Random House Inc, June 1994. Trade Paperback. A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Western powers built empires that stretched from..... 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

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

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

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

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

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

Publishing Genius, April 2017. Paper Back. More

University Of Chicago Press, November 2005. Trade Paperback. The term culture in its anthropological sense did not enter the American lexicon with force until after 1910-more than a century after Herder began to use it in Germany and another thirty years after E. B. Tylor and Franz Boas made it..... More

Collier Books, August 1991. Trade Paperback. More

The University Press of Kentucky, September 1988. Hardcover. "A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written." So said Robert Frost in instructing readers on how to achieve poetic literacy. George Monteiro's newest book follows that dictum to enhance our understanding of Frost's most..... More

Limited Editions Club, June 2008. Cloth. In slipcase. Limited edition 1397/2000. Signed by Crowley & Abbott. More