A Study of Literature by Daiches, David - 1964

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Cornell University Press, 1948-11-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good hardcover. No DJ. Text is clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelf wear with slight tanning. Bindings tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., November 1964. Paper Back. Acceptable.

W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1964-11-17. Paperback. Very Good. 0.6000 in x 7.5000 in x 5.0000 in.

W. W. Norton & Company Inc., 1964. Please email us if you would like further information or if you would like us to send you a picture of the book. Thanks for looking!. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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1 . hardback. Fine. for Readers and Critics. 1st ed. Cornell U.P. 1948. Fine copy in dust wrapper, inscribed by the author to Harry (T. Moore) at SIU.

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London: Andre Deutsch. This is a Very Good + Copy of this Book in Publisher's original green cloth with gilt title lettering to spine,in a Very Good + dust-jacket.Not price clipped and this copy has NO previous owner's names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.The book was acquired from the Library of a Gentleman who for over 30 years worked as a Proof Reader for many of the National Papers.He built up an impressive Library of books on History,Crime and Science Fiction First Edition Novels. 8vo 208pp First Edition 1st Impression . Very Good+. Hardcover. First Edition. 1968.

Paperback / softback. New. "Why do we spend time reading and discussing books which tell of events which never in fact occurred?" The question is elementary - and yet, as David Daiches suggests in this provocative study, it is the elementary questions that are never answered. Although literary criticism today is more concerned with technique than with the basic question of value, the question of value underlies all the others. Professor Daiches therefore directs this book to the search for the basic function and purpose of imaginative prose and poetry. A Study of Literature is not, however, an obscure book of literary theory; it contains abundant and pungent examples and critical analyses - of prose fiction, of modern writing, and of the nature of poetry. "It's main purpose," as Professor Daiches says, "is to help the reader of works of imaginative literature to see what he is reading, to understand just what it is that he gets from different kinds of… Read More