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The Way to Rainy Mountain
The Way to Rainy Mountain
by N Scott Momaday
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First published in paperback by UNM Press in 1976, The Way to Rainy Mountain has sold over 200,000 copies. "The paperback edition of The Way to Rainy Mountain was first published twenty-five years ago. One should not be surprised, I suppose, that it has... (read more)

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    How To Read Donald Duck

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Literary and Cultural Studies
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The Straight Mind
The Straight Mind
by Monique Wittig
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These political, philosophical, and literary essays mark the first collection of theoretical writing from the acclaimed novelist and French feminist writer Monique Wittig.... (read more)

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Poetry Criticism
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A Poetry Handbook
A Poetry Handbook
by Mary Oliver
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I bought A Poetry Handbook when I entered my first poetry-writing class as an undergrad. My professor was a notorious curmudgeon who didn't spare anyone's feelings and expected each progressive class in the term "to separate the sheep from the goats." I... (read more)

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Oxford Companion To American Literat 6TH Edition
Oxford Companion To American Literat 6TH Edition
by James David Hart
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For more than half a century, James D. Hart's The Oxford Companion to American Literature has been an unparalleled guide to America's literary culture, providing one of the finest resources to this country's rich history of great writers. Now this... (read more)

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The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction (Art Of...)
The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction (Art Of...)
by Dean Young
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In Dean Youngs sprawling and subversive first book of prose on poetry, imagination swerves into primitivism and surrealism and finally toward empathy. How can recklessness guide the poet, the artist, and the reader into art, and how can it excite in us a... (read more)

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Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot
Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot
by T S Eliot
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Thirty-one essays-categorized as “essays in generalization,” “appreciations of individual authors,” and “social and religious criticism”- written over a half century. This volume reveals Eliots original ideas, cogent... (read more)

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The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative
by Vivian Gornick
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A guide to the art of personal writing, by the author of Fierce Attachments and The End of the Novel of Love All narrative writing must pull from the raw material of life a tale that will shape experience, transform event, deliver a bit of wisdom. In a... (read more)

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A Room of One's Own
A Room of One's Own
by Virginia Woolf
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Virginia Woolf's landmark inquiry into women's role in society   In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf imagines that Shakespeare had a sister—a sister equal to Shakespeare in talent, and equal in genius, but whose legacy is radically... (read more)

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Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim
Missing a Beat: The Rants and Regrets of Seymour Krim
by Seymour Krim
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Despite the revival of interest in Beat Generation writers of the past decade or so, the innovative work of Seymour Krim has, until now, been largely forgotten. This book corrects that situation, collecting eighteen of essays worth of Krim's "Jewish... (read more)

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The Dynamics of Folklore
The Dynamics of Folklore
by Barre Toelken
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Toelken addresses the history and meaning of folklore, using straightforward language, easy definitions, and many insightful examples.... (read more)

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