Literary Criticism from Augustine Funnell Books

New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1927. Book. Good to Very Good. Hardcover. 1st thus.. Small octavo. From the front flap, which credits this one as being "an invaluable and reliable aid to an intelligent understanding of the life and work of one of the most gifted and original geniuses that ever lived." Red cloth w/black cover/spine lettering, 183… Read more about this item

New York: Routledge / Taylor & Francis Group, 2013. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The ninth title in the Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature series. 187 pages (including notes, references, index), frontispiece. Bumped spine ends, light rubbing, small scrape to left spine edge. .

Lanham: Lexington Books, 1999. Book. Good to Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by Nicholson, on title page. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Nicholson "presents a series of motifs that are associated with male envy, locating each in a particular historical context and illustrating it with examples drawn from literature, film, and popular culture. Unlike earlier… Read more about this item

Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press (University Microfilms International), 1983. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The 15th title in UMI's Studies in Modern Literature series. Illustrated beige cloth w/black lettering to front cover/spine, 170 pages (including appendices, notes, bibliography, index). Staining to the top part of front cover, tanned edges, a tiny beige… Read more about this item

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart (M&S), 1976. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A title from the Yeats Studies Series edited by Robert O'Driscoll and Lorna Reynolds. Contains all four incarnations of "the autobiographical novel which Yeats was writing from 1896 to 1902. It covers the years of his life when he was attempting… Read more about this item

Dewdney: Synaxis Press, 2006. Book. Very Good to Fine. Stiff Card Wraps. Inscribed & Signed by Author. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. In a collection of essays Barker "provides not only an insider's commentary on the tradition of People's Poetry in Canadian literature, but in addition a learned discussion of the various philosophies and religious perspectives,… Read more about this item

Lodz: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Lodzkiego (University of Lodz), 2000. Book. About Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A collection of articles that "came into being as a result of a four-year scholarly link (1995/1996--1998/1999) between the Department of English and Related Literature, University of York, and the Department of English Literature and Culture… Read more about this item

New York: New York Review Books / NYRB, 2006. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First printing w/complete number sequence. Contains "Herakles," "Hekabe," "Hippolytos," and "Alkestis," four tragedies by Euripides translated by Carson, with introductions. Also contains two essays, "Tragedy: A Curious Art Form," and "Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra." Grey… Read more about this item

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1962. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Stein "offers a fresh interpretation of Donne's lyric poems." Green cloth, 244 pages (including postscript, appendices, index). Slight discolouration to top edge, lightly tanned edges, faint soil mark to top edge near headband, in rubbed dust jacket w/impressions, moderate edgewear, short… Read more about this item

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1973. Book. Illus. by Gary Gore (dust jacket illustration). Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. "A careful and full examination of the stream-of-consciousness and other literary techniques as employed by Joyce." Brown cloth w/black spine lettering, 349 pages (including appendix, notes, index). Price-clipped dust jacket..

London & Ibadan & Nairobi: Heinemann, 1982. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. From the back cover: "This book gives students invaluable help in the difficult task of evaluating style. The author breaks away from the conventional methods of analysis to show how linguistics can contribute to the study of literature.… Read more about this item

London: Rupert Hart-Davies, 1958. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Green cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 226 pages (including select bibliography, index), frontispiece..

London: Modern Humanities Research Association (MRHA) Book. Good to Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. No date [ca. 1988]. Offprint from 'The Year's Work in Modern Language Studies, Vol. 49.' 578 pages (+ 51-page list of abbreviations). Spine slant, abrasions/wrinkling to spine, some edgewear, mild general wear..

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1936. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The author traces the romantic and philosophical 19th-century concept of nature "in a synthesis of views derived from science, religion and philosophy; and shows how, in poets like Wordsworth, Emerson and Meredith, the abstract idea supports and is colored by their love… Read more about this item

Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1979. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A title from the publisher's 'Reappraisals: Canadian Writers' series. Contributors include Dorothy Livesay, Penny Petrone, Margo Dunn, John Ower, Orest Rudzik, Elizabeth Waterston, Fred Cogswell, Kenneth Hughes, S.R. MacGillivray, Catherine Ross, Louis Dudek, Anne Paolucci, and Clara Thomas. 158… Read more about this item

Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1980. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A title from the publisher's 'Reappraisals: Canadian Writers' series. Contributors include Glenn Clever, Fred Cogswell, C.M. Armitage, Sandra Campbell, James Doyle, Stan Dragland, John Flood, Peter Haworth, Gordon Johnston, Catherine E. Kelly, John P. Matthews, Robert L. McDougall, Kathy… Read more about this item

Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1977. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A title from the publisher's 'Reappraisals: Canadian Writers' series. In addition to the editor, contributors to this one include Elizabeth Brewster, Ralph Gustafson, Carl F. Klinck, Germaine Warkentin, Peter Stevens, Peter Buitenhuis, Sandra Djwa, Peter Hunt, Agnes Nyland, Robert… Read more about this item

Guelph: Alive Press Limited/Alive Books, 1973. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The author examines the development of the Canadian short story, and shows that it has a long and distinguished history. 100 pages (including a selective bibliography. Light general wear. Internally tight and clean..

Fullerton: College English Association, 1969. Book. Very Good. Wraps. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A scarce CEA chapbook originally distributed as a Supplement to the CEA Critic, Vol. XXXII, No. I, October 1969. Raine offers an essay of literary criticism tackling the problems represented by poetry of the mythic variety, while McPeek contributes "a list of… Read more about this item

Gloucester: Peter Smith, 1961. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Peter Smith edition.. Octavos -- from 7.75" to 9.75" tall. Originally published in 1934 by the Cambridge University Press. "This attempt at recalling the views on literature current in ancient Greece and Rome is intended not so much for classical specialists as for that larger body of readers, students of English… Read more about this item