Hill & Wang Pub, 1978. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Considerable soiling, dust staining, & marginal darkening. Some moderate curling of pages. Inked notes and unknown fragments of handwritten prose. on verso of back cover and last blank page prior to this. [111 pages]. More
University of Texas Press, January 1982. Trade Paperback. These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)--known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky--as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections from..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 1984. Reprint. Trade Paperback. From one of the greatest literary critics of the twentieth century, this installment of Edmund Wilson's private notebooks covers the years of the 1940s, providing a rich lens into the writer's life and the world at large. Wilson turned forty-five in..... More
Farrar Straus & Giroux (T), October 1986. First Edition. Cloth. {4 & 1/2 x 7 & 1/2'} In DJ with moderate use wear. Sun-tanned jacket spine. Soiling & foxing jacket cover. Front flap is not clipped. Fern green cloth covered boards with gold lettering upon spine., Tightly bound at bottom..... More
Ungar Pub. Co., June 1987. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Light soiling. Previous owner's name in ink half title page. [205 page]. More
Perseus Books Group, October 1997. Trade Paperback. A gifted novelist, poet, playwright, and historian, Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) served on the staffs of Vanity Fair, New Republic, and New Yorker, but is best known for the grace and insight of his literary criticism. Whether illuminating the Symbolist poets and modernist literature..... More
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
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
Perseus Books Group, October 2000. Trade Paperback. The greatly esteemed essayist, novelist, and philosopher reflects on the art of translation and on rainer maria rilke's duino elegies-and gives us his own translation of Rilke's masterwork. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. Remainder mark. More
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
Simon & Schuster, June 2000. Hardcover. At a time when faster and easier electronic media threaten to eclipse reading and literature, the author explores reasons for reading and demonstrates the aesthetic pleasure reading can bring. Some inked underlining in prologue. More
Penguin Group USA Inc, October 1997. Trade Paperback. At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book--that string of confused, alien ciphers--shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted essayist Alberto..... More
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
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
A Harvest/HBJ Books, March 1975. First Thus. Trade Paperback. More
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
Faber & Faber Limited, 1966. Cloth. 3rd edition in very good+/fine dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original British price, 30s net, lower corner front flap. Army green cloth covered boards with gold lettering spine edge. Bruise top corners front & back. Sound binding. Overall clean, bright copy. No internal markings. No..... More
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
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
Belknap Press, December 1999. Hardcover. To great writers, Walter Benjamin once wrote, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labour their entire lives. Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project (in German, Das Passagen-Werk) is..... More
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
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
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
Publishing Genius, April 2017. Paper Back. More
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
