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The Chain of Chance
Lem, Stanislaw
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Book Description: Secker & Warburg, London, 1978. Hardcover. First Edition in English. 178p. A very good copy, with bumps on the bottom forecorner of the front and back cover, a half-inch curved line in ink on the fore-edges, and the spine is moderately cocked, in a very good d.j. which has bump marks that match those mentioned above. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 019472
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Rockspring
Vliet, R.G
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Closet Stages: Joanna Baillie and the Theater Theory of British Romantic Women Writers
Burroughs, Catherine B.
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Book Description: Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, U.S.A., 1997. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 256pgs. Purple Cloth. 5 pages have highlighting, pencil parentheses, otherwise as new. Pictorial jacket as new. This book examines theater theory produced by middle- and upper-class British women-playwrights, actresses, and spectators-between 1790 and 1840. Shifting the focus away from the Romantic male writers to the journals, letters, and play prefaces in which women framed their relationship to the theater arts, Catherine Burroughs reveals how a concern with the performative aspects of daily life and the movement between public and private spheres produced a notion of theater that complicates the Romantic opposition between "closet" and "stage Size: Octavo. Seller Inventory # 025074
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Blackness and Modernism: The Literary Career of John Edgar Wideman
Coleman, James W.
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Book Description: Univ Pr of Mississippi (Txt), U.S.A., 1989. Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. First Edition. 167pgs.in shrinkwrap. Unopened, unread. During his career as a writer-intellectual, John Edgar Wideman in his personal life has overcome feelings of alienation from the black community and has reoriented himself as a participant in black culture. In his fiction Wideman has affected a similar shift, using modernism and postmodernism to bring his intellectual characters out of their isolation and into contact with the needs, concerns, and traditions of black people. Before he could write about this shift, Wideman had to inform himself about black culture. An eight-year period of immersion in the works of nineteenth- and twentieth-century authors gave him the resources he needed Size: Octavo. Seller Inventory # 026414
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The Gnostic Pynchon
Eddins, Dwight
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Children's Literature and the Fin de Siecle:
McGillis, Roderick
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Book Description: Praeger, U.S.A., 2002. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. 223pgs. Clay red cloth , embossed gilt lettering. Sticker ghost on rear panel, otherwise, as new.This book examines the transitional impact of fin de siecle on 19th- and 20th-century children's literature. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor, and the volume ranges over a disparate variety of topics. Size: Octavo. Seller Inventory # 026437
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The Arthurian Handbook
Lacy, Norris J. And Geoffrey Ashe
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A History of Women's Writing in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Catling, Jo (Editor)
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Book Description: Cambridge University Press, U.S.A., 2000. Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Paperback Edition. 395pgs. pictorial wraps. as new. is the first work in English to provide a chronological introduction to and overview of women's writing in German-speaking countries from the Middle Ages to the present day. Extensive guides to further reading and a bibliographical guide to the work of more than 400 women writers form an integral part of the volume Size: Octavo. Seller Inventory # 024283
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The Rhetoric of Rage: Women in Dorothy Parker (Writing About Women, Feminist Literary Studies, Vol 22)
Sondra Melzer
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Book Description: Peter Lang Publishing, U.S.A., 1997. Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. First Edition. 190pgs. Author inscription on front endpaper. The Rhetoric of Rage explores the treatment of women from a contemporary feminist perspective and reveals the ways in which Parker's brittle humor reflects muted anger toward a patriarchal society. Through close examination of the texts, the work investigates the hidden discontents, the buried conflicts of women's lives and exposes the forces at work both implicitly and explicitly that shape their existence. Size: Octavo. Signed and Inscribed By Author. Seller Inventory # 025079
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Tolstoy's Major Ficton
Wasiolek, Edward
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Book Description: University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1978. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 250pgs. caramel color cloth. Glossy purple lettering. as new, unmarked. Unclipped pictorial jacket has light wear to the extremities. Author pursues the central vision tha traverses Tolstoy's fictive world from Childhood to Resurrection. Size: Octavo. Seller Inventory # 025396
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Institutionalizing English Literature: The Culture and Politics of Literary Study, 1750-1900
Court, Franklin
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Book Description: Stanford University Press, U.S.A., 1992. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 211pgs. Gray cloth, copper lettering on the spine. As new in as new pictorial jacket. This book focuses on two purposes; 1) A detailed historical record of how the academic discipline of English literary study began in British universities. 2) To demonstrate, to those who consider the politicization of literary study a contemporary plague, that political ideologies and ethnocentric parochialism have consistently determined the historical development of the disicipline. Size: Octavo. Seller Inventory # 025769
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Inscape The Christology and Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Cotter, James Finn
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Book Description: University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh,PA, 1972. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. 347 pp. Black cloth with gilt lettering on front board and spine. Clean square and tight throughout. Fine but for faintest shelf wear. Hopkins stands alone as the best-known and most intensely studied poet of the late Victorian period. The author provides a re-examination of Hopkins' theology to illuminate his search for truth and the poetry which emanated from his search. Size: 8v0. Seller Inventory # 026036
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