paul alkon (104 resultados)

Condición: Very Good. annotated edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condición: Good. annotated edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

hardcover. Condición: Fair. No dust jacket. Red ink Child scribbling inside of the back cover and preceding page. Ex-library book with typical stickers and stampings. Priority Mail is available on this item. No international shipping.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. A clean, crisp, uncracked softcover copy in good condition; lightly bumped head, edges with light foxing.

Condición: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hard Bound Volume. Condición: Very Good. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Minor underlining & notes to text; binding tight; minor wear to covers; lacks a dustjcket. 219 pages. Size: 6" x 9".

Condición: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (samuel johnson, ethics ) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Books is still in its original shrink wrap. "This book studies the moral essays Johnson wrote in the 1750's. The relationship between Johnson and Locke is discussed." This is a must have for anyone studying Samuel Johnson's writings. All books are individually examined and described. Never ex-library unless explicitly described as such.

Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Condición: As New. American Edition. As new, in dust jacket. A highly-readable analysis of Winston Churchill's literary imagination and the ways in which it has fired our own. Regular Price: $75.00 / Sale Price: $30.00.

Soft Cover. Condición: Good with no dust jacket. Square, binding turning brittle. Clean, off-white pages. Wrappers have light edge rubbing. Contents: Anderson, "Cynewulf's Elene: Manuscript Divisions and Structural Symmetry"; Rowe, "Sacred or Profane?: Edward Taylor's Meditations on Canticles"; Alkon, "The Intention and Reception of Johnson's Life of Savage"; Wilson, "Affective Coherence, a Principle of Abated Action, and Meredith's Modern Love." Notes and Documents. Book Reviews. 9.0" (23 cm) tall; 221 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good--. No Jacket. First Priinting. Book is a clean unmarked copy.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. DJ is clean and glossy, wrapped in clear mylar cover. Binding is good and tight. Black cloth over boards with gold lettering on spine. 267 pages. Pages are clean, crisp, and bright. Overall in very good condition. This volume comes from the Churchill collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling was a passionate collector, author, and member of several Churchill Societies. We have several hundred volumes from his collection in other listings as well as in our physical store. Please inquire for a link to the complete catalogue. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it?s a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Bound in the publisher's original cloth covered boards, spine and cover stamped in red and gilt.

Hardcover. Condición: Bon. Ancien livre de bibliothèque. Ammareal reverse jusqu'à 15% du prix net de cet article à des organisations caritatives. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Book Condition: Used, Good. Former library book. Ammareal gives back up to 15% of this item's net price to charity organizations.

Condición: New.

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. 276pp Very good plus condition with text clean & binding tight / very good plus dust jacket.

Condición: New.

Condición: New.

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condición: Fine. 1st Edition. 33 Pp. Fine.

Condición: New.

Paperback. Condición: New. For nearly two thousand years, the future was a realm reserved for prophets, poets, astrologers, and practitioners of deliberative rhetoric. Then in 1659 the French writer Jacques Guttin published his romance Epigone, which carried the subtitle "the history of the future century." Unlike the stories of space travel that were popular at the time, or the tales of travel to distant earthly lands which had long been a familiar literary genre, Guttin's romance described human societies displaced by time as well as by space and heroes not of his own day but of a future age.Paul Alkon's Origins of Futuristic Fiction examines the earliest works of prose fiction set in future time, the forgotten writings of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries that are the precursors of such well-known masterpieces of the form as H.G. Wells's The Time Machine, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, and George Orwell's 1984. The first secular story to break the imaginative barrier against tales of the future, Epigone marked the emergence of a form unknown to classical, medieval, or renaissance literature. Guttin's courageous displacement of narrative into future time was followed by writers such as Samuel Madden, Louis-Sebastien Mercier, Cousin de Granville, Mary Shelley, and Emile Souvestre, who wrote books with such titles as Memoirs of the Twentieth Century, The Year 2440, The Last Man, and The World As It Will Be.Most extraordinary, though, may be Felix Bodin's great metafictional Le roman de l'avenir, "the novel of the future." Both a narrative of the future and a poetics of the new genre, this book identified in the previous isolated works set in future time a situation rarely encountered in literary history, in which the possibility for a new form clearly existed without yet being altogether achieved. In the introduction to his uncompleted novel, Bodin presented his vision of the futuristic novel as a literature of realism, morality, and fantasy. His remarkably astute attempt to define the aesthetics of a major transformation in the relation between literature and time still stands as the basis for the poetics of futuristic fiction.Tracing the early literary history of what became a major form of modern fiction, Origins of Futuristic Fiction examines the key works of the earliest writers of the genre not for what they betray of past expectations but for what they reveal about the formal problems that needed to be resolved before tales of the future could achieve their full power in the works of later novelists.

