Various (Bornstein, George (Editor); Auden, W.H.; Faulkner, William; Finneran, Richard J.; Joyce, James; Litz, A. Walton; MacGowan, Christopher; Mahaffey, Vicki; Mendelson, Edward; Polk, Noel; Silver, Brenda R.; Williams, William Carlos; Woolf, Virginia; Yeats, William Butler et al.)

Representing Modernist Texts: Editing as Interpretation

ISBN: 0472064398
Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1991. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. Inscribed, signed & dated by George Bornstein to Laurence Goldstein. 'Representing Modernist Texts seeks to expose, and then to bridge, the gap between contemporary textual scholarship and the critical and theoretical study of modernist texts. Modernist critics and scholars have for too long consigned textual problems to work from earlier periods and largely ignored them in creating successive waves of avant-garde critical theory designed first to champion, and more recently to challenge, modernist literature itself. And yet...twentieth century texts are deeply problematic at the physical as well as the interpretive level." (from back cover) A collection of essays by distinguished literary scholars on the works of iconic twentieth-century giants of poetry & prose including Edward Mendelson on W. H. Auden, Noel Polk on William Faulkner, Vicki Mahaffey on James Joyce, A. Walton Litz & Christopher MacGowan on William Carlos Williams, Richard J. Finneran on William Butler Yeats & more. Edited & with an Introduction by George Bornstein (1941-2021), the outstanding American author, scholar & academician here at the University of Michigan who was a dearly missed personal friend & mentor to this writer. At shorter title page/recto first leaf, Bornstein has cursively hand-written, signed & dated in black ink: "To Larry,/ with twenty years of/ friendship & admiration/ from (signed) George/ Oct(ober) '91." "Larry" is Laurence Goldstein (1943-2023), the acclaimed American poet, critic, editor & academician also at UM. As demonstrated by this warm inscription, Bornstein & Goldstein were close friends & colleagues. Trade-format softcover, first softcover edition, first printing as indicated by number sequence at copyright page. A rich & rewarding compilation for the literary scholar-collector, greatly enriched by Bornstein's collegial inscription dated at time of publication, with the highest & most relevant association & provenance. In relatively quite very fine condition with only slight rubbing, faint scratching to front, back covers & spine; a touch of wear & some tiny bumps, creases at edges & corners of same; a bit of fading to coral-colored background of spine; some faint scratching at edges of text block. Interior very fine with only tiny bumps at mostly upper corners of a few page leaves; one shallow bump at upper edge of one leaf (pgs. 277-278). Very Fine. [Item #8403]

Price: $60.00