ISBNs for literary criticism collections essays

ISBN.nu

search for books and compare prices

literary criticism collections essays matches 181 work(s)

< previous 25 | displaying 51 to 75 | next 25 >

show results in order: alphabetically | oldest to newest | newest to oldest

Privacy, Domesticity and Women in Early Modern England

Product Description: The ten essays in this collection explore the discrete yet overlapping female spaces of privacy and domesticity in early modern England. While other literary critics have focused their studies of female privacy on widows, witches, female recusants and criminals, the contributors to this collection propose that the early modern subculture of femaleness is more expansive and formative than is typically understood...read more

By Corinne S. Abate (editor)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780754630432 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, April 1, 2003, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: The ten essays in this collection explore the discrete yet overlapping female spaces of privacy and domesticity in early modern England.

Spain: A Traveler's Literary Companion

By Peter R. Bush (editor) and Lisa Dillman (editor)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9781883513122 | Italian edition edition (Whereabouts Pr, April 1, 2003), cover price $14.95

Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001

Delving into his literary heritage and his own voice in the modern world, this current collection contains the Nobel Prize winner's greatest lectures, short newspaper articles, radio commentaries, and other richly textured pieces. Reprint.

By Seamus Heaney

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9780374528782 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 16, 2003), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Delving into his literary heritage and his own voice in the modern world, this current collection contains the Nobel Prize winner's greatest lectures, short newspaper articles, radio commentaries, and other richly textured pieces.

Poems and Essays on Poetry

Product Description: First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

By Edgar Allan Poe and C. H. Sisson (editor)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9780415967372 | Routledge, March 1, 2003, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: First published in 2003.

War Games: Richard Harding Davis and the New Imperialism

Product Description: This is a study of the early writings of Richard Harding Davis, the premier American journalist of the 1890s, best remembered for his coverage of the Spanish-American War. The emphasis of the book is on Davis's reporting-including several volumes of travel writing, covering trips to the Near East and South and Central America...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By John D. Seelye

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9781558493728 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, February 1, 2003, cover price $80.00

Paperback:

9781558493865 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This is a study of the early writings of Richard Harding Davis, the premier American journalist of the 1890s, best remembered for his coverage of the Spanish-American War.

Across an Inland Sea: Writing in Place from Buffalo to Berlin

By Nicholas Howe

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780691113654 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 3, 2003, cover price $49.95

Selected Writings

Product Description: First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Oliver Goldsmith and John Lucas (editor)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9780415967433 | Routledge, March 1, 2003, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: First published in 2003.

Halls of Fame

In a collection of wry, comic essays, the author shares his insights into a wide range of topics, from Martha Graham to the Flat Earth Society to artist Henry Darger. Reprint.

By John D'Agata

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9781555973773 | Reprint edition (Graywolf Pr, March 1, 2003), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: In a collection of wry, comic essays, the author shares his insights into a wide range of topics, from Martha Graham to the Flat Earth Society to artist Henry Darger.

A Book I Value: Selected Marginalia

Product Description: Coleridge is such a celebrity that many who have never read "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" have a fair idea who he was, and yet the common impression of him is not flattering. He is typically seen as a youthful genius transformed by drugs and philosophy into a tedious sage...read more

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge and H. J. Jackson

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780691113517 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 18, 2003, cover price $61.00 | About this edition: Coleridge is such a celebrity that many who have never read "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" have a fair idea who he was, and yet the common impression of him is not flattering.

Paperback:

9780691113173 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 18, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Coleridge is such a celebrity that many who have never read "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" have a fair idea who he was, and yet the common impression of him is not flattering.

Fitz-James O'Brien: Selected Literary Journalism, 1852 1860

Product Description: In the decade that followed his arrival in the United States in 1851, the transplanted Irishman Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862) was an active literary journalist, producing a steady stream of contributions to newspapers, weeklies, and monthly magazines, in New York and elsewhere...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Wayne R. Kime (editor) and Fitz-James O'Brien

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9781575910703 | Susquehanna Univ Pr, February 1, 2003, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: In the decade that followed his arrival in the United States in 1851, the transplanted Irishman Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862) was an active literary journalist, producing a steady stream of contributions to newspapers, weeklies, and monthly magazines, in New York and elsewhere.

