Books - "literary criticism"
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Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature
Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Blackwell Publishing 2005
KEYWORDS: English literature literary criticism history
An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Robert Browning
TIDY EX-LIBRARY, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xxvii + 106pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, sl scuffing & soiling to spine & boards)
PUBLISHER: Harvester Wheatsheaf 1990
KEYWORDS: bibliographies bibliography literature literary Robert Browning critical criticism
Political Shakespeare: New Essays in Cultural Materialism
Octavo softcover (VG) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1985
KEYWORDS: shakespeare cultural materialism literary criticism theater theatre stephen greenblatt
Retelling Stories, Framing Culture: Traditional Story and Metanarratives in Children's Literature
Octavo, illus heavy boards, gilt lettering to grey buckram spine, xi + 316pp, VG (light bruising to spine & board extrems, light chafing & soiling to boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name & other sm ink markings to eps, occasional & unobtrusive pencil markings & underlining, sl occasioanl cracking to gutters, sl soiling to some pages occasionally throughout)
PUBLISHER: Garland Publishing 1998
KEYWORDS: children's literature literary criticism history classical
Children's Writing in New Zealand Newspapers, 1930s and 1980s
UNPUBLISHED THESIS, lg quarto, teal buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, v + 368pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems & board edges, spine cocked, sl chafing & soiling to boards, light foxing & soiling to page edges, bindery adhesive label to front pastedown, sl foxing to prelims)
PUBLISHER: University of Auckland (Thesis) 2000
KEYWORDS: New Zealand Aotearoa children's literature literary criticism thesis theses newspapers
The Hundreds
Octavo softcover (Nr. FINE); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Duke University Press 2019
KEYWORDS: writing literary criticism philosophy cultural studies anthropology affect theory language
Studies in Christ and Satan
Super octavo hardcover (VG+) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: University of Toronto Press 1982
KEYWORDS: christ and satan verse poem poetry old english junius manuscript literary criticism
Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection; with Some of its Applications
Octavo, green textured buckram boards, gilt lettering & rule to spine, blind rule to boards, frontispiece with tissue guard, xvi + 494pp, folding map to pg 348, VG- (heavy chipping to spine extrems with some sl loss, light bruising & scuffing to board corners, moderate discolouration to spine, moderate chafing to boards, moderate to heavy tanning to page edges, prev. bookseller's sm label to front pastedown, various sm ink markings to prelims, heavy cracking to some gutters, moderate foxing to frontis & title page, light tanning, foxing & staining to fold out map- no tears)
PUBLISHER: Macmillan & Co 1890
KEYWORDS: darwinism theory evolution criticism literary Charles Darwin Alfred Russel Wallace philosophy
Skepticism and Memory in Shakespeare and Donne
Octavo, beige heavy boards, red lettering to spine, xvi + 240pp, VG+ (light bruising to spine extrems, light to moderate fading to spine, sl chafing & soiling to boards, v occasional marking in ink to margins)
PUBLISHER: Palgrave Macmillan 2007
KEYWORDS: literature Shakespeare literary criticism Donne history
The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound
Lg quarto, yellow glossy light card covers, black & red lettering to spine, xxx + 149pp, VG- (moderate scuffing & fading to spine, moderate creasing & curling to cover edges with fading, heavy vertical crease to full length of front cover)
PUBLISHER: Harvest/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers 1974
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism poems poetry verse T S Eliot annotations Ezra Pound
Writing and European Thought 1600-1830
Super octavo, maroon heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xv + 222pp, illus, Near FINE (sl bruising to extrems) in VG+ (light creasing to edges, light fading to spine, light chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1994
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism Europe European history historical
Writing From History: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Renaissance Literature
Super octavo, mauve glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xiii + 309pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to covers & edges, light chafing, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1990
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism history renaissance writing intellectual culture
English Reformation Literature: The Tudor Origins of the Protestant Tradition
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xvi + 539pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1982
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism reformation history
Shakespeare's Religious Allusiveness: Its Play and Tolerance
Octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 148pp, Near FINE (light bruising to boards) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Ashgate Publishing 2004
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism history drama religion religious Christianity Shakespeare
The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, xi + 287pp, Near FINE (sl curling to cover edges, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1988
KEYWORDS: Thomas Aquinas literature literary criticism religion religious medieval philosophy
Middleton's Vulgar Pasquin: Essays on 'A Game at Chess'
Super octavo, black buckram spine, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 341pp, illus, VG+ (sl scuffing & bruising to extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges)
PUBLISHER: Associated University Presses 1995
KEYWORDS: literature historiography politics government chess allegory political plays criticism literary
Interpretation and Theology in Spenser
Super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 273pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & fading to edges)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1994
KEYWORDS: theology religion religious literature literary doctrine Christianity Edmund Spenser poetry history criticism
Scenic Form in Shakespeare
TIDY EX-LIBRARY, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 269pp, VG (minimal library marks, light bruising to extrems, moderate water damage to lower spine extrem with paper residue adhered to spine, light foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to ffep) in d/w, VG- (moderate water damage/staining to lower spine extrem, moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine, light to moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1971
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism Shakespeare structure plays stage drama theatre theater
The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis & the Pursuit of Paganism
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black & grey lettering to spine, xvi + 398pp, VG (light creasing & curling to cover edges with some moderate fading, moderate creasing & fading to spine, light soiling to page edges, moderate crack to gutter of pgs 246/247, occasional markings to margins in pencil)
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1986
KEYWORDS: art history literary criticism literature classical classics Ovid metamorphosis philosophy
The Capsule of the Mind: Chapters in the Life of Emily Dickinson
FIRST EDITION, octavo, green buckram boards, black lettering to spine, illus full title page, x + 205pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, light fading to board edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, heavy creasing to edges of pgs 17-34) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges with some minor closed tearing & discreet archival tape repairs, moderate chafing & soiling, light tanning to flaps)
PUBLISHER: The Belknap Press Harvard University Press 1961
KEYWORDS: first edition Emily Dickinson literary literature biographies memoirs poems poetry criticism