Ross Stephen J Editors (8 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Good Plus. NOT A FORMER LIBRARY BOOK.

First edition, first printing (per publisher's requisite number line upon copyright page). x, 321 pages. Hardcover: H 24.25cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed, "2001" handwritten in faded ink at front panel's top right. Beige cloth with metallic purple stamped spine lettering. Some soiling to top edge and fore-edge. Obtrusive ink marginalia on Table of Contents leaf; frequent pencil underlining and margin marks within Introduction; ink underlining and margin marks within Chapter 2. No other such markings readily apparent upon a quick perusal and interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A good copy in a very good- dust jacket. With Preface, Introduction by James H. Justus, "Humor of the Old South: A Comprehensive Bibliography" compiled by Ed Piacentino (pages 263-309), Contributors (short biographical essays of contributing authors), and Index. Features seventeen chapters within three sections all titled as follows: ORIGIN AND INFLUENCES, {Chapter #1} "The Origins of the Humor of the Old South" by J.A. Leo Lemay, {2} "'Sleepy Hollow' Comes South: Washington Irving's Influence on Old Southwestern Humor" by Ed Piacentino, {#3} The Function of Women in Old Southwestern Humor: Rereading Porter's 'Big Bear' and 'Quarter Race' Collections" by William E. Lenz, {4} "Contesting the Boundaries of Race and Gender in Old Southwestern Humor" by Ed Piacentino, {5} "Darkness Visible: Race and Pollution in Southwestern Humor" by Scott Romine, PERSPECTIVES ON EARLIER AUTHORS-1830-1860, {6} "The Prison House of Gender: Masculine Confinement and Escape in Southwest Humor" by Gretchen Martin, {7} "Augustan Nostalgia and Patrician Disdain in A.B. Longstreet's 'Georgia Scenes'" by Kurt Albert Mayer, {8} "A Biographical Reading of A.B. Longstreet's 'Georgia Scenes'" by David Rachels, {9} "A Sadder Simon Suggs: Freedom and Slavery in the Humor of Johnson Hooper" by Johanna Nicol Shields, {10} "Revising Southern Humor: William Tappan Thompson and Major Jones Letters" by David C. Estes, {11} "Backwoods Civility, or How the Ring-Tailed Roarer Became a Gentle Man for David Crockett, Charles F.M. Noland, and William Tappan Thompson" by James E. Caron, {12} "Bench and Bar: Baldwin's Lawyerly Humor" by Mary Ann Wimsat, {13} "The Good Doctor: O.B. Mayer and 'Human Natur,'" by Edwin T. Arnold, THE LITERARY LEGACY, {14} "An Old Southwesterner Abroad: Cultural Frontiers and the Landmark American Humor of J. Ross Browne's 'Yusef'" by Joseph Csicsila, {15} "Mark Twain: The Victorian of Southwestern Humor" by Leland Krauth, {16} "Jason Compson and Sut Lovingood: Southwestern Humor as Stream of Consciousness," by Stephen M. Ross, and {17} "Southwestern Humor, Erskine Caldwell, and the Comedy of Frustration" by R.J. Gray. ISBN 0813121949.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Unmarked text. Includes ?Move Forward and Ascend!?: Temporality and the Politics of Form in Turkish Modernist Literature by Kaitlin Staudt; Furnishing Italian Colonialism: ?Nomad? Interiors and the Habitations of the Empire by Ignacio G. Galan; The Archipelagic Imaginary in Eric Walrond?s Tropic Death by Chih-Chien Hsieh; and more. Book Reviews. Advertisements. pp 659-864. Measures 6.75x10 inches.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. (vi) 186 pp. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. This contains: Introduction by T. J. Ross; Chronology; The Horror Domain: Ghoulies and Ghosties by Curtis Harrington; Rough Beasts Slouching by Frank McConnell; The Pageantry of Death by R. H. W. Dillard. Gothic Horror: Two Archetypes: The Frankenstein Monster and the Vampire: Brides of Dracula by Bram Stoker; Vampire's Progress: Dracula from Novel to Film via Broadway by Roy Huss; On the Nightmare of Bloodsucking by Ernest Jones; Nosferatu by Jack Kerouac; Frankenstein Meets the Edison Company; The Monster's Lost Paradise by Mary Shelley; Almost Eve: The Creation Scene in The Bride of Frankenstein by Roy Huss; Modern Gothic: Jekyll and Hyde and the Cruel Cinema by Michel Perez; Eyes without a Face by Raymond Durgnat; The New American Gothic by Stephen Farber. Monster Terror: Beauty and the Beast by William Troy; Who Killed King Kong by X. J. Kennedy; A King in New York by Claude Ollier; Monster Films by Lawrence Alloway; Society and the Monster by John D. Denne; The Puritan Despair by Michel Perez; Gobble Gobble One of Us by John Thomas. Psychological Thriller: A New Ending to Rosemary's Baby by Ray Bradbury; Val Lewton and the School of Shudders by Manny Farber; The Terror of the Surreal by Carl Belz; Polanski, Repulsion and the New Mythology by T. J. Ross; and Targets: An Unshielding Darkness by Brian Henerson; followed by a filmography, a bibliography and an index. Size: 8vo. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 96 pages. Harold Pinter "The Examination" / Melvin J Lasky "Africa for Beginners (II) / Roy Jenkins "From London to Rome" / Lawrence Durrell - Two Poems / Jacques Barzun "Romanticicsm" / Raymond Williams "The Law and Literary Merit" / Adrian Stokes "Strong Smells and Polite Society" / Alan Ross -Three Poems / Karl Jaspers "Our German Trouble".…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 88 pages. MELVIN J LASKY "An Indian Notebook" / ALAN ROSS " Algerian Refugee Camp, Ain Khemouda" / PAUL IGNOTUS "The Crusade that Went Away" / STEPHEN POTTER "The Man ship of Memoirs" / ISABEL QUIGLY "Novels" / LIONEL TRILLING "Reflections on a Lost Cause" / ROBIN MARRIS "Socialist Thoughts out of Season".…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 88 pages. Kenneth Tynan "American Blues" / Arthur Koestler "Attila, The Poet" / D J Enright "From A Japanese University" / Herbert Luthy "Democracy And Its Discontents II.France" / Alan Ross "Arctic Waking" (poem) / Nathan Glazer "Foreign Policy and the American People" / Edwin Muir "Dresden, Helleran, and Vienna - A Memoir" / William Plomer "Atheling Grange" (poem) / Alan Clutton-Brock "Art: Fleet Street's Portrait of the Artist".…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 98 pages. W H Auden "Thinking What We Are Doing" / Edmund Wilson "Legend and Symbol in 'Dr. Zhivago'" / C P Snow "The Two Cultures" / Laurie Lee "Grannies In The Wainscot" / Andrew Boyd "Moscow Notebook" / Caroline Freud "Portrait Of The Beatnik / Walter Z Laqueur "After The Revolution In Iraq" Alan Ross "Dandy In Eloff Street" (poem) / Philip Larkin "The Whitsun Weddings" (poem) / Angus Wilson "The Intellectual On The Aisle".…