Self-Help, Inc.: Makeover Culture in American Life
by Micki Mcgee


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Why doesn't self-help help? Millions of people turn to self-improvement when they find that their lives aren't working out quite as they had imagined. The market for self-improvement products — books, audiotapes, life-makeover seminars and regimens... (read more)

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The American Classics: A Personal Essay
by Denis Donoghue


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How is a classic book to be defined? How much time must elapse before a work may be judged a "classic"? And among all the works of American literature, which deserve the designation? In this provocative new book Denis Donoghue essays to answer these... (read more)

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The Oxford Companion to English Literature
by Margaret Drabble


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When the Fifth Edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature appeared in 1985, it received a glowing front-page review in The New York Times Book Review, which praised it as "a wonderful, infuriating, amusing, and informative war horse of a book."... (read more)

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The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris, 1958-1963
by Barry Miles


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The Beat Hotel is a delightful chronicle of a remarkable moment in American literary history. From the Howl obscenity trial to the invention of the cut-up technique, Barry Miles's extraordinary narrative chronicles the feast of ideas that was Paris... (read more)

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Postmodern Text and Emotional Audiences (Comparative Cultural Studies)
by Kimberly Chab Davis


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Chabot Davis analyzes contemporary texts that bond together two seemingly antithetical sensibilities: the sentimental and the postmodern. Ranging across multiple media and offering a methodological union of textual analysis and reception study, Chabot... (read more)

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Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas
by Brian Lamb


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For nearly a decade, Booknotes has been an oasis of book programming on television, the only place where Americans can regularly find in-depth, quality discussions of books. From the Hardcover edition.... (read more)

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The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature
by Malcolm Budd


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The aesthetics of nature has over the last few decades become an intense focus of philosophical reflection, as it has been ever more widely recognized that it is not a mere appendage to the aesthetics of art. Everyone delights in the beauty of flowers... (read more)

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We Know What You Want: How They Change Your Mind
by Martin Howard


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In this handbook for locating the hidden sales messages that bombard us everyday, Martin Howard explains the new techniques that corporations are using to make subconscious approaches without your consent. It covers the five major zones where consumers... (read more)

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Modern Literary Theory: A Reader
by Philip Rice


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The new edition of this core text has been thoroughly revised and updated in light of the latest developments in the field. Covering the key theoretical approaches in modern literary theory, the text includes those essays and documents that are essential... (read more)

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Svengali's Web: The Alien Enchanter in Modern Culture
by Daniel Pick


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Svengali, the malevolent hypnotist in a sensationally successful novel published by George du Maurier in 1894, became such a well-known character in the culture of the period that his name entered the dictionary as one who exerts a malign persuasiveness... (read more)

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Line Break: Poetry as Social Practice
by James Scully


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Line Breakis the major work on poetry as social practice and a must-read for anyone interested in contemporary criticism or poetry. For many years, James Scully, along with others, quietly radicalized American poetry -in theory and in practice, in how it... (read more)

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American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman
by Francis Matthiessen


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This text has taken its place as the definitive treatment of the most distinguished age of American literature. Centering the discussion around five literary giants of the mid-nineteenth century-Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman... (read more)

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American Literature: The Essential Glossary
by Stephen Matterson


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Comprising over four hundred entries, this is a concise glossary of American literature, covering key works and writers, historical events, literary terms and movements from Colonial times to the present. Each entry is succinct and because of the... (read more)

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Legenda Studies in Comparative Literature #11: Singing Poets: Literature and Popular Music in France and Greece (1945-1975)
by Dimitri Papnikolaou


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Between 1945 and 1975, both France and Greece developed an interplay between literature and popular music, each making a new national canon. Literature provided the aesthetic criteria, the cultural prestige and the institutional basis for what aspired to... (read more)

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Interpreting Everyday Culture (Arnold Publication)
by Fran Martin


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This is the first book to introduce comprehensively to younger undergraduates cultural approaches to everyday life. It is a lively, accessible book that prompts its readers to take a fresh, critical look at the familiar yet strangely intriguing terrain... (read more)

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Reading Oprah: How Oprah's Book Club Changed the Way America Reads
by Cecilia Koncha Farr


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Oprah's Book Club sparked a revolution among readers by bringing serious contemporary novels to the attention of a wider audience. The Oprah's Book Club seal on a book led to instant fame and bestseller status for authors--but, how did Oprah change the... (read more)

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Forgetting Lot's Wife: On Destructive Spectatorship
by Martin Harries


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Can looking at disaster and mass death destroy us? Forgetting Lot's Wife provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century. Its subject is the notion that the sight of historical catastrophe can destroy the... (read more)

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The Breaking Point: Hemingway, Dos Passos, and the Murder of Jose Robles
by Stephen Koch


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Both a biographical portrait and history-in-miniature, "The Breaking Point" explores the time Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos shared in the Spanish Civil War, an ideological adventure that brought their literary rivalry to the breaking point.... (read more)

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