Category: Criticism

Maurice Bowra: A celebration

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Duckworth : January 1974

Seller ID: 193121

ISBN-13: 9780715607893

Binding: Hardcover

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Milton Studies: Volume 47

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Duquesne University Press : December 2007

Seller ID: 181643

ISBN-13: 9780822943396

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Published annually by Duquesne University Press as an important forum for Milton scholarship and criticism, Milton Studies focuses on various aspects of John Milton's life and writing, including biography; literary history; Milton's work in its literary, intellectual, political, or cultural contexts; Milton's influence on or relationship to other writers; and the history of critical response to his work. The eight essays in this volume offer a variety of fresh subjects and cutting-edge approaches to Milton's prose and poetry.The nine essays in this volume offer extraordinary coverage of Milton...
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The Prospect of Lyric

Price: $14.40

Publisher: Dallas Institute Publications : January 2012

Seller ID: 193078

ISBN-13: 9780911005493

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Prospect of Lyric, edited by Bainard Cowan Reading a great lyric poem we know that lyric is more than a convention, that it speaks of an encounter of genuine depth. But what is the terrain of that encounter? The fourth in the Genres of Literature series enters into the heart of the lyric experience, with General Editor Louise Cowan analyzing the lyric impulse, its ontological ground, and its relation to the life of a culture in her Introduction to the volume. The following sixteen essays examine key poets and texts, from Biblical and Greek antiquity through the pinnacles of the English lyr...
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Images of the Untouched: Virginity in Psyche, Myth and Community (The Pegasus Foundation Series, 1)

By: (editor), Joanne Stroud,(editor), Gail Thomas

Price: $8.10

Publisher: Dallas Inst Humanities & Culture : March 1982

Seller ID: 193086

ISBN-13: 9780882143170

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Epic Cosmos (Studies in Genre)

By: Allums, Larry

Price: $11.97

Publisher: Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture : January 2000

Seller ID: 193085

ISBN-13: 9780911005226

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Larry Allums, editor Louise Cowan, general editor The community of scholar-critics that brought out The Terrain of Comedy has produced the second volume in its studies of the four genres, with Larry Allums as editor. Louise Cowan postulates a culture-generating cosmos as the identifying mark of epic. The essays illustrate the applicability of her theory of genres to major works in the epic tradition. An excellent resource for those studying the social, psychological and historical aspects of epic as a literary art form. Dallas Institute Publications publishes works concerned with the imaginati...
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The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 10: The Modern Movement (1910-1940) (Oxford English Literary History, 10)

By: Baldick, Chris

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : November 2004

Seller ID: 167083

ISBN-13: 9780198183105

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions, events, and the ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. The series will enlighten and inspire not only everyone studying, teaching, and researching in English Literature, but all serious readers. This exciting new volume provides a freshly inclusive account of literature in England in the per...
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English Literature: A Very Short Introduction

By: Bate, Jonathan

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press : October 2010

Seller ID: 167110

ISBN-13: 9780199569267

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A renowned critic, biographer, and Shakespeare scholar, Jonathan Bate provides in this Very Short Introduction a lively and engaging overview of the literature that Jorge Luis Borges called "the richest in the world." From the medieval "Hymn of Caedmon" to George Orwell's "Why I Write," from Jane Austen to Ian McEwan, and from Winnie the Pooh to Dr. Johnson, this brilliant, compact survey stretches across the centuries, exploring the major literary forms (poetry, novel, drama, essay and more), the many histories and theories of the very idea of literature, and the role of writers in shaping En...
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German Literature: A Very Short Introduction

By: Boyle, Nicholas

Price: $5.98

Publisher: Oxford University Press : May 2008

Seller ID: 167122

ISBN-13: 9780199206599

Binding: Trade Paperback

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German literature in all genres and from all historical periods has exerted an enormous influence on the history of western thought. From Martin Luther, Frederick Schiller, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, and Gunter Grass, Germany has produced an impressive number of great writers and great works. In German Literature: A Very Short Introduction, Nicholas Boyle illuminates the particular character and power of German literature and explores its impact on the larger cultural world. Boyle presents an engrossing tour of German literature fro...
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The Early Seventeenth Century 1600-1660: Jonson, Donne, and Milton (Oxford History of English Literature, Volume VII)

By: Bush, Douglas

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : July 1990

Seller ID: 167081

ISBN-13: 9780198122333

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Literary in Theory (Cultural Memory in the Present)

