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LITERARY CRITICISM IN ANTIQUITY, A Sketch of its Development, Volume I--Greek, and Volume II--Graeco-Roman

By: Atkins, J.W.H.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Gloucester, Peter Smith: 1961

Seller ID: 013886

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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 pages including Index & 363 pages including Index. Both volumes w/light general wear.
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Milton and the Puritan Dilemma 1641-1660

By: Barker, Arthur E.

Price: $18.50

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1971

Seller ID: 012269

ISBN: 0-8020-5025-5

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

[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.
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BEYOND BETHUNE: People's Poetry and Milton Acorn's Metaphor for the Canadian Fate (signed)

By: Barker, Terry

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Dewdney, Synaxis Press: 2006

Seller ID: 017796

ISBN: 0-919-67246-9

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good to Fine

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/March 1, 2006." Erratum page (122) glued over original error page. 174 pages (including bibliography, index), illustrated. Light rubbing,...
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The Concept of Nature in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry

By: Beach, Joseph Warren

Price: $55.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1936

Seller ID: 014273

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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 cloth w/gilt lettering to front cover/spine, 618 pages (including Notes, Index). Bumped corners/spine ends, dusty/lightly tanned/lightl...
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The Seventh of Joyce

By: Benstock, Bernard (editor)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Bloomington & Sussex, Indiana University Press & The Harvester Press: 1982

Seller ID: 015110

ISBN: 0-253-35184-7

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

This collection of thirty-four essays marks the centenary of Joyces 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 protective mylar sleeve.
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IRISH BARDIC POETRY, Texts and translations, together with an introductory lecture

By: Bergin, Osborn (compiled and edited by David Greene and Fergus Kelly)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Dublin, The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies: 1984

Seller ID: 018613

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The lecture in the sub-title was delivered by Bergin in Dublin in 1912 to the National Literary Society. This contains the texts and translations of 66 early modern poems that Bergin edited, and which are generally considered the gold standard for such work. Foreword by D.A. Binchy. White cloth w/gilt spine lettering in brown backgrounds, 320 pages (including index to unpublished Irish poems, index of first lines), frontispiece. Smudging/moderate soil to cloth, bumped corners/spine ends, light general wear.
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Elizabethan Poetry

By: Brown, John Russell, and Bernard Harris (editors)

Price: $9.50

Publisher: London, Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd.: 1960

Seller ID: 012278

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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. Green cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 224 pages (including Index), illustrated. Tanned/dusty edges, in price-clipped dust jacket w/su...
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W. Somerset Maugham and the Quest for Freedom

By: Calder, Robert Lorin

Price: $9.50

Publisher: London, Heinemann: 1972

Seller ID: 006285

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

"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 dust jacket w/soil/smudging to rear panel.
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GRIEF LESSONS, Four Plays by Euripides

By: Carson, Anne (translator)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, New York Review Books / NYRB: 2006

Seller ID: 016649

ISBN: 1-59017-180-2

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

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 jacket in protective mylar sleeve.
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The Poetry of Limitation: A Study of Edmund Waller

By: Chernaik, Warren L.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: New Haven & London, Yale University Press: 1968

Seller ID: 012259

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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The E.J. Pratt Symposium

By: Clever, Glenn (editor)

Price: $14.50

Publisher: Ottawa, University of Ottawa Press: 1977

Seller ID: 013998

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Brian Moore

By: Dahlie, Hallvard

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Toronto, Copp Clark Publishing Company SCL2: 1969

Seller ID: 012297

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

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.
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DIVISIONS OF THE HEART, Elizabeth Bishop and the Art of Memory and Place

By: Davies, Gwendolyn, Sandra Barry, Peter Sanger (editors)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Wolfville, Gaspereau Press: 2001

Seller ID: 018343

ISBN: 1-894031-31-8

Binding: Wraps w/French flaps

Condition: Very Good to Fine

A collection of 25 essays presented at a symposium held at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, in 1998, to honour the life and work of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet/short story writer. Contributors include Crystal Bacon, Marian Bannerman, Sandra Barry, Brian Bartlett, Neil Besner, Theodore Colson, Barbara Comins, Gwen Davies, Jeffery Donaldson, Patricia Dwyer, Lilian Falk, Andre Furlani, Gary Fountain, Glen Robert Gill, Lorrie Goldensohn, Michael Happy, Kathleen Johnson, Ross Leckie, Elizabeth McKim, Laura Jehn Menides, Sara Meyer, Roger Moore, Brian Robinson, Camille Roman, Peter ...
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D.H. Lawrence and Women

