The cybernetic imagination in science fiction

The ideal real : Beckett's fiction and imagination

American Gothic : imagination and reason in nineteenth-century fiction

Early Gothic imports -- Charles Brockden Brown -- New European developments -- Washington Irving -- Further American developments -- Edgar Allan Poe -- Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Foundations of science fiction : a study in imagination and evolution

Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy,

Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy ;

Versions of the past : the historical imagination in American fiction

New worlds for old: the apocalyptic imagination, science fiction, and American literature.

New worlds for old: The apocalyptic imagination, science fiction, and American literature: Science fiction ; A prophecy of America, the moon, and Mars -- Other worlds: Other worlds out of space and time: Edgar Allan Poe and the visionary tradition of science fiction ; The left hand of darkness: Ursula K. LeGuin's archetypal "Winter-journey" -- Other worlds in space and time: Utopian fantasy as millennial motive and science-fictional motif ; The means and ends of science fiction -- The present world in other terms: Human, more or less: The transformed world of Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland ; Solaris and the illegitimate suns of science fiction -- Its a flat world!: Epoch-eclipse and apocalypse: special "effects" in A Connecticut yankee ; New dimensions of time, space, and literature -- Somebody up there: Melville's The confidence-man and the fiction of science ; Vonnegut's spiral siren call: from Dresden's lunar vistas to Tralfamadore.

The usable past : the imagination of history in recent fiction of the Americas

Poetry in our time, a critical survey of poetry in the English-speaking world, 1900 to 1960.

Anchor Books

Anchor Books.

A look at the worst -- Farewell, romance -- The glove of a neighborhood -- The earthly and the definite -- Speech and song -- The auditory imagination -- Wit as the wall -- The ghostly member -- The supreme fiction -- A vision of reality -- The forgèd feature -- Alchemists of the word -- Wars and rumors of wars -- Science and poetry.

Guide through the romantic movement

Anthology of romanticism. v. 1

The approach to the subject -- The pre-romantic movement -- William Blake -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- William Wordsworth -- Charles Lamb -- William Hazlitt -- Sir Walter Scott -- Robert Southey -- Thomas Campbell -- Walter Savage Landor -- Thomas Moore -- Lord Byron -- John Keats -- Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Leigh Hunt -- Thomas De Quincey -- Thomas Carlyle -- The Romantic movement and general bibliography -- The imagination: romantic concepts of its nature, functions, and powers -- What kinds of modern prose fiction would the Romantics admire? -- The history of the study of the subject.

Fiction and the figures of life

Philosophy and the Form of Fiction -- The Medium of Fiction -- The Concept of Character in Fiction -- In Terms of the Toenail: Fiction and the Figures of Life -- Gertrude Stein: Her Escape from Protective Language -- The Leading Edge of the Trash Phenomenon -- Pricksongs & Descants -- Mirror, Mirror -- Imaginary Borges and His Books -- The Bingo Game at the Foot of the Cross -- The Shut-In -- A Spirit in Search of Itself -- In the Cage -- The High Brutality of Good Intentions -- The Stylization of Desire -- Cock-a-doodle-doo -- From Some Ashes No Bird Rises -- The Case of the Obliging Stranger -- Russell's Memoirs -- A Memory of a Master -- The Evil Demiurge -- The Imagination of an Insurrection -- Even if, by All the Oxen in the World -- The Artist and Society.

Literary criticism : a short history

Socrates and the rhapsode -- Aristotle's answer: poetry as structure -- Aristotle: tragedy and comedy -- The verbal medium: Plato and Aristotle -- Roman classicism: Horace -- Roman classicism: Longinus -- The neo-Platonic conclusion: Plotinus and some medieval themes -- Further medieval themes -- The sixteenth century -- English neo-classicism: Jonson and Dryden -- Dryden and some later seventeenth-century themes -- Rhetoric and neo-classic wit -- Addison and Lessing: poetry as pictures -- Genius, emotion, and association -- The neo-classic universal: Samuel Johnson -- Poetic diction: Wordsworth and Coleridge -- German ideas -- Imagination: Wordsworth and Coleridge -- Peacock vs. Shelley: rhapsodic didacticism -- The Arnoldian prophecy -- The real and the social: art as propaganda -- Art for art's sake -- Expressionism: Benedetto Croce -- The historical method: a retrospect -- Tragedy and comedy: the internal focus -- Symbolism -- I.A. Richards: a poetics of tension -- The semantic principle -- Eliot and Pound: an impersonal art -- Fiction and drama: the gross structure -- Myth and archetype -- Epilogue.

Reinventing the Americas : comparative studies of literature of the United States and Spanish America

History and the literary imagination: "Insatiable unease": Melville and Carpentier and the search for an American hermeneutic / The fiction of national formation: the Indigenista novels of James Fenimore Cooper and Rosario Castellanos / Supplying demand: Walt Whitman as the liberal self / Caliban as poet: reversing the maps of domination / Mrs. Williams's William Carlos / Dreams of two Americas / The lives and fictions of American women: This life within me won't keep still / Interview with Margaret Randall / An invitation to understanding among poor women of the Americas: The color purple and Hasta no verte, Jesús Mío / The other face of the phallus / Plotting women: popular narratives for women in the United States and Latin America / Perspectives on literary criticism: Northrop Frye, modern fantasy, centrist liberalism, antimarxism, passing time, and other limits of American academic criticism / Marvelous realism/marvelous criticism / Bridge over troubled waters / The poet as critic: Wallace Stevens and Octavio Paz