SUNY Press, May 1997. First Edition. Library Binding. Mihai Spariosu's book strikingly intervenes in the debate raging among the various oppositional and hegemonic discourses by advancing a new philosophy that transcends the currently prevailing agonistic mentality. He develops a ludic-irenic view intended to exceed both a voluntaristic and rationalist mode..... More
Abo Akademi University Press, January 2002. First Edition. Paper Back. Scarce. Octavo. Sun-bleached spine. Clean & sound with a few marginal pencil notes and tick marks. Also the last, blank page has a bunch of pencil notes, but there is nothing to distract from reading. 215 pages. More
Houghton Mifflin Company/ Riverside Press Cambridge, 1911. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. {5' x 7 & 3/4'} Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine & gold facsimile signature tooled center front board. Back panel of board and bottom edge of spine and rear board is discolored (appearing rather green). Many..... 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
Cambridge University Press, April 1989. Cloth. Myth, Truth and Literature is a theoretical study which aims to prove the superfluousness of literary theory. The author believes that we now require a 'paradigm-shift' which will replace 'structuralist' and 'post-structuralist' literary theory and will re-establish the validity of such old-fashioned 'Romantic' notions..... More
Vintage, March 1990. Trade Paperback. More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, October 2001. Trade Paperback. There is a superstition that if an emptied theater is ever left completely dark, a ghost will take up residence. To prevent this, a single "ghost light" is left burning at center stage after the audience and all of the actors and..... More
Vintage, November 2013. Trade Paperback. Blending confessional criticism and cultural autobiography, David Shields explores the power of literature to make life survivable, maybe even endurable. Evoking his deeply divided personality, his character flaws, his woes, his serious despair, he wants literature to assuage human loneliness, but nothing can assuage human..... More
Penguin Group (Canada), January 2002. Trade Paperback. More
Cambridge University Press, October 1984. Paper Back. This anthology, part of a three-volume series devoted to German aesthetic and literary criticism collects extracts from the leading Romantic critics in Germany: Friedrich and August Schlegel, Ludwig Tieck, Jean Pual Richter, Freidrich von Hardenberg and Lark Solger. There are also excerpts from..... More
Harvard University Press, January 1993. First Edition. Cloth. Although literary theories describe a world of strategies--textual, discursive, interpretive, and political--what is missing is the strategist. Poststructuralists try to explain agency as the effect of large-scale systems or formations; as a result, intuitions about individual action and responsibility are expressed in..... More
Picador USA, January 2006. Turtleback Binding. 'What a marvellous book this is . . . de Botton dissects what [Proust] had to say about friendship, reading, looking carefully, paying attention taking your time, being alive and adds his own delicious commentary. The result is an intoxicating as it is wise..... More
Scribner Book Company, June 2003. Trade Paperback. Reynolds Price has long been one of America's most acclaimed and accomplished men of letters -- the author of novels, stories, poems, essays, plays, and a memoir. In A Whole New Life, however, he steps from behind that roster of achievements to present..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1987. Trade Paperback. More
Little Brown and Company, November 1994. Trade Paperback. In the critically acclaimed "New York Days, " Willie Morris recalls his triumphant, exciting, and ultimately devastating years as the youngest ever editor-in-chief of "Harper's," America's oldest magazine, when he was at the center of the nation's stunning cosmos of writing, publishing..... More
Vintage, August 1995. Trade Paperback. With all the openness to life, all the largeness of spirit, that made her girlhood memoir, The Road from Coorain, an acclaimed - and beloved - bestseller, Jill Ker Conway continues her story. She was twenty-five when we left her, driven by a hunger to..... More
Anchor Canada, March 1998. Trade Paperback. One of the best ways to understand history is through eye-witness accounts. Ting-Xing Ye's riveting first book, A Leaf in the Bitter Wind, is a memoir of growing up in Maoist China. It was an astonishing coming of age through the turbulent years of..... More
Pantheon, April 1983. Trade Paperback. More
Little Brown and Company, December 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Light shelf wear / edge creasing on the jacket. More
Houghton Mifflin Company, June 1973. Trade Paperback. More
Routledge, July 2003. Hardcover. First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Pencilled note on verso of ffep; else, near fine. More
University of Virginia Press, March 2007. Hardcover. Sincerity--the claim that the voice, figure, and experience of a first-person speaker is that of the author--has dominated both the reading and the writing of Anglo-American poetry since the romantic era. Most critical studies have upheld an opposition between sincerity and the literary..... More
Seabury Press, January 1976. Hardcover. Modest cover wear and aging; faint pencil notes and marks scattered throughout. More
Vintage Books, January 1974. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Counterpoint LLC, March 2004. Hardcover. If you have a language question, where do you go for the answer? How do you keep proper syntax from sounding stiff, and, on the other hand, how do you keep conversational language from being embarrassingly incorrect? Barbara Wallraff, the author of The Atlantic's Word..... More
