich von Hûsen: Introduction, Text, Commentary and Glossary.
viii 212p old brown cloth with black & gilt title panel to spine, introduction with 3 tables, biogr ...
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Text und Kritik: Zeitschrift für Literatur Vol 1/1a. Günter Grass.
202p large paperback, interview with Grass and man additional papers on his work, critical ...
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Articulos de Critica Literaria. Edd. Helen Grant & Robert Johnson.
120p 17cm paperback, introduction by the editor, bibliography, chronology, apparatus, also errata ...
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Studi di Estetica. Indice 1973 - 1989. 3rd serie, vol 18, no. 2.
87p paperback, very good
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Aufsätze - Reportagen - Reden - Interviews, ed Ulla Hahn.
253p paperback, notes, fresh and clean
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Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric, Vol 12 no 3.
[120]p paperback, as new. Galileo's letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, renaissance Polish ...
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La Genèse du «Cantique Spirituel» de Saint Jean de la Croix.
lxxx 536p large paperback, heavy, appendices, bibliography, hardly used
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To Define True Novellen...: A Taxonomic Enquiry. (Reprint from Publications of the English Goethe Society Vol 47 (1977)).
28p card wrappers, signed by the author, sunned to edges otherwise hardly used
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Words as Definitions of Experience.
43p slim paperback, essay with afterword by Richard Appignanesi, very good, cover with adhesive ...
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Le Nouvelle Individualiste en Allemagne: De Goethe a Gottfried Keller.
452p plain brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, extensive discussion of German literature, notes, ...
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An Introduction to the Study of Dante.
viii 271p old burgundy cloth with black rule to boards, real photographic frontispiece present, ...
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Women Writers Talk: Interviews with 10 Women Writers.
214p hardback, jacket, writers include Margaret Drabble, Fay Weldon, P D James, bibliography, very ...
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The Hard Journey: The Myth of Man's Rebirth.
208p brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine, dustjacket (protected), study of conceptions of rebirth ...
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A Return to Vision.
xxi 400p large paperback, anthology of philosophical rhetoric, criticism, narrative and poetry, ...
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Extraterritorial: Papers on Literature and the Language Revolution.
xiii 210p buff cloth, linguistic essays, very good
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The Hymns of Wesley and Watts: Five Informal Papers.
143p blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, discussion of Methodist hymns, light library markings
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Schubert: A Symposium.
299p + 44p musical notation, red cloth fresh, bibliography, fresh copy
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The Created Self: The Reader's Role in Eighteenth-Century Fiction.
220 paperback, red card cover, excellent condition, binding tight, spine faded, some minimal wear ...
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Catastrophe and Imagination: An Interpretation of the Recent English and American Novel.
xi 327p hardback, silver lettering to spine, index, very good copy from a Cambridge college ...
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Talks with Thomas Hardy at Max Gate 1920 - 1922.
85p black cloth (spine absent), record of conversations with Thomas Hardy in his 80s, good
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Rukopisnoe Nasledie V F Shishmareva. V Arhive Akademii Nauk SSSR. Opisanie i Publikatsii. Les Manuscrits de V F Chichmarev. Russian Language.
245p plain blue cloth, frontispiece, plates, index, fresh and clean, from a Cambridge college ...
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A Paladin of Philantropy and other Papers.
vi 361p green cloth, spine gilt (dull), illustration on titlepage, first edition, very good
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Romanticism.
413p large format paperback, many plates throughout, bibliography, index, fresh and clean copy from ...
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Ambit, No 142 (1995).
96p large paperback, wrapper, illustrations, very good, with library stamp
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New Literatures Review. No 30 (1995) Special Issue: Decolonizing Bodies. Edited by Sue Thomas.
116p as issued, library stamp, a clean and fresh copy
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Metre. A Magazine of International Poetry. No 2 (1997). 21 Australian Poets. Australian Special Issue.
128p card cover, as new, library stamp
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Oscar Wilde in Outline. Little Blue Book 442.
94p blue cover (dusty, marginally browned), stapled, a very good copy
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Reflections Critical and Satirical upon a late Rhapsody, Call'd, An Essay upon Criticism. (1717)
reprint, viii 32p card cover, stapled, as new, important critque of Pope
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