Category: Essays, Criticism & Memoir

The English Language (Canto Classics)

By: Barber, Charles, Beal, Joan, Shaw, Philip

Price: $19.99

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : March 2012

Seller ID: 145047

ISBN-13: 9781107693937

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

This bestselling text by Charles Barber, with updating contributions from Joan C. Beal and Philip A. Shaw, recounts the history of the English language from its remote ancestry to the present day. Using dozens of familiar texts, including the English of King Alfred, Shakespeare and Chaucer, the English language is explored in terms of where it came from, where it is going, and the global impact it has had, taking into account the many varieties of English that now exist. Stimulating and interesting, it is not only written for specialists on language and linguistics, but also for general reader...
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Exploring Worldviews in Literature: From William Wordsworth to Edward Albee

By: Barge, Laura

Price: $21.95

Publisher: Abilene Christian University Press : October 2009

Seller ID: 20100713174929

ISBN-13: 9780891125389

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

A Classical Guide to Narration

By: Barney, Jason

Price: $12.99

Publisher: CiRCE Books : November 2020

Seller ID: 219203

ISBN-13: 9781734785326

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

The Symbolic Imagination: Coleridge and the Romantic Tradition (Studies in Religion and Literature, 3)

By: BARTH, J. ROBERT

Price: $39.00

Publisher: Fordham University Press : January 2001

Seller ID: 214445

ISBN-13: 9780823221134

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

J. Robert Barth contends, against many in Coleridgian scholarship, that Symbol - once commonly considered to be the very heart of Christian theology - is irrevocably linked to Imagination both in Coleridge's thought and poetry. This ligature not only ''proclaims an incarnation of the eternal in the finite, a personal reenactment of God's original, and endlessly continuous, moment of self-naming'' (Barth quoting Jonathan Wordsworth), but also identifies Coleridge essentially as a Christian thinker operating within an intrinsically sacramental poetics. As Barth explains, Coleridge's definition o...
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Alfa Romeo 1300 and Other Miracles

By: Bartolomei, Fabio

Price: $16.00

Publisher: Europa Editions : October 2012

Seller ID: 216100

ISBN-13: 9781609450830

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

A raucous debut novel of organized--and unorganized--crime. "A story that takes itself unseriously enough to be funny" (The Daily Beast, "This Week's Hot Reads"). Diego is a forty-something car salesman with a talent for telling half-truths. Fausto sells watches over the phone. Claudio manages (barely) his family-owned neighborhood supermarket. The characteristic common to each of these three men is their abject mediocrity. Yet, mediocrity being the mother of outrageous invention, they embark on a project that would be too ambitious in scope for any single one of them, let alone all three toge...
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A Jacques Barzun Reader: Selections from His Works (Perennial Classics)

By: Barzun, Jacques

Price: $19.99

Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics : July 2003

Seller ID: 204107

ISBN-13: 9780060935429

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Throughout his long career, Jacques Barzun, the author of From Dawn to Decadence, has been known as a witty and graceful essayist, conversant with a wide range of subjects. Michael Murray has compiled eighty of Barzun's most remarkable short works into one comprehensive volume that will give students a full appreciation of this great writer's erudition and literary talent. The essays in A Jacques Barzun Reader cover an astonishing array of topics, including history, philosophy, music and baseball. Barzun re-examines Diderot, Shaw, Swift, and Berlioz, and analyzes both Lincoln as a literary ar...
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How the Just So Stories Were Made: The Brilliance and Tragedy Behind Kipling's Celebrated Tales for Little Children

By: Batchelor, John

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Yale University Press : May 2021

Seller ID: 193783

ISBN-13: 9780300237184

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A fascinating, richly illustrated exploration of the poignant origins of Rudyard Kipling's world-famous children's classic From "How the Leopard Got Its Spots" to "The Elephant's Child," Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories have delighted readers across the world for more than a century. In this original study, John Batchelor explores the artistry with which Kipling created the Just So Stories, using each tale as an entry point into the writer's life and work--including the tragedy that shadows much of the volume, the death of his daughter Josephine. Batchelor details the playful challenges the...
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How the Just So Stories Were Made: The Brilliance and Tragedy Behind Kipling's Celebrated Tales for Little Children

By: Batchelor, John

Price: $26.00

Publisher: Yale University Press : May 2021

Seller ID: 217413

ISBN-13: 9780300237184

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A fascinating, richly illustrated exploration of the poignant origins of Rudyard Kipling's world-famous children's classic From "How the Leopard Got Its Spots" to "The Elephant's Child," Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories have delighted readers across the world for more than a century. In this original study, John Batchelor explores the artistry with which Kipling created the Just So Stories, using each tale as an entry point into the writer's life and work--including the tragedy that shadows much of the volume, the death of his daughter Josephine. Batchelor details the playful challenges the...
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Virginia Woolf: The Major Novels

