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Slow Reading by John Miedema Publisher Comments Slow Reading examines the research in voluntary slow reading, from the earliest references in religion and philosophy, to the practice of close reading in the humanities, and the recent swell of interest associated with the Slow Movement. It looks at the... (read more) List Price $9.60 Your price: $8.52 Google eBooks - Electronic 
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A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet by Eavan Boland Publisher Comments An author, poet and director of the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University presents a series of linked essays about the adventure, passion and struggle of becoming a woman poet, examining the work of Adrienne Rich, Elizabeth Bishop and others.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $23.92 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Serendipities: Language & Lunacy by Umberto Eco Publisher Comments A best-selling author and world-renowned scholar on language explores the history of thought to find "serendipities," startling moments of insight and truth that can arise from mistakes, showing how some misinterpretations can lead to knowledge while... (read more) Your price: $22.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Introducing Children's Literature: From Romanticism to Postmodernism by Deborah Cogan Thacker Publisher Comments Introducing Children's Literature is an ideal guide to reading children's literature through the perspective of literary history. Focusing on the major literary movements from Romanticism to Postmodernism, Thacker and Webb examine the concerns of each... (read more) Your price: $36.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A Rationale of Textual Criticism by Thomas Tanselle Publisher Comments Textual criticism-the traditional term for the task of evaluating the authority of the words and punctuation of a text-is often considered an undertaking preliminary to literary criticism: many people believe that the job of textual critics is to provide... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $17.53 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The made-up Self: Impersonation in the Personal Essay by Carl H. Klaus Publisher Comments The human presence that animates the personal essay is surely one of the most beguiling of literary phenomena, for it comes across in so familiar a voice that it's easy to believe we are listening to... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Brave New Words: How Literature Will save the Planet by Elizabeth Ammons Publisher Comments The activist tradition in American literature has long testified to the power of words to change people and the power of people to change the world, yet in recent years many professional humanists have chosen to distract themselves with a postmodern... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $17.75 Google eBooks - Electronic
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From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books by Arie Kaplan Publisher Comments In From Krakow to Krypton, Arie Kaplan unmasks the Jewish subtexts of these stories and showcases the unique contributions Jews have made to this American art form. The book features original interviews with legendary figures such as Will Eisner, Stan... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price: $15.53 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal by Rob Riemen Publisher Comments In the pages of this slim, powerful book Rob Riemen argues with passion that “nobility of spirit” is the quintessence of a civilized world. It is, as Thomas Mann believed, the sole corrective for human history. Without nobility of spirit, culture... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $10.65 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Treacherous Subjects by Lan P P Duong Publisher Comments Treacherous Subjects is a provocative and thoughtful examination of Vietnamese films and literature viewed through a feminist lens. Lan Duong investigates the postwar cultural productions of writers and filmmakers, including Tony Bui, Trinh T. Minh-ha... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $24.93 Google eBooks - Electronic
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C.S. Lewis by Harold Bloom Publisher Comments Scholar, poet, Christian apologist, fiction writer, and essayist, C.S. Lewis is perhaps best known for his series of children's fantasies, The Chronicles of Narnia. Lewis served as a Fellow and Tutor in English literature at Oxford University until 1954... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $39.94 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Literary Radicalism in India: Gender, Nation and the Transition to Independence by Priyamvada Gopal Publisher Comments While most readers of contemporary Indian literature in English and in translation are familiar with the idea of "freedom at midnight," much less is known about the period of turbulent artistic and cultural transformation that characterised the years... (read more) Your price: $120.00 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present: An Introduction by Rafey Habib Publisher Comments Literary Criticism from Plato to the Present provides a concise and authoritative overview of the development of Western literary criticism and theory from the Classical period to the present dayAn indispensable and intellectually stimulating... (read more) Your price: $64.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Letters of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson Publisher Comments Only five of Emily Dickinson's poems were published while she lived; today, approximately 1,500 are in print. Dickinson's poetry reflects the power of her contemplative gifts, and her deep sensitivity courses through her correspondence as well. Lovingly... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $17.71 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Scout, Atticus, and Boo: A Celebration of Fifty Years of to Kill a Mockingbird by Mary McDonagh Murphy Publisher Comments To Kill a Mockingbird may well be our national novel. It is the first adult novel that many of us remember reading, one book that millions of us have in common. It sells nearly a million copies a year, more than any other twentieth-century American... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Out of Line: Homeric Composition beyond the Hexameter by Matthew Clark Publisher Comments Building upon the groundbreaking work of Milman Parry and Albert Lord, Out of Line presents a new theory of Homeric composition, focusing upon patterns that extend beyond the boundary of the line and the clause. Matthew Clark takes enjambment as a... (read more) List Price $33.95 Your price: $32.68 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Nice and Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction by Richard B. Schwartz Publisher Comments Owners of mystery bookshops will tell you that there are several sorts of buyers: those who purchase on impulse or whim; genre addicts who buy paperbacks by the week and by the armful; and those who have caught up on canonical texts and regularly buy new... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $31.02 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Whale! by Kim Leilani Evans Publisher Comments Startling in its originality, Whale! explores Melville's Moby Dick as a tale not of vengeance but of the search for connection and meaning, interpreting Ahab's near-pathological agitation as indicative of his refusal to accept the world as unknowable... (read more) List Price $23.50 Your price: $20.86 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Palm at the End of the Mind: Relatedness, Religiosity, and the Real by Michael Jackson Publisher Comments In many societies and for many people, religiosity is only incidentally connected with texts or theologies, church or mosque, temple or monastery. Drawing on a lifetime of ethnographic work among people for whom religion is not principally a matter of... (read more) List Price $79.95 Your price: $73.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Robin McKinley by Evelyn Perry Publisher Comments Since her first book, Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast, was published in 1978, Robin McKinley has enchanted young adult readers for more than thirty years. This study is the first in-depth analysis of McKinley's works, including... (read more) List Price $38.99 Your price: $37.53 Google eBooks - Electronic
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