Verlag: Newton Abbott/Totowa, New Jersey (David & Charles/ Barnes & Noble Books), 1982
Anbieter: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, USA
319pp. Prof. illus. 4to. Cloth. D.j.
Verlag: Totowa (New Jersey): Barnes & Noble Books, 1981
ISBN 10: 0389200131 ISBN 13: 9780389200130
Anbieter: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Deutschland
Zustand: Gut. 189 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Binding slightly bumped, otherwise very good condition / Einband leicht bestoßen, sonst sehr guter Zustand. - The author sees a tendency in modern criticism for critical theory and critical practice to be out of step; while much critical theory is too far divorced from practice, practical criticism is often divorced from the rigorous application of critical thought and precise language. A strong conviction that good criticism grows from a sympathetic application of rigorous and logical thought to actual texts has led the author to try to redress the imbalance in much modem criticism. Starting with an analysis of modern critical theories of the comic, the book attempts to reconcile opposing views of the comic in an original synthesis that helps to explain the varieties of the comic and the vexed question of the relationship of the comic to comedy. Having differentiated between various types of comedy the author discusses the fundamental types with reference to an example of each taken from the great period of English comedy from 1590 to the closing of the theatres in 1642. The two kinds of satiric comedy are illustrated and contrasted in Jonson's The Alchemist and Thomas Middleton's A Mad World, My Masters. These are contrasted with the two fundamental types of benevolent comedy illustrated in Dekker's Shoemakers' Holiday and Brome's A Jovial Crew. Dekker's collaborations with Middleton are discussed to highlight the essential difference in comic stance between the two playwrights. Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is used to illustrate an ambivalent 'neutral' kind of comedy characteristic of its author. In discussing these particular plays the author relates the text, where necessary, to the intellectual milieu of its own day, but the object throughout is not to treat the plays as museum pieces, but as living examples of the successful exploitation of comic principles in dramatic literature. ISBN 9780389200130 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 782 Leinen mit Schutzumschlag / Cloth with dust jacket.
Verlag: Totowa New Jersey, Barnes & Noble Books, 1982., 1982
Anbieter: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australien
xii+222pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper, a little rubbed. B&w frontispiece, previous owner's name on htp, otherwise a very good copy.
Verlag: Totowa New Jersey, Barnes & Noble Books 1982., 1982
Anbieter: Grant's Bookshop, Cheltenham, VIC, Australien
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xii+222pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper, a near fine copy. First edition.
Verlag: Barnes & Noble Books, Totowa, New Jersey, 1983
ISBN 10: 0389203505 ISBN 13: 9780389203506
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First American edition. Octavo. xiv, 241pp. Owner decorative bookplate on front pastedown, else fine in a fine dust jacket.
Verlag: Barnes & Noble Books, Totowa, New Jersey, 1980
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First American edition. 248pp. Near fine lacking the dustwrapper.
Verlag: Barnes & Noble Books, Totowa, New Jersey, 1982
Anbieter: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes & Noble Books, (1982). VG/VG.
Verlag: Totowa, New Jersey, Barnes & Noble Books (Irish Literary Studies Series), 1980
ISBN 10: 038920000X ISBN 13: 9780389200000
Anbieter: Antiquariat Smock, Freiburg, Deutschland
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Formateinband: Pappband / gebundene Ausgabe 248 S. (22,5 cm) 1st Edition; Ohne Schutzumschlag; sonst in gutem Zustand. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 600 [Stichwörter: Ireland, Irland, irische Lyrik, Literatur, Literaturgeschichte].