By: Batchelor, John

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : February 1991

Seller ID: 160881

ISBN-13: 9780521311359

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Like New

Very minor rubbing to front cover, text pristine.
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The Art of Solitude

By: Batchelor, Stephen

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Yale University Press : January 2022

Seller ID: 203512

ISBN-13: 9780300261523

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Bright Star, Green Light: The Beautiful Works and Damned Lives of John Keats and F. Scott Fitzgerald

By: Bate, Jonathan

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Yale University Press : September 2021

Seller ID: 219433

ISBN-13: 9780300256574

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

English Literature: A Very Short Introduction

By: Bate, Jonathan

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press : October 2010

Seller ID: 219685

ISBN-13: 9780199569267

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

A renowned critic, biographer, and Shakespeare scholar, Jonathan Bate provides in this Very Short Introduction a lively and engaging overview of the literature that Jorge Luis Borges called "the richest in the world." From the medieval "Hymn of Caedmon" to George Orwell's "Why I Write," from Jane Austen to Ian McEwan, and from Winnie the Pooh to Dr. Johnson, this brilliant, compact survey stretches across the centuries, exploring the major literary forms (poetry, novel, drama, essay and more), the many histories and theories of the very idea of literature, and the role of writers in shaping En...
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The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

By: Batuman, Elif

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : February 2010

Seller ID: 223461

ISBN-13: 9780374532185

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Solid, no marks, gently aged copy.
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Literary Criticism: An Autopsy

By: Bauerlein, Mark

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Pace Univ Pr : August 1997

Seller ID: 219667

ISBN-13: 9780812216257

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

As the study of literature has extended to cultural contexts, critics have developed a language all their own. Yet, argues Mark Bauerlein, scholars of literature today are so unskilled in pertinent sociohistorical methods that they compensate by adopting cliches and catchphrases that serve as substitutes for information and logic. Thus by labeling a set of ideas an "ideology" they avoid specifying those ideas, or by saying that someone "essentializes" a concept they convey the air of decisive refutation. As long as a paper is generously sprinkled with the right words, clarification is deemed s...
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Flannery O'connor: A Proper Scaring (Wheaton Literary Series)

By: Baumgaertner, Jill Pelaez

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Harold Shaw Pub : January 1988

Seller ID: 223260

ISBN-13: 9780877882725

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

Firm binding; unmarked text; light general shelfwear.
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Falling Inward: Humanities in the Age of Technology

By: Baxter, Jason

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Cluny Media, LLC : February 2018

Seller ID: 205257

ISBN-13: 9781944418632

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Falling Inward: Humanities in the Age of Technology

By: Baxter, Jason

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Cluny Media, LLC : February 2018

Seller ID: 212382

ISBN-13: 9781944418632

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren

By: Beauvoir, Simone de,Algren, Nelson,Le Bon De Beauvoir, Sylvie,Kling, Vanessa

Price: $18.95

Publisher: The New Press : September 1999

Seller ID: 163697

ISBN-13: 9781565845602

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

In 1947, Simone de Beauvoir met Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Nelson Algren in Chicago, and it was love at first sight. A passionate affair ensued, spanning twenty years and four continents in an era when a transatlantic flight took twenty-four hours and overseas telephone calls were a luxury. A Transatlantic Love Affair collects more than three hundred love letters written in English by de Beauvoir to Algren.Unique among the prolific correspondence de Beauvoir conducted throughout her life, these letters involved someone not at all of her world. De Beauvoir was forced to explain to Algren eve...
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Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic

By: BECK, MARTHA

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Berkley Trade : August 2000

Seller ID: 38964

ISBN-13: 9780425174487

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

This rueful, riveting, piercingly funny (Julia Cameron) book is about mothering a Down syndrome child that opts for sass over sap, and it's a small masterpiece of heavenly visions and inexplicable phenomena that's as down-to-earth as anyone could ask for.
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The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm

By: Beerbohm, Max

Price: $18.95

Publisher: NYRB Classics : June 2015

Seller ID: 173842

ISBN-13: 9781590178287

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL Virginia Woolf called Max Beerbohm "the prince" of essayists, F. W. Dupee praised his "whim of iron" and "cleverness amounting to genius," while Beerbohm himself noted that "only the insane take themselves quite seriously." From his precocious debut as a dandy in 1890s Oxford until he put his pen aside in the aftermath of World War II, Beerbohm was recognized as an incomparable observer of modern life and an essayist whose voice was always and only his own. Here Phillip Lopate, one of the finest essayists of our day, has selected the finest of Beerbohm's essays. Wheth...
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Category: Essays, Criticism & Memoir