Literary Theory

The book titled The Old Moderns: Essays on Literature and Theory by the author Denis Donoghue. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Teachers of literature make judgments about value. They tell their students which works are powerful, beautiful, surprising, strange, or insightful-and thus, which are more worthy of time and attention than...

The book titled The Cadfael Companion: The World of Brother Cadfael by the author Robin Whiteman. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

"Somehow I woke up one day and found myself in bed with a stranger." Meant literally or figuratively, this statement describes one of the best-known plots in world mythology and...

Palgrave's intention in compiling his anthology in the 1860s was to collect the finest lyrical poems in the English language. The measure of his success is the great critical acclaim...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat does it mean to belong to a place — to feel its soil beneath your feet, its stories threaded through your...

Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedMarkings: SignedFrom one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes Dream Stuff, a masterful collection of short stories that transports...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingThe Slow Natives is a searing portrait of suburban Australian life, chronicling the quiet disintegration of the Leverson family —...

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Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: unclipped dj. In the mud and fire of fifteenth-century France, a teenage peasant girl hears the voice of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn a literary landscape dominated by towering male voices, Evelyn Waugh's complex, often contradictory portrayals of women stand as one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingAnthony Powell — one of Britain's most celebrated novelists and the mastermind behind the monumental twelve-volume sequence A Dance to the Music...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodIn the tradition of great Central European literature, Moonrise, Moonset presents one of Poland's most celebrated writers at his most searingly introspective — a man...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when a razor-sharp outsider's eye turns upon the most formidable minds in mid-twentieth-century Britain? Fly and...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageLanguage is not merely a tool — it is the living architecture of civilisation itself, and Simeon Potter's...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the heart of eighteenth-century English letters stands Samuel Johnson — poet, moralist, and arguably the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most subversive masterpieces in the history of English theatre, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera has...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the teeming, treacherous streets of eighteenth-century London and Westminster, a young man of singular sincerity embarks on a desperate quest —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerA masterpiece of eighteenth-century satirical fiction, The Spiritual Quixote: or The Summer's Ramble of Mr. Geoffry Wildgoose, A Comic Romance...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFirst published in 1824, James Hogg's masterwork of psychological terror and theological dread presents the chilling confession of Robert Wringhim, a fanatical...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the shadowy corridors of late eighteenth-century England, a young man's insatiable curiosity destroys his world — this is the gripping premise of William...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerPublished in 1792, Anna St. Ives stands as one of the most radical novels of the English Jacobin literary movement,...

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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodThe curtain falls — but not without ceremony — on one of the twentieth century's most celebrated literary sequences in Anthony Powell's Hearing...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: price clipped dj. Few figures in nineteenth-century Australian literature burn as brightly — or as briefly...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMaxim Gorky — the pen name of Alexei Maximovich Peshkov — was not merely a witness to Russian...

Edition: First Edition ThusCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingAt the heart of W.G. Sebald's haunting masterwork Austerlitz is a man adrift in time — Jacques Austerlitz, an architectural...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingA Modern Comedy is John Galsworthy's masterful continuation of his celebrated Forsyte Chronicles, a sweeping omnibus that binds together three novels — The White...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingA treasury of the English-speaking world's finest verse, The Poets' World: An Anthology of English Poetry is a landmark collection that chronicles the rich...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingStep into a world where beloved literary companions are given their rightful place in a definitive compendium — Who's Who in Children's...

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Ivan R. Dee is exclusive distributor in the United States and Canada for this highly praised series of new Russian writing, published several times each year in a trade paperback...

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their...

A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicists Homer's Iliad is the famous epic poem set among the tales of Troy....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of language, being, and existence, Martin Heidegger's An Introduction to Metaphysics presents one of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the turn of the twentieth century, no American city captured the literary imagination quite like Chicago —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn Almost Posthumous: Late Picked Poems, Douglas Muecke offers a quietly arresting collection of verse that arrives with...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the turbulent decades between 1830 and 1870, Germany was not yet a unified nation —...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageMatthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism (First Series) stands as one of the most influential works of...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of intellectual history and social thought, Ronald Fletcher's The Making of Sociology: A Study of...

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