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Studies in Scottish Literature Volume I Number 4, April 1964

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Lubbock, Texas, Texas Techological College: 1964

Seller ID: 10992

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Darkening to the covers, but a clean, tight copy with no writing or marks. Stapled booklet, pages numbered 213-281. Contents include Editorial, An Authentic Fergusson Portrait, by William Gillis; The Gaelic Manuscripts in Scotland, by John Mackechnie; The Eighteenth-Century Marian Controversy and an Unpublished Letter by David Hume, by Laurence L. Bongie; Robert Burns in Japan, by Toshio Namba; Notes and Documents; and Reviews.
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Critiques and Essays on Modern Fiction 1920-51, Representing the Achievement of Modern American and British Critics

By: Aldridge, John W.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Ronald Press Company: 1952

Seller ID: 07432

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Shelf wear and chipping to jacket and fading to the jacket's spine. 610 pages with Biographical Notes and Selected Bibliography. Foreword by Mark Schorer. Essays from various contributors selected by Aldridge for the following sections: PART I: The Technique of Fiction, PART II: Critiques: Studies in the Method of Meaning, and PART III: The Mode of the Novelist.
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In Search of Heresy: American Literature in the Age of Conformity

By: Aldridge, John W.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill: 1956

Seller ID: 10361

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Shelf and edge wear. Creasing and associated tears along the top edge of the front panel. Light wear at the spine ends and corners. 208 pages with Index, followed by a few pages about the author.
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The Moral Trollope

By: apRoberts, Ruth

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Press: 1971

Seller ID: 06524

ISBN: 0821400894

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light shelf wear. Jacket is price-clipped, shows heavy rubbing on the rear panel, has a long, closed tear at the lower corner of the front panel, and has light wear at the spine ends. Protected now in a Mylar archival sleeve. 203 pages, with Index. A critical analysis of how Trollope perfected an aesthetic of fiction.
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New Essays on "The American"

By: Banta, Martha (Editor)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Cambridge University Press: 1987

Seller ID: 03325

ISBN: 0521307309

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Faint trace of shelf wear. Top-edge of jacket has a small, closed tear. Protected in a new Mylar cover. Essays on Henry James' classic novel, "The American."
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The Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and Colonization from The Tempest to Tarzan

By: Cheyfitz, Eric

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1991

Seller ID: 10061

ISBN: 0195050959

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

202 pages with Notes, Bibliography, and Index. "From Columbus onward, the discourse of European-American expansion has been characterized by a poetics of imperialism, Eric Cheyfitz contends, a poetics that has set the conventions for translating the languages of the inhabitants of the New World into the language of empire, a discourse that has conquered by translating the inhabitants themselves into "natives, "savages," "cannibals," or "Indians." Cheyfitz charts the course of American imperialism from the arrival of Renaissance Europeans in a New World open for material and rhetorical cultivat...
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Essays and Reflections

By: Child, Harold (Essays); Edited with a Memoir By S.C. Roberts

Price: $7.50

Publisher: London, Cambridge at the University Press: 1948

Seller ID: 08410

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Some shelf wear and light soil. Light foxing to the endpapers. 184 pages. See photos for contents.
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Discussions of Charles Dickens

By: Clark, William Ross (Editor and Introduction)

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Boston, D.C. Heath and Company: 1961

Seller ID: 20070102

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Mild edge wear. Previous owner name inside the front cover. Extensive underlining and marginalia found in the Introduction and the chapter by O. Robert Strange. 115 pages. [gbrlit]
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Reading Coleridge: Approaches and Applications

By: Crawford, Walter B. (Editor)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press: 1979

Seller ID: 04690

ISBN: 0801408539

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Light spotting top-edge, light shelf wear. Jacket has light edge wear. Eight leading scholars in the field of Romantic literature have contributed to this collection of essays on Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the man and the poet. 288 pages, with Bibliography, Contributors, and Index.
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The Failure of Criticism

By: Goodheart, Eugene

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press: 1978

Seller ID: 03418

ISBN: 0674291158

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Scattered underlining and margin notes. Jacket shows edge wear and rubbing.
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Literature Against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society

By: Graff, Gerald

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chicago, University of Chicago Press: 1979

Seller ID: 03433

ISBN: 0226306003

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Upper corners bumped. Jacket has a few tiny edge tears, rubbing to the spine and flap folds.
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After Southern Modernism: Fiction of the Contemporary South

By: Guinn, Matthew

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Jackson, MS, U.S.A., University Press of Mississippi: 2000

Seller ID: 08408

ISBN: 157806273x

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

202 pages with Notes, Bibliography, and Index. From the publisher: "This sweeping study of the literary South's new direction focuses on nine well established writers who, by breaking away from the firmly ensconced myths, have emerged as an iconoclastic generation - Harry Crews, Dorothy Allison, Bobbie Ann Mason, Larry Brown, Kaye Gibbons, Randall Kenan, Richard Ford, Cormac McCarthy, and Barry Hannah."
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A Stay Against Confusion : Essays on Faith and Fiction

By: Hansen, Ron

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., HarperCollins Publishers: 2001

Seller ID: 01110

ISBN: 0060196661

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

267 pages. Just a trace of wear to book and jacket, which is in a clear Mylar protective cover.
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A Reformer's Art: Dickens' Picturesque and Grotesque Imagery

By: Hill, Nancy K.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Press: 1981

Seller ID: 08002

ISBN: 0821405861

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Trace of wear to the book, price sticker shadow on the dust jacket's front panel. 169 pages with Notes, List of Works Consulted, and Index.
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A Brief History of Chinese Fiction

By: Hsun, Lu

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Peking, Foreign Languages Press: 1976

Seller ID: 10238

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Cloth and paper-covered boards with a small abrasion to the fore-edge of the front cover. The dust jacket shows wear at the spine ends. Silk bookmark ribbon sewn into binding. 437 pages with Index. Appendices: The Historical Development of Chinese Fiction and Preface to the Japanese Edition. This book grew out of lecture notes from Lu Hsun used when teaching a course on Chinese fiction at Peking University from 1920-1924. The 1955 First Edition Preface is included in this volume as is a Preface to this edition.
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The Theory of American Literature

By: Jones, Howard Mumford

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press: 1948

Seller ID: 07433

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Mild shelf wear, previous owner name of front fee endpaper. Chipping to jacket, paper loss to spine that does not affect the title. 208 pages with Index.
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Chapters in Mythology: The Poetry of Sylvia Plath

By: Kroll, Judith

Price: $7.95

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row, Publishers: 1978

Seller ID: 20070301

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Edge wear. First few pages partially separated. Price sticker rear cover. Critical study of Plath's work. 303 pages with Notes, Bibliography of Sylvia Plath's Work, Bibliography of Other Works, and Index.
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Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism

By: Krupnick, Mark

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University Press: 1986

Seller ID: 02588

ISBN: 0810107120

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Just a trace of shelf wear. Fading to the jacket's spine. Biography of one of America's most influential literary critics of the 20th century. 207 pages with Notes and Index.
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From Cubism to Surrealism in French Literature

By: Lemaitre, Georges

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, Russell & Russell: 1967

Seller ID: 03328

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

Red cloth with gilt titles on spine. Dark stain to lower part of front cover. Otherwise about fine with an inscription in French from the author on the title page.
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Migrant Song: Politics and Process in Contemporary Chicano Literature

By: McKenna, Teresa

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Austin, Texas, University of Texas: 1997

Seller ID: 04030

ISBN: 0292765185

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

158 pages with Notes, Bibliography, and Index.
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