By: Dix, Carol

Price: $27.50

Publisher: London & Basingstoke, Macmillan Press: 1980

Seller ID: 012980

ISBN: 0 333 19731 3

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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-clipped flap, impressions, light general wear.
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This Dark Estate: A Reading of Pope

By: Edwards, Thomas R. Jr.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Berkeley & Los Angeles, University of California Press: 1963

Seller ID: 012323

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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 moderately edgeworn and price-clipped dust jacket w/sun-darkened spine, short edge tears, moderate general wear.
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ROCHESTER, The Critical Heritage

By: Farley-Hills, David (editor)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Routledge & Kegan Paul: 1972

Seller ID: 012358

ISBN: 0 7100 7157 4

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

"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.
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TH'UPRIGHT HEART AND PURE, Essays on John Milton Commemorating the Tercentenary of the Publication of Paradise Lost

By: Fiore, Amadeus P. (editor)

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Pittsburgh, Duquesne University Press: 1967

Seller ID: 012367

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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 panel, .5" tear to bottom edge of front panel, small triangular chip from left corner of top edge of front panel.
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IMAGINATION INDULGED, The irrational in the nineteenth-century novel

By: Gose, Elliott B., Jr.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Montreal & London, McGill-Queen's University Press:

Seller ID: 006190

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

"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 adapting literary forms which predate Romanticism. Even before the end of the eighteenth century, the gothic novelists were beginn...
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William Gosse Hay

By: Gosse, Fayette

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Melbourne, Oxford University Press / Clarendon / Sandpiper Books: 1965

Seller ID: 006150

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

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 information on the copyright page. 36 pages (including Select Bibliography), tipped-in frontispiece. Faint ink star on inside back cov...
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Third Solitudes

By: Greenstein, Michael

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Kingston, McGill Queen's: 1989

Seller ID: nf.00093

ISBN: 0-7735-0675-6

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

"Tradition and Discontinuity in Jewish-Canadian Literature." 232 pages (including Index). Lightly dusted edges. Dust jacket w/light rubbing, light edgewear, mild spine sunning.
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The Sincere Ideal

By: Guilhamet, Leon

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Montreal & London, McGill-Queen's University Press: 1974

Seller ID: nf.00087

ISBN: 0 7733 0189 4

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

"Studies on Sincerity in Eighteenth-Century Literature." 309 pages (including index). Previous owner's name neatly printed along top edge of front endpaper.
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ROBERT BURNS The Man and His Work

By: Hecht, Hans

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Glasgow & Edinburgh, William Hodge & Company: 1950

Seller ID: 006540

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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 sheet folded once vertically, and displaying as page 1 the 1936 title page (with "Ready January, 1936" and "Price 12/6 net." across t...
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Geoffrey Chaucer

By: Howard, Edwin J.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Twayne Publishers: 1964

Seller ID: 013881

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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 ends/corners, general wear.
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J.B. PRIESTLY, An Informal Study of His Work

By: Hughes, David

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Rupert Hart-Davies: 1958

Seller ID: 014433

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Green cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 226 pages (including A Select Bibliography, Index), frontispiece.
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Jewish Themes in English and Polish Culture

By: Janicka-Swiderska, Irena, Jerzy Jarniewicz, and Adam Sumera (editors)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Lodz, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Lodzkiego (University of Lodz): 2000

Seller ID: 016894

ISBN: 83-7171-367-3

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: About Very Good

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 and Sumera, Ewa Kozubska, Mary Luckhurst, A. David Moody, and Andrzej Wicher. 196 pages, illustrated. Rubbing, some edgewear, impress...
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The Sources and Structures of James Joyce's "Oxen"

By: Janusko, Robert

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Ann Arbor, UMI Research Press (University Microfilms International): 1983

Seller ID: 018341

ISBN: 0-8357-1424-1

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

The 15th title in UMI's Studies in Modern Literature series. Illustrated beige cloth w/black lettering to front cover/spine, 170 pages (including appendices, notes, bibliography, index). Rather than suggesting that there *may* be flaws, we'll provide details on those that are definite: there is staining to the top part of front cover, tanned edges, a tiny beige soil mark to top edge, and a previous owner's signature/university affiliation to top of front end paper.
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BEING IN THE TEXT, Self-Representation from Wordsworth to Roland Barthes

By: Jay, Paul

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Ithaca & London, Cornell University Press: 1984

Seller ID: 013877

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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BUTTERFLY ON ROCK, A Study of Themes and Images in Canadian Literature

By: Jones, D.G.

