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16426. Bate, W. Jackson, 1918-1999. The Burden of the Past and the English Poet. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970, 141pp., very good dust-jacket, very good dark blue cloth, $13
The Second Temple, The Neoclassic Dilemma, The Eighteenth-Century Reconsideration: Hume and the Essential Diagnosis, The Third Temple. -- The Alexander Lectures, University of Toronto, 1969. ISBN 0674085868


22861. Berek, Peter. The Transformation of Allegory from Spenser to Hawthorne. Amherst: Amherst College Press, 1962, 48pp., very good small sewn paper wraps, slight wear, $9
Amherst College Honors Thesis Number 10. Contents: The Allegory of Certainty: Edmund spenser, Johon Bunyan - The Allegory of Doubt: Samuel Johnson, Nathaniel Hawthorne.


20653. Boisdeffre, Pierre de. Où va le roman? Essai. Paris, Del Duca, 1962, 309pp. 20 cm, very good sewn paper wraps, pages mostly uncut, $17
.


28770. Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993. Language as symbolic action. Essays on life, literature, and method. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1986, later printing, xiv, 514pp., large PAPERBACK, good used copy, slight scuff or indent marks on some page edges, a couple of very minor pencil erasures, $12
Date of printing taken from price stamp on endpaper. ISBN 0520001923


30305. Burke, Kenneth, 1897-1993. A Grammar of Motives. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1945, later printing, xxiii, 530pp., very good light brown cloth, cover slightly darkened and with light scuff marks, $20
No additional printings listed on copyright page, no statement of edition or printing.


16337. Caws, Mary Ann, ed.. Textual Analysis. Some Readers Reading. New York: Modern Language Association, 1986, 327pp., PAPERBACK, very good, $5
. ISBN 0873521412


17326. Cohen, Ralph, 1917-, ed.. New literary history - Reexamining Critical Processing. Vol. 32, no. 2 (Spring, 2001). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001, 223-450pp., large PAPERBACK, very good but with ink note in table of contents, $5
Contributors: Jonathan Reé, Charles Altieri, Jerome McGann, David Sidorsky, Lee Morrissey, Frans De Bruyn, Randi Koppen, Boguslaw Zylko, Aleksandr Nikolaevich Veselovskii, Igor Shatianov.


31975. Dijk, Teun A. van, 1943-. Textwissenschaft : eine interdisziplinäre Einfürung. Deutsche Übersetzung von Christoph Sauer. München: DTV und Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1980, viii, 285pp., small PAPERBACK, very good, $15
. ISBN 2423043644


26777. Frye, Northrop. Fables of identity: studies in poetic mythology. San Diego, NY, London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1963, later printing, 264pp., PAPERBACK, very good, $7.5
cover design by Louise Fili. . ISBN 0156297302


10152. Genette, Gérard. Figures II: essais. Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1969, appears to be later printing in year of first publ, 293pp., very good sewn paper wraps, $17
Second volume in the series.


31413. Hass, Hans-Egon. Sonderdruck: "Das Problem der literarischen Wertung". Offprint from: Studium Generale 12, 12, 1959. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1959, 727-756pp., tall stapled offprint, good, edges worn and cover faded, nicely INSCRIBED by Hass on cover, thanking for hospitality in Paris. $25
Recipient of the inscription is Claude David, though not mentioned here by name.


3162. Hobsbaum, Philip. Theory of criticism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1970, xv, 272pp. 23 cm., very good dust-jacket, very good black cloth, $8
. ISBN 253188504


32395. Jaanus Kurrik, Maire, 1940-. Literature and negation. New York : Columbia University Press, 1979, xi, 276pp., very good dust-jacket but chip at top of spine, a bit scuffed, very good black cloth, $7.5
Negation: "the rupture without which thought cannot begin." The author, born in Estonia, is a Harvard Ph.D. english professor who has published on Trakl, Lacan in Germany, and literary-theory. The 23-page section on Hegel and negation may be of particular interest. ISBN 0231043422


19054. Kaplan, Charles, ed.. Criticism: the major statements. Selected and edited by Charles Kaplan. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1986, 2d edition, ix, 661pp. 23 cm, large PAPERBACK, very good, previous owner's name, $7
. ISBN 0312175272


32422. Kelly, Catriona / Makin, Michael / Shepherd, David. Discontinuous discourses in modern Russian literature. Edited by Catriona Kelly, Michael Makin, and David Shepherd. New York : St. Martin’s Press, 1989, xiv, 178pp., very good dust-jacket, very good black cloth, $9
8 essays, including: Dana Polan, Bakhtin, Benjamin, Sartre: Toward a Typology of the Intellectual Cultural Critic. ISBN 0312019963


32179. Köhnke, Klaus Christian. Von der Wahrheit der Literaturwissenschaft. Johannesburg, Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit, 1968, 26pp., stapled PAPERBACK, very good, previous owner's date on title page: June 73, $75
Rede uitgespreek by die aanvaarding van die amp van Hoogleraar in die Duitse taal en letterkunde aan die Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit op Dinsdag 10 Sept. 1968 om 8 nm. Publikasiereeks van die Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit A 5.


