Category: Essays, Criticism & Memoir

In this volume, W. H. Auden assembled, edited, and arranged the best of his prose writing, including the famous lectures he delivered as Oxford Professor of Poetry. The result is less a formal collection of essays than an extended and linked series of observations--on poetry, art, and the observation of life in general. The Dyer's Hand is a surprisingly personal, intimate view of the author's mind, whose central focus is poetry--Shakespearean poetry in particular--but whose province is the author's whole experience of the twentieth century.
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Forewords and Afterwords

By: Auden, W. H.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Vintage : February 1990

Seller ID: 200755

ISBN-13: 9780679724858

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The essays in this collection were written as reviews, mainly for The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker, on books by or about Alexander Pope, Vincent van Gogh, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, and A. E. Housman, or as introductions to editions of the classical Greek writers, the Protestant mystics, Shakespeare, Goethe, Kierkegaard, Tennyson, Grimm and Andersen, Poe, G. K. Chesterton, Paul Val ry, and others. Throughout, these prose pieces reveal the same wit and intelligence--as well as the vision--that sparked the brilliance of Auden's poetry.
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Forewords and Afterwords

By: Auden, W. H.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Vintage : February 1990

Seller ID: 201090

ISBN-13: 9780679724858

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The essays in this collection were written as reviews, mainly for The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker, on books by or about Alexander Pope, Vincent van Gogh, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, and A. E. Housman, or as introductions to editions of the classical Greek writers, the Protestant mystics, Shakespeare, Goethe, Kierkegaard, Tennyson, Grimm and Andersen, Poe, G. K. Chesterton, Paul Val ry, and others. Throughout, these prose pieces reveal the same wit and intelligence--as well as the vision--that sparked the brilliance of Auden's poetry.
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The Audubon Reader (Everyman's Library)

By: Audubon, John James

Price: $27.50

Publisher: Everyman's Library : April 2006

Seller ID: 156686

ISBN-13: 9781400043699

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

This unprecedented anthology of John James Audubon's lively and colorful writings about the American wilderness reintroduces the great artist and ornithologist as an exceptional American writer, a predecessor to Thoreau, Emerson, and Melville.Audubon's award-winning biographer, Richard Rhodes, has gathered excerpts from his journals, letters, and published works, and has organized them to appeal to general readers. Rhodes's unobtrusive commentary frames a wide range of selections, including Audubon's vivid "bird biographies," correspondence with his devoted wife, Lucy, journal accounts of dram...
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Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages

By: AUERBACH, ERICH

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press : May 1993

Seller ID: 197630

ISBN-13: 9780691024684

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

In this, his final book, Erich Auerbach writes, "My purpose is always to write history." Tracing the transformations of classical Latin rhetoric from late antiquity to the modern era, he explores major concerns raised in his Mimesis: the historical and social contexts in which writings were received, and issues of aesthetics, semantics, stylistics, and sociology that anticipate the concerns of the new historicism.

Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (Princeton Classics)

By: Auerbach, Erich, Said, Edward W.

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Princeton University Press : October 2013

Seller ID: 213291

ISBN-13: 9780691160221

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial essay in introduction by Edward Said as well as an essay, never before translated into English, in which Auerbach responds to his critics. A German Jew, Auerbach was forced out of his professorship at the University of Ma...
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Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure

By: Auster, Paul

Price: $8.50

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co : September 1997

Seller ID: 184410

ISBN-13: 9780805054064

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Appears as new, owner name present.
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The Art of Hunger: Essays, Prefaces, Interviews and the Red Notebook

By: Auster, Paul

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Penguin USA (P) : September 1993

Seller ID: 220585

ISBN-13: 9780140171686

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Owner name, slight age discoloration, solid unmarked text.
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Mary Austin Reader

By: AUSTIN, MARY HUNTER, LANIGAN, ESTHER F.

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Univ of Arizona Pr : May 1996

Seller ID: 20070607104843

ISBN-13: 9780816516209

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Best remembered for The Land of Little Rain (1903), which established her as a unique voice of the American West, Mary Austin was the author of nearly thirty books and hundreds of short works. Her essays, novels, plays, short stories, poems, and articles draw upon her impressions of the indigenous peoples and terrains of California, Arizona, and New Mexico. Throughout her work, glimmers of her idiosyncratic feminism appear; not until long after her death in 1934 did she come to be celebrated for her feminist perspective. This anthology of Austin's stories, articles, and excerpts from her book...
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New Testaments: Cognition, Closure, and the Figural Logic of the Sequel, 1660-1740

