The Day I Wasn't There (Avant-Garde & Modernism Collection)
by Cixous And Brahic


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The feminist writer explores the extreme borders of motherhood and humanity In this memoir-novel, a narrator who resembles Helene Cixous obsessively recounts an incident-the premature death of her first born child, a Down's Syndrome baby left in the care... (read more)

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Intrigue: Espionage and Culture
by Allan Hepburn


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Why do spies have such cachet in the twentieth century? Why do they keep reinventing themselves? What do they mean in a political process? This book examines the tradition of the spy narrative from its inception in the late nineteenth century through the... (read more)

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Concise Oxford Companion To English Lite
by Oxford


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A superb reference for readers of English literature, this abridgement of Harvey's Oxford Companion to English Literature is now in its second edition, with revisions based on the fourth edition of the Companion. All of Harvey's principal entries on... (read more)

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On Modern British Fiction
by Zachary Leader


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In this volume, fourteen of today's very best novelists and critics join forces to create a landmark study of the last 50 years of British fiction. Essays by Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Hilary Mantel, James Wood, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Wood, Elaine... (read more)

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The Book That Changed My Life: Interviews with National Book Award Winners and Finalists
by Diane Osen




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Every reader can name at least one book that changed his or her life — and many more beloved titles will surely come to mind as well. In The Book That Changed My Life, fifteen of America's most influential authors discuss their own special literary... (read more)

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Two Way Mirrors
by Eugene Eoyang


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Two-Way Mirrors engages in cross-cultural study a pursuit inherently both reflective and reflexive, shedding light not only on the object of study but also on the subject conducting the study. The book's leading metaphor is that of the shop window, which... (read more)

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The Linguistics of Lying: And Other Essays (Literary Conjugations/A Robert B. Heilman Book)
by Harald Weinrich


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Teaching in French and German universities, Weinrich carries on the tradition of German philology that English speakers believe died out a generation or two ago. In addition to the 1966 title essay, the volume presents Jonah's Sign: On the Very Large... (read more)

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I'm No Angel: The Blonde in Fiction and Film (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture)
by Ellen Tremper


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In I'm No Angel: The Blonde in Fiction and Film, Ellen Tremper shows how, at its roots, the image of the blonde was remodeled by women writers in the nineteenth century and actors in the twentieth to keep pace with the changes in real women's lives. As... (read more)

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Industrial Poetics: Demo Tracks for a Mobile Culture (Contemp North American Poetry)
by Joe Amato


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Through a dizzying array of references to subjects ranging from engineering to poetry, on-the-job experiences in academia and industry, conflicts between working-class and intellectual labor, the privatization of universities, and the contradictions of... (read more)

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Rapture and Revolution: Essays on Turkish Literature
by Talat S Halman


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American classicist Jayne L. Warner has collected 23 of Halman's (Turkish literature, Balkent U., Ankara) articles published in literary journals and conference proceedings mostly from the 1970s to the 1990s on contemporary Turkish literature. The... (read more)

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Party Pieces: Oral Storytelling and Social Performance in Joyce and Beckett
by Alan W Friedman


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Social performances, particularly instances of oral storytelling suitable after a few drinks, are embedded in the fiction of James Joyce and the drama of Samuel Beckett, says Friedman (English and comparative literature, U. of Texas-Austin). He... (read more)

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The Offense of Poetry (Robert B. Heilman Book)
by Hazard Adams


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Adams (comparative literature emeritus, U. of Washington) holds that poetry is open to attack because it opposes binary oppositions such as form and content, fact and fiction, reason and emotion, but thereby also achieves its cultural value. Taking a... (read more)

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The Claims of Literature: The Shoshana Felman Reader
by Emily Sun


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Shoshana Felman ranks as one of the most influential literary critics of the past five decades. Her work has inspired and shaped such divergent fields as psychoanalytic criticism, deconstruction, speech-act theory and performance studies, feminist and... (read more)

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Fiction Sets You Free: Literature, Liberty, and Western Culture
by Russell A Berman


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In what can only be called a genuine intellectual adventure, Russell Berman raises fundamental questions long ignored by literary scholars; Why does literature command our attention at all? Why would society want to cultivate a sphere of activity devoted... (read more)

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Book of the Sphinx (Texts and Contexts)
by Willis Goth Regier


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Sought, the Sphinx seems everywhere, whether the guardian of the pyramids on Egypt's Giza plateau or the beautiful man-eater with a deadly riddle, to be approached with awful caution. The Sphinx, that icon painted, sculpted, engraved, and exalted in... (read more)

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Erotikon: Essays on Eros, Ancient and Modern
by Shadi Bartsch


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Erotikon brings together leading contemporary intellectuals from a variety of fields for an expansive debate on the full meaning of eros. Renowned scholars of philosophy, literature, classics, psychoanalysis, theology, and art history join poets and a... (read more)

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Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses
by Howard Hampton


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Twenty years as an outsider scouring the underbelly of American culture has made Howard Hampton a uniquely hardnosed guide to the heart of pop darkness. Bridging the fatalistic, intensely charged space between Apocalypse Now Redux and Nirvana's Smells... (read more)

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