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By: Atkins, J.W.H.
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Gloucester, Peter Smith: 1961
Edition: 1st Peter Smith edition
Seller ID: 013886
Originally published in 1934 by the Cambridge University Press. "This attempt at recalling the views on literature current in ancient Greece and Rome is intended not so much for classical specialists as for that larger body of readers, students of English literature among them, who, interested primarily in the critical activities of more modern times, may yet find a discussion of origins not without its value." Both volumes tan cloth w/black spine lettering, 199 ... View more info
By: Atkins, J.W.H.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Gloucester, Peter Smith: 1961
Edition: 1st Peter Smith edition
Seller ID: 013973
Originally published in 1934 by the Cambridge University Press. Tan cloth w/black spine lettering, 211 pages (including Appendix, Index). Light wear to corners/spine ends, previous owner's name to bottom of front free end paper. No dust jacket. View more info
Price: $18.50
Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1971
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 012269
[1942]. An "analysis of the progressive definition of John Milton's social, political and religious opinions during the furtile years of the Puritan Revolution." Grey cloth, 440 pages (including Notes and Bibliography, Index). Only mild general wear, in dust jacket w/one chipped corner, light spine sunning. View more info
By: Barker, Terry
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Dewdney, Synaxis Press: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Inscribed and signed by Barker, on title page
Seller ID: 017796
In a collection of essays Barker "provides not only an insider's commentary on the tradition of People's Poetry in Canadian literature, but in addition a learned discussion of the various philosophies and religious perspectives, esoteric and orthodox, that gave rise to it." Inscription reads: "For Dr. Michael Higgins,/with many thanks for the/encouragement to continue writing/that your favourable personal/review gave me./With very/good luck/Terry Barker/Mar... View more info
By: Bates, Ronald
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Toronto, New Canadian Library/NCL W10/McClelland & Stewart: 1971
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012279
Paperback original. A title from the publisher's 'Canadian Writers' series. 64 pages (including Notes, Selected Bibliography, 2 pages of listings for other titles). A bit of tanning, moderate general wear. A nice copy. View more info
Price: $55.00
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1936
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014273
The author traces the romantic and philosophical nineteenth-century concept of nature "in a synthesis of views derived from science, religion and philosophy; and shows how, in poets like Wordsworth, Emerson and Meredith, the abstract idea supports and is colored by their love for the 'beauteous forms' of the material world and their mystical sense of man's oneness with the universal spirit, providing them with a kind of substitute for dogmatic religion." Green cl... View more info
By: Benstock, Bernard (editor)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Bloomington & Sussex, Indiana University Press & The Harvester Press: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015110
This collection of thirty-four essays marks the centenary of Joyce’s birth, and "brings together some of the finest and most provocative work presented at the Seventh International James Joyce Symposium in Zurich, Switzerland." Green cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 267 pages (including list of contributors). Lightly spotted cloth, faint edge soil, in dust jacket w/a few impressions, 1/4" tear to top left corner of front panel, light general wear. Jacket in... View more info
By: Bloom, Harold
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Chicago & London, University of Chicago Press: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013919
1st printing w/complete number sequence. "An eloquent, passionate, aggressive, highly personal summary and apologia by Harold Bloom of his theoretical and practical literary criticism of the last decade." The first volume in the publisher's 'The Wellek Library Lectures at the University of California, Irvine.' Granite cloth w/white spine lettering, 107 pages. Light wear to corners/spine ends, light edge foxing, in dust jacket w/a hint of wear. A nice copy. View more info
By: Brown, John Russell, and Bernard Harris (editors)
Price: $9.50
Publisher: London, Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd.: 1960
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012278
The second title (following 'Jacobean Theatre' and preceding 'Early Shakespeare') in the publisher's "Stratford-Upon-Avon Studies" series, this one boasting contributions from editor Harris, F.T. Prince, Franklin Dickey, D.G. Rees, Donald Davie, Muriel Bradbrook, Jean Robertson, R.W. Ingram, Frank Kermode, and Robin Skelton. Publisher's tipped-in slip to front end paper indicates that this copy intended for consideration of use as a student text or reference book... View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Toronto, Forum House Publishing Company 616: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012293
Paperback original. A title from the publisher's 'Canadian Writers & their Works' series. 80 pages (including Selected Bibliography). Rubbing, moderate general wear. View more info
Price: $9.50
Publisher: London, Heinemann: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 006285