By: Culler, Jonathan

Price: $13.00

Publisher: Stanford University Press : September 2006

Seller ID: 151132

ISBN-13: 9780804753746

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This work explores the role of the literary in theory, with wide-ranging analysis of key concepts and disciplinary practices.
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The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 8: 1830-1880: The Victorians

By: Davis, Philip

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : December 2002

Seller ID: 181685

ISBN-13: 9780198184478

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a millennium and more. Each of these groundbreaking volumes offers a leading scholar's considered assessment of the authors, works, cultural traditions. events, and ideas that shaped the literary voices of their age. The series will enlighten and inspire not only everyone studying, teaching, and researching in English Literature, but all serious readers. The Victorian era produced a literature of diversity and experimentation, engaged with powerful controv...
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Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore

By: Diehl, Joanne Feit

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press : April 1993

Seller ID: 185431

ISBN-13: 9780691069753

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

This highly innovative work on poetic influence among women writers focuses on the relationship between modernist poet Elizabeth Bishop and her mentor Marianne Moore. Departing from Freudian models of influence theory that ignore the question of maternal presence, Joanne Diehl applies the psychoanalytic insights of object relations theorists Melanie Klein and Christopher Bollas to woman-to-woman literary transactions. She lays the groundwork for a far-reaching critical approach as she shows that Bishop, mourning her separation from her natural mother, strives to balance gratitude toward Moore,...
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The Early Eighteenth Century 1700-1740: Swift, Defoe, and Pope (Oxford History of English Literature, Volume IX)

By: Dobr©e, Bonamy

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : July 1990

Seller ID: 167080

ISBN-13: 9780198122357

Binding: Hardcover

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The Penetration of Exiles

By: EVANS, Simon

Price: $10.00

Publisher: A Wake Newslitter Press : January 1984

Seller ID: 59193

ISBN: B002N60AQ8

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Frames of Southern Mind

By: Gretlund, Jan Nordby

Price: $17.34

Publisher: University Press of Southern Denmark : September 1998

Seller ID: 193075

ISBN-13: 9788778383976

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Discusses about politics, writing and thinking in the American South from the 1930's to the 1990's. This book shows that everyday life is, of course, full of existential problems. It argues that these problems have long been the subject of Southern poetry. It describes how people in the South of the 1990s struggle daily with private problems.
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Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature

By: Griffin, Farah Jasmine

Price: $16.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : August 2022

Seller ID: 183137

ISBN-13: 9781324022046

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Shakespeare as Political Thinker

By: John Alvis [editor], Thomas G. West [editor]

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Carolina Academic Press : January 1981

Seller ID: 194740

ISBN-13: 9780890890974

Binding: Hardcover

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Beyond Grief and Nothing

By: Joseph Dewey

Price: $24.99

Publisher: : 0001-01-01 00:00:00

Seller ID: 19615

ISBN: 016296

Binding: Unknown

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Beckett Before Beckett: Samuel Beckett's Lectures on French Literature

By: Juez, Brigitte Le

Price: $6.57

Publisher: Souvenir Press : April 2010

Seller ID: 185368

ISBN-13: 9780285638624

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Investigating the themes and ideas that sparked Samuel Beckett's writing career, this valuable guide explores one of the least known periods in Beckett's early life. Having just returned from Paris where he had met James Joyce, Beckett's brief academic career at Trinity College is detailed through a student's extensive notes from modern French lectures delivered in 1930 and 1931. Outlining Beckett's opinions and thoughts during a formative intellectual period, many important questions are explored, such as How did he define the modern novel of his day? What should literature strive to achieve?...
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Ex Libris: 100+ Books to Read and Reread

By: Kakutani, Michiko

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Clarkson Potter : October 2020

Seller ID: 168817

ISBN-13: 9780525574972

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic Michiko Kakutani shares 100 personal, thought-provoking essays about books that have mattered to her and that help illuminate the world we live in today--with beautiful illustrations throughout. "A book tailormade for bibliophiles."--Oprah Winfrey (One of 6 Books Oprah Loves to Give as Gifts During the Holidays) "An ebullient celebration of books and reading."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) In the introduction to her new collection of essays, Ex Libris 100+ Books to Read and Reread, Michiko Kakutani writes: "In a world riven by political and social d...
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Category: Criticism