princeton university press princeton nj 1988 (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. VG in glossy illustrated wrappers, as published. Trade paperback. 330 pp. Covers lightly rubbed, curled. Very light corner bumps, slight fraying. Spine square, tight, uncreased. Interior very clean, bright. No marks. Very nice reading/research copy.

8vo. xi, 580 pages with index and bibliography. Fine in a fine dustjacket.

Groos, Arthur / Parker, Roger, 1951-, ed. Reading opera. Edited by Arthur Groos and Roger Parker. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988, vii, 352pp., PAPERBACK, light vertical pencil lines in margins on a few pages, otherwise good lightly used copy, spine somewhat faded by light. "Libretto-bashing has a distinguished tradition in the blood sport of opera," writes Arthur Groos in the introduction to this broad survey of critical approaches to that much-maligned genre. To examine, and to challenge, the long-standing prejudice against libretti and the scholarly tradition that has, until recently, reiterated it, Groos and Roger Parker have commissioned thirteen stimulating essays by musicologists, literary critics, and historians. Taken as a whole, the volume demonstrates that libretti are now very much within the purview of contemporary humanistic scholarship. Libretti pose questions of intertextuality, transposition of genre, and reception history. They invite a broad spectrum of contemporary reading strategies ranging from the formalistic to the feminist. And as texts for music they raise issues in the relation between the two mediums and their respective traditions. Reading Opera will be of value to anyone with a serious interest in opera and contemporary opera criticism. -- The essays cover the period from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, with a particular focus on works of the later nineteenth century. The contributors are Carolyn Abbate, William Ashbrook, Katherine Bergeron, Caryl Emerson, Nelly Furman, Sander L. Gilman, Arthur Groos, James A. Hepokoski, Jurgen Maehder, Roger Parker, Paul Robinson, Christopher Wintle, and Susan Youens. -- Arthur Groos is Professor of German Literature and Roger Parker Associate Professor of Music at Cornell University. 9780691027098 ISBN 0691027099.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xxx + 249 pp., index. Deals with authors: Benj. Franklin, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Emerson, and Melville.

HC. 312pp ISBN 0691067481 Discussing the work of over thirty major and minor poets, the author focuses on what Victorian critics viewed as an unprecedented psychological school of poetry related to early psychiatry and rooted in the poetic "science of feelings" (Wordsworth). This broad historical perspective enables Faas to redefine our current terminology regarding the dramatic monologue and to document the extent to which early psychiatry shaped the poetry, poetics, and general frame of mind of the Victorians. fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover).

PAPERBACK, attractive copy, very good, appears little used if at all. EAKIN, PAUL JOHN. Fictions in autobiography: studies in the art of self-invention. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1988, 1st Princeton paperback printing, 288pp., . Princeton paperbacks. - Chapters on Mary McCarthy, Henry James, Jean-Paul Sartre, Self-Invention in Autobiography: The Moment of Language. 9780691014456 ISBN 0691014450.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition.

8°. XI, 201 Pages. Publishers: Princeton University Press (1988). XI, 201 Pages. Original Cloth-Volume (gilt Lettering on the Spine). No Dust-jacket. Ex-Library-Copy. Library-Sticker on the Spine. Library-Stamp [dropped out] on Title. Inside otherwise good Condition. No Markings in the Text! No Underlinings! No private Owner's Note! Cover with small Signs of Usage!

28.0 x 21.5cms 386pp b/w Illusts good+ 15th and 16th century Italian merchants like to withdraw to their country residences and cultivate their leisure interests. This book analyses their villas'' social functions and meanings rather than their architecture and formal properties.

Softback, [xvi] + 351pp, illus throughout in b/w. VG clean copy with no previous ownership inscriptions or annotation. (Shelf 16) ISBN: 0521398487 PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

FIRST EDITION 8vo. blue cloth hardback, gilt, in unclipped dust jacket. 413pp., Indexed. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. A VERY GOOD COPY in VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. (Shelf 58) ISBN: 0691055114 PLEASE NOTE: Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.** Pictures available upon request.** Visit our homepage for our shop opening hours. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.

Hardcover. First Edition. Two quarto (8-3/4" x 11-1/4") volumes in dustwrappers. The first volume is text ( xxx, 657 pages), the second illustrations (880 plates). Slight foxing to bulked text edges and dustwrappers. Near Fine in Near Fine dustwrappers.