Schmidt Peter Et Al (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. "The Institution of Criticism" is a collection of critical essays by Professor Peter Uwe Hohendahl. The book was translated from the German by Henry Schmidt, et al, and concerns the nature and purpose of literary criticism, with especial emphasis on the writers and literature of Germany From the book's Introduction : "The recognition that a literary text is embedded in a historical context that can be defined in cultural, political, and social terms has been common knowledge for some time. This insight, however has not been fully appreciated in the examination of various forms of literary criticism -- scholarly books and articles, journalistic essays, book reviews in newspapers, and the like. Yet studies that deal with literary works in one way or another should also be recognized as literary texts and should be seen against their own background." CONTENTS : ** Literary Criticism and the Public Sphere ** Art Evaluation and Reportage: The Aesthetic Theory of the Later Heine. ** The End of an Institution? The Debate over the Function of Literary Criticism in the 1960s ** The Task of Contemporary Literary Criticism ** Promoters, Consumers, and Critics: On the Reception of the Best-Seller ** Prolegomena to a History of Literary Criticism ** Critical Theory, Public Sphere, and Culture: Jürgen Habermas and his Critics. TITLE : The Institution of Criticism AUTHOR : Peter Uwe Hohendahl TRANSLATORS : Henry J. Schmidt , Ronald Smith et al LANGUAGE : English IMPRINT : Cornell University Press PLACE : Ithaca, New York DATE : 1987 EDITION : Second Printing PROVENANCE : From the personal library of a professor of German Literature (Deceased) DETAILS : Scholarly hardcover; contains an introduction, copious bibliographical etc., notes, and an index; approximately 5 1/2" x 8 1/2"; maroon cloth with title, etc. in gold on spine; 287 pages. CONDITION -- VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned book that remains clean and presentable, the following noted :: BOARDS : A bit of spotting to rear board, else clean and presentable SPINE : Clean and presentable BINDING : Solid TEXT-BLOCK EDGES : Clean and presentable INTERIOR : Clean and presentable --- the front free end-paper has the signature in pencil of Professor Browning (R. M. Browning) -- Professor Browning was a distinguished Professor of German Literature at Hamilton College, in Clinton N.Y. He was internationally renowned for his contributions to the study of German Literature. I spotted some faint pencil erasures of negligible effect in some of the margins - these and any such marks would have been done by Professor Browning. DUST-JACKET : Not present.…

Staplebound wraps. Condition: Very Good. 4to, 18 pp. Also includes an interview with Factsheet Five editor Mike Gunderloy. Corners bumped, wrappers lightly soiled and handled.

Hardbound. Black cloth, with black color illustrated glossy dust jacket in matte finish mylar cover. 695 pp., many color and BW illus., at least 6 fold-outs. Published on the occasion of the most comprehensive exhibition ever of the Maya, in 1998-1999. Offers overall view of Mayan civilization in photographs of hundreds of objects loaned from museums all over the world. Includes numerous color plates, list of 514 works on exhibit, timeline, glossary. Also includes articles on Mayan history, cosmogony, civilization, archaeology, vegetation, architecture, writing, Gods, calendrical cycles and astronomy, ceramics, etc. etc. A massive tome that will tell you nearly everything you'll want to know about the Maya. Really. VG- (Ex-art library, with spine label, i.d. marks on book block edges and outermost pages, incl. rear pocket; otherwise quite nice.).…

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. 39 pages. The highlights of this issue are a look at the Berlin wall at 25 years and includes images by Pavel Buchler, John Davies, John Gossage, and Michael Schmidt A clean very near fine copy in stapled wrappers.

Paperback. Condition: Like New. SIGNED BY ONE OF THE EDITORS, This copy is LIKE NEW; the text is clear, bright, and unmarked; binding is tight, but slightest shelfwear to edges. Apparent first edition (unstated but earliest appearance of the book). STATED FIRST PRINTING. The covers are also new: absolutely intact in all ways, including perfect color and design, with slight wear to corners. We have a five star rating because of our fulfilment success and because our descriptions are accurate. On foreign sales, because of the heavy weight of this book, we have to charge extra for shipping: however, we will only charge the difference between our regular shipping rate and the extra charge that the U.S.Post Office asks to ship the book. We guarantee: NO NASTY SURPRISES. Signed by Author(s). …

Card Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 48pp. + 2 (printed inside covers). Fluorescent orange covers fractionally soiled & handled.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 2.01 x 12.09 x 8.72 Inches.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 4to. pp. 695. profusely illus. in colour (many full-page, 4 multi-page fold-outs). glossary. biblio. index. cloth. dw. (two-inch tear to dw.). First American Edition; originally published on the occasion of an exhibition at Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 6.9.1998-16.5-1999.

Softcover. Condition: g+ to vg. First edition. Large quarto (11 1/2 x 8 1/4"). 114pp. Original printed wrappers. Lavishly illustrated with b/w photographic reproductions of movie stills, newspaper articles, with essays by the most prominent names in the field, this 1970 New Austrian Film catalogue documents Austria's cinematic new wave. "Engaged in a bitter fight against the prevailing petit-bourgeois mindset of their fellow citizens, the New Austrian Film is also caught in a deadlock, a fight against its nation's very image, be it the postwar self-stylization as neutral Austria, Nazi Germany's first victim, or even the ironic self-perception as a leftover of "Kakania," Robert Musil's famous satirical moniker for the "k. und k." (Imperial and Royal) Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy. In an effort to break the illusions of the "official" Austria and its long avoidance of dealing with its fascist past, New Austrian Film is not only highly critical and counter-traditionalist (albeit using traditional genres) but it takes on the very mechanisms of spectatorial trust in cinema." (For more information, see: Robert von Dassanowsky and Oliver C. Speck's "New Austrian Film: The Non Exceptional Exception"). Minor shelf wear. Wrappers age-toned along edges. Text in German. Wrappers in overall good+, interior in very good condition.…