By: Austin, Michael

Price: $60.00

Publisher: University of Delaware Press : November 2011

Seller ID: 94576

ISBN-13: 9781611493641

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, popular works of literature attracted-as they attract today-sequels, prequels, franchises, continuations, and parodies. Sequels of all kinds demonstrate the economic realities of the literary marketplace. This represents something fundamental about the way human beings process narrative information. We crave narrative closure, but we also resist its finality, making such closure both inevitable and inadequate in human narratives. Many cultures incorporate this fundamental ambiguity towards closure in the mythic frameworks that fuel their narrative i...
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Useful Fictions: Evolution, Anxiety, and the Origins of Literature (Frontiers of Narrative)

By: Austin, Michael

Price: $40.00

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press : January 2011

Seller ID: 20110328186345

ISBN-13: 9780803230262

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live," Joan Didion observed in The White Album. Why is this? Michael Austin asks, in Useful Fictions. Why, in particular, are human beings, whose very survival depends on obtaining true information, so drawn to fictional narratives? After all, virtually every human culture reveres some form of storytelling. Might there be an evolutionary reason behind our species' need for stories? Drawing on evolutionary biology, anthropology, narrative theory, cognitive psychology, game theory, and evolutionary aesthetics, Austin develops the concept of a "useful fictio...
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The View From Here: a Collection of Columns

By: Awbrey, Stuart

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Consolidated Printing : January 1986

Seller ID: 20100922178600

ISBN: B000O88SHK

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

VG, gift inscription on inside cover, sharp & solid.
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Classroom Guide to 'The Norton Introduction to Literature' (Second Edition)

By: Bain,Carl, Beaty,Jerome

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Norton : January 1977

Seller ID: 20110112183411

ISBN-13: 9780393091274

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

Vg, age toned but still crisp, a nice clean copy.
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Wendell Berry and Higher Education: Cultivating Virtues of Place (Culture Of The Land)

By: Baker, Jack R.,Bilbro, Jeffrey

Price: $27.00

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky : February 2020

Seller ID: 209506

ISBN-13: 9780813179148

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Prominent author and cultural critic Wendell Berry is well known for his contributions to agrarianism and environmentalism, but his commentary on education has received comparatively little attention. Berry has been eloquently unmasking America's cultural obsession with restless mobility for decades, arguing that it causes damage to both the land and the character of our communities. Education, he maintains, plays a central role in this obsession, inculcating in students' minds the American dream of moving up and moving on.Drawing on Berry's essays, fiction, and poetry, Jack R. Baker and Jeffr...
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Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (Theory & History of Literature)

By: BAKHTIN, M. M.

Price: $24.00

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press : April 1984

Seller ID: 220339

ISBN-13: 9780816612284

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Soviet critic and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin did not write 'essays' in the way the English-speaking world understands the term-as a formally structured and streamlined presentation of a particular theme or idea. To quote Caryl Emerson in the preface, 'He thought, read, wrote down what he thought, and moved on; he was not in the habit of reworking his prose, because the important ideas always came around again in new contexts.' Bakhtin delights in a sort of 'permanent dialogue' (using Emerson's term) that depends upon the preservation of a gap in understanding between parties so that app...
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Speech Genres and Other Late Essays (University of Texas Press Slavic Series, No 8)

By: BAKHTIN, M.M.

Price: $24.95

Publisher: University of Texas Press : January 1986

Seller ID: 185004

ISBN-13: 9780292775602

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Speech Genres and Other Late Essays presents six short works from Bakhtin's Esthetics of Creative Discourse, published in Moscow in 1979. This is the last of Bakhtin's extant manuscripts published in the Soviet Union. All but one of these essays (the one on the Bildungsroman) were written in Bakhtin's later years and thus they bear the stamp of a thinker who has accumulated a huge storehouse of factual material, to which he has devoted a lifetime of analysis, reflection, and reconsideration.

Mikhail Bakhtin: The Duvakin Interviews, 1973

By: Bakhtin, Mikhail

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Bucknell University Press : August 2019

Seller ID: 191570

ISBN-13: 9781684480906

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Whenever Bakhtin, in his final decade, was queried about writing his memoirs, he shrugged it off. Unlike many of his Symbolist generation, Bakhtin was not fascinated by his own self-image. This reticence to tell his own story was the point of access for Viktor Duvakin, Mayakovsky scholar, fellow academic, and head of an oral history project, who in 1973 taped six interviews with Bakhtin over twelve hours. They remain our primary source of Bakhtin's personal views: on formative moments in his education and exile, his reaction to the Revolution, his impressions of political, intellectual, and th...
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Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere: A Memoir

By: Ballantine, Poe

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Hawthorne Books : September 2013

Seller ID: 211940

ISBN-13: 9780983477549

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Firm binding, minimal exterior wear. Interior shows occasional pencil marks to text and previous owner notes to rear flyleaf. Overall, a solid, clean copy.
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Category: Essays, Criticism & Memoir