The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (Galaxy Books)
Oxford University Press, USA, September 1971. Trade Paperback. More
Literary Criticism
The Pleasure of the Text
Hill and Wang, 1996. Trade Paperback. What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes's answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism . . . not only..... More
Country and the City
Oxford University Press, May 1975. Trade Paperback. As a brilliant survey of English literature in terms of changing attitudes towards country and city, Williams' highly-acclaimed study reveals the shifting images and associations between these two traditional poles of life throughout the major developmental periods of English culture. Octavo. Cocked spine..... More
Politics and Poetic Value
University of Chicago Press Journals, 1987. First Thus. Soft Cover. {6' x 9'} Lightly shelfworn cover. Complete number string. First paperback edition. [341 pages]. More
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
Northeastern University Press, July 1984. Mass Market PaperBack. More
How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form
Harper Paperbacks, July 2008. Trade Paperback. The follow-up and companion volume to the New York Times bestselling How to Read Literature Like a Professor--a lively and entertaining guide to understanding and dissecting novels to make everyday reading more enriching, satisfying, and fun Of all the literary forms, the novel is..... More
The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (Galaxy Book; GB 426)
Oxford University Press, USA, February 1975. Trade Paperback. Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence has cast its long shadow of influence since it was first published in 1973. Through an insightful study of Romantic poets, Bloom puts forth his central vision of the relations between precursors and the individual artist..... More
Postmodern Literary Theory : An Anthology
Blackwell Pub, March 2000. Trade Paperback. Literature today is a very different concept from that of only a generation ago, and this difference is attributed usually to 'postmodernism'. Most radical of all is the possibility that the very notion of literature is rendered untenable by postmodernism. How did this possibility..... More
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
Knopf, February 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. An open call for new literary and other art forms to match the complexities of the twenty-first century. Reality TV dominates broadband. YouTube and Facebook dominate the web. In Reality Hunger: A Manifesto, his landmark new book, David Shields (author of the New York..... More
Camera Lucida : Reflections on Photography
Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1981. Trade Paperback. This personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume--and the last book Barthes published--finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to the subject of photography. To this end, several black-and-white photos (by the likes of Avedon, Clifford, Hine, Mapplethorpe, Nadar, Van Der..... More
The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky
University of California Press, November 1994. Trade Paperback. A paradox: Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Louis Zukofsky all wrote their central works to be "masterpieces," synoptic views of the world that would change the very consciousness of the public. And yet these writings are so hard to read..... More
How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry
Harvest Books, March 2000. Trade Paperback. How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry and feeling. In language at once acute and emotional, distinguished poet and critic Edward Hirsch describes why poetry matters and how we can open up our imaginations so that its message can make..... More
Wandering Scholars: The Life and Art of the Lyric Poets of the Latin Middle Ages -- A 63
Doublday Anchor, 1955. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with mild shelf wear. Darkened spine. Light dust staining. [352 pages plus three page list of Anchor titles.]. More
Camera Lucida : Reflections on Photography
Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1981. Trade Paperback. This personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume--and the last book Barthes published--finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to the subject of photography. To this end, several black-and-white photos (by the likes of Avedon, Clifford, Hine, Mapplethorpe, Nadar, Van Der..... More
The Partly Cloudy Patriot
Simon & Schuster, October 2003. Trade Paperback. From public radio This American Life contributor and self-described "history nerd" Sarah Vowell comes a collection of humorous and personal essays investigating American history, pop culture and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In this insightful and funny collection of personal stories Vowell travels through..... More
Reading Deconstruction-Deconstructive Reading
University Press of Kentucky, June 1983. Trade Paperback. Deconstruction -- a mode of close reading associated with the contemporary philosopher Jacques Derrida and other members of the "Yale School" -- is the current critical rage, and is likely to remain so for some time. Reading Deconstruction / Deconstructive Reading offers..... More
THE COMMON PURSUIT
THE HOGARTH PRESS LTD, January 1984. Trade Paperback. More
On Writing, Editing and Publishing: Essays Explicative and Hortatory
University of Chicago Press, 1972. Trade Paperback. More
Other Voice : Essays in Modern Poetry
Harcourt, November 1991. Hardcover. In seven elegant essays that range across centuries and literatures, Paz offers his thoughts on how modern poetry came to be, what makes it modern, and what it may become. Translated by Helen Lane " Previous owner's name. More
On Native Grounds: An Interpretation of Modern American Prose Literature (Harvest Book)
Harcourt, March 1995. Trade Paperback. On its debut, this brilliant, innovative, and influential study established Alfred Kazin's reputation as a leading literary critic. Now, in its fiftieth year of publication, Kazin's work is as relevant as on the day it was first written, a classic that brings fresh perspective to..... More
How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken: Essays
Harper, August 2008. Hardcover. Whether he's on Broadway or at the movies, considering a new bestseller or revisiting a literary classic, Daniel Mendelsohn's judgments over the past fifteen years have provoked and dazzled with their deep erudition, disarming emotionality, and tart wit. Now How Beautiful It Is And How Easily..... More
The Forties: From Notebooks & Diaries Of The Period
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
The Fifties: From Notebooks and Diaries of the Period
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
Edmund Wilson
Ungar Pub. Co., June 1987. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Light soiling. Previous owner's name in ink half title page. [205 page]. More
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
