Search Results: Literary Criticism from Augustine Funnell Books

Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 1984. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The author "traces the impact of changing concepts of the self and the literary subject on the formal evolution of autobiographical prose and poetry in the Romantic and modern periods." Brown cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 189 pages (including index). mild wear to corners/spine ends, previous owner's neat underlining to many paragraphs in introduction, in lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Jacket in protective mylar sleeve..

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, esoteric and orthodox, that gave rise to it." Inscription reads: "For Dr. Michael Higgins,/with many thanks for the/encouragement to continue writing/that your favourable personal/review gave me./With very/good luck/Terry Barker/March 1, 2006." Erratum page (122) glued over original error page. 174 pages (including bibliography, index), illustrated. Light rubbing, light general wear. A nice copy, internally tight and clean..

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1971. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Originally published in 1970. Brown cloth w/black cloth spine w/gilt lettering, 197 pages (including notes, index). Mild wear to corners/spine ends, previous owner's name to verso of half-title, previous owner's marginalia (vertical lines here and there throughout), in moderately edgeworn dust jacket w/a bit of chipping/short tears to corners/spine ends, general wear..

Toronto & Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1974. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. With the text on the front flap stating that, "There has never been an accurate, comprehensive account of the origin, development, and significance of Balzac's use of recurring characters in the many volumes of the 'Comedie humaine,'" the author herein "traces the use of the device and unravels its complexities over the whole of Balzac's career by providing a year-by-year account of the author's struggles between 1829 and 1847 to unify his fictional world of some 3,000 characters," and "illuminates the genesis of several novels and sheds totally new light on the validity of the device, by enabling us for the first time to distinguish between examples which belong to the original creative urge, and those introduced during later revisions." An impressive piece of work, and of more than passing interest to the… Read More

Toronto: Copp Clark Publishing Company SCL2, 1969. Book. Illus. by Alan K. Daniel (cover illustration). Near Fine. Paperback. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. A title from the publisher's 'Studies in Canadian Literature' series. 130 pages (including notes, bibliography). Light general wear; internally tight and clean..

New Canadian Library N115, 1975. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Signed by Editor. First Edition.. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Twenty-eight essays by 26 writers representing a cross-section of the various voices of Canadian literary criticism, and offering an assessment of Canadian fiction throughout the 20th century (well, up until 1975, at least). This copy signed by Malcolm Ross, General Editor of the New Canadian Library series. Contributors include W.H. New, D.A. Cameron, D.O. Spettigue, Peter Stevens, Warren Tallman, Margaret Laurence, Mordecai Richler, Jack Ludwig, Ethel Wilson, Michael Ondaatje, and many others. A bit of spine roll, reading creases to spine, diagonal crease to left edge of lower portion of front cover, lightly sunned spine..

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 for the 'beauteous forms' of the material world and their mystical sense of man's oneness with the universal spirit, providing them with a kind of substitute for dogmatic religion." Green cloth w/gilt lettering to front cover/spine, 618 pages (including notes, index). Bumped corners/spine ends, dusty/lightly tanned/lightly soiled edges, previous owner's signature neatly to front pastedown, in price-clipped dust jacket w/edgewear, chipping, sun-darkened spine, 1.5" tear to bottom edge of rear panel, general wear. Scarce in first edition in a dust jacket (this one now in a mylar… Read More

London & Basingstoke: Macmillan Press, 1980. Book. Illus. by Lynn Duncombe (dust jacket illustration) . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Refuting Kate Millett's accusation that Lawrence treated women as inferior objects, Dix points out that "Lawrence saw more in women and the feminine principle than had most of his contemporaries," and that his work in this regard was considerably ahead of its time. Blue cloth, 126 pages (including bibliography, index). Gently bumped/lightly worn corners/spine ends, moderate general wear, in rubbed dust jacket w/price-clipped flap, impressions, light general wear..

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 Mezei, and Martin Ware. 157 pages, frontispiece. Moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean..

