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Virginia Woolf and Postmodernism: Literature in Quest and Question of Itself
by Caughie, Pamela L.
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Urbana, IL, U.S.A.: University of Illinois Press, 1991. In this book the author argues, not that Virginia Woolf is a postmodern writer, but that postmodern assumptions about art can account for her narrative innovations and feminist politics better than conventional modernist and feminist approaches to her works; in rethinking many of the prominent aesthetic and critical positions of her… Read more about this item Item Price
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Suicide Century: Literature and Suicide from James Joyce to David Foster Wallace
by Bennett, Andrew
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- 2017
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- 9781108418041
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New York , NY, U.S.A.: Cambridge University Press, 2017. This book is about the human disaster of suicide, how literature records, configures, and imagines survivors' responses, and the impulse to imagine one's own suicide as peculiarly and pervasively human; it concerns 20th and 21st literature and how it represents the ultimate assertion of selfhood at its decisive end (black covers… Read more about this item Item Price
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Edgar Poe the Poet: Essays New and Old on the Man and His Work
by Stovall, Floyd
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- 1969
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Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.: University Press of Virginia, 1969. This is a collection of the author's essays on Poe's writings; after a brief biography of Poe to correct the distorted image created by earlier critics, the subsequent essays concentrate on establishing that Poe was at his best as a poet and that his poetic theories were basic to all his work;… Read more about this item Item Price
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Emily Dickinson and the Life of Language: A Study in Symbolic Poetics
by Budick, E. Miller
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1985: Louisiana State University Press In this study of Dickinson's poetry, the author examines the symbolic quality that Dickinson regarded as a universal feature of language and attempts to discover the ideological, theological, and aesthetic premises of her poetics (maroon cloth with gold lettering; white dust jacket with maroon & black lettering has slightly sunned spine & one… Read more about this item Item Price
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Emily Dickinson and Audience
by Orzeck, Martin; Weisbuch, Robert (editors)
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- 1996
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Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.: University of Michigan Press, 1996. This is a collection of critical essays arranged into three groups that attempt to uncover the poet's theoretical, epistolary, and more broadly public and historical sense of an audience; contributors include David Porter, Charlotte Nekola, Robert Weisbuch, Virginia Jackson, R. McClure Smith, Martin Orzeck, Betsy Erkkila, L. Stephanie Tingley, Richard Sewell,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson: Poetry of the Central Consciousness
by Salska, Agnieszka
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- 1985
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- 9780812212037
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Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. This is a comparative study of the poetry of Whitman and Dickinson whose intent is to investigate the structure of each poet's imagination and to explorre the aesthetic consequences of their diverging responses to a single vision, that of the central consciousness, the artist's vision as responsible for organizing the universe; includes… Read more about this item Item Price
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Emily Dickinson: Perception and the Poet's Quest
by Johnson, Greg
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- 1985
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University, AL, U.S.A.: University of Alabama Press, 1985. This book describes Dickinson's poetic canon as the enactment of a major Romantic quest for spiritual knowledge and contends that the poet viewed her own perception as the primary means toward this goal (light blue textured cloth with gold lettering on spine, previous owner's name & date on half title page;… Read more about this item Item Price
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Theatre History Studies: 2018 Volume 37
by Freeman, Sara (editor)
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- 2018
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- 9780817371128
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University of Alabama Press, 2018. This is an annual volume of essays on theatre history published by the Mid-Atlantic Theatre Conference; this volume includes four studies in theatre history, a special section on Theatre, Politics, and Change, an award-winning essay from the annual conference, and book reviews; also includes photographs and other illustrations (a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly… Read more about this item Item Price
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Mary Shelley in Her Times
by Bennett, Betty T.; Curran, Stuart (editors)
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- 2000
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Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. This is a collection of essays on Mary Shelley that emphasize her importance as a Romantic writer (maroon cloth with silver lettering; red & purple dust jacket with white lettering on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition). First Edition.. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Item Price
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Classical Echoes in Tennyson (Columbia University Studies in English, Vol. III)
by Mustard, Wilfred P.