"The overall theme of this study of the author and his work is Maugham's lifelong quest for freedom from bondage, either for his characters or for himself. In his own life, as in his writing, he had a vision of the world as a prison, its bars prejudice and conventional morality, tears, poverty, disillusionment and old age." Tan cloth, 324 pages (including Appendices, Notes, Select Bibliography, Index. Spine slant, moderate corner/spine end wear, in edgeworn dus... View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, New York Review Books / NYRB: 2006
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016649
First printing w/complete number sequence. Contains "Herakles," "Hekabe," "Hippolytos," and "Alkestis," four tragedies by Euripides translated by Carson, with introductions. Also contains two essays, "Tragedy: A Curious Art Form," and "Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra." Grey boards w/cranberry spine lettering, 312 pages. Bottom corners bumped, in lightly scuffed first state dust jacket w/bumped bottom corners. Dust... View more info
Price: $7.50
Publisher: New Haven & London, Yale University Press: 1968
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012259
From the front flap: "This unique reassessment of a major forerunner of the Augustan age provides a much-needed framework for understanding the transitional period between Jonson and Dryden." Mauve cloth w/silver spine lettering, 236 pages (including Index). Gently bumped corners/spine ends, previous owner's name in pencil to bottom edge of front free end paper, in lightly worn dust jacket w/a bit of spine sunning. View more info
Price: $14.50
Publisher: Ottawa, University of Ottawa Press: 1977
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013998
Literary criticism. A title from the publisher's 'Reappraisals: Canadian Writers' series. In addition to the editor, contributors to this one include Elizabeth Brewster, Ralph Gustafson, Carl F. Klinck, Germaine Warkentin, Peter Stevens, Peter Buitenhuis, Sandra Djwa, Peter Hunt, Agnes Nyland, Robert Gibbs, and Louis K. MacKendrick. Lila Laakso contributes a checklist. 172 pages, frontispiece. Moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean. View more info
By: Dahlie, Hallvard
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Toronto, Copp Clark Publishing Company SCL2: 1969
Seller ID: 012297
A title from the publisher's 'Studies in Canadian Literature' series. 130 pages (including Notes, Bibliography), cover by Alan K. Daniel. Light general wear; internally tight and clean. View more info
By: Davey, Frank
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Copp Clark 1633: 1971
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 011670
#11 in the publisher's Studies in Canadian Literature series, featuring a look at the career, novels, lyrics and major poems of one of Canada's most distinguished writers; cover by Alan K. Daniel; 128 pgs., incl. Notes and Bibliography; tanned pages, slightly sunned spine, light general wear; internally tight and clean; View more info
By: Davey, Frank
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Toronto, Copp Clark Publishing Company SCL11: 1971
Seller ID: 012298
A title from the publisher's 'Studies in Canadian Literature' series. 128 pages (including Notes, Bibliography), cover by Alan K. Daniel. Slight spine sunning, light general wear; internally tight and clean. View more info
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Black Moss Press 88753: 1978
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012340
Examines the work of eleven Canadian poets, including John Robert Colombo, Michael Ondaatje, David McFadden, Frank Davey, George Bowering, Daphne Marlatt, bpNichol, bill bissett, Margaret Atwood, John Newlove, and Leonard Cohen. 226 pages. Moderate general wear. View more info
By: Dix, Carol
Price: $27.50
Publisher: London & Basingstoke, Macmillan Press: 1980
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012980
Refuting Kate Millett's accusation that Lawrence treated women as inferior objects, Dix points out that "Lawrence saw more in women and the feminine principle than had most of his contemporaries," and that his work in this regard was considerably ahead of its time. Blue cloth, 126 pages (including Bibliography, Index), dust jacket illustration by Lynn Duncombe. Gently bumped/lightly worn corners/spine ends, moderate general wear, in rubbed dust jacket w/price-cli... View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Chicago, The Swallow Press: 1976
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: nf.00044
"This volume presents a checklist of twentieth-century criticisms of the English novel from Defoe through Hardy. The list, which closes with 1974, has two parts: an alphabetical listing of novelists and novels and a listing of general studies of the novel." Sources of criticism of such writers as Austen, Bronte (all 3 of them), John Cleland, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Kingsley, Rudyard Kipling, Tho... View more info
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Berkeley & Los Angeles, University of California Press: 1963
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012323
A reappraisal of Pope's poetry, finding "in his later work a significant change from the balanced 'Augustan' style in the poems before the Dunciad and the moral satires of the 1730's." Green and yellow boards, 142 pages (including Notes). Bumped/moderately worn corners, bumps to bottom edge of back cover, previous owner's name along bottom edge of front end paper, small sticker (UTP University Bookroom) to bottom edge of front pastedown, moderate general wear, in... View more info
By: Eliot, T.S.
