Crabtree's Collection Old Books: Criticism
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Ariel Ascending: writings about Sylvia Plath.
NY, Harper Row, (1985). 1st ed. G PB. Includes essays by Sylvia's mother Aurelia S. Plath and an informative piece by Ted Hughes, Sylvia's husband. A varied yet balanced view of an accomplished poet whose work deserves serious critical attention which this book offers. Front cover has crease.
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Catalogue: Criticism
Meaning in Henry James.
Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ Press, (1991). 2nd ptg. VG lg sz PB. Oscillation in his writing between hope and fatalism, indeterminacy and form, uncertainty and meaning.
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William Faulkner: three decades of criticism.
NY, Harbinger/Harcourt Brace, (1963). G PB. Once spoken of as immoral practicising a cult of cruelty in a slapdash manner, Faulkner has come to be called a man of moral. vision and a poet in prose. Here is some of the best criticism of him and also includes his famous "Stockhom Address" and an interview he gave to the Paris Review. Some tanning of page edges but supple.
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Purity in Print: book censorship in America.
NY, Scribner, (1968). VG in VG DJ. Contains news release from Scribners about Purity in Print dated July 1968, "changing attitudes toward book censorship.".
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Catalogue: Criticism
Yeats at Work.
NY, Eccp Press, (1965). VG PB. The road to a master's certificate as a playwright was both long and hard. He was intent on developing antirealistic. dramatic modes. Shows Yeats as he meticulously changed and corrected his plays.
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Victor Hugo and the Visionary Novel.
Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ Press, (1984). 2nd ptg. VG lg sz PB. Sl edge wear.
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William Faulkner: First Encounters.
New Haven, Yale Univ Press, (1983). 3rd ptg. VG PB. Authoritative introduction to Faulkner's most important novesl and short stories, written for the general reader by "the best. critic of our best novelist." Slight marking on fore-edge, owner name ft endpaper.
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Thomas Hardy.
Cambridge, Cambridge Univ Press, (1979). G ex-library.
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The Realist at War: the mature years of William Dean Howells 1885-1920.
Syracuse, NY, Syracuse University Press, (1958). VG in VG DJ. Howells was America's foremost critic & exponent of realism whose revolutionary novels aroused conscience of lit. world. DJ rubbed, clippd. Bibliographical notes, index. Cady presents Howells as a devoted fighter for the right in American literature & society as he saw it.
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Catalogue: Literary criticism
Naming the Rose: Eco, medieval signs, and modern theory.
Ithaca, Cornell Univ Press, (1988). 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB. Coletti asserts that Eco, by means of a concrete rendering of medieval social & intellectual life, has made a significant. contemporary statement about language, meaning, responsible intellectual activity, and the nature of critical discourse. Explores implications of unusual status of Eco's novel (The Name of the Rose). Helps reader identify & decode the multiple signs & symbols in Eco's book while demonstrating how it historicizes the Middle Ages and links moder & medieval linguistic theories.
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Stephen King as Richard Bachman: Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism no. 10.
Mercer Island, WA, Starmont House, 1985. G PB. Collings zeros in on the Bachman phenomenom, gives historical pro & con from critics & synopsis of each Bachman book. Bibliography of sources used. Book does not lie flat, sl edge wear.
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W. B. Yeats: literature in perspective.
London, Evans Brothers, (1969). 1st ptg. VG PB. Yeats is generally considered a great poet but only a handful of his poems are known and anthologized, but his early and late. work is widely ignored and his personal and poetic development becomes blurred. Here it is shownn that Yeats was a seeker after truth and his impetus for constant development comes from his faculty for deep but constructive self-criticism. Bottom front corner creased, back cover damp-stained at top.
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Sister Carrie: Norton Critical Edition.
NY, Norton, (191970). 1st pt. VG PB.
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Henry James: The American Men of Letters Series.
NY, Morrow, 1974. 1st PB ed. G PB. A portrait of James the man & a critical evaluation of his work Few spots back cover & fore edge, edge wear, owner notations.
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Double Measure: a study of the novels and stories of D. H. Lawrence.
NY, Norton, (1969). G PB ex-library. NY Times Book Review said Ford's book significantly enlarges our understanding of Lawrence's fiction. Ford approaches. Lawrence's fiction through the idea of "double measure", the rhythm of powerful forces that pull against each other in the lives of Lawrence's characters to form a pattern of structure throughout his works, not only between life and death forces, but between the forces impelling man towards isolation and the other towards union. Library markings.
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