‎Literary criticism‎

‎Corinne Jouanno‎

‎To Mythistorema tou Alexandrou - Genesis and Metamorphoses‎

‎<p><em><strong>Naissance et métamorphoses du Roman d'Alexandre</strong></em></p><p>Translated in greek from the french. Hard cover 25X18 cm 786 pp. ill.</p>==============================================================<p><strong><i><b>IMPORTANT:</b></i></strong></p><ul><li>The shipping cost estimated by the system covers books weighing up to 750 gr.; a surcharge depending on the actual weight and destination applies for heavier books. You can also choose an international transporter and pay the shipping cost at delivery in your country.</li></ul><ul><li>Insurance of the shipment may also be necessary for some destinations.</li></ul> MIET hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 201871 ISBN : 9602506318 9789602506318

‎Cormier Ramona‎

‎Waiting for Death: The Philosophical Significance of Beckett's En Attendant Godot‎

‎University AL: Univ of Alabama Press 1979. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Very good copy with minor shelfwear to orange cloth boards. Univ of Alabama Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 026323 ISBN : 0817376054 9780817376055

‎Cornelius Ryan‎

‎A Bridge Too Far‎

‎Norwalk: The Easton Press pp. 670. 3 raised bands full leather silk end pages silk markerAEG 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dj. 8vo. The Easton Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 232378

‎Corngold Stanley‎

‎Complex Pleasure : Forms of Feeling in German Literature‎

‎Palo Alto CA U.S.A.: Stanford University Press 1998. Hardback. Fine/Fine. Stanford University Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 310707 ISBN : 0804729395 9780804729390

‎CORNOU (François)‎

‎Elie Fréron (1718-1776). Trente années de lutte contre Voltaire et les philosophes du XVIIIe siècle.‎

‎Grand in-8, broché, 477 p., portrait en frontispice, non coupé. Édition originale. "Etude la plus complète sur Fréron" (Cabeen, 1707) et "l'ouvrage de base sur ce grand critique" (Van Tieghem, 'Dictionnaire', p. 1445). Exemplaire non coupé à l'état de neuf.‎

‎CORNOU (François)‎

‎élie Fréron. Trente années de luttes contre Voltaire et les philosophes du XVIIIe siècle‎

‎Paris - Quimper, Librairie Champion, Ad. Le Goaziou 1922 In-4. Broché, couverture imprimée, portrait de Fréron en frontispice, 477 pp., notes en bas de page. Couverture ternie.‎

‎Bon état d’occasion‎

Bookseller reference : 89297

‎Correa Nereu‎

‎A Tape�aria Ling��stica d'Os Sert�es e Outros Estudos‎

‎S�o Paulo: Edi��es Qu�ron 1978. Softcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Book is in the Portuguese language. Sound binding. Clean bright pages. Wraps have light overall handling wear. ; Essays of literary criticism by Brazilian author. ; 8.75" tall; 176 pages. Edi��es Qu�ron unknown‎

Bookseller reference : 4320017

‎CORRELL Barbara‎

‎End of Conduct: Grobianus and the Renaissance: Text of the Subject‎

‎Ithaca:: Cornell University Press. Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0801431018 . First edition. Pencil underlining and marginalia on about a dozen pages thus only good in very good small scrape on front panel dust jacket. . Cornell University Press, hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 71031 ISBN : 0801431018 9780801431012

‎Corrigan Beatrice Ed.‎

‎ITALIAN POETS AND ENGLISH CRITICS 1755-1859 A Collection of Critical Essays‎

‎Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket: White areas show minor dust . University of Chicago Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 34138

‎Corrigan Beatrice ed‎

‎Italian Poets and English Critics 1755-1859: A Collection of Critical Essays‎

‎University of Chicago Press 1969 327 pages. Hardback. Fine/Very Good. University of Chicago Press hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 001125

‎Cortanze G, Borgeaud‎

‎Le Madrid de Jorge Semprun‎

‎Editions du Chêne 1997 In-8 relié 25,4 cm sur 25,4. 161 pages. Très bon état d’occasion.‎

‎Très bon état d’occasion‎

Bookseller reference : 75812

‎Cortanze Gérard de‎

‎Philippe Sollers‎

‎Éditions du Chêne, coll. « Vérité et Légendes » 2001 In-4 broché 26,5 cm sur 19,5. 273 pages. Photographies en noir et blanc in-texte. Bon état d’occasion.‎