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 Gibbs, and Louis K. MacKendrick. Lila Laakso contributes a checklist. 172 pages, frontispiece. Moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean..

London: Edward Arnold (Publishers) Ltd., 1960. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The second title (following 'Jacobean Theatre' and preceding 'Early Shakespeare') in the publisher's Stratford-Upon-Avon Studies series, this one boasting contributions from editor Harris, F.T. Prince, Franklin Dickey, D.G. Rees, Donald Davie, Muriel Bradbrook, Jean Robertson, R.W. Ingram, Frank Kermode, and Robin Skelton. Publisher's tipped-in slip to front end paper indicates that this copy intended for consideration of use as a student text or reference book. Green cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 224 pages (including index), illustrated. Tanned/dusty edges, in price-clipped dust jacket w/sun-darkened spine, light edgewear, a couple of quite short edge tears..

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1857. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Contains essays on Robert Burns, Coleridge, Macaulay, Shakespeare, and others. Curiously, the last page (431) contains the notation, "End of Vol. VII", and following that is the title page for Vol. VII in the series. Small octavo, brown buckram ruled and decorated in blind, gilt spine lettering, 431 pages + title page for Vol. VII. Some edgewear, worn corners/spine ends, cloth soil, tanned/soiled edges, moderate general wear..

Fredericton: York Press Ltd., 1986. Book. Very Good. Stiff Card Wraps. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. A title from the publisher's Authoritative Studies in World Literature series, this one examining the life and work of "the most widely read Spanish author of the century." Uncommon. 40 pages (including annotated bibliography, index). Rubbing, impressions/thin scratches, light smudging to white wraps. Internally tight and clean..

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 boards w/cranberry spine lettering, 312 pages. Bottom corners bumped, in lightly scuffed first state dust jacket w/bumped bottom corners. Dust jacket in protective mylar sleeve..

New York: Twayne Publishers, 1964. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The first title from the publisher's English Authors Series (TEAS 1), this one "a fresh and stimulating study of England's first great poet." Red leatherette w/gilt lettering/lion decoration to front cover/spine, 219 pages (including notes and references, selected bibliography, index). Mildly cocked, previous owner's name to bottom edge of front end paper, light general wear, in rubbed dust jacket w/sunned (entirely legible) spine, light chipping to spine ends/corners, general wear..

London: Chatto & Windus, 1970. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition.. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The author "gives us essays on seventeenth-century poets who were affected in one way or another by Donne or Jonson or by both of them." Mauve cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 198 pages (including notes, index). Mildly cocked, gently bumped spine ends, light tanning, in price-clipped dust jacket w/mild chipping to corners/spine ends, a couple of 1/2" edge tears, light spine sunning, crinkled top edge of front panel, light general wear. An entirely serviceable copy..

Montreal & London: McGill-Queen's University Press Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. "Since the Romantic revolt, the interest of Western artists in the irrational and the psychological has often centred on a self-conscious exploration of subjective emotions. Increasingly, the witer has come to see the problem of art as how best to embody the tensions, concerns, and insights which he finds in his psychic self. It is Professor Gose's contention that some of the major English novelists of the nineteenth century found their solutions to this problem in adapting literary forms which predate Romanticism. Even before the end of the eighteenth century, the gothic novelists were beginning to discover intuitively that image patterns, expressive settings, and melodramatic plots offered more scope for self-expression than did the Augustan ideal of a representational and normative picture of human character and action." Examines some of the works of such… Read More

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 pages, illustrated (frontispiece and seven half-tone plates). Gently bumped/lightly worn corners/spine ends, dusty/smudged top edge, two insect holes on bottom edge (extending into book about 3/8", but not affecting text), previous owner's signature to front end paper, in much-worn dust jacket w/considerable wear, missing pieces, tape repairs, edge tears and all the usual things that go into a dust jacket being graded as Fair (in this instance, Fair being only about a six-second drive from Poor) ..

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 pages, frontispiece. Moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean..

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..