Price: $8.50
Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 1965
Edition: 1st US edition
Seller ID: 016226
Contains a selection of Eliot's writings previously unpublished in book form. Sand cloth, 189 pages. A hint of edge soil, light wear to corners/spine ends, previous owner's name/date to top edge of front end paper, in dust jacket w/light chipping to corners/spine ends, sunned (legible) spine, tiny soil mark to top edge of front panel. View more info
By: Farley-Hills, David (editor)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012358
"This collection of critical extracts on the poetry of John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, ranges from the earliest contemporary comments to the beginning of the twentieth century." Blue cloth, 275 pages (including Bibliography, Index). Bumped/lightly worn corners/pine ends, previous owner's name in pencil, in rubbed dust jacket w/moderate edgewear. View more info
By: Fetherling, Doug
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Toronto, Forum House Publishing Company 619: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012294
Paperback original. A title from the publisher's 'Canadian Writers & their Works' series. 80 pages (including Bibliography). Light general wear. View more info
By: Fiore, Amadeus P. (editor)
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Pittsburgh, Duquesne University Press: 1967
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012367
The tenth volume in the Duquesne Studies, Philological Series. Contributors include Merritt Y. Hughes, William B. Hunter Jr., Maurice Kelly, Edward Le Comte, B. Rajan, John T. Shawcross, Wayne Shumaker, John M. Steadman, Kester Svendsen, Robert West, and B.A. Wright. Red cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 149 pages. Previous owner's name in pencil to bottom edge of front free end paper, light general wear, in dust jacket w/moderate edgewear, 1.5" tear to top edge of rear ... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Montreal & London, McGill-Queen's University Press:
Seller ID: 006190
"Since the Romantic revolt, the interest of Western artists in the irrational and the psychological has often centred on a self-conscious exploration of subjective emotions. Increasingly, the witer has come to see the problem of art as how best to embody the tensions, concerns, and insights which he finds in his psychic self. It is Professor Gose's contention that some of the major English novelists of the nineteenth century found their solutions to this problem in a... View more info
By: Gosse, Fayette
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Melbourne, Oxford University Press: 1965
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 006150
A title from the Australian Writers and Their Work series edited by Geoffrey Dutton, this one concerning a writer described by the author as "not a great writer. Sometimes he is brilliant, sometimes clumsy; but he is always odd--which makes him more interesting though more exasperating than a writer of average talent." Published by Lansdowne Press, this copy bears an OUP sticker across the Lansdowne imprint on the title page, and another across the copyright inf... View more info
Price: $6.50
Publisher: Kingston, McGill Queen's: 1989
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: nf.00093
"Tradition and Discontinuity in Jewish-Canadian Literature." 232 pages (including Index). Lightly dusted edges. Dust jacket w/light rubbing, light edgewear, mild spine sunning. View more info
By: Guilhamet, Leon
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Montreal & London, McGill-Queen's University Press: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: nf.00087
"Studies on Sincerity in Eighteenth-Century Literature." 309 pages (including index). Previous owner's name neatly printed along top edge of front endpaper. View more info
By: Hecht, Hans
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Glasgow & Edinburgh, William Hodge & Company: 1950
Edition: 2nd revised edition
Seller ID: 006540
Originally published in German in 1919, then translated by Jane Lymburn and published by Hodge in 1936. Hecht contends that the space between Burns and himself permits him a less biased view, if an also less acute one. Contains the author's Preface to the first English edition. Foreword by Sir Patrick J. Dollan. Laid in is a piece of ephemera of moderate interest, that being an advance order form for the 1936 Hodge edition, consisting of an 8.5" x 11" single ... View more info
By: Hespelt, E. Herman, et al (editors)
Price: $8.50
Publisher: New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts:
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 013870
Studies "the scope and subject matter of courses on Spanish American literature in the colleges and universities of the United States." Blue cloth w/gilt lettering, 192 pages (including Appendices, Index), illustrated w/maps. Moderate wear to corners/spine ends, previous owner's name/city to front free end paper, light general wear. No dust jacket. View more info
By: Hoar, Victor
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Toronto, Copp Clark Publishing Company SCL4: 1969
Seller ID: 012299
A title from the publisher's 'Studies in Canadian Literature' series. 123 pages (including notes, bibliography), cover by Alan K. Daniel. Slight spine sunning, light general wear; internally tight and clean. View more info
By: Howard, Edwin J.