‎Bon état d’occasion‎

Bookseller reference : 126438

‎Cortazar (Julio)‎

‎Prose de l'observatoire‎

‎Gallimard 1988 In-8 broché. Très bon état d’occasion. Photographies de Julio Cortazar‎

‎Très bon état d’occasion‎

Bookseller reference : 4306 ISBN : 2070711706

‎Corti Maria‎

‎An Introduction to Literary Semiotics‎

‎Indiana Univ. Good. 1978. Hardcover. 0253331188 . Sunned/stained cover. Pencil markings. ; 276 pages . Indiana Univ hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 54280 ISBN : 0253331188 9780253331182

‎CORTON CHRISTINE L‎

‎London Fog: The Biography‎

‎Belknap Press Cambridge Massachusetts and London England: 2015. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. On the BBC World Service program Weekend listen to Christine Corton discuss the origins of London's legendary fog�and how it seeped into London's literature: In popular imagination London is a city of fog. The classic London fogs the thick yellow "pea-soupers" were born in the industrial age of the early nineteenth century. The first globally notorious instance of air pollution they remained a constant feature of cold windless winter days until clean air legislation in the 1960s brought about their demise. Christine L. Corton tells the story of these epic London fogs their dangers and beauty and their lasting effects on our culture and imagination. As the city grew smoke from millions of domestic fires combined with industrial emissions and naturally occurring mists seeped into homes shops and public buildings in dark yellow clouds of water droplets soot and sulphur dioxide. The fogs were sometimes so thick that people could not see their own feet. By the time London's fogs lifted in the second half of the twentieth century they had changed urban life. Fogs had created worlds of anonymity that shaped social relations providing a cover for crime and blurring moral and social boundaries. They had been a gift to writers appearing famously in the works of Charles Dickens Henry James Oscar Wilde Robert Louis Stevenson Joseph Conrad and T. S. Eliot. Whistler and Monet painted London fogs with a fascination other artists reserved for the clear light of the Mediterranean. Corton combines historical and literary sensitivity with an eye for visual drama�generously illustrated here�to reveal London fog as one of the great urban spectacles of the industrial age. 408 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 28 color illustrations 63 halftones. Christine L. Corton is a Senior Member of Wolfson College Cambridge and a freelance writer. She worked for many years at publishing houses in London. "Christine Corton takes a subject that is now scarcely more than a heritage item�like gaslight and hansom cabs�and puts it where it belongs among the great public-health movements of the 19th and 20th centuries� Of course fog was not solely a public-health problem. With the help of wonderful contemporary illustrations Corton vividly describes the chaos it brought�pedestrians groping traffic crawling accidents crime and drunkenness soaring. The melting blurring looming transformations of fog seemed to symbolize the dissolution of society itself. Writers saw the possibilities and Corton pursues their metaphorical fogs through every kind of moral psychological and social disintegration. Charles Dickens Henry James Joseph Conrad Robert Louis Stevenson all are here�plus a mass of fascinating and forgotten popular literature�their cultural meanings perceptively analyzed� This is a rich and multifaceted book."�The Economist "Engrossing and magnificently researched� Corton's book combines meticulous social history with a wealth of eccentric detail. Thus we learn that London's ubiquitous plane trees were chosen for their shiny fog-resistant foliage. And since Jack the Ripper actually went out to stalk his victims on fog-free nights filmmakers had to fake the sort of dank smoke-wreathed London scenes audiences craved. It's discoveries like these that make reading London Fog such an unusual enthralling and enlightening experience."�Miranda Seymour The New York Times Book Review "Corton's eye for social history is superb. We are led with wit and intelligence through a London in which clerks in counting-houses are forbidden to leave their books lying open lest the sooty fogs blacken the pages� Corton is excellent on the extent to which in the twentieth century and since the close association between Victorian London and Gothic fog has clouded perceptions of Victorian life and art."�Richard Smyth The Times Literary Supplement "In Christine L. Corton's beautifully illustrated London Fog: The Biography the mysterious mist takes center stage in all its noxious stygian primeval delicacy�Drawing on novels and poems paintings and films Corton's book is crammed with thought-provoking elucidations. It sounds hokey to say it but she has shed a bright light on the fog."�Alexandra Mullen The Wall Street Journal "Corton's wonderfully detailed and original exploration of foggy London ranges from the earliest mists to the last great pea-souper of 1962� Her account is rich in memorable anecdotes and descriptions gleaned from popular culture literature journals and contemporary letters as well as cartoons and art history: the book is also splendidly illustrated."�P. D. Smith The Guardian "Brilliant� Corton has a deft historical literary and visual eye. While tracing the birth maturity and death of fog she pays careful attention to the ways it affected everyday lives and locations� But her real interest is in the way fog played in the imagination. For centuries she shows novelists essayists cartoonists and painters used fog as a metaphor for human relationships and the moral order� Corton's book is an unsentimental and elegant reflection on a world that has passed."