Search Results: Literary Criticism from House of Our Own Books

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 Good.

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.

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 poems (blue textured cloth with silver lettering has very slight edge wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Reprint.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Facsimile.

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 cover with some shelf and edge wear, otherwise a good, clean, tight, unmarked copy). First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

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 on front endpaper (maroon cloth with gold lettering; pages slightly tanned, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Inscribed By Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

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; inscribed by the author on the front end paper to the previous owner, a professor of American literature (blue cloth with gold lettering on the front & spine has slight creases on spine; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Inscribed By Author. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket.

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 small edge tear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition). Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

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; blue & black dust jacket is very slightly sunned on spine; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

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, Robert Regan, Willis Buckingham, Karen Dandurand (light gray cloth with black lettering on spine; green & white dust jacket; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available from a reliable independent bookstore). Hard Cover. As New/As New.

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 cover with slight edgewear, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; instock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore)). Trade Paperback. Very Good.

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 on the front; slight edge wear and faint creases, otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

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.

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, The Long Poem in the Age of Wordsworth, The Letters of Keats, The Rejection of Falstaff, Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare the Man, and Shakespeare's Theatre and Audience (blue textured cloth with gold lettering on spine is very slightly rubbed; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

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 bright, clean, tight copy). Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket.

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 and painting in the Cold War years, and between modern poetry and deconstruction; it concludes with an account of the influence of the New York School on contemporary writers, such as the Language Poets (black cloth with gold lettering, pages very slightly tanned; pictorial dust jacket with photo of Frank O'Hara and other poets on the front, very small scuff mark on side of spine; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy). First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

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 with gold lettering on spine; white, green & black dust jacket; a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

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 perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Trade Paperback. As New.

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 of the contributors, the renowned classicist Bernard Knox, author of the first essay, who signed his name at the top of the front endpaper (black cloth with slightly faded gold lettering and decoration, edge wear at top of spine; otherwise a good, clean, tight copy). Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

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 day, Woolf anticipated many postmodern principles (white pictorial cover with red & gray lettering has very slight edge wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). Trade Paperback. Near Fine.

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 a letter from the publisher's managing editor to the previous owner, the poet Daniel Hoffman, a friend of the author, about the experience of working with the author; Hoffmann was the U.S. Poet Laureat in 1983-84 (green cloth with gold lettering on spine; dust jacket has slight crease on back flap; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy in nearly perfect condition; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore) . Revised. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.