Verlag: Totowa (New Jersey): Barnes & Noble Books, 1983
ISBN 10: 0389204226 ISBN 13: 9780389204220
Anbieter: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Deutschland
Zustand: Gut. 218 p. Leicht vergilbt, sonst sehr guter Zustand / Slightly yellowed, otherwise in very good condition. - Literary criticism has recently become the scene of intense controversy. Marxism, feminism, hermeneutics, deconstructionism and the many varieties of structuralism all claim to offer us new insights into literature, and fierce denunciations of older schools abound. In this book eight distinguished critics Wayne Booth, John Holloway, Gabriel Josipovici, Laurence Lerner, Robert Pattison, Roger Scruton, Anthony Thorlby and Cedric Watts respond to the present situation. All are interested in the new movements, though they differ among themselves on the value of structuralism and the merits of many of its practitioners. What unites them is a refusal to abandon their trust in reason, the possibility of meaning, and the need for value judgements. From this basis the ideas of prominent figures, particularly Barthes and Genette, are re-examined; specific essays discuss the application of modern critical techniques to the works of major authors, including Sophocles, Proust, Trollope and Kafka. The result is a lively and humane book which offers insights into both literary theory and particular works. It takes the new schools of criticism seriously and asks what they can offer, but is not afraid to disagree with them, sometimes fundamentally. Its constant concern is to offer serious discussion, and to avoid polarized simplifications. ISBN 9780389204220 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 401 Leinen mit Schutzumschlag / Cloth with dust jacket.
Verlag: Totowa (New Jersey): Barnes & Noble Books, 1986
ISBN 10: 0389206326 ISBN 13: 9780389206323
Anbieter: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Deutschland
Softcover. Zustand: Gut. Second Edition. 240 p. Einband etwas berieben, Schnitt stellenweise leicht angeschmutzt, insgesamt vergilbt, sonst guter Zustand / Binding somewhat rubbed, book cut partially slightly soiled, overall yellowed, otherwise in good condition. - For the new edition of this well-established guide the editors and contributors have fully updated the text and bibliography, and have added two important new chapters. These cover reading and interpretation - hermeneutics, phenomenology, reception theory - and feminist literary theory. Literary theory is a fast-moving field, and much has happened since publication of the first edition to necessitate both revision and expansion. Theory itself has become firmly established as a subject of study in its own right; new schools of theory have come into prominence; and the process whereby literary theories borrow from and fertilise each other has continued to accelerate - thus vindicating the editors' original emphasis on crossreference and comparison. The new additions and revisions will ensure that Modern Literary Theory holds its place as one of the most comprehensive and helpful textbooks available on the subject. ISBN 9780389206323 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 315.
Verlag: David & Charles / Barnes & Noble Books, London / Totowa, New Jersey, 1983
ISBN 10: 0715383078 ISBN 13: 9780715383070
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First edition. Tall octavo. 256pp. Heavily illustrated in black and white. Fine in spine-sunned, very good or better dust jacket.
Verlag: Barnes & Noble Books, Totowa, New Jersey, 1988
ISBN 10: 0389206164 ISBN 13: 9780389206163
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First American edition. 251pp. Corners and spine ends lightly rubbed, else fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing and spine very faintly tanned. A history of the Abbey Theatre, told through interviews, and recollections of George Moore, J.M. Synge, Padraic Colum, W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, George W. Russell, Sean O'Faolain, Frank O'Connor and many other authors and scholars.
Verlag: Gill and Macmillan/ Barnes & Noble Books, Totowa, New Jersey, 1980
ISBN 10: 0389200042 ISBN 13: 9780389200048
Anbieter: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, USA
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Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with modest rubbing.
Verlag: Totowa, New Jersey; Barnes and Noble Books, 1985., 1985
Anbieter: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. xiii, [1], 334. Publishers' black cloth with gilt titles to spine in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. Covers clean and bright; annotated, mainly to prelims and rear endpapers. Jacket a little surface scuffed and creased. A Very Good copy in like jacket. The key sources for the years from the Battle of Actium to the death of Nero, collected and translated with brief notes.
Verlag: New Abbot/London, David & Charles und Totowa/New Jersey, Barnes & Noble Books, ., 1983
Anbieter: Bibliographica Christian Höflich, Hamburg, HH, Deutschland
Mit Frontispiz und zahlr. Abbildungen. 256 S. OPp. mit Schutzumschlag. Gr.-8vo. * Enthält: 1. From Will Shakespeare to Will Wycherley. - 2. Choice Scraps from the Eighteenth Century. - 3. Fairy- und Folk-tales. - 4. Inducements to Learning. - 5. Verse and Rhymes. - 6. Tales for Youth. - 7. Boys` Adventure Stories. - 8. Toy-books, Musical Books, Peep-shows and Mobiles. - 9. Periodicals, Annuals and Penny Dredfuls. - Mit Auswahlbibliographie und Register. - Vord. flieg. Vorsatz mit kl. Trockenstempel. - Sehr gut erhalten.
