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Five Works by Octavio Paz: Conjunctions and Disjunctions / Marcel Duchamp: Appearance Stripped Bare / The Monkey Grammarian / On Poets and Others (Arcade Classics) by Octavio Paz Publisher Comments One of the great thinkers of the twentieth century has some of his finest art, culture and literary criticism collected here for the first time. A Nobel laureate, Octavio Paz's lucid poetry has been translated by such luminaries as Mark Strand, Elizabeth... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts by Clive James Publisher Comments Echoing Edward Said"s belief that 'Western humanism is not enough, we need a universal humanism,' the renowned critic Clive James presents here his life"s work. Containing over one hundred original essays, organized by quotations from A to Z, Cultural... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Beautiful & Pointless: A Guide to Modern Poetry by David Orr Publisher Comments Contemporary poetry may seem like a foreign country you've barely visited and wouldn't dream of living in. Beautiful & Pointless, however, reveals how to accept the foreignness of poetry in the same way we accept the strange delights of a place we're... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Other Walk: Essays by Sven Birkerts Publisher Comments A series of autobiographical pieces by the master of reflection and slow time Throughout his life, Sven Birkerts, one of the countrys foremost literary critics, has carved out time for himself—to walk, to swim, to read, to contemplate. Now in... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman Publisher Comments One of The Economists 2011 Books of the Year THE TRUE BUT UNLIKELY STORIES OF LIVES DEVOTED—ABSURDLY! MELANCHOLICALLY! BEAUTIFULLY!—TO THE RUSSIAN CLASSICS No one who read Elif Batumans first article (in the journal n+1) will... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Morning, Noon, and Night: Finding the Meaning of Life's Stages Through Books by Arnold Weinstein Publisher Comments From Homer and Shakespeare to Toni Morrison and Jonathan Safran Foer, major works of literature have a great deal to teach us about two of life’s most significant stages—growing up and growing old. Distinguised scholar Arnold Weinstein&rsquo... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain (New York Review Books Classics) by Dwight Macdonald Publisher Comments A New York Review Books Original An uncompromising contrarian, a passionate polemicist, a man of quick wit and wide learning, an anarchist, a pacifist, and a virtuoso of the slashing phrase, Dwight Macdonald was an indefatigable and indomitable critic of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Novelist's Lexicon: Writers on the Words That Define Their Work by Villa Gillet Publisher Comments At the renowned, international literary conference hosted by Villa Gillet and Le Monde, organizers asked more than seventy prominent authors to choose a word that opens a door to their work. Their musings, collected here for the first time, offer an... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Sale - Hardcover
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The Heart of What Matters: The Role for Literature in Moral Philosophy by Anthony Cunningham Publisher Comments Cunningham addresses Kantian ethics as the most prominent modern ethical theory and demonstrates that the theory cannot adequately account for the claims of our most intimate attachments and commitments.... (read more) List Price $33.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim by Seymour Krim Book News Annotation Despite the revival of interest in Beat Generation writers of the past decade or so, the innovative work of Seymour Krim has, until now, been largely forgotten. This book corrects that situation, collecting eighteen of essays worth of Krim's "Jewish... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.50 Sale - Hardcover
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The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes Publisher Comments What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthess answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism . . . not only a poetics of reading .... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Exiles on Main Street: Jewish American Writers and American Literary Culture (Jewish Literature and Culture) by Julian Levinson Publisher Comments How have Jews reshaped their identities as Jews in the face of the radical newness called America? Julian Levinson explores the ways in which exposure to American literary culture--in particular the visionary tradition identified with Ralph Waldo Emerson... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Sale - Hardcover
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Urn Burial (New Directions Pearls) by Thomas Browne Publisher Comments Hydriotaphia, or Urn Burial, is one of the pinnacles of Renaissance scholarship and without doubt one of the great essays in English literature. Beginning with observations on the recent discovery of Roman antiquities in the form of burial urns, Browne... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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S/Z: An Essay by Roland Barthes Publisher Comments Preface by Richard Howard. Translated by Richard Miller. This is Barthes's scrupulous literary analysis of Balzac's short story "Sarrasine."... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Reality Hunger: A Manifesto by David Shields Staff Pick In Reality Hunger, Shields draws from classic and contemporary sources — artists, writers, philosophers, and more — to present a collage of ideas that is erudite and provocative. It's a book of intentional plagiarism that casts new light on ideas of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.95 Sale - Hardcover
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About a Mountain by John Dagata Publisher Comments Advance praise for About a Mountain:“John D’Agata is a sublime technician of language and a writer of the gravest moral concerns. Beneath a blizzard of fact he forges a lament for nothing less than the future of civilization and, just for... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems (Harvest Original) by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments Long before she fell in love with Tuscany, Frances Mayes fell in love with poetry. The author of five poetry collections, she was also a professor of creative writing at San Francisco State University. In this accessible field guide, Mayes invites... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits by Jack Murnighan Publisher Comments Feel bad about not reading or not enjoying the so-called great books? Dont sweat it, its not your fault. Did anyone tell you that Anna Karenina is a beach read, that Dickens is hilarious, that the Iliads battle scenes rival Hollywoods for gore, or that... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, New Edition (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) by Ray Bradbury Synopsis - Critical essays reflecting a variety of schools of criticism - Notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index - An introductory essay by Harold Bloom.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $28.00 Sale - Hardcover
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The Libertine Reader: Eroticism and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France by Michel Feher Publisher Comments Irresistibly charming or shamelessly deceitful, remarkably persuasive or uselessly verbose, everything one loves to hate--or hates to love--about French lovers and their self-styled reputation can be traced to eighteenth-century libertine novels... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $15.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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