Literary Criticism from Great Northern Books
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Poetry and the Fate of the Senses
by Stewart, Susan
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- Used - Very Good +
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- Second printing
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- 2002
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- Trade Paperback
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- 9780226774145
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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€11.28
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press , 2002. Second printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. Stewart argues that poetry can counter the denigration of the senses in contemporary life and can expand our imagination of the range of human expression." [from publisher] lncludes black & white illustrations, bibliographical references, and index. A clean unmarked copy.
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€11.28
The Self-Conscious Novel : Artifice in Fiction from Joyce to Pynchon
by Stonehill, Brian
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- Used - Very Good +
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- 1988
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- Trade Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780812213041
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- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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€6.58
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Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. Stonehill "examines the array of distinctive devices and themes shared by self-conscious novels" including titles by Joyce, Gaddis, Barth and others." [from publisher] lncludes bibliographical references and index. A clean unmarked copy.
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€6.58
Reading the West : New Essays on the Literature of the American West
by Kowalewski, Michael (Editor)
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- Used - Very Good +
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- First Paperback edition
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- 1996
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- Trade Paperback
- ISBN
- 9780521565592
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- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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€8.46
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. First Paperback edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. This collection of essays encompasses a wide range of scholarship about the American West." [from publisher] lncludes black & white photographs, bibliographical references, and index. A clean unmarked copy.
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€8.46
Afro-American Poetics : Revisions of Harlem and the Black Aesthetic
by Baker Jr., Houston A.
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- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good +
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- Second printing
- Published
- 1988
- ISBN
- 9780299115005
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- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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€7.52
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Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. Second printing. Very Good +/very good +. In this book, Baker "seeks to lay the groundwork for a new genre in Afro-American literary criticism and theory." [from publisher] lncludes black & white photographs, bibliographical references, and index. A clean unmarked copy.
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€7.52
Zora Neale Hurston : Critical Perspectives Past and Present
by Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., and Appiah, K. A. (editors)
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- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good
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- First printing
- Published
- 1993
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9781567430158
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- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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€8.46
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New York: Amistad Press, 1993. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. A collection of essays that "analyze such factors as Hurston's language, characters, voice, and her ability to reflect the reality of Black women's lives." [from publisher] lncludes bibliographical references and index. Dustjacket has small tear on bottom edge, else clean unmarked copy.
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€8.46
Advance on Chaos: The Sanctifying Imagination of Wallace Stevens
by La Guardia, David M.
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- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good +
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- First printing
- Published
- 1983
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780874512694
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- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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€9.40
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Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1983. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. La Guardia shows "how Stevens developed a special version of American pragmatism and is the singular heir to the Emerson-James tradition." lncludes bibliographical references and index. A clean unmarked copy.
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€9.40
Dreams for Dead Bodies: Blackness, Labor, and the Corpus of American Detective Fiction
by Robinson, M. Michelle
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- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- First printing
- Published
- 2016
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780472119813
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- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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€13.16
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Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. Robinson argues that the detective genre's lineage lies in experimental works on the margins of what we recognize as classical detective fiction today." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. Pictorial cover, no dustjacket, as issued. A clean unmarked copy.
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€13.16
From West to East: Studies in the Literature of the American West
by Lee, Robert Edson
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- Used - Very Good +
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- very good +
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- First printing
- Published
- 1966
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- Hardcover
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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€7.52
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Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1966. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Lee compares manuscripts to the finished work, demonstrating how the literature of the West was "transformed, prettified, and emasculated to conform to the illusion-making requirements of the East." lncludes bibliographical references and index. A clean unmarked copy.
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€7.52
The Death of Literature
by Kernan, Alvin B.
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- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good +
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- First printing
- Published
- 1990
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780300047837
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- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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€7.52
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Looks at political and critical attacks on literature, suggests that traditional literature is no longer useful to our technological society, and argues that a new concept of literature is needed." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. A clean unmarked copy.
