Illuminations -- SB241
Schocken, 1978. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo with superficial creasing and darkening to spine. Previous owner's name written in ballpoint. Blue & white cover. [278 pages]. More
Literary Criticism
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
On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry
David R. Godine Publisher, June 1991. Reprint. Trade Paperback. In a philosophical approach to color, William Gass explores man's perception of the color blue as well as its common erotic, symbolic, and emotional associations. Octavo. Damp staining. Mild soiling. [93 pages]. More
Lives of the poets: The story of one thousand years of English and American poetry (A Fireside book)
Simon and Schuster, January 1965. Trade Paperback. As is. Shelf wear, light soiling. More
A. E. Housman: A Collection of Critical Essays (20th Century Views)
Prentice Hall, June 1968. First Thus. Soft Cover. Octavo. Complete number strng. Previous reader's name written in ink first internal page. Edgewear. Sticker residue/fragments front cover. [182 pages]. 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
How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry
Harvest Books, March 2000. Trade Paperback. A masterful work by a master poet, this brilliant summation of poetry and human nature will speak to all readers who long to place poetry in their lives. How to Read a Poem is an unprecedented exploration of poetry and feeling. In language at..... More
The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief
Picador, May 2010. Trade Paperback. Published when he was thirty-three, The Broken Estate is the first book of essays by the man who would become one of America's most esteemed literary critics. Ranging in subject from Jane Austen to John Updike, this collection introduced American readers to a new kind..... 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
Book of Forms : A Handbook of Poetics -- Third Edition
University Press of New England, March 2000. Trade Paperback. Since 1968 Lewis Turco's Book of Forms has been a staple in the libraries of writers, teachers, poets, and others who care about the craft of poetry. The 160-page first edition was followed in 1986 by the 292-page New Book of..... More
The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
Harcourt, October 1994. Trade Paperback. Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. He argues against ideology in literary criticism; he laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards; he deplores multiculturalism, Marxism, feminism, neoconservatism, Afrocentrism, and the New..... More
Living By Fiction
HarperCollins Publisher, June 1983. Trade Paperback. More
Orientalism (Vintage)
Vintage, October 1979. Trade Paperback. A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is--three decades after its first publication--one of the most important books written about our divided world. Intellectual history on a high order ... and very exciting. --The New York Times..... More
Margins of Philosophy
University Of Chicago Press, January 1985. Trade Paperback. In this densely imbricated volume Derrida pursues his devoted, relentless dismantling of the philosophical tradition, the tradition of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger--each dealt with in one or more of the essays. There are essays too on linguistics (Saussure, Benveniste, Austin)..... 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
Edmund Wilson Reader
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
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
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
History of Reading
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
