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Literary Criticism
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| Chase, Richard | The American Novel and Its Tradition | In this brilliant and original study, Richard Chase defines for the first time those qualities which distinguish the American novel. | $10 |
| Stein, Leo | Appreciation: Painting, Poetry and Prose | Essays and memoirs on art and artists include Matisse, Picasso, and the author's sister Gertrude Stein. | $15 |
| Hyman, Stanley E. | The Armed Vision | A Study in the Methods of Modern Literary Criticism.Yvor Winters, Eliot, Maud Bodkin, Blackmur, Empson and others. | $15 |
| Saunders, T. Bailey, Translator | The
Art of Literature: A Series of Essays by Arthur Schopenhauer |
Essays
include On Style, On Genius, and On thinking for Oneself. Hard- cover. |
$13 |
| Heller, Erich | The Disinherited Mind | Essays in modern German literature and thought. Writers include Rilke, Goethe, Nietzsche, Spengler, Kafka, and Karl Kraus. | $12 |
| Grimm, Herman | Essays
on Literature |
Selections in book include those on Emerson, Voltaire, Dante and others. Printed in 1888. Poor Condition. Hardcover. | $12 |
| Steward, Joyce S. & Eva M. Burkett | Introductory
Readings in Literary Criticism |
Essays to increase the understanding of the art of writing as well as to develop a greater appreciation of the art of using words effectively in reading and writing. | $14 |
| Watson, George | The Literary Critics | A history of literary criticism from Dryden to T.S. Eliot and Iris Murdoch that shows by what stages the art of analyzing literary works has evolved... | $11 |
| Ford, Boris, Ed. | The Modern Age | Writers discussed include Conrad, E.M. Forster, Henry James, W.B. Yeats, T.S. Elliot, Ezra Pound, and D.H. Lawrence. | $7 |
| Burgum, Edwin B. | The New Criticism | Essays
include those of famous writers such as Croce, Santayana, and T.S.
Eliot. Hardcover. |
$14 |
| Richards, I.A. | Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgment | Richards presents 13 unsigned poems and asks his reader to criticize them before opening the accompanying identification. | $26 |
| Richards, I.A. | Principles of Literary Criticism | Issues discussed are why one opinion upon literature is not as good as another, why some are worthwhile and others are not, and why poetry and art are important. | $28 |
| Lowes, John L. | The
Road to XANADU: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination |
A contribution toward solving the mystery of how the imagination works...not only in the case of Coleridge, but for literary creation in general. | $40 |
| Sypher, Wylie | Rococo to Cubism in Art and Literature | Transformations in style in art and literature from the 18th to the 20th century. | $18 |
| Winchester, C. T. | Some
Principles of Literary Criticism |
Chapter on Poetry based on Sidney Lanier's theory of the analogy between music and verse. Hardcover. | $15 |
| Lawrence, D.H. | Studies in Classic American Literature | Lawrence's writings on American literature include major essays on Poe, Hawthorne, Melville and Whitman. | $6 |
| Kerr, Martin Jarrett | Studies
in Literature and Belief |
Examines the relation between belief and literature in its various forms. Hardcover. | $13 |
| Wellek, R. & Warren, A. | Theory of Literature | A systematuc analysius of literature in the United States and Europe.... | $12 |