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- 1971
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Haskell House Publishers, 1971. This is a facsimile edition, from a publisher of scholarly books, of a book originally published in 1904, a study of Tennyson's use of classical literature in his poetry; each of the ten chapters is devoted to individual Greek and Roman writers, to whose works there are allusions or quotations in Tennyson's… Read more about this item Item Price
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Oxford Lectures on Poetry
by Bradley, A. C
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- 1965
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London, England, U.K.: Macmillan, 1965. First published in 1909, this volume consists of lectures delivered during the author's tenure of the Chair of Poetry at Oxford that were not included in his earlier volume, Shakespearean Tragedy; this volume includes his inaugural lectural, Poetry for Poetry's Sake; the others include The Sublime, Hegel's Theory of Tragedy, Wordsworth, Shelley's View of Poetry,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Heroic Poetry
by Bowra, C. M
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- 1978
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London, England, U.K.: Macmillan Press, 1978. This book is a comparative study of one of the oldest forms of poetry, the narrative poem of great exploits; it examines the technique and contents of poems from many different countries and shows how heroic poets tended to compose in much the same ways; 600 pages (pictorial cover with illustration from the Parthenon… Read more about this item Item Price
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Plots and Characters in the Fiction and Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe
by Gale, Robert L
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- 1970
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Hamden, CT, U.S.A.: Archon Books, 1970. This handbook contains summaries of all of Poe's tales and poems, arranged in alphabetical order by title, an alphabetical list of all the characters in the fiction and poetry with brief descriptions, and chronological lists of Poe's life and his fiction and poetry by year (dark green cloth with gold lettering on spine; a… Read more about this item Item Price
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Statutes of Liberty: The New York School of Poets
by Ward, Geoff
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- 1993
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New York, NY, U.S.A.: St. Martin's Press, 1993. This is the first academic study of the New York School of Poets; it provides a critical and historical introduction to this group of writers, including close readings of major works by John Ashbery as well as detailed accounts of Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler; it examines the relationship between American poetry… Read more about this item Item Price
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Tragic Themes in Western Literature
by Brooks, Cleanth (editor)
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- 1955
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New Haven, CT, U.S.A.: Yale University Press, 1955. This is a collection of seven essays on tragedy, from Sophocles to T. S. Eliot, by Bernard Knox, Maynard Mack, Chauncey Tinker, Henri Peyre, Richard Sewall, Konstantin Reichardt, Louis Martz; the essays orginated as lectures delivered by Yale University professors in the autumn and winter of 1951-1952; this copy belonged to one… Read more about this item Item Price
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Critical Perspective on Wole Soyinka
by Gibbs, James
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- 1980
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Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Three Continents Press, 1980. This is a collection of critical essays on the work of the celebrated African writer Wole Soyinka, with two introductory essays on Soyinka's early writings and on Yoruba writers, followed by critical essays on his plays, poetry, and prose; includes two photographs and a definitive bibliography of Soyinka's writings (red & white pictorial… Read more about this item Item Price
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Faulkner, Modernism, and Film: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1978
by Harrington, Evans; Abadie, Ann J. (editors)
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- 1979
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Jackson, MS, U.S.A.: University Press of Mississippi, 1979. A collection of essays on various aspects of Faulkner's literary art, originally presented as papers at the 5th annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference held at the University of Mississippi in 1978; contributors include Malcolm Cowley, Hugh Kenner, Thomas Daniel Young, Ilse Dusoir Lind, Bruce Kawin, and Horton Foote (red, black & gray… Read more about this item Item Price
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Aime Cesaire, ou, l'athanor d'un Alchimiste: Actes du premier Colloque International sur l'euvre litteraire d'Aime Cesaire, Paris - 21-22-23 novembre 1985
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- 1987
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Paris, France: Editions Caribeennes, 1987. A volume of papers, in French, from the first international conference on the literary work of Aime Cesaire held in Paris in 1985; actes du premier colloque international sur l'oeuvre litteraire d'Aime Cesaire, Paris-21-22-23 novembre 1985 (pictorial cover with slight edgewear, small tan spot on fore-edge, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Trade Paperback. Very… Read more about this item Item Price
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Dostoevski the Adapter: A Study of Dostoevski's Use of The Tales of Hoffmann (University of North Carolina Studies in Comparative Literature 10)
by Passage, Charles E
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Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.: University of North Carolina Press, 1954. This book analyzes the influences of the Tales of Hoffmann on the literary productions of Dostoevski; it is also a critique of Dostoevski's writings of the pre-exile period and an analysis of the procedures of a great artist in the initial stages of his career; inscribed by author in Latin… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Authority of Experience: Essays in Feminist Criticism
by Diamond, Arlyn; Edwards, Lee R. (editors)
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- 1987
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Amherst, MA, U.S.A.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987. Bright red cloth with some corner wear, otherwise very good. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Item Price
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