4016. Krieger, Murray, 1923-2000. A Reopening of Closure: Organicism Against Itself. New York: Columbia, 1989, 125pp., very good dust-jacket, very good gray cloth, $10
Includes complete bibliography of Krieger's writings since 1949. In the series: The Wellek Library Lectures, which had previously included short books by Harold Bloom, Perry Anderson, Frank Kermode, Jacques Derrida, J. Hillis Miller, and Jean-François Lyotard. ISBN 0231070063


25191. Krupnick, Mark. Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1986, 207pp., large PAPERBACK, very good, $9
. ISBN 0810107139


27446. Morris, Wright, 1910-1998. About fiction; reverent reflections on the nature of fiction with irreverent observations on writers, readers & other abuses. New York, Harper & Row, 1975, stated First Edition, vi, 182 p. 21 cm., very good price-clipped dust-jacket, very good blue half-cloth, $12
. ISBN 0060130822


19093. Rawlinson, David H.. The practice of criticism. London, Cambridge U.P., 1968, xvii, 229pp. 23 cm, PAPERBACK, very good, $5
Jonson, Blake, Shakespeare, Hardy, Eliot, Thackeray, Lawrence, and more considered. ISBN 0521095409


7228. Richter, Werner, (contributor). Article: "Strömungen und Stimmungen in den Literaturwissenschaften von heute". In: The Germanic Review 21, 2 (April 1946): 81-113. New York: Columbia University Press, 1946, 81-158pp., PAPERBACK, very good brown printed covers, INSCRIBED on front cover Mit vielen Grüssen / Werner Richter.. $40
Other contributions by Leo Spitzer on Nazi-Spezi, Oskar Seidlin's review of Franz Werfel's Poems with praise and some slight criticism of the translator Edith Snow. Complete issue of the journal in original covers.


23806. Rodway, Allan Edwin. The truths of fiction. New York: Schocken, 1971, 230pp., dust-jacket chipped at top of spine, very good red cloth, $18
Lliterary historian and theorist from Univ of Nottingham. Includes chapters on sytlistics, practical criticism, comedy, Beckett, modernism and the esthetic of the novel, formal criticism, Richard Wilbur, Logicless Grammar in Audenland, Elements of a Working Procedure.


18765. Sartre, Jean Paul, 1905-1980. Was ist Literatur? Ein Essay. Übertragen von Hans Georg Brenner. Hamburg] Rowohlt [1958], 189pp., PAPERBACK, some underlining and marginalia in ink in first 19 pages and in the Stichwort section in rear, otherwise good usable copy, $3.5
Rowohlts deutsche Enzyklopädie, 65.


31450. Stöcklein, Paul. Sonderdruck: "Literarhistorische Erwägungen zu einer Philosophie der Literatur. (Zu Käte Hamburgers Die Logik der Dichtung). Offprint from: Euphorion, 58, 1964. no place or publisher noted, 1964, 303-307pp., offprint with printed cover, very good, nicely INSCRIBED : Wir freuen uns auf Ihren Vortrag hier; in guter Saarbrücker Erinnerung / P. S.. $20
From 1950, Euphorion was published in Marburg-Lahn by Simons-Verlag.


16187. Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989. Democracy and poetry. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975, xvi, 102pp., 22 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good blue cloth, $7.5
Jefferson lecture in the humanities . 1974. America and the Diminished Self - Poetry and Selfhood. ISBN 0674196252


29321. Wellek, René / Warren, Austin. Theory of Literature. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World / A Harvest Book, 1961, later printing, xii, 368pp., small PAPERBACK, very good, previous owner's name, $5
Cover design by Janet Halverson. Harvest Book, HB22. Reprints the second edition of 1955.


32406. Wesling, Donald / Slawek, Tadeusz. Literary voice : the calling of Jonah. Albany : State University of New York Press, 1995, xii, 238pp., very good hardcover, cover worn around edges, $45
SUNY series, the margins of literature. ISBN 0791426270