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1971

Seller ID: 012277

ISBN: 0-8020-5230-4

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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.
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Northrop Frye: The High Priest of Clerical Obscurantism

By: Kogan, Pauline

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Montreal, Progressive Books & Periodicals: 1969

Seller ID: 012384

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

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 wear to corners/edges. A nice unmarked copy of an uncommon item, with no previous owner's names or notations, and no library desecra...
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AMERICAN CRITICS AT WORK: Examinations of Contemporary Literary Theories

By: Kramer, Victor A. (editor)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Troy, Whitston Publishing Company: 1984

Seller ID: 013878

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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 pages (including Notes on Contributors). Light general wear.
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THE PAPERS OF DOROTHY LIVESAY, A Research Tool

By: Livesay, Dorothy (compiled by the staff of the Department of Archives and Special Collections, University of Manitoba Libraries

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Winnipeg, University of Manitoba Libraries: 1986

Seller ID: 010022

ISBN: 0-919932-23-1

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: About Very Good

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.
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The Neglected Genre: The Short Story in Canada

By: MacCulloch, Clare

Price: $22.50

Publisher: Guelph, Alive Press Limited/Alive Books: 1973

Seller ID: 013966

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Federico Garca Lorca: Life, Work, and Criticism

By: MacCurdy, G. Grant

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Fredericton, York Press Ltd.: 1986

Seller ID: 010624

ISBN: 0-919966-54-3

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Science Fiction: The Academic Awakening

By: McNelly, Willis E. (editor)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Shreveport, College English Association: 1974

Seller ID: 013923

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

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, Harlan Ellison, John Boyd, Philip K. Dick and Thomas D. Clareson. 59 pages. Light general wear. Most copies are in lousy shape...
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The Metaphysical Mode From Donne to Cowley

By: Miner, Earl

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Princeton University Press: 1969

Seller ID: 012330

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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THE MYSTERY OF UNITY, Theme and technique in the novels of Patrick White

By: Morley, Patricia A.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Montreal & London, McGill-Queen's University Press: 1972

Seller ID: 006287

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Master of None

By: Morpurgo, J.E.

Price: $14.50

Publisher: Manchester, Carcanet Press: 1990

Seller ID: 004862

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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STYLISTIC CRITICISM AND THE AFRICAN NOVEL, A Study of the Language, Art and Content of African Fiction

By: Ngara, Emmanuel

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London & Ibadan & Nairobi, Heinemann: 1982

Seller ID: 015137

ISBN: 0-435-91720-X

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

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.
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MALE ENVY, The Logic of Malice in Literature and Culture (inscribed and signed)

By: Nicholson, Mervyn

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Lanham, Lexington Books: 1999

Seller ID: 018461

ISBN: 0-7391-0062-9

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good to Very Good

Nicholson "presents a series of motifs that are associated with male envy, locating each in a particular historical context and illustrating it with examples drawn from literature, film, and popular culture. Unlike earlier treatments of envy by psychoanalysts or feminist theorists, this book moves beyond mere illustration of the problem to actually construct a theory about how the 'code of Male Envy' shapes social consciousness in modern culture." Brown leatherette w/gilt lettering, pp [x], 261 (including index, brief author biography). A bit of spine slant, moderate bumping/wear to corners/...
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THE UNDOING OF BABEL, Watson Kirkconnell, The Man and His Work

By: Perkin, J.R.C. (Ed.)

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart / M&S: 1975

Seller ID: 009330

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

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. Rubbed dust jacket w/moderate edgewear, thin scratches, flaking, mild general wear.
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The Year's Work in Romance and Celtic Languages and Literatures 1987

By: Price, Glanville (editor)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Modern Humanities Research Association (MRHA):

Seller ID: 014308

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Good to Very Good

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.
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Balzac's Recurring Characters

By: Pugh, Anthony R.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Toronto & Buffalo, University of Toronto Press: 1974

Seller ID: 009374

ISBN: 0-8020-5275-4

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

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 some 3,000 characters," and "illuminates the genesis of several novels and sheds totally new light on the validity of the device, by enabl...
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Thomas Lodge

By: Rae, Wesley D.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Twayne Publishers: 1967

Seller ID: 013872

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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 jacket w/sunned (entirely legible) spine, small triangular chip from top right corner of rear panel, small triangular piece from righ...
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BABEL, A Journal of Early Modern Studies, Volume II (signed)

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

Seller ID: 016939

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

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 Hobrecker, Katherine E. Ireland, Elizabeth Smith, Christina Van Herk, and Katie Woodside. This copy signed by editors Samson and Reid...
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Samuel Daniel

By: Seronsy, Cecil

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Twayne Publishers: 1967

Seller ID: 013871

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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 sleeve.
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Milton Studies I

By: Simmonds, James D. (editor)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press: 1969

Seller ID: 012369

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

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.
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SOME VERSIONS OF THE FALL, The Myth of the Fall of Man in English Literature

