Search Results: Criticism from Crabtree's Collection Old Books

NY: Norton. VG PB. (1971). 3rd ptg. Authoritative texts of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and The Hunting of the Snark, . backgrounds including accounts of the early life of Carroll and writings and his later life, entries from his diaries, selections from early poems and reminiscences and other biographical sources, and essays in criticism considering the texts as 19th century children's literature, as manifestations of characteristic Victorian sensibilities, as a game using ideas about language, philosophy, mathematics, and as a basis for psychoanalytic investigation: materials for a balanced study of the texts and of the several interests they engage. .

NY: Harper Row. G PB. (1985). 1st ed. Includes essays by Sylvia's mother Aurelia S. Plath and an informative piece by Ted Hughes, Sylvia's husband. . A varied yet balanced view of an accomplished poet whose work deserves serious critical attention which this book offers. Front cover has crease .

NY: Harper. G PB. (1976). 1st ptg. Kroll reconciles Plath's suicide to the use of suicide in her poems and her fascination with death as connected with a . broader concern with the themes of rebirth and transcendence. The Boston Herald calls Kroll's analysis brilliant, how despite her psychological terrors, her immense talent and intelligence were able to integrate her life and work into a marvelously inventive world of myth, giving her poetry a new dimension that transcends the merely autobiographical. Slight edge wear. .

NY: Norton. G PB ex-library. (1969). NY Times Book Review said Ford's book significantly enlarges our understanding of Lawrence's fiction. Ford approaches . Lawrence's fiction through the idea of "double measure", the rhythm of powerful forces that pull against each other in the lives of Lawrence's characters to form a pattern of structure throughout his works, not only between life and death forces, but between the forces impelling man towards isolation and the other towards union. Library markings. .

NY: Harcourt Brace. VG in VG DJ. (1971). 2nd ed. Owner inscription blacked out fep, DJ price clipped. .

NY: Messner. VG in G DJ. (1961). DJ edge wear. From Golden Age of Greece to today, excerpts show how erotic literature has shaped our actions & thoughts. .

Pittsburgh, PA: Univ of Pittsburgh Press. VG in Fair DJ. (1961). It is said Werfel's work is uneven in literary value, yet the force of his writing and the lyrical spontaneity of its best . have won Werfel lasting fame. These essays cover his varied career as poet, dramatist and novelist, and are written by professionals who admire his work and yet hold critical insight into it. Foltin's introduction gives information about his life. DJ chipped on edges. .

Newark, NJ: Self published. VG PB. nd (ca 1940s). Photos from movie, 2 page listing of movie credits, bibliography. Sl edge wear, back cover creased top outer corner. .

np: Eerdmans. G ex-library PB. (1967). Grass called himself a "realist" which to him meant presenting this world from points of viewe wholl within the world. . Library markings. .

London: Susquehanna Univ Press. VG in VG DJ. (1990).

NY: Morrow. G PB. 1974. 1st PB ed. A portrait of James the man & a critical evaluation of his work Few spots back cover & fore edge, edge wear, owner notations. .

Boston: Twayne. G ex-library. (1979). Revised ed.

NY: Twayne. VG in VG DJ. (1972). Boyd's short stories & novels were widely read from early 1920s to WWII & admired for realism. DJ one slit at top, edge wear. . This is a full re-evaluation of his work, to assess the actual quality of his work & his place in the history of American literature. His works are examined as realistic works of art in their own right and then as historically informed artistic statements. .

NY: Leach, Shewell & Sanborn. G. (1896). Includes sketch of Lowell's life. First blank page removed, spot top of ft cover. .

NJ: Prentice Hall. VG PB. (1962). 11th ptg. 17th century poetic genius, sensualist, cynic, sardonic charmer & mystic Donne has captured today's audience. Sl edge wear. .

Oxford: Clarendon Press. Fair. 1933. Inscribed by author, owner name. Both joints cracked, edge wear, binding rubbed. .

London: Falcon Press. G. (1952). 2nd imp. Part of copyright info blacked out. Edge wear, spine faded. .

Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ Press. VG lg sz PB. (1991). 2nd ptg. Oscillation in his writing between hope and fatalism, indeterminacy and form, uncertainty and meaning. .

np: Down East Books. VG PB. (2001). For more than 50 years Ogilvie has crafted one memorable book after another, most set in Maine or the Scottish Highlands. . At last a book about this prolific yet unassuming author who would rather live quietly on her Maine island than try to garner the limelight. A definitive work on her life, work, characters and her settings. .

Ithaca: Cornell Univ Press. VG lg sz PB. (1988). 1st ptg. Coletti asserts that Eco, by means of a concrete rendering of medieval social & intellectual life, has made a significant . contemporary statement about language, meaning, responsible intellectual activity, and the nature of critical discourse. Explores implications of unusual status of Eco's novel (The Name of the Rose). Helps reader identify & decode the multiple signs & symbols in Eco's book while demonstrating how it historicizes the Middle Ages and links moder & medieval linguistic theories. .