Planet on the Table: Poets on the Reading Life

Presents a collection of essays and poems by such authors as Stephen Dunn, Edward Hirsch, and Maxine Kumin, on thier love for and insights into the art of reading. (view table of contents)

By Sharon Bryan (editor) and William Olsen (editor)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9781889330914 | 1 edition (Sarabande Books, February 1, 2003), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Presents a collection of essays and poems by such authors as Stephen Dunn, Edward Hirsch, and Maxine Kumin, on thier love for and insights into the art of reading.

Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature

Product Description: In 1858, 600 blacks moved from San Francisco north to the colonies that would eventually become British Columbia (B.C.), Canada. The move was in part initiated by an invitation penned by the governor of the British colonies, James Douglas, who is commonly believed to have had African ancestry, a rumor he neither confirmed nor denied...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Wayde Compton (editor)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9781551521183 | Arsenal Pulp Pr Ltd, January 1, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In 1858, 600 blacks moved from San Francisco north to the colonies that would eventually become British Columbia (B.

Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

Product Description: A celebration of Percy Shelleyâs assertion that âpoets are the unacknowledged legislators of the worldâ, these thirty-plus essays on writers from Oscar Wilde to Salman Rushdie dispel the myth of politics as a stone tied to the neck of literature; Norman Podhoretzâs âbloody crossroadsâ...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Christopher Hitchens

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9781859847862 | Verso Books, February 1, 2001, cover price $25.00

Paperback:

9781859843833 | Verso Books, January 1, 2003, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A celebration of Percy Shelleyâs assertion that âpoets are the unacknowledged legislators of the worldâ, these thirty-plus essays on writers from Oscar Wilde to Salman Rushdie dispel the myth of politics as a stone tied to the neck of literature; Norman Podhoretzâs âbloody crossroadsâ.

Second Common Reader: Annotated Edition

By Virginia Woolf

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Paperback:

9780156028165 | Mariner Books, January 1, 2003, cover price $18.95

The A to Z of Postmodern Life: Essays on Global Culture in the Noughties

Product Description: Through a collection of challenging but humorous essays, grounded in personal experience, observation and anecdote, Ziauddin Sardar analyzes the key characteristics of the embryonic 21st century. From advertising to zapping, sex to shopping, toys to hype, The A to Z of Postmodern Life explores the ideas, products, artifacts and â-ismsâ that shape the undefined, but ever encompassing, global culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Ziauddin Sardar

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9781904132035 | Vision Paperbacks, January 1, 2003, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Through a collection of challenging but humorous essays, grounded in personal experience, observation and anecdote, Ziauddin Sardar analyzes the key characteristics of the embryonic 21st century.

Song for Uncle Tom, Tonto, and Mr. Moto: Poetry and Identity

Product Description: As a Sansei or third-generation Japanese American poet, David Mura is one of the generation of multicultural writers who are changing the face of American poetry. Song for Uncle Tom, Tonto, and Mr. Moto explores shifts in and challenges to aesthetic standards that have come about because of a more diverse range of American writers and because of the growing awareness of world literature...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David Mura

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780472097760 | Univ of Michigan Pr, December 1, 2002, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: As a Sansei or third-generation Japanese American poet, David Mura is one of the generation of multicultural writers who are changing the face of American poetry.

Paperback:

9780472067763 | Univ of Michigan Pr, December 1, 2002, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: As a Sansei or third-generation Japanese American poet, David Mura is one of the generation of multicultural writers who are changing the face of American poetry.

The Extraordinary Work of Ordinary Writing: Annie Ray's Diary

Product Description: KrutchOCOs trenchant observations about life prospering in the hostile environment of ArizonaOCOs Sonoran Desert turn to weighty questions about humanity and the precariousness of our existence, putting lie to Western denials of mind in the OC lowerOCO forms of life: OC Let us not say that this animal or even this plant has OCybecome adaptedOCO to desert conditions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Jennifer Sinor

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780877458326 | Univ of Iowa Pr, December 1, 2002, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: KrutchOCOs trenchant observations about life prospering in the hostile environment of ArizonaOCOs Sonoran Desert turn to weighty questions about humanity and the precariousness of our existence, putting lie to Western denials of mind in the OC lowerOCO forms of life: OC Let us not say that this animal or even this plant has OCybecome adaptedOCO to desert conditions.