�Joanna Bourke The Daily Telegraph "In London Fog Christine L. Corton guides us through the history of the 'pea-souper' the phrase first used in print in 1849 by Herman Melville; from Victorian women fearful of attack in the impenetrable murk to the poets artists and film-makers who thrived on its metaphorical potential; from the political rows over domestic coal fires to the dreadful 1952 Great Smog which claimed thousands of lives and was so thick that even indoors office workers could not see to the end of the corridor."�Sinclair McKay The Daily Telegraph "London's 'pea-soupers'�opaque yellowish smogs�were an environmental catastrophe a cloak for nefarious activities and an artistic inspiration. An odiferous wig of soot from coal fires sulfur dioxide and mist settled regularly over the city from the 1840s to the 1960s. In this richly nuanced history scholar Christine Corton takes us from polymath Robert Hooke spotting a pall of smoke over London in 1676 through the killer fogs that felled zoo animals spurred crime and caused traffic accidents and that ultimately galvanized scientists and the government to craft the 1956 Clean Air Act."�Barbara Kiser Nature "Endlessly entertaining� Corton has done a prodigious amount of research into the phenomenon of the 'pea-soup' fogs that enveloped London at regular intervals throughout the Industrial Age� Corton's book is merrily chock-full of illustrations� But the real star attraction in these pages is Corton's exuberant omniscience about her subject. She seems to have read every tenth-rate serialized novel in the whole of the Victorian and Edwardian literary shrubbery hunting out every mention and dramatization of the great fogs and in the process giving some truly wretched writers what will surely be the most intelligent reading they're ever likely to get. And she's got an equally good ear for reportage finding piercing quotes from every era of the fog's domination� London Fog has enjoyed a nicely wide critical reception since its appearance and it deserves every accolade it gets. This is tight-focus popular history at its finest."�Steve Donoghue Open Letters Monthly "The idea of a biography of fog in London might initially appear a doubtful enterprise but in Christine Corton's capable hands it works brilliantly. The liveliness of metropolitan fog is beautifully charted here in a long chronology from the Stuart era to the Clean Air Acts of the 1950s to 1990s� A most extraordinarily rich collection of material from scientific journalistic literary humorous artistic and medical sources� She has created a history of fog's material and immaterial culture� The text is interspersed with some astonishing visual material appropriately placed making the book a visual feast especially of little-known artworks caricatures and photographs of great beauty. Corton's use of the perceptions of foreign visitors especially those from China and Japan is revelatory� London Fog is not just a literary exercise; it also charts the long trajectory of a deeply serious public health matter that we have yet to confront as we should once again� This fine book has real substance generously shared and is very timely indeed."�Ruth Richardson Times Higher Education "Corton's fascinating history traces London's unique brand of photochemical smog from its surprisingly early birth in the 13th century when complaints about the burning of 'sea coal' in London hearths began through its malign maturity in the 19th to its death throes in the second half of the 20th� The many well-chosen images in London Fog include works by minor painters of London scenes and by various illustrators photojournalists and cartoonists playing on the terror confusion and comedy caused by fog. These add greatly to the interest of Corton's book."�Catherine Peters Literary Review "Christine Corton's excellent book explores three questions: how people accounted for London fog what they did about it and how it became such an enormous apparently inexhaustible cultural resource and metaphor� Corton has assembled an astonishing display of fog fiction� Corton has written a thoughtful vivid very memorable book."�Neal Ascherson London Review of Books "It's a definite must-read for anyone concerned with air quality and environmental history."�Ashley Macey Brit Co. "Ambitious� The book is substantial well illustrated and beautifully written with approachable scholarship� An illuminating book."�Philippa Stockley Country Life "Christine L. Corton's London Fog is an illuminating expedition through the literal and metaphorical meanings of pollution in the company of such artists as Dickens Conrad Monet and Hitchcock."�Mark Sanderson Evening Standard "What makes Christine Corton's London Fog: The Biography special is that it demystifies the sulphurous yellow mass that once plagued the city. In this nicely written and beautifully illustrated book fog gets its proper due as the coal-laden murderous monstrosity it really was beloved of novelists from Dickens to Stevenson."�Philippa Stockley Evening Standard 11/19/15 "A thorough and enjoyable book not only for its historical account of what London fog was and when it began but for the rich seam of literature spleen and death that they caused."�Philippa Stockley Evening Standard 11/05/15 "The sheer scale of the pollution described by Corton is hard to grasp� Corton leads the way like a linklighter of old through the poisonous clouds of times gone by and arrives eventually at present day Oxford Street where nitrogen dioxide concentrations are 'worse than they are anywhere on earth.'"