Search Results: Literary Criticism from Quadrant Book Mart

Paperback. Good+/None. Stapled softcover booklet with three drip stains on front. Faded along spine edge. Light penciled underlining and marginalia. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Reprinted from Studies in Philosophy, LXII, 2, April, 1965.

US: SUNY Press, 2001. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture 2001 Bright red paper boards with black spine, clean and tidy; 1.5 inches of Indentation marks along rear long edge, and upper corners lightly pushed--barely noticeable. Spine is tight. Interior is clean, bright and unmarked. Lacking dustjacket, presumably as published. 8vo. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and ship from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. 'The Feminine No! sheds new light on the recent culture wars and debates about changes to the literary canon, Todd McGowan argues that the dynamics of canon change, rather than being the isolated concern of literary critics, actually offer concrete insights into the source of social change. Througha deployment of psychoanalytic theory, McGowan conceives the rediscovery and subsequent canonization of previously forgotten literary works as recoveries of past… Read More

Jefferson, NC and London: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers, 2008. Paperback. Very Good+/None. 2008 Our photos depict the actual book offered. Bright and clean pictorial softcover with yellow, uncreased spine. Interior is clean and unmarked. 8vo. Ships from our family-owned bookstore in the US. BOOK INFO: This critical study of American detective fiction examines the history and development of the detective genre through the lens of psychoanalysis. Applying the ideas of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the author identifies and categorizes popular works according to the fictional protagonist's hysteria, obsessive neurosis, perversion or psychosis. The first chapter identifies several instances of hysteria within the fiction of two of the genre's pioneers, Edgar Allan Poe and Arthur Conan Doyle. Chapter Two traces the development of the hard-boiled detective's code of honor through the works of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Mickey Spillane, identifying the often-paradoxical… Read More

US: Brill, 2007. Hardcover. Near Fine/None. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Texts and Sources in Intellectual History Series Cream and brick red-colored modern cloth boards. Binding is square and tight. Interior is unmarked, except for former owner's bookplate on front pastedown. 8vo. BOOK INFO: See photos for complete table of contents. This critical edition of a Scots translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso will provide an essential primary key text and a useful academic tool for tracing the development of Scottish poetry and of the influences, European and otherwise, on it. Stewart, John, of Baldynneis. Roland Furious, Stewart, John, of Baldynneis--Criticism and interpretation, Ariosto, Lodovico, 1474-1533--Influence, Roland (Legendary character)--Romances, Dialect poetry, Scottish--European influences

New York: Dept of French and Romance Philology, Columbia Univ, 1982. Periodical. Very Good/None. Beige softcover with bold black titling on cover. Edges a tad bit softened, barely worn. Interior clean and unmarked. Spine uncreased. 8vo. BOOK INFO: Articles include: Poetic Elements of Rhythm in the Ballades, Rondeaux and Virelais of Guilaume de Machaut (Robert L. Gieber); Sceve's Imprese: Typology and Functions (Michael J. Giordano); Invraisemblance in Pascal's Pensees: The Anti-Rhetoric (Sara E. Melzer); Dentelle: Metaphore du Texte dans Syvie (Rae Beth Gordon); La (mes)aventure d'une figure: un accouplement long, chaste et hideux (Ora Avni); The Criticism of Julia Kristeva: A New Mode of Critical Thought (Evelyn H. Zepp); The Inner Space in The Love of Don Perlimplin and Belisa in his Garden (M. B. Echeverria).

New York: E. P. Dutton, 1916. Apparent First Am. Edition. Good+/None. Dark green cloth boards with gilt titling on front and spine, lightly edgeworn and a bit rubbed. Rear board lightened. Darkened end papers. Front hinge starting. Sewn binding nonetheless sound and tight. Interior unmarked. 8vo. BOOK INFO: 'The attempt to discover the man Shakespeare in what he has written is never a fruitless search, for the means by which it is prosecuted is a careful study and thorough understanding of his works. But if a definite result is to be attained there must be called in aid such information as may be obtained from the men among whom Shakespeare lived, moved and had his being. What has been collected in these pages may be no more, here and there, 'a light occasion, a word, or some sport,' but these things may serve to make the man's 'naturall dispositions and maners appeare more plaine than' his most famous achievements ; his Hamlet, his Lear, his Othello, and his As You Like… Read More

Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University, 1931. Paperback. Good+/None. [Lehigh university] The Institute of research. Circular no. 51. Studies in the humanities no. 8 Light brown staplebound softcover with black titling; edges are softened. Penciled price on front. Interior is clean and unmarked. 8vo. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. Illustrated in 13 B&W reproductions. 'The allusions and parallels printed in this pamphlet have been selected by the editor from more than five hundred passages submitted to him by Mr. A. Bruce Black of Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. They are, with a few exceptions, not the editor's, but Mr. Black's discoveries, the fruit of many years of intensive reading in his valuable library of Shakespeare allusion books. Mr. Black's remarkable associative memory enables him not only to discover like expressions and ideas… Read More

Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University, 1927. Paperback. Good+/None. Lehigh University publications, vol. 1, no. 2 Light brown staplebound softcover with black titling; edges are softened. Interior is clean and text unmarked, except for a purple stamp on title page. 8vo. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: By Smith, Professor of English, with the assistance of Howard Savoy Leach, A.M., Librarian. See photos for Table of Contents. Illustrated in 11 B&W reproductions. 'The Library of Lehigh University founded in 1878 by Judge Asa Packer as a memorial to his daughter, Lucy Packer Linderman, possesses among its bibliographical treasures six original folios of the plays of William Shakespeare. These volumes comprise one copy of the greatest of all English printed books, the First Folio of 1623, two copies of the Second Folio of 1632, one copy of the Third Folio of 1664, and… Read More

Paperback. Good-/None. Staplebound textured light fawn-colored softcover booklet. Damp damage to head of spine and upper page edges does not affect text. Interior unmarked. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: Essays read before the meeting of the Literature and Society Group, Modern Language Association of America, Boston, Massachusetts, December, 1940: I. Freud and Marx in Contemporary Literature by Harry Slochower, Brooklyn College; II. Literary Form by Edwin Berry Burgum, New York University; III. Maxwell Anderson by Vincent Wall, Wayne University. 'The three essays in this brochure are motivated by an obligation to bring the rich results of American scholarship to the interpretation of literary form in the novel and drama. Innovations and solecisms of impressionistic criticism have tended, during the last two decades, to cause a rift between informed judgment and… Read More

Bethlehem, Pa.: Lehigh University, 1928. Paperback. Good+/None. [Lehigh university] The Institute of research. Circular no. 14. Studies in the humanities no. 4 Light brown staplebound softcover with black titling; edges are softened. Interior is clean and unmarked. 8vo. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. BOOK INFO: See photos for Table of Contents. Illustrated in 13 B&W reproductions. 'The present study describes and illustrates nine variant title pages and three variant 'Effigies' leaves found in the Second Folio of Shakespeare, and discusses the bearing of these variants upon the bibliography of Shakespeare and Milton.' (-from the Foreword). 62 p. incl. facsims. 23 cm.