The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors
by Laura Miller


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Since it began in 1995, Salon.com has been showered with awards and praise. Now, its 150,000 devoted readers can devour The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors – an all-original, A-to-Z guide to 225 of the most fascinating writers of our... (read more)

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Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination
by Robert Markley


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For more than a century, Mars has been at the center of debates about humanity's place in the cosmos. Focusing on perceptions of the red planet in scientific works and science fiction, Dying Planet analyzes the ways Mars has served as a screen onto which... (read more)

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Introducing Cultural Studies
by Ziauddin Sardar


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Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-173) and index.... (read more)

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Poetry Handbook a Dictionary of Terms 4TH Edition
by Babette Deutsch


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"A much-needed work, splendidly done: the definitions are clear; the illustrations apt; what is more, it is a pleasure to read for its own sake, and so belongs to the aristocracy of reference books."(--Richard Wilbur)... (read more)

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Headpress Guide to the Counter Culture: A Sourcebook for Modern Readers
by Temple Drake


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An indispensable sampling of the vast assortment of publications which exist as an adjunct to the mainstream press, or which promote themes and ideas that may be defined as pop -culture, alternative, underground, or subversive. Updated and revised from... (read more)

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Mikhail Bakhtin: The Word in the World
by Graham Pechey


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Mikhail Bakhtin is one of the most influential theorists of philosophy as well as literary studies. His work on dialogue and discourse has changed the way in which we read texts both literary and cultural and his practice of philosophy in literary... (read more)

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Literary Lovers: the Private and Public Passions of Famous Writers
by John Booth


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Literary Lovers takes a light-hearted look at what authors have written on the expansive arena of love. Each writer is featured with a suitable quote from his or her work, accompanied by an illuminating analysis of that writer's love life.... (read more)

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Intentions in the Experience of Meaning
by Raymond W Gibbs


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This volume examines the role that authorship plays in people's experience of language and art as meaningful human artifacts.... (read more)

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Culture in the Age of Three Worlds
by Michael Denning


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Before the midpoint of the twentieth century, culture as a subject was routinely relegated to the background of any period's study. From the 1950s on, however, it moved very clearly to the foreground. Suddenly culture was everywhere: no longer the... (read more)

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Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture (Electronic Culture--History, Theory, Practice)
by Geert Lovink


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Includes bibliographical references (p. ([380]-382).... (read more)

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Generation What?: Dispatches from the Quarter-Life Crisis
by Bess Vanrenen


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Seemingly a bit ludicrous and even comical, the quarter-life crisis is actually a very real phenomenon afflicting more rudderless twenty-somethings with each passing year. In Generation What?, young up-and-coming writers recount their individual quarrels... (read more)

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Re-Reading Harry Potter
by Suman Gupta


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The first extended analysis of the social and political implications of the Harry Potter phenomenon.... (read more)

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Cinema and Desire: Feminist Marxism and Cultural Politics in the Work of Dai Jinhua
by Jing Wang


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Dai Jinhua is one of contemporary China's most influential theoreticians and cultural critics. A feminist Marxist, her literary, film and TV commentary has, over the last decade, addressed an expanding audience in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Cinema and... (read more)

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Picturing a Different West: Vision, Illustration, and the Tradition of Cather and Austin (Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest)
by Janis P Stout


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Picturing a Different West addresses Willa Cather and Mary Austin as central figures in a women's tradition of the pictured West. Both Cather and Austin moved west in their youth and spent much of their lives there. Cather lived on the Great Plains... (read more)

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Under Western Eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
by Balachandra Rajan


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"Neither students of Milton nor readers invested in the future of postcolonial studies can afford to ignore the panoply of theoretical, historical, and critical examplars that crowd Rajan's wonderfully readable pages."--Janel Mueller, University of... (read more)

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The Feminization of Dr. Faustus: Female Identity Quests from Stendhal to Morgner
by Helga Druxes


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Examines the decline of the male hero in novels of the 19th and 20 centuries through the lens of a particular case, the Faust legend, in order to illuminate the corresponding rise of female Faustian heroes or would-be heroes. Excerpts from foreign... (read more)

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Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature
by Ivy Schweitzer


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Schweitzer explains that the contemporary notion of friendship as a private, feminized relationship of sympathy and affection leads to a misunderstanding of American history. In an exploration of early American literature and culture, she uncovers... (read more)

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Colonialism's Culture: Anthropology, Travel, and Government
by Nicholas Thomas


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In a wide-ranging account of the development of ideas about human difference, Nicholas Thomas challenges reigning theories that portray colonialism as monolithic in character, purpose, and efficacy throughout the world. Taking issue with such writers as... (read more)

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