Books - "literary criticism"
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Writing From History: The Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Renaissance Literature
Super octavo, mauve glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xiii + 309pp, VG+ (light creasing & curling to covers & edges, light chafing, light soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1990
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism history renaissance writing intellectual culture
English Reformation Literature: The Tudor Origins of the Protestant Tradition
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, xvi + 539pp, illus, VG+ (light creasing & curling to cover edges, light chafing & soiling to covers, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1982
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism reformation history
Shakespeare's Religious Allusiveness: Its Play and Tolerance
Octavo, blue heavy boards, silver gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, xv + 148pp, Near FINE (light bruising to boards) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, sl chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Ashgate Publishing 2004
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism history drama religion religious Christianity Shakespeare
The Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, white lettering to spine, frontispiece, xi + 287pp, Near FINE (sl curling to cover edges, sl soiling to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Harvard University Press 1988
KEYWORDS: Thomas Aquinas literature literary criticism religion religious medieval philosophy
Middleton's Vulgar Pasquin: Essays on 'A Game at Chess'
Super octavo, black buckram spine, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 341pp, illus, VG+ (sl scuffing & bruising to extrems, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG+ (light to moderate creasing & chipping to edges)
PUBLISHER: Associated University Presses 1995
KEYWORDS: literature historiography politics government chess allegory political plays criticism literary
Interpretation and Theology in Spenser
Super octavo, green heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, xii + 273pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, light soiling to page edges) in d/w, VG+ (light creasing & fading to edges)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1994
KEYWORDS: theology religion religious literature literary doctrine Christianity Edmund Spenser poetry history criticism
Scenic Form in Shakespeare
TIDY EX-LIBRARY, octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 269pp, VG (minimal library marks, light bruising to extrems, moderate water damage to lower spine extrem with paper residue adhered to spine, light foxing to page edges & eps, prev. bookseller's sm label to ffep) in d/w, VG- (moderate water damage/staining to lower spine extrem, moderate creasing & chipping to edges, moderate fading to spine, light to moderate chafing & soiling)
PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1971
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism Shakespeare structure plays stage drama theatre theater
The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis & the Pursuit of Paganism
Super octavo, illus glossy light card covers, black & grey lettering to spine, xvi + 398pp, VG (light creasing & curling to cover edges with some moderate fading, moderate creasing & fading to spine, light soiling to page edges, moderate crack to gutter of pgs 246/247, occasional markings to margins in pencil)
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press 1986
KEYWORDS: art history literary criticism literature classical classics Ovid metamorphosis philosophy
The Capsule of the Mind: Chapters in the Life of Emily Dickinson
FIRST EDITION, octavo, green buckram boards, black lettering to spine, illus full title page, x + 205pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, light fading to board edges, light to moderate tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, heavy creasing to edges of pgs 17-34) in d/w, VG (moderate creasing & chipping to edges with some minor closed tearing & discreet archival tape repairs, moderate chafing & soiling, light tanning to flaps)
PUBLISHER: The Belknap Press Harvard University Press 1961
KEYWORDS: first edition Emily Dickinson literary literature biographies memoirs poems poetry criticism
Emily Bronte Criticism 1900-1982: An Annotated Check List
VERY TIDY EX-LIBRARY, quarto, blue buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, xiii + 162pp, VG+ (minimal library markings, sl bruising to extrems, sl soiling & creasing to page edges)
PUBLISHER: Meckler Publishing 1984
KEYWORDS: Emily Bronte literary criticism literature bibliography bibliographies
Oxford Addresses on Poetry
Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-) ; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Cassell 1962
KEYWORDS: robert graves oxford addresses on poetry poetics literary criticism
Roasting the Swan of Avon: Shakespeare's Redoubtable Enemies & Dubious Friends
Quarto softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Folger Shakespeare Library 1994
KEYWORDS: william shakespeare shakespearean criticism elizabthan literaure literary drama history theatre
Ben Johnson: Volume X: Play Commentary; Masque Commentary
THIS VOL ONLY, super octavo, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine, gilt motif to front board, xii + 710pp, VG (light scuffing to extrems & spine, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, ligth chipping & folding to some page edges & corners, some pages remain uncut, occasional moderate cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG- (heavy creasing & chipping with some loss to edges, moderate chafing/scuffing, light soiling to spine)
PUBLISHER: Oxford Univesity Press 1950
KEYWORDS: Ben Johnson literature literary criticism plays masques
Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination, 1558-1660
Octavo, black heavy boatds, gilt lettering to spine, xi + 309pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, moderate amount of discreet tidy annotations to margins in pencil throughout) in d/w, VG+ (sl creasing to edges, light to moderate fading to spine)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1999
KEYWORDS: religion English literature literary criticism catholic church catholicism
Ben Johnson and the Lucianic Tradition
Octavo, blue heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, viii + 252pp, VG+ (light bruising to extrems, sl soiling to page edges, light tanning to eps, occasional markings & annotations in pencil to margins) in d/w, VG (light creasing & chipping to edges, light chafing & soiling, moderate tanning to flaps, prev. bookseller's price label to front flap)
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1979
KEYWORDS: Ben Johnson literature literary criticism Lucianus Samosatensis satire influence history
The French Novel Since the War
Octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Methuen & Co/Evergreen Edition 1969
KEYWORDS: French literature novels literary criticism history post-war
Tragedy and Comedy
FIRST EDITION, octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Simon and Schuster 1967
KEYWORDS: drama criticism plays theatre theater literature literary Walter Kerr first edition
Misrepresentations: Shakespeare and the Materialists
Super octavo softcover (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Cornell University Press 1993
KEYWORDS: literary criticism literature renaissance Shakespeare history materialism
The New Historicism: ANd Other Old-Fashioned Topics
Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1991
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism historicism English American
Ideologies of Identity in Adolescent Fiction: The Dialogic Construction of Subjectivity
Octavo, illus heavy boards, gilt lettering to green buckram spine, viii + 285pp, VG (light bruising & scuffing to spine & extrems, light chafing & fading to rear board, light foxing to page edges, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional markings to margins in ink- minimal & unobtrusive)
PUBLISHER: Garland Publishing 1999
KEYWORDS: literature literary criticism young adult fiction youth adolescent ideology ideologies Garland reference library