Token Love, Signed (4 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Signed by Author Signed by Author Mild shelfwear. New looking pages. Signed by author on title page. Signed by Author.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Binding is solid. Glossy cover wraps. Worn along extremities. Corners are rubbed. Interior pages are bright and clean. Signed by Author(s).

8°. Volume I.: VIII, 280 pages / Volume II: 247 pages / Volume III: 77 pages / Volume IV: 193 pages / Volume V: 423 pages. Three Volumes in original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar / One Volume in Softcover / One Volume in Hardcover. Very good condition. From the library of Paul de Man. Especially the Durling - Volume of interest. Inscribed by the author: "For Paul de Man with fond regards - Bob". Volume I includes essays by Durling on "Ancient and Medieval Influences", Two Roman Poets, Chaucer, Petrarch, Four Renaissance Epics: Boiardo, Ariosto, Tasso, Spenser. Volume II includes for example the following essays: The Poetics of Becoming: Paul de Man in the Fifties / Poetics, Metaphysics, Temporality: Paul de Man and Martin Heidegger / Language, Nature and the Absence of Being: Paul de Man's Romanticism etc. Volume III is a first edition, signed and inscribed by american poet and editor, Theodore Russell Weiss. Volume IV includes essays like "The Literary Reputation of Langston Hughes in the Hispanic World and Haiti" / Langston Hughes's Works Translated into Spanish / etc. Volume V inscludes many different and important essays by Harry Levin, like: "Why Literary Criticism is not an exact Science" / A Dialogue with Arthur Lovejoy / Memoirs of Scholars (Milman Parry, Fernand Baldensperger, Renato Poggioli, Perry Miller) / An Introduction to Ben Jonson, On the Earl of Rochester, William Carlos Williams and the Old World etc. etc. Paul de Man (December 6, 1919 December 21, 1983), born Paul Adolph Michel Deman, was a Belgian-born literary critic and literary theorist. At the time of his death, de Man was one of the most prominent literary critics in the United Statesknown particularly for his importation of German and French philosophical approaches into Anglo-American literary studies and critical theory. Along with Jacques Derrida, he was part of an influential critical movement that went beyond traditional interpretation of literary texts to reflect on the epistemological difficulties inherent in any textual, literary, or critical activity. This approach aroused considerable opposition, which de Man attributed to "resistance" inherent in the difficult enterprise of literary interpretation itself. (Wikipedia) Sprache: english.

A deeply embossed card created in two layers with three different types of material. The top layer is a deeply embossed light olive color. The scene depicts a diety or lovely woman and two cherubs in a garden scene. Entwined vine border decoration with roses cascading above. A center cartouche cut-out exposes a deeply embossed Cupid with arrow in hand on a bright orange coated stock. Finally the lower right corner lifts to expose a German language poem of love and friendship printed on silk. Inscribed on reverse in German and dated 1800. Measures 5" x 3 3/4". Elegant and fine.