Paperback:

9780877458333 | Univ of Iowa Pr, November 13, 2002, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Taking as its centre the diary of Jennifer Sinor's great-great-great-aunt Annie Ray, a woman in 19th-century Dakota, this text provides a novel way of viewing ordinary writing, the everyday writing we typically ignore or dismiss.

Seamus Heaney and the Place of Writing

Product Description: "An original and innovative study of Seamus Heaney's poetry and prose, an overdue and welcome addition. . . . the first piece of groundbreaking scholarship that I have read on the subject in years. [It] should convince many that Heaney has been working toward an imaginative expression of Irishness that rivals that of James Joyce...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Eugene O'Brien

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9780813025827 | Univ Pr of Florida, December 1, 2002, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: "An original and innovative study of Seamus Heaney's poetry and prose, an overdue and welcome addition.

The Perfect Gift: The Philanthropic Imagination in Poetry and Prose

Product Description: The Perfect Gift aims to cultivate and enlighten our philanthropic imagination. It addresses us all as present and future philanthropists -- as human beings who give, serve, and seek to promote the well-being of others. It suggests that we are continually confronted with choices about giving, and offers literary selections intended to help us reflect more seriously on these choices...read more

By Amy A. Kass (editor)

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780253341310 | Indiana Univ Pr, December 1, 2002, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: The Perfect Gift aims to cultivate and enlighten our philanthropic imagination.

Paperback:

9780253215420 | Indiana Univ Pr, December 1, 2002, cover price $32.00

What Is a Book

Product Description: In What Is a Book? David Kirby addresses the making and consuming of literature by redefining the four components of the act of reading: writer, reader, critic, and book. He discusses his students, his work, and his practice as a teacher, writer, critic, and reader, and positions his theories and opinions as products of "real" life as much as academic exercise...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By David Kirby

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780820324418 | Univ of Georgia Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: In this study David Kirby addresses the making and consuming of literature by redefining the four components of the act of reading: writer, reader, critic and book.

Paperback:

9780820324784, titled "What Is a Book?" | Univ of Georgia Pr, December 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In What Is a Book?

The Best of Oscar Wilde

(view table of contents)

By Robert D. Pearce (editor) and Oscar Wilde

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9780715631492 | Duckbacks, November 1, 2002, cover price $3.00

Reassembling Truth: Twenty-First-Century Milton

(view table of contents)

By Charles W. Durham (editor) and Kristin A. Pruitt (editor)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Hardcover:

9781575910628 | Susquehanna Univ Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $47.50

Ribot 8

Product Description: RIBOT has established itself over the past 10 years as one of the most exciting literary and arts publications from around the world. In this appearance, the annual will address the problematic of leisure or idleness in our ravenously consumptive, multi-national society, as originally explored by Paul Lafargue's notorious 1883 essay from St...read more

By Paul Vangelisti (editor)

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9781557134080 | Sun & Moon Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: RIBOT has established itself over the past 10 years as one of the most exciting literary and arts publications from around the world.

Where the Stress Falls

Forty perceptive essays selected from the past two decades of the author's work explore a variety of topics, including art, photography, film, dance, opera, and theater. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

By Susan Sontag

See complete details on each edition (1 edition listed)

Paperback:

9780312421311 | Reprint edition (Picador USA, November 1, 2002), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Forty perceptive essays selected from the past two decades of the author's work explore a variety of topics, including art, photography, film, dance, opera, and theater.

A Tolkien Compass

An insightful guide to Tolkien's fictional world of Middle-earth includes a chapter from the great fantasy writer in which he explains the origin and meaning of names in the Lord of the Rings and delves deeply into many of the mysteries of this fanciful place. Original.

By Jared Lobdell (editor)

See complete details on each edition (2 editions listed)

Hardcover:

9780812695410 | Open Court Pub Co, November 1, 2002, cover price $20.01

Paperback:

9780875483030 | Open Court Pub Co, February 1, 2003, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The structure, content, and character of Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are dealt with in ten critical essays.

< previous 25 | displaying 51 to 75 | next 25 >