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€7.52
American Puritanism and the Defense of Mourning: Religion, Grief, and Ethnology in Mary White Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative
by Breitwieser, Mitchell Robert
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- New
- Jacket Condition
- new
- Edition
- First printing
- Published
- 1991
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780299126506
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- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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€22.55
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Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991. First printing. Hardcover. New/new. Rowlandson, a New England Congregationalist minister's wife, was held captive by the Algonquin Indians in 1676. Several years after she was ransomed and living among the British again she wrote a narrative of the captivity. Breitwieser argues that this narrative undercuts the Puritan values Rowlandson attempted to… Read more about this item Item Price
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Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry
by Costello, Bonnie
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- Used - Very Good +
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- very good +
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- First printing
- Published
- 2003
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780674008946
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- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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€8.46
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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Sustained readings of dozens of major poems opens new perspectives on landscape as metaphor in these canonical moderns." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. A clean unmarked copy.
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€8.46
Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor
by Westling, Louise
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- Used - Very Good +
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- very good +
- Edition
- Third printing
- Published
- 1985
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780820307466
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- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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€11.28
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Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1985. Third printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Westling explores how the complex, difficult roles of women in southern culture shaped the literary worlds of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. A clean unmarked copy.
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€11.28
Dos Passos: Artist as American
by Wagner-Martin, Linda
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- New
- Jacket Condition
- new
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- Second printing
- Published
- 1980
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780292740112
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- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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€7.52
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Austin, TX: University of Texas Press , 1980. Second printing. Hardcover. New/new. Wagner illuminates Dos Passos' work with fresh readings and new interpretations." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. A clean unmarked copy.
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€7.52
The Sickroom in Victorian Fiction: The Art of Being Ill
by Bailin, Miriam
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- Used - Very Good +
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- very good +
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- First printing
- Published
- 1994
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780521445269
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- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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€13.16
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Bailin maps the cultural implications and narrative effects of the sickroom as an important symbolic space in nineteenth-century life and literature." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. A clean unmarked copy.
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€13.16
The Hidden Law: The Poetry of W. H. Auden
by Hecht, Anthony
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- Used - Very Good +
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- very good +
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- First printing
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- 1993
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- 9780674390065
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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€9.40
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Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. First printing. Very Good +/very good +. Hecht identifies and traces consistent habits of thought and belief within the poet's extensive and varied writings." [from publisher] Includes indices and bibliography. A clean unmarked copy.
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€9.40
Black Metafiction: Self-Consciousness in African American Literature
by Jablon, Madelyn
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- Used - Very Good +
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- very good +
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- First printing
- Published
- 1997
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780877455608
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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€13.16
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Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1997. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Black Metafiction examines the tradition of self-consciousness in African American literature. It points to the shortcomings of theories of metafiction founded on studies of Anglo-American literature." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. A clean unmarked copy.
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€13.16
Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature
by Brooks, Peter
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- Used - Very Good +
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- very good +
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- First edition
- Published
- 2020
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- Hardcover
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- 9780226075853
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- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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€9.40
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. "Brooks juxtaposes cases from law and literature to explore the kinds of truth we associate with confessions, and why we both rely on them and regard them with suspicion." [from publisher] Includes bibliography and index. A clean unmarked copy.
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€9.40
Unbecoming Women : British Women Writers and the Novel of Development
by Fraiman, Susan
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- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good
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- First edition
- Published
- 1993
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780231080002
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- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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€9.40
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New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. First printing. "Fraiman suggests that becoming a woman involves de-formation, disorientation, and the loss of authority." [from publisher] Includes bibliography and index. Slight sunning to dustjacket spine, else a clean, unmarked copy.
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€9.40
Words Alone: The Poet T. S. Eliot
by Donoghue, Denis
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- Used - Very Good
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- very good
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- First printing
- Published
- 2000
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780300083293
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- 1
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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€5.64
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New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Donoghue's Words Alone is an intellectual memoir, a lucid and illuminating account of his engagement with the works of T. S. Eliot." [from publisher] Includes bibliography and index. Tape shadow on book cover and heal of dustjacket spine, else a clean, unmarked copy.
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€5.64
Imagining Virginia Woolf: An Experiment in Critical Biography
by DiBattista, Maria
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- Used - Near Fine
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- near fine
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- First printing
- Published
- 2009
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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780691138121
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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€7.52
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Princeton: Princeton University Press , 2009. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. DiBattista "provides an original way of reading, one that captures with variety and subtlety the personality that exists only in Woolf's works." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index.
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€7.52