Price: $6.00
Publisher: New York, Twayne Publishers: 1964
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013881
The first title from the publisher's Twayne's English Authors Series (TEAS 1), this one "a fresh and stimulating study of England's first great poet." Red leatherette w/gilt lettering/lion decoration to front cover/spine, 219 pages (including Notes and References, Selected Bibliography, Index). Mild slant, previous owner's name to bottom edge of front end paper, light general wear, in rubbed dust jacket w/sunned (entirely legible) spine, light chipping to spine e... View more info
By: Hughes, David
Price: $10.00
Publisher: London, Rupert Hart-Davies: 1958
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014433
Green cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 226 pages (including A Select Bibliography, Index), frontispiece. View more info
By: Hughes, Peter
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Toronto, New Canadian Library/NCL W13/McClelland & Stewart: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012282
Paperback original. A title from the publisher's 'Canadian Writers' series. 64 pages (including References, Selective Bibliography, listings for other titles). A bit of tanning, moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean. A nice copy. View more info
By: Huse, Nancy
Price: $7.00
Publisher: New York, Twayne Publishers: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016376
1st printing w/complete number sequence. Atitle from the Twayne's English Authors Series, this one exploring Streatfeild's many children's novels, as well as her non-fiction and autobiography. Red cloth, 163 pages (including Notes and References, Selected Bibliography, Index), frontispiece illustration by Ruth Gervis. An unread copy. Rubbed/scuffed dust jacket. View more info
By: Huse, Nancy
Price: $6.50
Publisher: New York, Twayne Publishers: 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016977
1st printing w/complete number sequence. Atitle from the Twayne's English Authors Series, this one exploring Streatfeild's many children's novels, as well as her non-fiction and autobiography. Red cloth, 163 pages (including notes and references, selected bibliography, index), frontispiece illustration by Ruth Gervis. An unread copy. Rubbed/scuffed dust jacket w/a hint of edgewear, faint/thin scratch to top portion of front panel. View more info
By: Janicka-Swiderska, Irena, Jerzy Jarniewicz, and Adam Sumera (editors)
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Lodz, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Lodzkiego (University of Lodz): 2000
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 016894
A collection of articles that "came into being as a result of a four-year scholarly link (1995/1996--1998/1999) between the Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, and the Department of English Literature and Culture as well as -- in the last two years -- the Department of Studies in English Drama and Poetry, University of Lodz." Contributors include Jacques Berthoud, Richard Drain, Maria Edelson, Dorota Filipczak, editors Jarniewicz an... View more info
By: Jay, Paul
Price: $14.00
Publisher: Ithaca & London, Cornell University Press: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013877
The author "traces the impact of changing concepts of the self and the literary subject on the formal evolution of autobiographical prose and poetry in the Romantic and modern periods." brown cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 189 pages (including Index). mild wear to corners/spine ends, previous owner's neat underlining to many paragraphs in Introduction, in lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Jacket in protective mylar sleeve. View more info
By: Jones, D.G.
Price: $9.50
Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1971
Seller ID: 012277
Originally published in 1970. Brown cloth w/black cloth spine w/gilt lettering, 197 pages (including Notes, Index). Mild wear to corners/spine ends, previous owner's name to verso of half-title, previous owner's marginalia (vertical lines here and there throughout), in moderately edgeworn dust jacket w/a bit of chipping/short tears to corners/spine ends, general wear. View more info
By: Kogan, Pauline
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Montreal, Progressive Books & Periodicals: 1969
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012384
With much earnestness the author works herself into a self-righteous froth as she dissects the views of Northrop Frye, and informs us that the "correct way to conduct class struggle in the area of literature, art and criticism is to rely upon the initiative of the masses, to place proper emphasis on investigation and study, and to mobilize public opinion through ideological discussion." 98 pages. Sunned spine, small splashstain to left edge of front cover, slight... View more info
By: Kramer, Victor A. (editor)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Troy, Whitston Publishing Company: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013878
A collection of essays "chosen as an introduction to various area of contemporary criticism and theory." Contributors include Murray Krieger, Nathan A. Scott, Jr., Gerald Graff, Vincent B. Leitch, Joseph Riddell, William V. Spanos, J. Hillis Miller, Norman N. Holland, David Bleich, Michael Steig, Charles Altieri, Steven Mailloux, Hershel Parker, Michael Sprinker, Matei Calinescu, Giles Gunn, and Ihab Hassan. Blue cloth w/gilt lettering to front cover/spine, 447 p... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Lewisburg/London & Toronto, Bucknell University Press / Associated University Presses: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 017605
