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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

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 07432

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. View more info

In Search of Heresy: American Literature in the Age of Conformity

By: Aldridge, John W.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, McGraw-Hill: 1956

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 10361

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. View more info

The Moral Trollope

By: apRoberts, Ruth

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Press: 1971

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 06524

ISBN: 0821400894

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. View more info

New Essays on "The American"

By: Banta, Martha (Editor)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Cambridge University Press: 1987

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 03325

ISBN: 0521307309

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." View more info

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

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 10061

ISBN: 0195050959

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... View more info

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

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 08410

Condition: Very Good

Some shelf wear and light soil. Light foxing to the endpapers. 184 pages. See photos for contents. View more info

Reading Coleridge: Approaches and Applications

By: Crawford, Walter B. (Editor)

Price: $12.00

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

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 04690

ISBN: 0801408539

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. View more info

The Failure of Criticism

By: Goodheart, Eugene

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press: 1978

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 03418

ISBN: 0674291158

Condition: Very Good

Scattered underlining and margin notes. Jacket shows edge wear and rubbing. View more info

Literature Against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society

By: Graff, Gerald

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Chicago, University of Chicago Press: 1979

Edition: First Printing

Seller ID: 03433

ISBN: 0226306003

Condition: Near Fine

Upper corners bumped. Jacket has a few tiny edge tears, rubbing to the spine and flap folds. View more info

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

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." View more info

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

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 01110

ISBN: 0060196661

Condition: Near Fine

267 pages. Just a trace of wear to book and jacket, which is in a clear Mylar protective cover. View more info

A Reformer's Art: Dickens' Picturesque and Grotesque Imagery

By: Hill, Nancy K.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Press: 1981

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 08002

ISBN: 0821405861

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. View more info

A Brief History of Chinese Fiction

By: Hsun, Lu

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Peking, Foreign Languages Press: 1976

Edition: Third Edition

Seller ID: 10238

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. View more info

The Theory of American Literature

By: Jones, Howard Mumford

Price: $20.00

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

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 07433

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. View more info

Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism

By: Krupnick, Mark

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University Press: 1986

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 02588

ISBN: 0810107120

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. View more info

From Cubism to Surrealism in French Literature

By: Lemaitre, Georges

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, Russell & Russell: 1967

Edition: Reissue

Inscription: SIGNED

Seller ID: 03328

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. View more info