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THE FUTURE DICTIONARY OF AMERICA
n.p.: McSweeney's Books. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) with CD. (2004). HC. 208pp. ISBN 193241620X A BOOK TO BENEFIT PROGRESSIVE CAUSES IN THE 2004 ELECTIONS FEATURING OVER 170 OF AMERICA'S BEST WRITERS AND ARTISTS. ALSO INCLUDING A 22-TRACK CD WITH NEW SONGS FROM: DAVID BYRNE, DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, R.E.M., SLEATER-KINNEY, ELLIOTT SMITH, THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS, TOM WAITS, and many more. . ... (more information)
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Humor; Offered by Ray Boas, Bookseller - ABAA - rayboasbookseller.com (New Hampshire, United States) |
Price: $10.00
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ERRATA: AN EXAMINED LIFE
The memoirs of the French-born American critic, scholar, and novelist George Steiner. "Errata" is a collection of remembered thoughts on the author's personal conflicts with Judaism, music, teaching, literature, God, and other topics. Much more than biography, these memoirs serve to bring readers into direct contact with the psyche of the author.
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. very good+ w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). (1997) 1st ptg. HC. 206pp. ISBN 0300075030 George Steiner, one of the great literary minds of our century, now relates the story of his own life and the ways that people, places, and events have colored the central ideas and themes of his work. . ... (more information)
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Offered by Ray Boas, Bookseller - ABAA - rayboasbookseller.com (New Hampshire, United States) |
Price: $9.50
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FAULT LINE
The author writes candidly about a devastating affair with an older man, lasting 15 years, that nearly destroyed them both.
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). (2004). HC. 176pp. ISBN 0803210655 In 1969 Kim Janik was a young man shining with promise--handsome, brilliant, studying at Harvard on a physics scholarship--and he was in love with Laurie Alberts, a troubled teenager from a wealthy Boston suburb. Twenty-five years later, Kim's naked and decomposing body was discovered on the Wyoming prairie. . ... (more information)
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Offered by Ray Boas, Bookseller - ABAA - rayboasbookseller.com (New Hampshire, United States) |
Price: $5.00
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THE HOLOCAUST AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. good+, wraps (softcover). (1977) 3rd ptg. PB. 300pp. ISBN 0300021216 A perceptive study of the literature of the Holocaust. . ... (more information)
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Offered by Ray Boas, Bookseller - ABAA - rayboasbookseller.com (New Hampshire, United States) |
Price: $7.50
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CANDOR AND PERVERSION: LITERATURE, EDUCATION, AND THE ARTS
Art and literature critic Shattuck here collects essays on artists and writers as diverse as Man Ray and V. S. Naipaul, arguing throughout for a traditional critical appreciation of the arts. He eschews recent theoretical and ideological claims and embraces a humanist and liberal attitude toward books and visual art.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) review press release laid in. (1999) 1st ed. HC. 415pp. ISBN 0393048071 In this volume, Roger Shattuck has gathered together 39 of his most impassioned and controversial pieces from the past 16 years, many of which have never before been published. . ... (more information)
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Offered by Ray Boas, Bookseller - ABAA - rayboasbookseller.com (New Hampshire, United States) |
Price: $7.50
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LITERATURE: AN EMBATTLED PROFESSION
Woodring, an emeritus professor at Columbia, surveys the history of English as an academic discipline in order to shed light on what he sees as the current crisis in literary studies. Pointing out limitations in the arguments of literary conservatives and literary leftists, Woodring proposes a series of changes in the ways literature is taught and universities are structured--changes that he hopes could save English from an otherwise certain demise.
New York: Columbia University Press. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). (1999) 1st ptg. HC. 220pp. ISBN 0231115229 Delving into the hotly debated issues surrounding the relevance of the humanities in today's society, this spirited and engaging book analyzes the history and current status of literary study in America. . ... (more information)
Subjects: EDUCATION / Higher; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Offered by Ray Boas, Bookseller - ABAA - rayboasbookseller.com (New Hampshire, United States) |
Price: $5.00
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EMERSON: PROSPECT AND RETROSPECT
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. fine, brown cloth (hardcover). 1982. HC. 198pp. ISBN 0674249151 The essays that follow in this collection attempt both to come to terms with Emerson's modernity and to cast an eye back on his origins and development. In their range of reference they suggest not only how extensively Emerson is linked to the present but also how firmly he was rooted in America's past and in the history of his own time. . ... (more information)
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Offered by Ray Boas, Bookseller - ABAA - rayboasbookseller.com (New Hampshire, United States) |
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ROMANCES OF CHIVALRY
London: Kegan Paul. fine, pictorial boards (hardcover). (2003). HC. 356pp. ISBN 0710309228 The ROMANCES OF CHIVALRY are not commonly known to the average reader. They were the 'novels' of the thirteenth century to the seventeenth century. This is a carefully selected collection of the finest of these romances presenting the best of an important tradition. . ... (more information)
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; TRAVEL / Europe / Great Britain; Offered by Ray Boas, Bookseller - ABAA - rayboasbookseller.com (New Hampshire, United States) |
Price: $100.00
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A RUSSIAN CULTURAL REVIVAL: A CRITICAL ANTHOLOGY OF EMIGRE LITERATURE BEFORE 1939
Knoxville: University of Tenn. Press. very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). (1981). HC. 454pp. ISBN 0870492969 . ... (more information)
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Offered by Ray Boas, Bookseller - ABAA - rayboasbookseller.com (New Hampshire, United States) |
Price: $12.50
