Literary Theory
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All the Pretty Horses
by Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. He has also written plays and screenplays. This novel, All The Pretty Horses, won the National Book Award in 1992. The story reads like a Western novel, but is set in 1949 and revolves around the life of a 16-year old Texan named John Grady Cole. After his parent’s marriage ends, he finds himself at the end of a long line of ranchers, without a family ranch to work. So he sets out for Mexico on horseback with two companions. By turns both comic...
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Of Grammatology
by Jacques Derrida
De la grammatologie is a book by French philosopher Jacques Derrida, first published in 1967 by Les Éditions de Minuit. Of Grammatology, the English translation by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, was first published in 1976 by Johns Hopkins University Press. A corrected edition of the translation was published in 1998.
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THE CULTURE OF THE PASSIONS OF THE ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH NOVEL
by SILL, Geoffrey
Cambridge University Press, 2001. 8vo, 261pp. A near fine hardback copy in like dust jacket.
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Tjomnyj Genij Vsevolod Mejerhol’d = The Dark Genius of Vseovold Meyerhold.
by Elagin, Juri
London, England: Overseas Publications Interchange Ltd, 1982. . 8vo. 455pp. Soft Covers. Very Good. Text in Russian.
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Beyond Poststructuralism: The Speculations of Theory and the Experience of Literature
by Harris, Wendell V. (editor)
Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press,. Hardback. 445pp. 19 essays. Blue cloth with silver titles to spine. Hint of superficial rubbing One minor ding to fore-edge. Very good copy. . Hardcover. 1996.
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Callaloo: A Journal of Afro-American and African Arts and Letters. Volume 13, Number 1 - Winter, 1990
by Rowell, Charles H. [editor]
Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. Scholarly quarterly including art, interviews, poetry, fiction, non-fiction and book reviews by African Americans or of interest to African Americans. Featured in this issue are: Paule Marshall; Leopold S. Senghor; John Edgar Wideman; Chinua Achebe; Wilson Harris; many others. Softcover with color artwork on front cover. Light shelfwear, internally very clean and free from names or other markings.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over...
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Callaloo: A Journal of Afro-American and African Arts and Letters. Issue No. 34 - Volume 11, Number 4 - Fall 1988
by Rowell, Charles H. [editor]
Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. Scholarly quarterly including art, interviews, poetry, fiction, non-fiction and book reviews by African Americans or of interest to African Americans. Featured in this issue are: Al Young; Charles H. Rowell; Olympe Bhely-Quenem; Valerie Smith; Janet Sims-Wood; VeVe A. Clark; Janis A. Mayes; others. Softcover with color artwork on front cover. Light shelfwear, internally very clean and free from names or other markings.. Soft Cover. Very Good....
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The Contest of Faculties: Philosophy and Theory After Deconstruction
by Norris, Christopher
London: Routledge,. Paperback. 247pp. Loosely laid in is a detailed letter from the author to Bernard Bergonzi on Derrida. Somewhat faded else neat. Very good copy. . Paperback. 1985.
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Our Halcyon Dayes: English Prerevolutionary Texts and Postmodern Culture
by Venuti, Lawrence
Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press,. Paperback. 1st edn., 9'' x 6'', 320 pp. An examination of Marxist theory and English Renaissance texts such as Philip Massinger and Cavalier love poetry. Indexed. Some edge wear. Spine uncreased. Clean and sound. Good+, sound copy. . Paperback. 1989.
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Callaloo : A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters, Volume 18, Number 2 (Spring 1995) - Remembering Ralph Ellison
by Rowell, Charles H. (ed.), Ralph Ellison, Rita Dove, Marilene Phipps, Nathaniel Mackey (interviewed), Reginald McKnight, Astrid Roemer, et al
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. Tall 8vo, 318pp, printed wrappers. This thick issue includes a special section memorializing Ralph Ellison. A corrected masthead leaf is laid in (as issued). Unmarked, internally clean copy, light reading wear.
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Veil and the Mask: Essays on Culture and Ideology
by Merquior, J. G
London: Routledge Kegan Paul,. Hardback. 161pp. Multidisciplinary approach to cultural and literary theory drawing on sociology, psychology, philosophy and Marxism. Pale yellow boards with gilt titles to spine and some finger marks. Dw is a little tanned and has the remains of an old price label to front. Very good copy in Good+ dw. . Hardcover. 1979.
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Truth to Life: The Art of Biography in the Nineteenth Century
by Cockshut, A. O. J
London: Collins,. 220pp. Heavily sunned to spine and edges of dust wrapper. A little rubbed. Very good copy in Good dw. . Hardcover. 1974.
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NZ$15.66
Callaloo: A Journal of Afro-American and African Arts and Letters. Volume 13, Number 2 - Spring, 1990
by Rowell, Charles H. [editor]
Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. Scholarly quarterly including art, interviews, poetry, fiction, non-fiction and book reviews by African Americans or of interest to African Americans. Featured in this issue are: Houston A. Baker, Jr.; Yusef Komunyakka; Clarence Major; Wynton Marsalis; John McCluskey; many others. Softcover with color artwork on front cover. Light shelfwear, internally very clean and free from names or other markings.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over...
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Callaloo : A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters, Volume 24, Number 1 (Winter 2001) - The Confederate Flag Controversy
by Rowell, Charles H. (ed.), Ernest J. Gaines, Madison Smartt Bell, Guy Davenport, George Garrett, Reynolds Price, et al
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. Tall 8vo, xii+288pp, printed wrappers. This stout issue includes content related to the Confederate Flag Controversy. Unmarked, internally clean copy, light edgewear.