"The most comprehensive and original of the studies dealing with Joyce's response to the idea of God accepted in Ireland and to the sacred images and rituals prevalent there ... shows how in Ulysses he undermines and exploits the crucial elements of his rejected faith: how he recalls the omnipotent Father to reveal his artistic powers, the incarnated Son to celebrate his own human images, and the consecrated host to imply his hidden spiritual presence." Black c... View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Winnipeg, University of Manitoba Libraries: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 010022
Beginning in 1978, Livesay began to donate her papers to the University of Manitoba Libraries, and this publication details the vast majority of her work available to researchers. Divided into four sections: Manuscripts and Papers, Photograph Collection, Tape Recording Collection, and Books and Imprints Collection. 419 pages (including appendices), illustrated. Edgewear, reading crease, rubbing, impressions, moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean. Scarce... View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York, Bookman Associates/Twayne Publishers: 1951
Seller ID: 012431
From the front flap: "Mr. Louthan's careful explication of some of Donne's most important and rewarding verse leads naturally into broader questions concerning the poetic philosophy represented there. Combining lucid interpretation of Donne's complex poems with a systematic study of his metrics and imagery, 'The Poetry of John Donne' provides an excellent introduction to this significant poet and thinker." Lilac boards, 194 pages (including Notes, Bibliography, A... View more info
Price: $22.50
Publisher: Guelph, Alive Press Limited/Alive Books: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013966
Literary criticism. The author examines the development of the Canadian short story, and shows that it has a long and distinguished history. 100 pages (including A Selective Bibliograpy. Light general wear. Internally tight and clean. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Fredericton, York Press Ltd.: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 010624
A title from the publisher's Authoritative Studies in World Literature series, this one examining the life and work of "the most widely read Spanish author of the century." Uncommon. 40 pages (including annotated bibliography, index. Rubbing, impressions/thin scratches, light smudging to white wraps. Internally tight and clean. View more info
By: Mandel, Eli
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Toronto, Forum House Publishing Company 582: 1972
Seller ID: 012295
[1969]. A title from the publisher's 'Canadian Writers & their Works' series. 82 pages (including Selected Bibliography). Light general wear. View more info
By: McNelly, Willis E. (editor)
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Shreveport, College English Association: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013923
A chap book originally distributed as a Supplement to the CEA Critic, Vol. XXXVII, No. I, November 1974. A collection of essays from both professional writers and critics, attempting "to aid teachers of English, at whatever level, who might be approaching science fiction for the firt time. In addition to the editor, contributors include Jack Williamson, Mark R. Hillegas, Jane W. Hipolito, Leon E. Stover, A. James Stupple, Gregory Benford, Brian Aldiss, Harry Harrison... View more info
By: Miner, Earl
Price: $12.50
Publisher: Princeton University Press: 1969
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012330
Brown cloth, 291 pages (including Appendix, Major Editions Used and Consulted, Index). Previous owner's name on front end paper, light general wear, in price-clipped dust jacket w/moderate edgewear, short edge tears. View more info
Price: $8.50
Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press: 1979
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013892
Beige cloth, 235 pages (including Notes, Bibliography, Index). Lightly foxed edges, in lightly rubbed dust jacket. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Montreal & London, McGill-Queen's University Press: 1972
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 006287
Considering White's view of mankind to be basically religious, "the author shows how the imagery and themes of each novel evoke this vision of cosmic unity within the joys and sorrows of daily life." Red cloth, 251 pages (including Index). A bumped corner, previous owner's name on front free end paper. Moderately edgeworn dust jacket w/mild rubbing, light general wear. View more info
By: Morpurgo, J.E.
Price: $14.50
Publisher: Manchester, Carcanet Press: 1990
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004862
A Scholar of Christ's Hospital, the author relates an eventful life, including his active service in World War II, his participation in the post-war success of Penguin Books, and his time as director of the National Book League. Black cloth, 332 pages (including Index). Dust jacket w/some sunning to spine, numerous impressions/scratches. View more info
Price: $17.50
Publisher: Toronto, McGraw-Hill Ryerson:
Seller ID: 006156
A title from the publisher's Critical Views on Canadian Writers series, this one presenting a collection of essays/reviews examining the work of a noted Canadian poet and novelist. Editor Nesbitt has selected assessments by Northrop Frye, Fred Cogswell, A.J.M. Smith, George Woodcock, Dorothy Livesay, Watson Kirkconnell, Malcolm Lowry and a number of others, and their views of Birney's work are grouped into five sections: 1) ONE SOCIETY: Poetry, 1937-1948, 2) LINES FOR A... View more info