Condición: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (NAP). Julius Thomas Frazer loved time. He ran out of it in 2010, but this book will offer you a glimpse into what he was thinking about it, probably in 1979, while reading Defoe and Fictional Time. He did a good deal of underlining in the chapter titled Fictional Time and Real Time, a little bit more in a chapter titled Time-Consciousness, and in the Notes to Pages at the end of the book. This will be the fourth book of his that I've listed. This book has his bookplate on the front inside cover. The bookplate is in very good condition. You can see the covers of the book in the photos provided. They are quite clean. The edges and corners are in very good shape. So is the spine. There is a bump/dent at the top corner of the rear cover. It doesn't seem to have affected the pages. The blueish silver lettering on the spine is very bright. The top page edge is gray. The middle and bottom page edges have very light dust staining or toning. The book is square and very solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout, as well as nicely tight covers. There is some spotting/foxing on some early pages, including the half-title page, title page, copyright page, Dedication page, Contents page and Acknowledgments page. There's a light bit of the same on the Index pages that end the book. There is no spotting/foxing in the text. The pages are exceptionally clean. I scrolled through them a number times without finding any soiling. I didn't find any conspicuous creasing. There is a nick at the middle edge of three consecutive pages, one has a teeny tiny tear. There's another nick at the bottom edge of a half-dozen or so consecutive pages. The nicks are obviously very far away from the print, all of them just barely peeking over the edge. Mr. Fraser did cut out from what I assume was the dust jacket a description of the book and a short biography of the author, Paul K. Alkon. He attached them to the rear inside cover. There are no other attachments in the book. 'Julius Thomas Frazer who made 'important scholarly contributions to the interdisciplinary Study of Time' and whose 'work has strongly influenced thinking about the nature of time across the disciplines from physics to sociology, biology to comparative religion, and who was a seminal figure in the general interdisciplinary study of temporality.' Mr. Fraser was also a founding member of the International Society for the Study of Time. You can read a lot more about him in his Wikipedia profile. By the way, the book was purchased in Westport, Connecticut where Mr. Fraser lived.' 'Defoe and Fictional Time shows Defoe's relevance to issues now central to criticism of the novel; relationships between narrative time and clock time, the influence of time concepts shared by writers and their audience, and above all the questions of how fiction shapes the phenomenal time of reading. Paul K. Alkon offers first a study of time in Defoe's fiction, with glances at Richardson, Fielding, and Sterne; and second a theoretical discussion of time in fiction. Arguing that eighteenth-century views of history account for the strange chronologies in Captain Singleton, Colonel Jack, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, Alkon explores Defoe's innovative use of narrative sequences, frequency, spatial form, chronology, settings, tempo, and the reader's cumulative memories of a text. Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year is the first portrayal of a public duration--passing time shared by an entire population during a crisis--ranking Defoe among the most creative writers who have explored the way in which fictional time may influence reading time.'.

Condición: Brand New. Alkon examines the earliest works of prose fiction set in future time, the forgotten writings of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries that are the precursors of well-known masterpieces of the form by H.G. Wells, Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell.

Condición: New. In English.