The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language
by Mark Turner


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We usually consider literary thinking to be peripheral and dispensable, an activity for specialists: poets, prophets, lunatics, and babysitters. Certainly we do not think it is the basis of the mind. We think of stories and parables from Aesop's Fables... (read more)

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Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture
by Dana Gioia




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In 1991, Dana Gioia's provocative essay "Can Poetry Matter?" was published in the Atlantic Monthly, and received more public response than any other piece in the magazine's history. In his book, Gioia more fully addressed the question: Is there a place... (read more)

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The Artificial White Man: Essays on Authenticity
by Stanley Crouch


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Another dance of the bull through the china shop of cliches, The Artificial White Man proves the correctness of Tom Wolfe's observation that Stanley Crouch is "the jazz virtuoso of the American essay." This time out, Crouch focuses his attention on... (read more)

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Cannibal Fictions: American Explorations of Colonialism, Race, Gender, and Sexuality (Ray & Pat Browne Book)
by Jeff Berglund


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    Objects of fear and fascination, cannibals have long signified an elemental "otherness," an existence outside the bounds of normalcy. In the American imagination, the figure of the cannibal has evolved tellingly over time, as Jeff... (read more)

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A Dictionary of Writers and Their Works
by Michael Cox


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A quick-reference guide to authors and their works. The focus is on the general canon of British literature from the fifteenth century to the present. There is also some coverage of non-fiction such as biographies, memoirs, and science, as well as... (read more)

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Ecrits: A Selection
by Jacques Lacan


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Brilliant and Innovative, Jacques Lacan's work has had a tremendous influence on contemporary discourse. Lacan lies at the epicenter of contemporary discourses about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, the drives, the law, and enjoyment. Yet his... (read more)

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The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature (Oxford Paperback Reference)
by Oxford


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What were people reading about as Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? How did the events around the industrial revolution influence the literary output of British writers and thinkers? What are we reading now and how does it differ... (read more)

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A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us about Life
by Arnold Weinstein


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Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-404) and index.... (read more)

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The Book of Promethea (European Women Writers Series)
by Helene Cixous


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In writing Le Livre de Promethea Hélène Cixous set for herself the task of bridging the immeasurable distance between love and language. She describes a love between two women in its totality, experienced as both a physical presence and a... (read more)

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The Essentials of Literature in English, Post-1914
by Ian Mackean


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This book covers the leading works and authors in modern literature in English and in doing so gives the reader an engaging and knowledgeable insight into the books, their writers and the connections between them. From Graham Greene to Margaret Atwood... (read more)

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The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature (Oxford Illustrated Histories)
by Pat Rogers


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The British Literary Heritage is virtually unrivaled in the Western world, and this large, lavishly illustrated volume explores the richness, diversity, and continuity of that tradition, from its first stirrings in Anglo-Saxon poetry to the present day... (read more)

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The Chronology of American Literature: America's Literary Achievements from the Colonial Era to Modern Times
by Daniel S Burt


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'If you are looking to brush up on your literary knowledge, check a favorite author's work, or see a year's bestsellers at a glance, The Chronology of American Literature is the perfect resource. At once an authoritative reference and an ideal... (read more)

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A Map of Misreading
by Harold Bloom


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In print for twenty-seven years, A Map of Misreading serves as a companion volume to Bloom's other seminal work, The Anxiety of Influence. In this finely crafted text, Bloom offers instruction in how to read a poem, using his theory that patterns of... (read more)

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The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes (Oxford Books of Prose & Verse)
by Oxford


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The dictionary defines an anecdote as "a short account of an entertaining or interesting incident," and the anecdotes in this collection more than live up to that description. Many of them offer revealing insights into writers' personalities, their... (read more)

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When Information Came of Age: Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700-1850
by Daniel R. Headrick


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Although the Information Age is often described as a new era, a cultural leap springing directly from the invention of modern computers, it is simply the latest step in a long cultural process. Its conceptual roots stretch back to the profound changes... (read more)

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A Glossary of Cultural Theory
by Peter Brooker


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A Glossary of Cultural Theory provides the researcher and student with lucid and up-to-date guidance through the vibrant and changing debates in cultural studies and related disciplines. This new edition has been updated throughout. Among the new terms... (read more)

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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems
by Camille Paglia




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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems is destined to become a landmark. In it, America's premier intellectual provocateur explores and celebrates a series of great poems of the Western tradition, including some... (read more)

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Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?
by Harold Bloom


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In this inspiring book, Harold Bloom, our preeminent literary critic, takes us from the Bible to twentieth-century writing, searching for the ways in which literature can inform our lives. Through comparisons of the Book of Job and Ecclesiastes; Plato... (read more)

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