Category: Literary Criticism

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

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Gloucester, Peter Smith : 1961

Seller ID: 013886

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, and 363 pages including index. Both volumes w/light general wear. Additional postage may be required.
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Milton and the Puritan Dilemma 1641-1660

By: Barker, Arthur E.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Toronto, University of Toronto Press : 1971

Seller ID: 012269

ISBN-13: 9780802050250

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

[1942]. An "analysis of the progressive definition of John Milton's social, political and religious opinions" during 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-13: 9780919672468

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, ligh...
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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: Hardcover

Condition: Good

The author traces the romantic and philosophical 19th-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/lightly soil...
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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: Hardcover

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/sun-...
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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: Hardcover

Condition: 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 cocked, 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), Euripides

Price: $40.00

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

Seller ID: 016649

ISBN-13: 9781590171806

Binding: Hardcover

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: Hardcover

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

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). Light general wear; internally tight and clean.
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D.H. Lawrence and Women

By: Dix, Carol

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London & Basingstoke, Macmillan Press : 1980

Seller ID: 012980

ISBN-13: 9780333197318

Binding: Hardcover

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). 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: Hardcover

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-13: 9780710071576

Binding: Hardcover

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: Hardcover

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: Hardcover

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: Soft cover

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 cove...
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Third Solitudes

By: Greenstein, Michael

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Kingston, McGill Queen's : 1989

Seller ID: nf.00093

ISBN-13: 9780773506756

Binding: Hardcover

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

Binding: Hardcover

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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Mary Wollstonecraft, Pedagogy, and the Practice of Feminism

By: Hanley, Kirstin Collins

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Routledge / Taylor & Francis Group : 2013

Seller ID: 018736

ISBN-13: 9780415893350

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The ninth title in the Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature series. 187 pages (including notes, references, index), frontispiece. Bumped spine ends, light rubbing, small scrape to left spine edge.
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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: Hardcover

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 top e...
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Geoffrey Chaucer

By: Howard, Edwin J.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Twayne Publishers : 1964

Seller ID: 013881

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

The first title from the publisher'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). Mildly cocked, 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: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Green cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 226 pages (including 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-13: 9788371713675

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, impression...
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The Sources and Structures of James Joyce's "Oxen"

By: Janusko, Robert

Price: $75.00

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

Seller ID: 018341

ISBN-13: 9780835714242

Binding: Hardcover

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). 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: Hardcover

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-13: 9780802052308

Binding: Hardcover

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 splash stain 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 desecr...
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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-13: 9780919932234

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

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 bibliography. Light general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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Federico García Lorca: Life, Work, and Criticism

By: MacCurdy, G. Grant

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Fredericton, York Press Ltd. : 1986

Seller ID: 010624

ISBN-13: 9780919966543

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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Category: Literary Criticism