Literary Criticism from Great Northern Books

Chicago: University of Chicago Press , 2002. Second printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. Stewart argues that poetry can counter the denigration of the senses in contemporary life and can expand our imagination of the range of human expression." [from publisher] lncludes black & white illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. A clean unmarked copy.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. Stonehill "examines the array of distinctive devices and themes shared by self-conscious novels" including titles by Joyce, Gaddis, Barth and others." [from publisher] lncludes bibliographical references and index. A clean unmarked copy.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. First Paperback edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. This collection of essays encompasses a wide range of scholarship about the American West." [from publisher] lncludes black & white photographs, bibliographical references, and index. A clean unmarked copy.

Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. Second printing. Very Good +/very good +. In this book, Baker "seeks to lay the groundwork for a new genre in Afro-American literary criticism and theory." [from publisher] lncludes black & white photographs, bibliographical references, and index. A clean unmarked copy.

New York: Amistad Press, 1993. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. A collection of essays that "analyze such factors as Hurston's language, characters, voice, and her ability to reflect the reality of Black women's lives." [from publisher] lncludes bibliographical references and index. Dustjacket has small tear on bottom edge, else clean unmarked copy.

Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1983. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. La Guardia shows "how Stevens developed a special version of American pragmatism and is the singular heir to the Emerson-James tradition." lncludes bibliographical references and index. A clean unmarked copy.

Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Robinson argues that the detective genre's lineage lies in experimental works on the margins of what we recognize as classical detective fiction today." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. Pictorial cover, no dustjacket, as issued. A clean unmarked copy.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1966. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Lee compares manuscripts to the finished work, demonstrating how the literature of the West was "transformed, prettified, and emasculated to conform to the illusion-making requirements of the East." lncludes bibliographical references and index. A clean unmarked copy.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Looks at political and critical attacks on literature, suggests that traditional literature is no longer useful to our technological society, and argues that a new concept of literature is needed." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. A clean unmarked copy.

Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. First printing. Hardcover. New/new. Rowlandson, a New England Congregationalist minister's wife, was held captive by the Algonquin Indians in 1676. Several years after she was ransomed and living among the British again she wrote a narrative of the captivity. Breitwieser argues that this narrative undercuts the Puritan values Rowlandson attempted to… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Sustained readings of dozens of major poems opens new perspectives on landscape as metaphor in these canonical moderns." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. A clean unmarked copy.

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1985. Third printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Westling explores how the complex, difficult roles of women in southern culture shaped the literary worlds of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. A clean unmarked copy.

Austin, TX: University of Texas Press , 1980. Second printing. Hardcover. New/new. Wagner illuminates Dos Passos' work with fresh readings and new interpretations." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. A clean unmarked copy.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Bailin maps the cultural implications and narrative effects of the sickroom as an important symbolic space in nineteenth-century life and literature." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. A clean unmarked copy.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. First printing. Very Good +/very good +. Hecht identifies and traces consistent habits of thought and belief within the poet's extensive and varied writings." [from publisher] Includes indices and bibliography. A clean unmarked copy.

Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1997. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Black Metafiction examines the tradition of self-consciousness in African American literature. It points to the shortcomings of theories of metafiction founded on studies of Anglo-American literature." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. A clean unmarked copy.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. "Brooks juxtaposes cases from law and literature to explore the kinds of truth we associate with confessions, and why we both rely on them and regard them with suspicion." [from publisher] Includes bibliography and index. A clean unmarked copy.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. First printing. "Fraiman suggests that becoming a woman involves de-formation, disorientation, and the loss of authority." [from publisher] Includes bibliography and index. Slight sunning to dustjacket spine, else a clean, unmarked copy.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Donoghue's Words Alone is an intellectual memoir, a lucid and illuminating account of his engagement with the works of T. S. Eliot." [from publisher] Includes bibliography and index. Tape shadow on book cover and heal of dustjacket spine, else a clean, unmarked copy.

Princeton: Princeton University Press , 2009. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. DiBattista "provides an original way of reading, one that captures with variety and subtlety the personality that exists only in Woolf's works." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index.