Verlag: Barnes & Noble Books, Totowa, New Jersey, 1981
ISBN 10: 0389200948 ISBN 13: 9780389200949
Anbieter: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, USA
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Cloth. Zustand: Very Good-. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. A first edition/first printing in Very Good- with indents to back boards in alike dust-jacket with some scuffing and a pulled tear on the rear; Defoe was born on April 23, 1661 in the city of London, England. He was the son of a barber and a dressmaker. As a child, he was homeless and often slept in the open. He became a pickpocket and thief, and also found work as a servant. In 1684, he married a woman named Mary Fenton. The couple had six children. In 1709, Defoe published his first book, Robinson Crusoe. He died on November 30, 1731.; 8vo ; 377 pages.
Verlag: Totowa, New Jersey: Barnes & Noble Books. 01.08.1984., 1984
ISBN 10: 0389205168 ISBN 13: 9780389205166
Anbieter: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Deutschland
Zustand: Gut. 248 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - altersgemäß sehr guter Zustand / very good condition for age - A number of ancient novelists were skilful storytellers and resourceful literary artists, capable of at least wrestling with the problems inherent in extended prose fiction. The works they produced are often carefully individualised presentations of an ancient and distinguished heritage as old as the oldest literature known to us. -- This study of the Graeco-Roman novels rests on new foundations. It points to a new range of Ancient Near Eastern texts which underlie the tales retold by the novelists, and in so doing provides the long-awaited solution to Rohde's celebrated problem, the Origins of the Greek Novel. It also offers new contexts for recent puzzling papyrus fragments and provides a new key to the versions of the Ass-Tale, and most important, the outline of a continuous oriental tradition to which Petronius' Satyricon belongs. Among the surprises that emerge are an ancient stratum of the Arabian Nights and a likely classical Tristan-Romance, as well as an animal Satyricon and a human Golden Ass. -- The new framework is, however, incidental to an examination of the range and achievement of ancient novelists in their own right. In presenting character, organising an order of events, imposing a veneer of sophistication or contriving a religious ethos, writers such as Longus, Heliodorus, or Achilles Tatius knew what they were doing and found their own way of doing it with conviction. Their work is worthy of sympathetic study rather than dismissal as the pulp fiction of the ancient world. -- Graham Anderson is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Kent at Canterbury. -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- The First Fiction: Oriental -- Origins -- Narrative into Novel; Plots and Personalities -- Love and Learning -- Character and Convention -- Myth and Mystery -- History and Society -- Sex and Sentiment -- Structure and Suspense -- The Sublime and the Subliterary: -- Longus and Xenophon of Ephesus -- Phoenician Tales and other Fragments -- Fiction and Folktale -- In Search of the Satyricon -- The Ancestry of the Ass-Tale -- The Golden Satyr, or Encolpius the Ass -- New Perspectives -- Appendix I: Philetas' Speech and the -- Numun- Plant -- Appendix II: Sesonchosis and Ramin -- Appendix III: Ascyltus and Shukalletuda -- Select Bibliography -- Index of Authors and Texts -- Index of Persons and Places -- Cover photograph of Longus the novelist is reproduced by courtesy of the Sheridan Photo Library. ISBN 9780389205166 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 450 15,2 x 2,5 x 22,9 cm, Originalhardcover mit Schutzumschlag / with dust jacket.
Verlag: Barnes & Noble Books, Totowa, New Jersey, 1987
Anbieter: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, Vereinigtes Königreich
Verbandsmitglied: PBFA
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Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. Not stated (illustrator). First edition. An informative and important study of the adjustments of Celtic religion under Roman rule, from one of the pre-eminent figures of Roman-British archaeology, Graham Webster. The first US edition.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with twenty-two monochrome plates between pages 64 and 65 and numerous in text figures. Collated complete.British archaeologist Graham Webster discusses the beliefs and practices of Celtic religion. He explores the origins of their religious beliefs, various aspects of Celtic religion, and the adjustments and integration experienced under Roman Britain rule.Webster draws some of his analysis from fascinating archaeological findings left by the Britons in their settlements and ritual sites. In the original cloth binding. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent with shelf wear only. Dust wrapper is also excellent with minor edgewear. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine. book.