By: Ngara, Emmanuel
Price: $25.00
Publisher: London & Ibadan & Nairobi, Heinemann: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015136
This is the first book to apply the principles of Marxist criticism systematically to African literature and to attempt a successful marriage of Marxist aesthetics and stylistic criticism. It explores the influence of Marxism on African writing and discusses the ideology of writers in relation to socialism." 126 pages (including bibliography, index). Light general wear. Internally tight and clean. View more info
By: Ngara, Emmanuel
Price: $17.50
Publisher: London & Ibadan & Nairobi, Heinemann: 1982
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015137
From the back cover: "This book gives students invaluable help in the difficult task of evaluating style. The author breaks away from the conventional methods of analysis to show how linguistics can contribute to the study of literature. Form and content are considered as equals in practical analysis." 150 pages. Light general wear. Internally tight and clean. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Toronto & Buffalo & London, University of Toronto Press: 1979
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 006348
"A study of how Newfoundland has been perceived over the centuries by the islanders themselves and by outsiders. It offers an integrated survey of Newfoundland literature, culture, and history. It illustrates the forces that have made Newfoundland a special place and Newfoundlanders a special people, 'a breed apart.'" Decorated grey cloth, 222 pages (including Notes/Credits for illustrations/Index, illustrated. View more info
Price: $13.00
Publisher: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul: 1978
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012254
A collection of lectures "delivered at the University of York in 1977 and 1978 to mark the occasion of the 300th anniversary of Marvell's death in 1678." Contributors include Philip Brockbank, John Carey, Robert Ellrodt, Donald M. Friedman, S.K. Heninger, Jr., Christopher Hill, John Dixon Hunt, Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, Louis L. Martz, the editor, Balachandra Rajan, Christopher Ricks, A.J. Smith, Frank. J. Warnke, and Joseph Anthony Wittreich, Jr. Red cloth w/silv... View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart / M&S: 1975
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 009330
In honour of Kirkconnell's eightieth birthday and at the behest of the Board of Governors of Acadia University, six colleagues composed original papers, each reflecting one of their subject's major interests. Contributors include Douglas Bush, C.H. Andrusyshen, Maurice Lebel, J. Max Patrick, E. Togo Salmon, and the editor. Also included is a biographical sketch by J.M.R. Beveridge, and a selective bibliography by H.W. Ganong. Brown cloth, 128 pages, frontispiece. Rub... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: London, Modern Humanities Research Association (MRHA):
Seller ID: 014308
No date [ca. 1988]. Offprint from 'The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Vol. 49.' 578 pages (+ 51-page list of Abbreviations). Spine slant, abrasions/wrinkling to spine, some edgewear, mild general wear. View more info
By: Pugh, Anthony R.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Toronto & Buffalo, University of Toronto Press: 1974
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 009374
with the text on the front flap stating that "There has never been an accurate, comprehensive account of the origin, development, and significance of Balzac's use of recurring characters in the many volumes of the 'Comedie humaine,'" the author herein "traces the use of the device and unravels its complexities over the whole of Balzac's career by providing a year-by-year account of the author's struggles beween 1829 and 1847 to unify his fictional world of so... View more info
By: Rae, Wesley D.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, Twayne Publishers: 1967
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013872
Literary criticism. A title from the publisher's Twayne's English Authors Series (TEAS 59), this one taking a serious look at a man who "experimented in prose fiction and the essay, in drama, verse narrative and verse satire, and in various forms of lyrics." Red leatherette w/gilt lettering/lion decoration to front cover/spine, 128 pages (including Notes and References, Selected Bibliography, Index). Previous owner's name to reverse of half-title, in rubbed dust ... View more info
By: Rajan, B.
Price: $7.50
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1966
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 012364
The author presents "the correct setting of 'Paradise Lost' in its contemporary context, so that the modern reader can more fully appreciate the general conception of the poem and the ideas implicit in it." Red cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 171 pages (including Notes, Index to Passages from "Paradise Lost," and General Index). Gently bumped spine ends/corners, previous owner's name, in price-clipped dust jacket w/sunned spine, 3/8" tear to top edge of... View more info
By: Rajan, Balachandra (editor)
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1969
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012267
A collection of five papers "given at a conference of Milton scholars, held at the University of Western Ontario on the occasion of the tercentenary of Paradise Lost." Contributors include Roy Daniels, Northrop Frye, Arthur E. Barker, Hugh MacCallum, and the editor. Cream cloth w/black spine lettering, 140 pages. Small sticker (University Bookroom) to bottom right corner of front pastedown, previous owner's name to bottom edge of front end paper, in dust jacket w... View more info
