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LITERARY CRITICISM - THEORY - BIOGRAPHY


Farson, Daniel - MAN WHO WROTE DRACULA, THE: A Biography of Bram Stoker(Michael Joseph, London , 1975 (precedes US ed))
pp. 240 Pages

Fine cloth brds in VG lightly rubbed priceclipped d/w
Price: $15.40

Conover, Anne - OLGA RUDGE & EZRA POUND(Yale University Press , 2001)
pp. xvi, 351 Pages
Rudge`s relationship with Pound, her influence on his life and career and his muse for the epic poem `The Cantos`. Illustrated.
Very Fine cloth brds in Very Fine d/w
Price: $15.40

Hopkins, Kenneth - POWYS BROTHERS, THE : A Biographical Appreciation(Warren House Press , 1972 repr (1967))
pp. 275 Pages
Illustrated with 8 pages of plates
Very Fine cloth brds in VF d/w
Price: $11.00

Jordan, Richard Douglas - QUIET HERO, THE( , 1989)
pp.226 Pages
Figures of Temperance in Spenser, Donne, Milton and Joyce. The `quiet hero` is one who achieves success by merely waiting, or by undertaking - after a period of restrained or thwarted action - a climactic action which has a symbolic relationship to the outcome rather than being a cause of it. 14.5x22.5cms
Very fine+. Cloth brds in unmarked d/w; name stamp on fly
Price: $11.00

Scott, Nathan A and Ronald A Sharp - READING GEORGE STEINER*New Item*(Johns Hopkins University Press , 1994)
pp. ix, 291 Pages

Softcover. As new (unused)
Price: $ 9.90

Battersby, James L. - REASON AND THE NATURE OF TEXTS(University of Pennsylvania Press , 1996)
pp. xi, 198 Pages
Instead of the endless deferral of textual meaning and on the the social construction of meaning and thought, Battersby argues for the authorial construction of determinate textual meaning, insisting that to think about anything at all we must be able to refer to it, and that such references are, necessarily, the semantic consequences of an author`s deliberate, intentional acts. SEMANTICS BAKHTIN PHILOSOPHICAL PLURALISM ELDER OLSON POSTANALTYIC PHILOSOPHY GENRE DUMMETT HURLEY NAGEL
Very Fine (unused) cloth brds in VF d/w
Price: $14.30

Rollyson, Carl - REBECCA WEST A Saga of the Century(Hodder & Stoughton , 1995)
pp. 442 Pages
Rollyson had exclusive access to West`s archive and reveals new details about her affairs with HG Wells, Lord Beaverbrook, (journalist) John Gunther, (Nuremberg judge) Francis Biddle, Charlie Chaplin et al. When did she have time to write ??
Very Fine cloth brds in Very Fine pict d/w
Price: $15.40

Dasenbrock, Reed Way (ed.) - REDRAWING THE LINES : Analytic Philosophy, Deconstruction and Literary Theory(University of Minnesota Press , 1989)
pp. viii, 263 Pages
The interaction of the two, initially diametrically opposed, philosophical schools (of John Searle et al vs. Jacques Derrida et al) and their influence on literary theory.
Very Fine (unused) softcover
Price: $14.30

Granqvist, Raoul - REPUTATION OF JOGN DONNE 1779-1873, THE(Uppsala University , 1975)
pp.212 Pages
Doctoral thesis. Illustrated.
Softcover. Fine
Price: $ 8.80

Calinescu, Matei - REREADING(Yale University Press , 1993)
pp.xv, 327 Pages
What motivates us to reread literary works? Drawing on lit theory, cultural anthropology, psychology, philosophy ... describes the dynamics of rereading and explores the conflicting relationship between reading and rereading.
Fine hardcover (unused) in Fine d/w
Price: $ 9.90

Ramsay, Raylene - ROBBE-GRILLET & MODERNITY : Science, Sexuality & Subversion(University Press of Florida , 1992)
pp. xii, 301 Pages
Alain Robbe-Grillet Criticism and interpretation; Modernism (Literature) - France; Sex in literature; Deconstruction
Hardcover. MINT as new in d/w
Price: $ 9.90

Wyndham Lewis, D. B. - RONSARD(Sheed & Ward, London , 1944)
pp. xi, 340 Pages
For Hilaire Belloc `souvenir d`Avril`. Standard study of French Renaissance poet.
VG+ cloth brds, inscr on blank, no d/w; very tight firm copy
Price: $15.40

Waliszewski, K. - RUSSIAN LITERATURE, A HISTORY OF( , London, 1900)
pp. 450 Pages
Comprehensive survey up to end of 19th century. 14x20cms
VG. Spine cover edge rubbed through. Some pencil scoring.
Price: $13.20

Nicolson, Harold - SAINTE-BEUVE(Constable, London , 1957)
pp. xi, 274 Pages
Charles Augustin Saint-Beuve (1804-1869), French literary figure, one time friend of Victor Hugo (until he became Madame Hugo`s lover). Illustrations. Nicolson acknowledges debt to Andre Billy`s `Sainte-Beuve, sa Vie et Son Temps` (1952).
Hardcover. VG cloth brds, no d/w Small ink inscript on fly
Price: $11.00

Bradshaw, Graham - SHAKESPEARE`S SCEPTICISM(Cornell University Press , 1987)
pp. xiii, 269 Pages
This book explores the question of value in Shakespeare`s drama, focusing on the triad `value`, `valuer` and `valued`. `challenging, allusive and closely argued ... I found it absorbingly readable and constantly illuminating.` - TLS
Softcover. Very Fine (unused)
Price: $ 9.90

Simon, Andre L - SIMON, ANDRE L: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY - BY REQUEST(Wine & Food Society, London , 1957, 1st ed)
pp. 180 Pages
Illustrated. (View image of frontisp & title)
VG+ sl sunned cloth brds (bookplate on fly), no d/w
Price: $11.00

Johnson, Edgar - SIR WALTER SCOTT : The Great Unknown (Volumes 1 & 2)(Hamish Hamilton , 1970, 1st UK ed)
pp. xxvi, 759, lxxvii; x, 709 Pages
Less common UK edition. (View image of Volume 1)
Fine cloth brds. Name on fly. D/w 1: VG+; D/w 2: edgewear incl 1 low sml tear, VG+
Price: $22.00

Munthe, Gustaf & Gudrun Uexkull - STORY OF AXEL MUNTHE, THE(John Murray, London , 1953, repr)
pp. 217 Pages
Biography of the author of `The Story of San Michele`
Fine cloth brds in sl worn d/w
Price: $ 9.90

Feinstein, Elaine - TED HUGHES : The Life of a Poet(Weidenfeld & Nicolson , 2001)
pp.273 Pages
Illustrated. First biography since Hughes` death.
Very fine hardcover / d/w has light edge fraying
Price: $22.00

Lipton, Lawrence - THE HOLY BARBARIANS( , 1960 1st UK ed)
pp 318 Pages
Seminal work on the Beat Generation`: Ginsberg, Rexroth, Miller, Kerouac, Salinger. Notes and photos. 15.5x23.5cms
Very good. Faded brds, pencil scoring
Price: $16.50