Search Results: Literary Criticism from Diatrope Books

Centre for the Study of Southern African Literature and Language (CSSALL), 1998. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Contributors include Johannes A. Smit, Graham Stewart, James Ogude, and others. 321p.

University of Chicago Press, 2004. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Combining biography and intellectual history, philosophical and political passion, Camus and Sartre demonstrates how Camus and Sartre developed first in connection with and then against each other, each keeping the other in his sights long after their break. 291p. Notes. References. Index.

Charleston Trust, 1994. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Illustrated. This journal is targeted to people interested in Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury. Articles in this issue include "I Tatti: A Question of Labels" by Duncan Grant, "Ann Akhmatova and Boris Anrep" by Annabel Farjeon, four previously unpublished letters by Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West (introduced by Joanne Tratumann Banks), and more.

Texas Tech Press, 1989. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Includes Richard Ruppel on the Heart of Darkness and other exotic stories, Barrett Fisher II on Nostromo, Earl G. Ingersoll on Cinematic Effects in The Secret Agent, James F. White on The Secret Sharer, J. H. Stape on Conrad correspondence and more. 77p. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) was a Polish author who wrote in English after settling in England. He was granted British nationality in 1886, but always considered himself a Pole.

Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley, 1996. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Articles include Charlie Bertsch on Walter Benjamin, Jesse R. Goldhammer on Walt Whitman, Kathleen Inman on Margery Kempe's Book and Heather MacDonald on Jacques-Louis David. Book Reviews. 137p.

University of California Press, 1982. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Index. Topics include aesthetics, poetry, Lessing , Goethe, Heine, etc. 275p. Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) was a British poet and cultural critic.

The Voltaire Foundation, 1989. Staplebound Wraps. Good. Signed. Unmarked. Signed by author with short note on first page. Offprint from Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 260. pp183–195.

Almqvist & Wiksell, 1970. Paperback. Good. Text in German. Unmarked. 209p. Surplus duplicate stamped on front cover, with a "Released by Catholic University Library" stamp on front end page. Soft crease on front cover.

Duke University Press, 1999. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. 280p. Contributors. Nancy Armstrong, Marshall Brown, Sanford Budick, Catherine Gallagher, Thomas M. Kavanagh, Jon Klancher, Jill Kowalik, Jonathan Brody Kramnick, Christie McDonald, Jerome McGann, Ruth Perry, Michael B. Prince, Leonard Tennenhouse.

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Forum on Literature, Aesthetics and Canonicity in the 18th Century" by Richard Terry with responses from Thomas P. Miller and Clifford Siskin. Contributors include Terence Bowers, Jacqueline LeBlanc, T.G.A. Nelson, Donald T. Siebert. 139p. Measures 6x9 inches.

Yale University Press, 2014. Hardcover. Very Good. Unmarked. This book examines how Emerson's assuming the role of mentor, editor, and promoter, freely offered them his time, financial support, and anti-materialistic counsel, and profoundly shaped the careers of his young acolytes--including Henry David Thoreau, renowned journalist and women

La Stamperia Di Venezia Editrice, 1981. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. English text and Italian translation printed side-by-side. Translated into Italian by Dario Calimani. Authors include William Shakespeare, Joseph Addison, Oliver Goldsmith, Ann Radcliffe, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, Walter Pter, David Herbert Lawrence, Sir Richard Guylforde, Richard Torkington, Roger Ascham, Thomas Coryat, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Sharp, William Beckford, and others. 198p. Dust jacket over paperback.

Pantheon, 2016. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 7x5x1. Unmarked text. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. Slight chipping on dust jacket. 201p. Measures 6x8.5 inches. A tale of how two literary giants destroyed their friendship in a fit of mutual pique and egomania.

Oxford Univ Press, 2001. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Notes. Index. 268p. Examines how Renaissance poets conceive the theme of killing as a specifically representational and interpretive form of violence. Examines major poets and lesser known authors of the early modern period.

American Association of Teachers of Spanish, 1929. Hardcover. Good. Signed. Unmarked. Contents include New-Mexican Spanish.--The Quechua drama, "Ollanta".--Some Spanish-American poets.--Did Bryant translate Heredia's ode to Niagara?--English translations of Spanish plays.--Irregular epic meters.--Notes and queries on the meter of the "Poem of the Cid".--The unity of the "Poem of the Cid".--Spanish patronymics in -z.--Drift in the Romance languages.--The accusative a.--The pronunciation and spelling of "huído" and similar words.--Names of the French and Spanish participles.--How many words are there in Spanish?. and more. 298p. List of publications by Hills.

Pitkin Guides, 1998. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. Beautifully illustrated in color throughout. Covers family background, growing up, the novels, her letters, and more. 22p. Jane Austen (1775-1817) was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.

Dodd, Mead and Company, 1974. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Dust jacket (clipped) under clear mylar cover. Black-and-white illustrations. The author has gone back to original sources to rediscover Stevenson the rebel, who broke the bounds of middle-class tradition, rejected convention, and wrote some of the most famous books in the English language. 145p. Measures 6.75x9.75 inches. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped and A Child's Garden of Verses.

Oxford University, 2004. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked. Small saddle-stitched booklet. Includes interviews with Matt Thorne and Tibor Fischer. 34p.

The Robson Press, 2015. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Dust jacket. 316p. Index. Includes Vladimir Nabokov against Edmund Wilson; Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, Virginia Wolfe, and John Updike against each other; Ernest Hemingway's spectacular and very public falling-out with former friends Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas; Lillian Hellman against Mary McCarthy; plus many more.

William Morrow, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Unclipped dust jacket under clear mylar cover. Illustrated end papers. Gregory Maguire, author and former children's literature professor, offers an appreciation of Sendak. Illustrated in color and black-and-white. 200p. Measures 8.5x10.25 inches.