By: Reid, Lindsay, Lisa Mullins, Ron Haflidson, and Hugh Samson (editors)
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Halifax, The Early Modern Studies Department / University of King's College: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by Two Editors
Seller ID: 016939
Students from King's College and Dartmouth University provide a collection of student essays that are "explorations, proposals, interpretations, and diatribes about the historical events, literature, philosophy, and art, that helped shape Western Society." Contributors include the editors, Samuel Austin, Jesse Blackwood, Naomi Blackwood, John Blanchard, Sarah Brodbar-Nemzer, Robyn Brown, James Bryson, Jeremy Dickstein, Micheal Fountain, Ross Gower, Christopher H... View more info
By: Reinhold, Meyer
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Toronto, Hakkert: 1972
Seller ID: 008566
a study of mythology, including interpretations and heroes, with attention paid to the myths of Crete, Athens, Thessaly, Thebes, Argos, Olympus, Rome, and much else; red cloth, 449 pgs. incl. Bibliography/Index of Recurrent Themes/General Index + 3 pgs. of maps; some slant, wear to corners/spine ends, dusty/lightly soiled edges, light cloth soil, light internal soil; lacking dj; View more info
By: Rosenthal, M.L.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York, Universal Library/Grosset & Dunlap: 1966
Edition: 1st Universal Library edition
Seller ID: 012271
The author "has provided an admirable and evocative introduction to the enjoyment and study of Pound's works. His Primer serves at once to trace Pound's literary and political position and to suggest how to approach the poet's rewarding if sometimes formidable art. Its chief concern is to examine what it is that gives the poetry, early and late, its peculiar and original force, its depth and complexity, and to suggest the passions and convictions from which the poetr... View more info
By: Seronsy, Cecil
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Twayne Publishers: 1967
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013871
A title from the publisher's Twayne's English Authors Series (TEAS 49), this one showing through critical examination that Daniel was an innovator in several genres. Red leatherette w/gilt lettering/lion decoration to front cover/spine, 198 pages (including Notes and References, Selected Bibliography, Index). Previous owner's name to reverse of half-title, tanning, in dust jacket w/sunned (entirely legible) spine, light edgewear, rubbing. Dust jacket in protective mylar ... View more info
By: Simmonds, James D. (editor)
Price: $20.00
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press: 1969
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012369
The first volume in an annual series of "original essays designed to reflect the best in contemporary Milton scholarship," this one containing essays by B. Rajan, Thomas Kranidas, Mario A. Di Cesare, Jackson I. Cope, John M. Steadman, Arnold Stein, Louis L. Martz, Anthony Low, O.B. Hardison Jr., and Michael Fixler. Black cloth w/silver spine lettering, 192 pages. Dust jacket w/sunned spine, a bit of corner wear. View more info
By: Smith, Eric
Price: $6.00
Publisher: London, Croom Helm: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012338
"The Myth of the Fall of Man is a continuing theme that runs throughout English literature. Eric Smith examines various works in which the theme occurs and discovers that the story itself is used to express individual experience." Foreword by J.I.M. Stewart (who, as a mystery writer, is much better known by his pseudonym, Michael Innes). Brown cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 228 pages (including Notes and Appendices), illustrated. View more info
Price: $6.50
Publisher: Toronto, Copp Clark Publishing Company SCL3: 1969
Seller ID: 012301
A title from the publisher's 'Studies in Canadian Literature' series. 175 pages (including Notes, Bibliography), cover by Alan K. Daniel. Light general wear; internally tight and clean. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1967
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 007774
Literary criticism. "The central focus of the study is on 'Tristram Shandy' as comedy and on Sterne's use of Tristram as clown-narrator; other chapters are devoted to the genres to which 'Tristram Shandy' is related, to analysis of style, the satiric as well as the comic elements, and to the significant connections between the 'Sermons of Mr. Yorick' and 'A Sentimental Journey'." Pale green cloth, 178 pages (including appendix and index. A hint of wear to corn... View more info
By: Stein, Arnold
Price: $12.50
Publisher: Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press: 1962
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 015679
Stein "offers a fresh interpretation of Donne's lyric poems." Green cloth, 244 pages (including postscript, appendices, index). Slight discolouration to top edge, lightly tanned edges, faint soil mark to top edge near headband, in rubbed dust jacket w/impressions, moderate edgewear, short tears. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press: 1973
Seller ID: 015249
"A careful and full examination of the stream-of-consciousness and other literary techniques as employed by Joyce." Brown cloth w/black spine lettering, 349 pages (including appendix, notes, index), dust jacket by Gary Gore. Price-clipped dust jacket. View more info
By: Stich, K.P.