By: Smith, Eric

Price: $6.00

Publisher: London, Croom Helm: 1973

Seller ID: 012338

ISBN: 0-85664-081-6

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

"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.
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THE COMIC ART OF LAURENCE STERNE, Convention and Innovation in Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey

By: Stedmond, John M.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press: 1967

Seller ID: 007774

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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 corners/spine ends, tiny soil mark (about the head of a match) to page 63. Rubbed and price-clipped dj w/moderate corner/spine end wear,...
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JOHN DONNE'S LYRICS, The Eloquence of Action

By: Stein, Arnold

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press: 1962

Seller ID: 015679

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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The Stream of Consciousness and Beyond in Ulysses

By: Steinberg, Erwin R.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press: 1973

Seller ID: 015249

ISBN: 0-8229-3245-8

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

"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.
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The Duncan Campbell Scott Symposium

By: Stich, K.P.

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Ottawa, University of Ottawa Press: 1980

Seller ID: 014004

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

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.
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The Heirs of Donne and Jonson

By: Summers, Joseph H.

Price: $14.50

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1970

Seller ID: 012239

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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.
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The Isabella Valancy Crawford Symposium

By: Tierney, Frank M. (editor)

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Ottawa, University of Ottawa Press: 1979

Seller ID: 014005

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

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.
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THE MAKING OF THE READER, Language and Subjectivity in Modern American, English and Irish Poetry

By: Trotter, David

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London & Basingstoke, Macmillan: 1984

Seller ID: 013893

ISBN: 0 333 30632 5

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Reginald Eyre Watters: Essays and Articles on Canadian and American Literature

By: Vincent, Thomas, with George Parker and Stephen Bonnycastle (editors)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Kingston, Royal Military College of Canada: 1980

Seller ID: 006335

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

The third title in the Occasional Papers of the Department of English, R.M.C. series, this one honouring the scholar who developed the foundations for cataloguing Canadian literature. 221 pages (including Notes and Chronological Bibliography), photocopied typescript. Chipping/tears to top third of spine tape, some bent corners, moderate general wear.
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Bardachd Albannach O Leabhar Deadhan Lios-Moir / Scottish Verse from The Book of the Dean of Lismore

By: Watson, William J. (edited by)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Air fhoillseachadh le Comunn Litreachas Gaidhlig Na H-Alba / Published by the Scottish Academic Press for The Scottish Gaelic Texts Society: 1978

Seller ID: 018614

ISBN: 0707302366

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Volume One in the Scottish Gaelic Texts series, containing work from a title first published in the 16th century, that featured poetry by both Irish and Scottish writers. The work is presented in both Scottish Gaelic and English. This edition concentrates primarily on the Scottish material. Gilt spine lettering, 327 pages (including notes, appendix, glossarial index, index of persons etc., index of places, list of members). Index of first lines and index of authors at beginning. Gently bumped/lightly worn corners/spine ends, three horizontal wrinkles to back cover (printing flaw). A fair...
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H.G. WELLS, Critic of Progress

By: Williamson, Jack

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Baltimore, The Mirage Press: 1973

Seller ID: 014700

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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 Brunswick copy w/discard stamp and a few of the usual librarian's desecrations.
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THE WILD GARDEN, or Speaking of Writing

By: Wilson, Angus

Price: $8.50

Publisher: London, Secker & Warburg: 1963

Seller ID: 006176

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

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.
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Essays Critical and Imaginative, Vol. III

By: Wilson, Professor

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood and Sons: 1857

Seller ID: 007124

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

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.
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The Canadian Novel in the Twentieth Century, Essays From Canadian Literature

By: Woodcock, George (ed.)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New Canadian Library N115: 1975

Seller ID: 004996

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

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, Jack Ludwig, Ethel Wilson, Michael Ondaatje, and many others. A bit of spine roll, reading creases to spine, diagonal crease...
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THE SPECKLED BIRD, with variant versions annotated and edited by William H. O'Donnell

By: Yeats, William Butler

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Toronto, McClelland & Stewart (M&S): 1976

Seller ID: 018195

ISBN: 0-7710-9066-8

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A title from the Yeats Studies Series editd by Robert O'Driscoll and Lorna Reynolds. Contains all four incarnations of "the autobiographical novel which Yeats was writing from 1896 to 1902. It covers the years of his life when he was attempting to found a mystical order of Celtic Mysteries, and it has never been published in its entirely before." Dark green cloth w/gilt spine lettering, frontispiece (facsimile of manuscript page) 275 pages (including authorial notes, textual notes, appendices, index), illustrated. Mild wear to corners/spine ends, impressions to top right corner of first en...
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Category: Literary Criticism