An American Procession
Vintage, February 1985. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Clean, sound. Previous owner's name inked half title page. Else without interior markings. First Vintage paper edition. [408 pages]. More
Literary Criticism
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Edmund Wilson
Princeton University Press, October 1997. Trade Paperback. Edmund Wilson helped shape American letters from the early 1920s through the mid-'60s. He remains a presence in our literary culture, and his accounts of art and society have influenced a younger generation of readers and thinkers. This vibrant collection emerges from symposiums..... More
Triggering Town : Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1992. Soft Cover. The distinguished American poet examines the art and economics of writing, touching on communication, teaching, and inspiration. More
Dreamers of Dreams : Essays on Poets and Poetry
Natl Book Network, October 2001. Hardcover. In this stimulating collection of new and previously published writings, the celebrated theatre and film critic returns to his first love, poetry. In his criticism over the years, Mr. Simon has consistently paid attention to the books of poets, and has in addition written..... More
Protocols of Reading
Yale University Press, January 1991. Trade Paperback. Discussing a wide range of literary theory in a clear and accessible way, prize-winning author Robert Scholes here continues his ongoing construction of a humane semiotic approach to the problems of reading, writing, and teaching. Taking the view that "all the world's a...... More
Joysprick: An Introduction to the Language of James Joyce
A Harvest/HBJ Books, March 1975. First Thus. Trade Paperback. More
Ronald Firbank (Twayne's English Authors Series 93)
Twayne Publishers, January 1969. Hardcover. In rubbed, darkened at margins dustjacket. Maroon faux-leather with gold lettering. Maroon end pages. Foxed textblock edges. Clean, unmarked interiors. More
Joyce Again's Wake: An Analysis of Finnegan's Wake
University of Washington Press, 1965. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in mildly edgeworn dust jacket. Pine green cloth covered boards with silver lettering spine edge. Nice map of Dublin end pages. Binding solid, tight at bottom and a bit pulled at top. Bottom spine edge is slightly bruised. No markings in..... More
POUND/JOYCE. The Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce, with Pound's Essays on Joyce.
A New Directions Book, 1967. First Edition. Cloth. First/first (US) in very good dustjacket. Not price clipped. Darkening to jacket edges/spine. Indian red cloth boards with gold lettering spine edge. Wear to edges of cloth top & bottom of spine. Light tanning to end pages & fore-edge/top-edge. Tight binding. Clean..... More
FORMS OF DISCOVERY: Critical and Historical Essays on the Forms of the Short Poem in English.
Alan Swallow, October 1967. First Edition. Cloth. First/first in dust jacket with darkened spine & margins. NOT price clipped. Original price on flap. Colbalt blue cloth with gold lettering. Ochre end pages. Review copy: letter from Swallow Press editor, Durrett Wagner laid-in. Foxing & dark stains to textblock top &..... More
God: An Itinerary
Verso, March 2004. Cloth. God, who has changed the lives - and deaths - of men and women, has in turn changed His face and His meaning several times over since His birth three thousand years ago. He may have kept the same name throughout, but God has been addressed..... More
Engendering Inspiration: Visionary Strategies in Rilke, Lawrence, and H. D.
University of Michigan Press, March 1996. Hardcover. In a culture where passivity and receptivity are stereotypically deemed "feminine" traits, while authority and power are typically associated with maleness, the idea of poetic inspiration--which invests an individual with authority through the act of reception--sets up a conflict between traditional gender roles..... More
Mystery and Mortality: Essays on the Sad, Short Gift of Life
Publishing Genius, April 2017. Paper Back. More
Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950-1975
Bloomsbury Academic, May 2015. Hardcover. Masculinity and the Paradox of Violence in American Fiction, 1950-75 explores the intersections of violence, masculinity, and racial and ethnic tension in America as it is depicted in the fiction of Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow, James Baldwin, and Philip Roth. Maggie..... More
Patterns for America
Princeton University Press, May 1999. Trade Paperback. In recent decades, historians and social theorists have given much thought to the concept of "culture," its origins in Western thought, and its usefulness for social analysis. In this book, Susan Hegeman focuses on the term's history in the United States in the..... More
Axel's Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
Collier Books, August 1991. Trade Paperback. More
Robert Frost and the New England Renaissance
The University Press of Kentucky, September 1988. Hardcover. "A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written." So said Robert Frost in instructing readers on how to achieve poetic literacy. George Monteiro's newest book follows that dictum to enhance our understanding of Frost's most..... More
The Eden Theme and Three Novels by Timothy Flint
Studies in Romanticism, Spring 1971. Pamphlet. Stapled pamphlet. Volume 10, Number 2 in Studies in Romanticism series. More
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