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NORDIC EXPERIENCES - EXPLORATION OF SCANDINAVIAN CULTURES
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. fine, blue cloth (hardcover) no dustjacket as published. (1997) 1st ptg. HC. 316pp. ISBN 0313299544 Contributions to the Study of World Literature - Number 71. . ... (more information)
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Offered by Ray Boas, Bookseller - ABAA - rayboasbookseller.com (New Hampshire, United States) |
Price: $20.00
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STORY AND HISTORY: NARRATIVE AUTHORITY AND SOCIAL IDENTITY IN THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH AND ENGLISH NOVEL
Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell. very good+, wraps (softcover). (1990). PB. 362pp. ISBN 0631175121 A comprehensive, ambitious, and demanding critique of eighteenth-century English and French fiction, this book rereads the major works of the period as components in a systematic exploration of how the ordering of experience by individuals might relate to larger orders of authority. . ... (more information)
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Offered by Ray Boas, Bookseller - ABAA - rayboasbookseller.com (New Hampshire, United States) |
Price: $3.50
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BERNARD SHAW: THE ASCENT OF THE SUPERMAN
New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. very good++, wraps (softcover). (1996) 2nd ptg. PB. 328pp. ISBN 0300075006 A critical biography exploring Shaw's background and beliefs, interests and obsessions, relationships with men and women, prose writings and dramatic art. . ... (more information)
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Offered by Ray Boas, Bookseller - ABAA - rayboasbookseller.com (New Hampshire, United States) |
Price: $8.50
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JUST TALK: NARRATIVES OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. fine w/very good+ dustjacket (hardcover). (1999) 1st ptg. HC. 265pp. ISBN 0813121132 In this book, the author examines the representation of psychotherapy in literary texts, focusing intently on the patient's point of view. . ... (more information)
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Offered by Ray Boas, Bookseller - ABAA - rayboasbookseller.com (New Hampshire, United States) |
Price: $19.50
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THE SERPENT IN THE CUP: TEMPERANCE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Amherst, MA: Univ. of Massachusetts Press. fine, wraps (softcover). (1997). PB. 237pp. ISBN 1558490825 Each of the ten essays included in the volume explores some aspect of the ongoing American battle with the bottle. Topics range from the cultural role of the tavern in the eighteenth century to the dark imagery of temperance writing in the nineteenth to the emergence of the "disease paradigm" of alcoholism in the twentieth. . ... (more information)
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; Offered by Ray Boas, Bookseller - ABAA - rayboasbookseller.com (New Hampshire, United States) |
Price: $10.00
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THE ART OF FICTION: ILLUSTRATED FROM CLASSIC AND MODERN TEXTS
David Lodge's very basic but witty and enlightening guide to the novel is a series of articles he wrote for the Washington Post and the London Independent. As an acclaimed novelist himself, as well as a teacher, Lodge approaches the writing and reading of novels from a useful dual perspective.
New York: Viking. very good w/very good dustjacket (hardcover) stain back cover. (1993) 1st Amer. HC. 240pp. ISBN 0670848484 Lodge explores and explains a wide range of topics, from suspense, symbolism, and the epistolary novel to surprise, weather, the intrusive author, and more. . ... (more information)
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Offered by Ray Boas, Bookseller - ABAA - rayboasbookseller.com (New Hampshire, United States) |
Price: $9.00
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THE MODERN MOVEMENT: A TLS COMPANION
Chicago,IL: University of Chicago Press. fine, wraps (softcover). (1993). PB. 311pp. ISBN 0226309878 An entertaining selection of 155 articles and reviews about and by the great figures of literary modernism. . ... (more information)
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Offered by Ray Boas, Bookseller - ABAA - rayboasbookseller.com (New Hampshire, United States) |
Price: $6.00
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THE EXCESS OF HEROISM IN TRAGIC DRAMA
Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. fine, dark blue cloth (hardcover) review press release laid in. (2000) 1st ptg. HC. 220pp. ISBN 0813017599 A critical study of what makes tragedy tragic. The author seeks an answer in his readings of three seminal philosophers of tragedy: Plato, Hegel, and Nietzsche. . ... (more information)
Subjects: DRAMA / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Offered by Ray Boas, Bookseller - ABAA - rayboasbookseller.com (New Hampshire, United States) |
Price: $30.00
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TWENTIETH-CENTURY GERMAN LITERATURE
New York: Basic Books, Inc.. very good w/good dustjacket (hardcover). (1967). HC. 224pp. A succinct critical history of the literature of the two Germanys, Austria, and the German-speaking parts of Switzerland from the beginning of our century to the middle 1960s. . ... (more information)
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Offered by Ray Boas, Bookseller - ABAA - rayboasbookseller.com (New Hampshire, United States) |
Price: $7.00
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VISION AND VIOLENCE
Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). (1992) 1st ptg. HC. 322pp. ISBN 0472102753 This book represents a search for the roots of apocalyptic thinking, its various manifestations through time, and the ultimate meaning of this perceived historical tendency toward violence. . ... (more information)
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; RELIGION / Comparative Religion; Offered by Ray Boas, Bookseller - ABAA - rayboasbookseller.com (New Hampshire, United States) |
Price: $14.50
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A WILD, COLD STATE
New York: Simon & Schuster. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover) review press release laid in. (1995) 1st ptg. HC. 272pp. ISBN 0671897179 Here, Monroe's novellas and stories are linked by the lives of six characters who inhabit the cold, unforgiving geography of rural Wisconsin. . ... (more information)
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Offered by Ray Boas, Bookseller - ABAA - rayboasbookseller.com (New Hampshire, United States) |
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