�Charlie Gilmour The Independent on Sunday "Excellent if dark."�The Lady "This is an unexpectedly riveting book scholarly thorough yet eminently readable."�Londonist "No one not even the most frenzied fog obsessive could find fault with Christine Corton's thoroughness. Wherever there's a reference to fog in nature or art she seems to have tracked it down. But her book is far more than just a glorified laundry list of foggy facts. Rather it's a genuine biography in which she very cleverly treats fog less as an atmospheric phenomenon and more as though it's a real character�sinister beautiful and elusive but no less fascinating for that."�John Preston The Mail on Sunday "Christine L. Corton clad in an overcoat with a linklighter before her takes us into the gloomier long 19th century where she revels in its Gothic grasp. Beautifully illustrated London Fog delves fascinatingly into that swirling miasma."�Philip Hoare New Statesman "Christine Corton's absorbing and handsomely produced book directs a steady beam at both the phenomenon and the place that made fog famous: London."�Anthony Quinn The Observer "If you want to know every last thing to know about London fog�the toxic impenetrable moist soot that used to blanket the city in the winter�this is the book for you. Even to an outsider it is fascinating even astonishing that the English put up for so long with a condition that killed people and often caused commerce to grind to a halt."�Donald D. Breed The Providence Journal "A thoroughly researched and generally enjoyable account of the social natural and cultural history of the peasoupers from their first appearance in the early 1800s to the final fog of 1962."�David B. Williams The Seattle Times "As Christine L. Corton shows in her lively and engaging cultural history for more than 100 years London fog did not only creep into people's homes and bodies. It saturated their way of thinking. If fog was an inescapable part of city life�in Dickens's famous opening to Bleak House the word is repeated so often it sounds more like a curse�it was an equally omnipresent element in the cultural imagination."�Robert Douglas-Fairhurst The Spectator "This detailed well-researched study is copiously illustrated with prints cartoons paintings and photos of the metropolitan health hazard. It is the photos which convince us that it was not a myth� London fog became inextricably linked with the image of the Victorian capital. Sherlock Holmes Jack the Ripper and Soames Forsyte all loom out at us from the past under gaslight wreathed in fog� The best place to read this engrossing but goose-bump-making book is under a sunshade on a Mediterranean beach in mid August."�Robert Carver The Tablet "An engrossing book� This book could almost make one nostalgic for the days of the pea souper were it not for the fact that it was clearly a terrible threat to health."�Daisy Goodwin The Times "London Fog: The Biography successfully captures the enormous impact this atmospheric had on a major city's everyday life. Ironically the result is a portrait that is both well-defined and sharply delineated."�Amy Henderson The Weekly Standard "An intriguing biography of the weather effect that defined a national character� An eye-opening and highly readable picture of London's reactions to the killer fog that has characterized it for centuries."�Kirkus Reviews "Corton undertakes a definitive study of London's 'pea-souper' fogs deftly tracing the history of a weather condition that became a defining feature of the city in the world's imagination. As Corton shows the fog which first appeared early in the 19th century proved a ready metaphor for an array of Victorian anxieties from Jack the Ripper's reign of terror to a perceived decline in public morals. She perceptively examines the literary manifestations of these fears in chapters covering a number of famous authors including Charles Dickens Robert Louis Stevenson and T.S. Eliot. Readers may be surprised that the history of London fog requires a detour through the politics of the day as much as through literature; however Corton proves a sensible guide through the labyrinthine parliamentary measures arising from public outrage over the 'great killer fog' and bureaucratic inaction in service of the manufacturers that were largely responsible for the pollution. Though the 'London particular' was finally legislated out of existence in the 1960s Corton asserts convincingly that the fog will remain enshrined in cultural memory a romantic if no longer accurate symbol of a great city."�Publishers Weekly "In the history of London the Fog is a character in its own right. Now along comes a biography to do justice to this mysterious entity. Christine Corton's London Fog is a valuable addition to the London canon."�Catharine Arnold author of Bedlam London and its Mad "An admirable and enjoyable book full of exemplary research. The writing is always clear and accessible even breezy."�Jerry White University of London "One of the most characteristic and important features of London was its 'pea-souper' fogs or smogs which determined so many aspects of Londoners' lives until the 1950s�crime romance commerce and of course health. A comprehensive work on the impact and influence of fog upon the denizens of London is overdue."�Anthony Wohl Vassar College "This anatomy of the impenetrable London pea-souper�from Dickens to modern times�is a delight. It is beautifully written its historical learning is lightly worn and its literary insights are intelligent entertaining and apt."�Andrew Lycett Belknap Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2015 hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 87726X1

