Literary Theory

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the grand sweep of American literary history, few eras crackle with as much creative electricity as the mid-nineteenth century, and Van...

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Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedAt the crossroads of Russian Romanticism and early realism stands Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoyevsky — philosopher, musician, writer, and eccentric polymath — whose singular life...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when a continent becomes a disappointment? The Diminishing Paradise: Changing Literary Perceptions of Australia...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to reason about justice — and whose standards of rationality do we invoke when...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of Marxist theory and aesthetic philosophy, Critique of Taste stands as one of the most rigorous and intellectually ambitious...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodOne of the most ambitious and enduring works in classical Chinese literary criticism, The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons — originally composed...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodTwo of the most transcendent works in all of Western literature, Purgatorio and Paradiso form the concluding canticles of Dante Alighieri's immortal epic The...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodThe nineteenth century was France's most explosive literary age — a period in which Romanticism gave way to Realism, Naturalism crackled into being, and...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodA literary memoir as intimate as it is illuminating, My Brother Evelyn & Other Profiles offers a rare, first-hand window into the life of one of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodFrom the pen of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated Nobel laureates comes The Holy Sinner, Thomas Mann's audacious retelling of the medieval legend of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the grand tradition of the English novel, The Sleep of Reason chronicles the moral and psychological unraveling...

Edition: First ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingThe final curtain falls on one of twentieth-century British fiction's most ambitious sagas as Last Things...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodOne of the most daring and passionately argued novels of the twentieth century, The Rainbow charts the lives and loves of three generations of the Brangwen...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodIn the stifling confines of an English Midlands town, Alvina Houghton — a woman of quiet intelligence and restless desire — refuses to surrender to the...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Ex-library with usual markingsFrom the lyrical devotions of the thirteenth century to the bold modernism of the twentieth, Collins Albatross Book of Verse presents...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersW. B. Yeats — Nobel laureate, visionary poet, and one of the twentieth century's...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodA towering achievement in twentieth-century critical thought, Herbert Read's Collected Essays in Literary Criticism assembles the most enduring and penetrating writings of one of Britain's foremost...