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Babbitt, Irving, 1865-1933. [Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778]
Rousseau and Romanticism
Publisher: NY, Meridian Books, 1955 [©1947].
[vii], 324 p.; 18 cm. First pub. Boston & NY, Houghton Mifflin, 1919. Babbitt didn't like either Rousseau or Romanticism. Stock#46213. Vg / soft cover.
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Blistein, Elmer M. (Milton), 1920-1993
The Drama of the Renaissance: Essays for Leicester Bradner. Edited by Elmer M. Blistein
Publisher: Providence, R.I., Brown University Press, 1970.
xiii, 199 p.; 24 cm. Contents: The significance of Hamlet's advice to the players, Battenhouse; William Gager's Meleager and Ulysses Redux, Binns; Theme and structure in King Henry IV, part I, Bowers; Iago's "if"; an essay on the syntax of Othello, Doran; Tragedy in the Spanish Golden Age, Jones; Shakespeare's dark vocabulary, Jorgensen; The comedies of Calderón, Muir; La Veniexiana in the light of recent criticism, Richter; Shakespeare the ignoramus, Schoenbaum; The comic view of life in Shakespeare's comedies, Shaaber; Notes (p. [181]-194); Bibliography of Leicester Bradner (p. [197]-199). stock#45575.
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Cebes, of Thebes. Sider, Sandra, translator
Cebes' Tablet. Facsimiles of the Greek Text and of Selected Latin French English Spanish Italian German Dutch...
Publisher: NY, Renaissance Society of America, c1979.
[iii], 229 p., illus. facsims.; 18.5 cm. Title continues: "and Polish Translations. Translation of Kēbetos Thēbaiou pinax, an anonymous work erroneously ascribed to Cebes. Introduction by Sandra Sider." 'It presents an eclectic doctrine which in spite of its Pythagorean setting owes more to Plato, Aristotle and the Stoics than to the Pythagoreans." Stock#45607. Vg / no dj as issued.
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Item number: 45607.
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Daniels, Stephen
Fields of Vision: Landscape Imagery and National Identity in England and the United States
Publisher: Princeton University Press, ©1993.
x, 257 p., illus.; 24 cm. Contents: The Prince of Wales and the Shadow of St Paul’s; Joseph Wright and the spectacle of power; Humphry Repton and the improvement of the estate; J. M. W. Turner and the circulation of the state; Thomas Cole and the course of empire; Frances Palmer and the incorporation of the continent; John Constable and the making of Constable country. Stock#46049. Vg / dj vg.
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Feder, Lillian
Ancient Myth in Modern Poetry
Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1977, ©1971.
xiv, 432 p.; 23.5 cm. "I focus on the work of four major poets-- William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and W.H. Auden." From the library of Prof. Alan S. Trueblood with his pencil annotations. Stock#45750.
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Item number: 45750.
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Gardner, Helen Louise, Dame, 1908-1986
Religion and Literature
Publisher: London, Faber & Faber, 1971.
[3]-194 p.; 22.5 cm. Consists of two parts: I, Religion and Tragedy: The T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures, University of Kent, 1968; II, Religious Poetry: The Ewing Lectures, UCLA, 1966. Stock#45728. Vg / dj vg.
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AUD 19.61 | CAD 20.04 | EUR 15.15 | GBP 12.82 | JPY 1,818.18 | MXN 222.22 | ZAR 180.18 |
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Garzilli, Enrico
Circles Without Center: Paths to the Discovery and Creation of Self in Modern Literature
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1972.
xii, 170 p.; 25 cm. "The rejection of traditional heroes and the transitory nature of contemporary models have forced modern man to seek his true self and his ideal self in other ways." Inscribed to Alan S. Trueblood. Stock#46109. Vg/ dj vg.
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Item number: 46109.
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Grant, William Leonard, 1914-1967
Neo-Latin Literature and the Pastoral by W. Leonard Grant
Publisher: Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press [1965].
x, 434 p.; 23.5 cm. Italian Renaissance humanists revived the pastoral form. Grant reviews pre-humanists such as Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch, then shows the new forms and new uses (four ways, four chapters). Includes a photocopy of Grant's "An Eclogue of Giovanni Potano." Stock#45711. Vg / dj vg.
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AUD 39.22 | CAD 40.08 | EUR 30.30 | GBP 25.64 | JPY 3,636.36 | MXN 444.44 | ZAR 360.36 |
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Item number: 45711.
