Search Results: Literacy criticism from Focloir

English literature 002 Hustvedt, Sigurd Bernhard, 1882-1954. Ballad criticism in Scandinavia and Great Britain during the eighteenth century. New York: American-Scandinavian Foundation, 1916, 4 p. l., [vii]-ix p., 1 l., 335 p, bib, index. Top edge gilt. Some toning to endpaper and just a small tip at top of spine worn else a very nice copy. No marks, clean, tight. Handsome, well-made book. This book has grown out of a dissertation presented in April 1915, for the degree of doctor of philosophy at Harvard university under the title of English, Scottish, and Scandinavian ballad criticism to the eighteenth century. The entire study has been revised."--Pref./ Bibliography: p. [305]-318. $21.50

GE 1000 (Brecht, Bertolt). Willett, John. Brecht in context: comparative approaches. London and New York: Methuen, 1984, 274p, notes, index. Some pretty faint light spotting on top paper edge, blind stamp of well-known theatre scholar on title page else very good in dust jacket. Study by the outstanding Brecht scholar. $9.50

Ireland 8018 (Joyce, James). Hodgart, Matthew. James Joyce: a student's guide. London/Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978, viii, 196p, bib, index. Good to very good copy in dust jacket. $8.50

Ireland ots Ó Tuama, Sean.Repossessions: selected essays on the Irish literary heritage. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press, 1995, xv, 294 pages, notes, index. Paperbound. Very good. $16.50 Box 787
Summary: Repossessions is an exceptional achievement, illustrating as it does the unique work of a poet and literary scholar, well-known for his original thinking and accessible approach to literary subjects in Irish. Although he has published widely in Irish language journals and has edited with Thomas Kinsella the highly acclaimed An Duanaire/Poems of the Dispossessed, this is the first time that the full breadth of his critical work has been made available in English.

Scotland 5962s Speirs, John. The Scots Literary Tradition. An Essay in Criticism. Second revised edition. London: Faber and Faber, 1962, 229 pages, index. Worn cover, bottom corner of cover soft, corners bumped but good tight copy. First published in 1940, revised here by the author in 1962. $6.50 Box A93

Ireland 16c72s (Somerville and Ross). Cronin, John. Somerville and Ross. Bucknell University Press, 1972, 111p, bib. Very good in dust jacket. $14.50 Box A93

Ireland 88c4s (Swift, Jonathan). Louis, Frances D. Swift's Anatomy of Misunderstanding. A Study of Swift's Epistemological Imagination in A Tale of the Tub and Gulliver's Travels Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1981, xxvi, 193p, bib. Fine in dust jacket. $4.00 Box A 90 This is a detailed examination of one of Swift's most central concerns, man's capacity for misunderstanding. Underlying Swift's satiric fiction is the belief that man, while capable of reasoning, is not a rational animal.

Ireland 8282 (Joyce, James). Brennan, Joseph. Three philosophical novelists: James Joyce, Andre Gide, Thomas Mann. New York: Macmillan, 1964, xiv, 210p, notes, index. Very good in dust jacket. First edition. $8.50

Theatre 001 Noble, Yvonne.Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Beggar's Opera: a Collection of Critical Essays. Edited by YvonneNoble. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1975, iii, 92 pages. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Edge of the dust jacket has a small ding. $8.50