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Callaloo : A Black South Journal of Arts and Letters 17 (Volume 6, Number 1; February 1983) - inciudes a Special Section on Aime Cesaire : Caribbean Poet
by Rowell, Charles H. (ed.), Aime Cesaire, Clayton Eshleman, Annette Smith, John Edgar Wideman, Brenda Marie Osbey, Charles Johnson, Nathaniel Mackey, et al
Lexington, KY: Callaloo, 1983. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, [ii]+190pp, printed wrappers. This scarce early issue of Callaloo includes a special section devoted to Aime Cesaire. Unmarked copy, light reading wear, some rubbing to covers.
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Culture and Anarchy
by Arnold, Matthew
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,. Paperback. 241pp. Literary and social criticism. Edited with an introduction by J. Dover Wilson and takes the 1869 text as its basis whilst retaining the organisational improvments of the 1875 second edition. Pages are tanned and have some pencil annotation. Previous owner's name to prelim. Good, sound copy. . Paperback. Reprint. 1963.
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Alien Plots : Female Subjectivity and the Divine in the Light of James Tiptree's `A Momentary Taste of Being'
by van der Spek, Inez
Liverpool: Liverpool University Press,. Paperback. 241pp. Part of the Liverpool Science Fiction Texts & Studies series. A series of close readings of the science fiction story `A Momentary Taste of Being' by James Tiptree (pseudonym of Alice Sheldon-Bradley). Draws strongly on feminist literary theory particularly the work of Julia Kristeva. Near fine, bright copy. . Paperback. 2000.
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NZ$20.88
Sisters in Literature: Female Sexuality in Antigone , Middlemarch , Howards End and Women in Love
by Masako Hirai
Hardback. New. A unique study of how novels by Lawrence, Forster and George Eliot can be read as rewritings of Sophocles's Antigone : each is presented as a socially and sexually involving argument between two sisters.
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A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory
by Selden, Raman and Peter Widdowson (editors)
Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf,. Paperback. 244pp. An introduction to 8 of the major schools of literary theory: New Criticism, Russian Formalism, Reader-orientated theories, Marxist theories, structuralist theories, poststructuralist theories, postmodernist and postcolonialist theories, feminist theories. Clean and neat. Good+, sound copy . Paperback. 1993.
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NZ$7.31
Callaloo : A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters, Volume 27, Number 2 (Spring 2004)
by Rowell, Charles H. (ed.), Reetika Vazirani, Douglas Field (on James Baldwin), Rita Dove, Madison Smart Bell, et al
Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. Tall 8vo, 238pp, printed wrappers. Issue includes Douglas Field essay on James Baldwin, memorial tributes to Reetika Vazirani by Rita Dove and others, etc. Unmarked, internally clean copy with a bit of edge wear.
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Mosaic V/I
by R.G. Collins; Kenneth McRobbie (eds.)
Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 1971. As new! Paper bound, illustrated, Pp167. An unmarked, near fine copy of this very early issue. Review editor is Ralph T. Berry and Peter M. Horowitz is associate editor. Contents include: Synge in the West of Ireland; Synge The Dramatist; John Millington Synge: The Man and His Background; Synge's Poetic Use of Language; New Worlds for Old: The Apocalyptic Imagination, Science Fiction, and American Literature; Myth and Tragi-Comedy in Beckett's Happy Days;...
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Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace
by Murray, Janet H
Free Press, 1997. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Very good condition with the exception of a small 1/4 inch edge rip on rear dust jacket corner. Otherwise minimal wear. Clean and tight. No writing or marking..
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Mosaic V/4
by R.G. Collins; Kenneth McRobbie (eds.)
Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 1972. Paper bound, illustrated, Pp204. A tight, unmarked, very good or better copy of this early issue. Contents include: Numerology and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde; Undoing Substantial connection: The Late Medieval Attack on Analogical Thought; Trends and Problems in the Study of Emblematic Literature; Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata and Sonata Form; Aristotle to Gertrude Stein: the Arts of Poetry; Giraudoux Entre Deux Nationalismes: Quelques Aspects de la...
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Deconstruction: Theory and Practice
by Norris, Christopher
London: Routledge,. Paperback. 157pp. Very light annotation. New Accents Series. Very good copy. . Paperback. 1982.
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Poems of Robert Frost: An Explication
by Marcus, Mordecai
G. K. Hall & Co., 1991. Book. Good. Hardcover. Good reference or reading copy. Book is Ex-Library with typical stamps, stickers and markings. Some underlining and markings in text pages. All intact..
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NZ$33.02NZ$28.07
The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
by Ousby, Ian
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,. Hardback. 1056pp. Foreword by Doris Lessing. Detailed biographical and critical articles not only on writers and their works as substantial coverage is also given to such literary genres as popular fiction, science fiction, detective novels, and children's classics. Over 4,500 alphabetical entries, cross-referenced throughout . Includes all literature in English - British, Irish, American, Australian, African, Canadian, New Zealand, Indian and Caribbean....
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Callaloo: A Journal of Afro-American and African Arts and Letters. Volume 13, Number 3 - Summer, 1990
by Rowell, Charles H. [editor]
Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. Scholarly quarterly including art, interviews, poetry, fiction, non-fiction and book reviews by African Americans or of interest to African Americans. Featured in this issue are: Alvin Aubert; Houston A. Baker, Jr.; Tahar Ben Jelloun; Marjorie Thorpe; many others. Softcover with color artwork on front cover. Light shelfwear, internally very clean and free from names or other markings.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" -...
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