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Honig, Edwin
Dark Conceit: the Making of Allegory
Publisher: Cambridge: A Boar's Head book / Walker-deBerry, 1960.
xii, 210 p.; 21.5 cm. Cover title: Allegory and Its Use By Melville, Hawthorne, James, Lawrence, Joyce & Kafka. Originally published Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1959. Stock#45794. Good+, covers sunned / soft cover.
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AUD 4.90 | CAD 5.01 | EUR 3.79 | GBP 3.21 | JPY 454.55 | MXN 55.56 | ZAR 45.05 |
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Item number: 45794.
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Kuhn, Reinhard Clifford, 1930-1980
The Demon of Noontide: Ennui in Western Literature
Publisher: Princeton University Press, ©1976.
xvi, 395 p., illus.; 24 cm. "Choosing literary examples from a variety of countries and periods, the author examines the different forms ennui has taken in the work of writers such as Aristotle, Shakespeare, Rossard, Goethe, Proust, and Hemingway. From his analysis of this rich body of literature, the author concludes that ennui is a response to nothingness..." Stock#45579. Vg / soft cover.
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Item number: 45579.
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Poggioli, Renato, 1907-1963
The Oaten Flute: Essays on Pastoral Poetry and the Pastoral Idea
Publisher: Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1975.
vi, 340 p., illus.; 24 cm. A. Bartlett Giamatti edited the manuscript left after Poggioli's death. Contents: The oaten flute; Pastoral love; The funeral elegy; Milton's Lycidas; The Christian pastoral; Dante Poco tempo silvano: a pastoral oasis in the Commedia; The poetics of the pastoral; The pastoral of the self; Pastoral and Soledad; Naboth's vineyard: the pastoral view of the social order; Arkadisch frei sei unser Glück!: Goethe and the pastoral; Gogol's Old-fashioned landowners: an inverted eclogue; Tolstoy's Domestic happiness: beyond pastoral love; L'Heure du Berger: Mallarmé's grand eclogue. Stock#45563. Vg / dj vg.
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Item number: 45563.
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Praz, Mario, 1896-1982
The Romantic Agony. Translated from the Italian by Angus Davidson
Publisher: NY, Meridian Books, 1956.
xix, 502 p., illus.; 20.5 cm. Translation of La carne, la morte e il diavolo nella letteratura romantica; second edition, 1950; the translation first appeared in 1951. Stock#45680. Vg / soft covers.
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Item number: 45680.
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Spengemann, William C.
The Forms of Autobiography: Episodes in the History of a Literary Genre
Publisher: New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, ©1980.
xvii, 254 p.; 21 cm. Contents: The formal paradigm: The confessions of St. Augustine; Historical autobiography: La vita nuova; Grace abounding...; The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; Philosophical autobiography: The confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau; The prelude; Confessions of an English opium eater; Poetic autobiography: Sartor resartus; David Copperfield; The scarlet letter; The study of autobiography: a bibliographical essay. Stock#46143. vg soft cover.
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Item number: 46143.
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Torrance, Robert M. (Mitchell), 1939-
The Comic Hero
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1978.
xiv, 346 p.; 22 cm. Contents: Comic butt and comic hero: conceptions of comedy; Beggar man, king: Homer's Odysseus; Jackanapes in the highest: the Aristophanic hero; Bondservant and beast of burden: Plautine slave and Lucius the Ass; Renegade vassal: Reynard the Fox; Monarch of make-believe: Sir John Falstaff; Aberrant hidalgo: Don Quixote; Moral rake and masterful lackey: Tom Jones and Jacques the Fatalist; Insouciant lover and insatiable stumblebums: Don Juan and Bouvard and Pecuchet; Ulysses and Hermes in modern times: Leopold Bloom and Felix Krull; Appendix: Ancient views of the Odyssey as tragedy and as comedy. Stock#45731. Vg; dj vg.
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Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975
Sincerity and Authenticity
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press [1974, c1971].
[xii], 188 p.; 20 cm. Series: Charles Eliot Norton lectures 1969-1970. Contents: Sincerity: its origin and rise, The honest soul and the disintegrated consciousness, The sentiment of being and the sentiments of art, The heroic, the beautiful, the authentic, Society and authenticity, The authentic unconscious. Stock#46190. Vg / soft cover.
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Item number: 46190.
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Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972
Axel's Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931.
5 p. l., 319 p.; 21 cm. Contents: Symbolism; W. B. Yeats; Paul Valéry; T. S. Eliot; Marcel Proust; James Joyce; Gertrude Stein; Axel and Rimbaud. Stock#45564. Vg / no dj.
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