Price: $9.50
Publisher: Ottawa, University of Ottawa Press: 1980
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014004
Literary criticism. A title from the publisher's 'Reappraisals: Canadian Writers' series. Contributors include Glenn Clever, Fred Cogswell, C.M. Armitage, Sandra Campbell, James Doyle, Stan Dragland, John Flood, Peter Haworth, Gordon Johnston, Catherine E. Kelly, John P. Matthews, Robert L. McDougall, Kathy Mezei, and Martin Ware. 157 pages, frontispiece. Moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean. View more info
Price: $7.50
Publisher: Coles 607:
Seller ID: 010231
originally published in 1971, when Blais had barely reached her thirties, this slender volume examines her eight novels, two volumes of verse, her play, and a variety of short stories; 70 pgs. incl. Bibliography; mild edgewear, original price sticker to top right corner of front cover, thin scratches; View more info
Price: $14.50
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1970
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012239
The author "gives us essays on seventeenth-century poets who were affected in one way or another by Donne or Jonson or by both of them." Mauve cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 198 pages (including Notes, Index). Mild slant, gently bumped spine ends, light tanning, in price-clipped dust jacket w/mild chipping to corners/spine ends, a couple of 1/2" edge tears, light spine sunning, crinkled top edge of front panel, light general wear. An entirely serviceable copy. View more info
By: Thomas, Clara
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Toronto, New Canadian Library/NCL W3/McClelland & Stewart: 1971
Edition: 2nd printing
Seller ID: 012288
Paperback original. A title from the publisher's 'Canadian Writers' series. 64 pages (including Selected Bibliography, Acknowledgements, listing of other NCL titles). A bit of tanning, moderate general wear. View more info
By: Tierney, Frank M. (editor)
Price: $17.50
Publisher: Ottawa, University of Ottawa Press: 1979
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014005
Literary criticism. A title from the publisher's 'Reappraisals: Canadian Writers' series. Contributors include Dorothy Livesay, Penny Petrone, Margo Dunn, John Ower, Orest Rudzik, Elizabeth Waterston, Fred Cogswell, Kenneth Hughes, S.R. MacGillivray, Catherine Ross, Louis Dudek, Anne Paolucci, and Clara Thomas. 158 pages, frontispiece. Moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean. View more info
By: Trotter, David
Price: $45.00
Publisher: London & Basingstoke, Macmillan: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 013893
The author "describes how rhetorical and thematic resources have been used" in an effort to "identify and address those readers who do not merely snatch a glance" at poetry. Orange cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 272 pages (including References, Index). A bumped corner, a hint of wear to corners/spine ends, in moderately worn dust jacket. View more info
By: White, Andrew
Price: $5.50
Publisher: Grove Press/Evergreen Pilot EP31: 1965
Edition: 1st Evergreen Pilot edition
Seller ID: 011662
Originally published the same year by Oliver & Boyd. Offers "a brief biographical account, a detailed survey of the writer's work, a report on the best published criticism, and a selected bibliography." 122 pages (including Bibliography). Rubbing, moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean. View more info
By: Williamson, Jack
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Baltimore, The Mirage Press: 1973
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 014700
Literary criticism. From the front flap: "Whether Wells was writing about technical or social prediction, or science fiction, his underlying theme was that of progress. This book deals with Wells' dynamic critique of progress, accomplished by means of a detailed analysis of the books Wells wrote." One of only fifteen hundred copies. Black cloth, 162 pages (including index), wraparound dust jacket illustration by Greg Bear. An ex-Legislative Library of New B... View more info
By: Wilson, Angus
Price: $8.50
Publisher: London, Secker & Warburg: 1963
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 006176
Based on three Ewing Lectures given by the author at UCLA in October of 1960, the purpose being to encourage writers to speak about their art (since when has *that* been a problem?). Blue cloth, 150 pages. Dusty/tanned edges, mild slant, faint corner/spine end wear, ink price to top right corner of front free end paper. Rubbed dust jacket w/scratches/scraping, impressions, edgewear, flaking to folds/spine edges, ink price at bottom of front flap. View more info
By: Wilson, Milton
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Toronto, New Canadian Library/NCL W2/McClelland & Stewart: 1969
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 012289
A title from the publisher's 'Canadian Writers' series. 64 pages (including Selected Bibliography, Acknowledgements, Notes, listing of other NCL titles). A bit of tanning, moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean; a nice copy. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood and Sons: 1857
Seller ID: 007124
Contains essays on Robert Burns, Coleridge, Macaulay, Shakespeare, and others. Curiously, the last page (431) contains the notation, "End of Vol. VII", and following that is the title page for Vol. VII in the series. Brown buckram ruled and decorated in blind, gilt spine lettering, 431 pages + title page for Vol. VII. Some edgewear, worn corners/spine ends, cloth soil, tanned/soiled edges, moderate general wear. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New Canadian Library N115: 1975
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by General Editor
Seller ID: 004996
Signed by general rditor. Twenty-eight essays by twenty-six writers representing a cross-section of the various voices of Canadian literary criticism, and offering an assessment of Canadian fiction throughout the 20th century (well, up until 1975, at least). This copy signed by Malcolm Ross, General Editor of the New Canadian Library series. Contributors include W.H. New, D.A. Cameron, D.O. Spettigue, Peter Stevens, Warren Tallman, Margaret Laurence, Mordecai Richler, ... View more info
Price: $8.50
Publisher: Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press: 1973
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 014060
A collection of essays presenting Lowry's work and the sources from which he constructed it. 174 pages (including Notes on Contributors and Selected Bibliography. Some slant, rubbing, light corner wear. View more info
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press: 1971
Seller ID: 006198
A collection of essays presenting Lowry's work and the sources from which he constructed it. 174 pages (including Notes on Contributors and Selected Bibliography). Some slant, some sunning, crease to top left corner of back cover. View more info
