Literary Criticism


  • Aury, Dominque. Literary Landfalls (Tranlated by Denise Folliot. A collection of essays in literary criticism by a writer who might be described as a French Virginia Woolf. This book includes studies od Fenelon, Balzac, Constant, Proust and Colette). Chatto and Windus. 1960. Pages slightly yellowed otherwise Very Good. $21.00
  • Cook, Cornelia. Joyce Cary: Liberal Principles. Vision. 1981. Good Plus. ISBN: 0-85278-4144. $21.25
  • Fish, Stanley. Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change. Clarendon Press (Oxford). 1995. Very Good. ISBN: 0-19-812373-6. $23.25
  • Hart, Jim; Malia Scotch Marmo and Nick Castle. Hooks: Tinkerbell's challenge (Text illustrations by Vincente). Random House. 1991. Slightly bent otherwise good plus. $2.00
  • Heller, Erich. The Disinherited Mind (Essays in modern German literature and thought: Goethe, Burck Hadt, Nietzache, Rilke, Spengler, Kofka, Kraus). The World Publishing Co. 1967. Pages slightly yellowed otherwise good. $7.50
  • Hyder, Clyde K. Swinburne as Critic (The selection in this book illustrate various aspects of his criticism and include his best and most representative work in three main divisions: Poetry and Art, Fiction and Drama). Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1972. Pages slightly tanned otherwise Good Plus. ISBN: 0710073437. $5.75
  • Janssen, Marian. The Kenyon Review 1939-1970: A Critical History (Founded in 1939 the Kenyon Review was influential in furthering the cause of the New Criticism and to a large degree it shaped the literary sensibility of the American reading public in the 1940's and 1950's). Louisiana State University Press. 1990. Very Good . ISBN: 0-8071-1522-3. $27.50
  • Jordan, John E. DeQuincy as Critic (DeQuincy was an extensive essayist and critic, full of curiosity and learning, who wrote in such contemporary journals as Blackwood's and the London Magazine on an immense variety of topics). Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1973. Very Good . ISBN: 0-7100-7558-8. $24.25
  • Kinnaird, John. William HAzlitt: Critic of Power (A seminal critic and essayist of the Romantic Age). Columbia University Press. 1978. Page slightly yellowed otherwise good plus. ISBN: 0-231-04600-6. $22.25
  • Krupnick, Mark. Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism. Northeastern University Press. 1986. Pages sightly yellowed otherwise Very Good. ISBN: 0-8101-0712-0. $22.50
  • Mills, Nicolaus. American and English Fiction in the Nineteenth Century: An Antigenre Critique and Comparison. Indiana University Press. 1974. Pages sightly yellowed otherwise Good Plus. ISBN: 0-253-30590-X. $24.25
  • Moore, Arthur K. Contestable Concepts of Literary Thoery (In these nine essays Mr. Moore subjects the leading concepts of contemporary literary thoery to logical scrutiny and demonstrates that the present confusion in literary criticism has been produced by false inferences and the application of ideologies to literature. Louisiana State University Press. 1973. Very Good . ISBN: 0-8071-0057-9. $22.25
  • Person, James E. (Editor). Literature Criticism from 1200 to 1800: Excerpts from Criticism of the Works of 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th Century Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers, from the First Published Critical Appraisals to Current Evaluations-Volume 3. Gale Research Company. 1986. Pages slightly yellowed otherwise Good Plus. ISBN: 0-8103-6102-7. $24.55
  • Phillips, William. A Partisan View: Five Decades of the Literary Life. Stein and Day. 1983. Good plus. ISBN: 0-8128-2931-X. $18.00
  • Roberts, Mark. The Fundamentals of Literary Criticism. Basil Blackwell. 1974. Pages slightly yellowed otherwise good plus. ISBN: 0-631-15790-5. $9.00
  • Salter, C. H. Good Little Thomas Hardy (Author finds himself in disagreement with most of the well - known Hardy critics). Barnes and Noble. 1981. Page edges slightly yellowed otherwise Good plus. ISBN: 0-389-20126-X. $22.25
  • Smith, Bernard. Forces in American Criticism: A Study in the History of American Literary Thought. Cooper Square Publishers, Inc. 1971 reprint of 1939 edition. Page edges slightly yellowed otherwise Good Plus. $23.50
  • Tanner, Tony-Editor. Henry James: Modern Judgements (Selections of critical essays). Aurora Publishers, Inc. 1970. Pages yellowed otherwise good plus. $8.00
  • Tucker, Martin. Moulton's Library Of Literary Criticism Of English And American Authors Through The Beginning Of The Twentieth Century (Volume I-The Beginnings To The Seventeenth Century). Frederick Ungar. 1967. Pages tanned otherwise Good Plus. $4.25
  • Tucker, Martin. Moulton's Library Of Literary Criticism Of English And American Authors Through The Beginning Of The Twentieth Century (Volume II-Neo-Classicism To The Romantic Period). Frederick Muller Ltd. 1967. Pages tanned otherwise Good Plus. $4.25
  • Tucker, Martin. Moulton's Library Of Literary Criticism Of English And American Authors Through The Beginning Of The Twentieth Century (Volume III-The Romantic Period To The Victorian Age). Frederick Ungar. 1967. Pages tanned otherwise Good Plus. $4.25
  • Tucker, Martin. Moulton's Library Of Literary Criticism Of English And American Authors Through The Beginning Of The Twentieth Century (Volume IV-The Mid-Nineteenth Century To Edwardianism). Frederick Ungar. 1967. Pages tanned otherwise Good Plus. $4.25
  • Wagenknecht, Edward. Dickens and the Scandalmongers-Essays in Criticism. University of Oklahoma Press. 1965. Good plus. $16.00
  • West, Geoffrey. Deucalion or the Future of Literary Criticism. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company, Ltd. 1930. Outter spine missing otherwise clean and tight. $19.25
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