‎Cosnier Colette‎

‎Marie Bashkirtseff, Un portrait sans retouches‎

‎Pierre Horay 1985 In-8 broché 24 cm sur 17. 354 pages. Très bon état d’occasion.‎

‎Très bon état d’occasion‎

Bookseller reference : 96778

‎Cossy Valerie‎

‎Jane Austen in Switzerland: A Study of the Early French Translations‎

‎Geneve Switzerland: Editions Slatkine 2006. Scholarly text presents a detailed historicity and analysis of the original French translations of Jane Austen's novels focusing on four texts: Pride and Prejudice 1813 Mansfield Park 1814 Sense and Sensibility 1811 and Persuasion 1817. Jane Austen's work was first translated into French by Swiss translators in Geneva and Lausanne. Includes sections on methodology literary content and and outline of the culture society literary influences of Switzerland during the period. 336 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall. Editions Slatkine Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : LS-81 ISBN : 2051019630 9782051019637

‎Coste Didier‎

‎Narrative As Communication‎

‎Univ of Minnesota Pr 1990. clean unmarked copy. Trade Paperback. Fine. Univ of Minnesota Pr Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 349925 ISBN : 0816617201 9780816617203

‎Cothias Patrick, Juszezak Erik‎

‎Beaux rivages, N° 2 : Les chemins de Valparaiso‎

‎Dargaud 1997 In-4 relié 29,8 cm sur 22,5. 48 pages. Très bon état d’occasion.‎

‎Très bon état d’occasion‎

Bookseller reference : 80986

‎Cotsell Michael‎

‎Barbara Pym Modern Novelists‎

‎St. Martin's Press 1989. 1st printing. Clean and unmarked NF/NF. Full cloth binding. Dust jacket in a new mylar cover. Nice copy of this scarce work on Barbara Pym. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall. St. Martin's Press Hardcover‎

Bookseller reference : 048533 ISBN : 0312020546 9780312020545

‎COTSELL Michael‎

‎Barbara Pym‎

‎London:: Macmillan. Near Fine. 1989. Paperback. 033340971X . Part of the Macmillan Modern Novelists series. First paperback edition. Previous owner's stamp on verso of front cover else near fine in illustrated wraps. . Macmillan, paperback books‎

Bookseller reference : 73420 ISBN : 033340971X 9780333409718

‎COTTEGNIES Line and WEITZ Nancy editors.‎

‎Authorial Conquests: Essays on Genre in the Writings of Margaret Cavendish.‎

‎Madison:: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2003. Hardcover. 0838639836 . First edition. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. ; 238 pages . Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 87369 ISBN : 0838639836 9780838639832

‎COTTLE Basil.‎

‎Language of Literature.‎

‎NY: St. Martin's. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. 0312468717 . First American edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . St. Martin's hardcover books‎

Bookseller reference : 27329 ISBN : 0312468717 9780312468712

‎Cottom Daniel‎

‎Text and Culture: The Politics of Interpretation‎

‎University of Minnesota Press 1989. pencil on 5 pages. Trade Paperback. Very Good. University of Minnesota Press Paperback‎

Bookseller reference : 339784 ISBN : 0816617635 9780816617630

‎COUDREUSE (Anne).‎

‎Le Goût des larmes au XVIIIème siècle.‎

‎PUF écriture 1999 1 vol. broché in-8, broché, 313 pp. Bon état général.‎

Bookseller reference : 2046