Oxford University Press, April 1998. Trade Paperback. Close Listening brings together seventeen strikingly original essays, especially written for this volume, on the poetry reading, the sound of poetry, and the visual performance of poetry. While the performance of poetry is as old as poetry itself, critical attention to modern and..... More

Central European University Press, October 2008. Hardcover. The interconnections of time with historical thought and knowledge have come powerfully to the fore since the 1970s. An international group of scholars, from a range of fields including literary theory, history of ideas, cultural anthropology, philosophy, intellectual history and theology, philology, and..... More

Image Books, September 1987. Trade Paperback. More

Garland, January 1989. Cloth. Blue cloth without dust jacket. Signed & inscribed by Adamczyk on title page. More

Mariner Books, April 2000. Trade Paperback. Few books have so firmly established their place in American literature as The Education of Henry Adams. When it was first published in 1918, it became an instant bestseller and went on to win the Pulitzer Prize. More than eighty years later, in an..... More

Library of America, September 2005. Hardcover. A passionate literary innovator, eloquent in language and uncompromising in his social observation and his pursuit of emotional truth, James Agee (1909-1955) excelled as novelist, critic, journalist, and screenwriter. In his brief, often turbulent life, he left enduring evidence of his unwavering intensity, observant..... More

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, December 1995. Trade Paperback. In contrast to recent attempts to distinguish postmodernism from poststructuralism, "Death in the FUNhouse" finds deep complicity between the two discourses. This book looks comprehensively at the middle and late texts of John Barth to demonstrate the complexity of the..... More

Victor Gollancz Ltd, January 1986. First Edition. Cloth. First UK edition in very good dust jacket. NOT price clipped. Original British price on flap. Black cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Signed by Brian Aldiss on front free end page. Sound binding: glue is loose between textblock & cloth..... More

Indiana University Press, April 1998. First American. Cloth. For over 50 years, from the 1940s to the 1990s, Irving Howe was a commanding, if controversial, figure in American intellectual life. Writing with the productivity of a major industry, Howe took on issues ranging from left-wing politics and American writers to..... More

Wayne State University Press, January 1962. Trade Paperback. This volume attempts to represent European theories of poetry from Plato's time to the year 1700. Editor Allan H. Gilbert has selected writers who in their own day spoke for the future rather than the past, and those whose conceptions are of..... More

Viking, January 1987. First American. Hardcover. First/first (U.S.) in very good dustjacket. Quarter bound: navy blue cloth spine with silver lettering & grey paper covered boards with sunned edges. Foxing to textblock edges. Unmarked text. Tight binding. Review copy: with (4' x 5&1/2') Viking Review Copy slip laid in. More

Black Sparrow Press, July 2001. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Multimedia culture critic, novelist, poet, editor of the radical literary journal Exquisite Corpse, Andrei Codrescu proves also a candid, witty, iconoclastic and exuberant commentator on his own colorful life. The self-invented Codrescu was born Andrei Perlmutter in the medieval town of..... More