Dark Conceit: The Making of Allegory by HONIG, EDWIN - 1960

Cambridge: A Boar's Head book / Walker-deBerry, 1960. Soft Cover. xii, 210 p.; 21.5 cm. Cover title: Allegory and Its Use By Melville, Hawthorne, James, Lawrence, Joyce & Kafka. Originally published Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1959. Stock#45794. Good+, covers sunned / soft cover.

Cambridge:Boar's Head Book, January 1960. Paper Back. Acceptable.

Used - Very Good. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Cambridge: Walker - DeBerry Inc., 1960. This book has some cover soil and browning to the off-white paper covers. Inner pages browned, but text block clean. This is a Boar's Head Book from Cambridge, which, according to the back cover, is "the first book in English to treat allegory seriously in terms of literary creation and literary criticism." 210 pages, including index; approx. 5"x8".. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket.

Brown Publishing Company, 1982. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Cambridge: Boar's Head, 1960. Paperback. Good. Boar's Head, Cambridge, 1960. Good. , Paperback, Text clean. Light wear. 210 pages. Pages tanned. Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933. We pack and ship with care.

Cambridge / A Boar's Head Book / Walker-deBerry, MDCCCCLX [1960]. First published 1959 by Northwestern University Press. First edition thus; "the first book in English to treat allegory seriously in terms of literary creation and literary criticism." Contents include Foreground; Conception (The Traditional Book: Myth & its Interpreters; The World as Text: Shifting Current of the Ideal; The Ideal of Love: Natural Woman Redeemed; Romanticism: The Autonomy of Art & the Hero; The Object Rediscovered: Signifying the Irrational); Construction (Polarities: The Metamorphosis of Opposites; Dream Artifice: The Familiar Unknown; Talisman and Initiation: Signs of the Hero as Missioner); Authority; Identification (The Expanding Analogy; Irony: The Meaning of Incongruity; Dialectic Transfer: The Idea in Action); The Ideal (The Epic: The Hero and his Cultural Burden; Satire: The Heroic Dethroned; Pastoral: Resurrection of Lost Paradises; The Real and the Ideal Reconciled). Soft Cover. xii, [1], 210 pages, index;… Read More

Brown, 1982. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Light wear at bottom of spine. .

Northwestern University Press, 1959. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. xii, 210 pp. Tips a bit rubbed, sound otherwise.

Boar's Head, 1960-01-01. Paperback. Good. Signed. Inscribed by author on front end page. Softcover. Shelf wear. Water damaged. *Autographed by author.*