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Occasional Desire: Essays by David Lazar Publisher Comments In his new collection of essays, Occasional Desire, David Lazar meditates on random violence and vanished phone booths, on the excessive relationship to jewelry that links Kobe Bryant and Elizabeth Taylor, on Hitchcock, Francis Bacon, and M. F. K. Fisher.... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Woman Reader by Belinda Jack Review “Jacks excellent history begins from a position of anxiety, which she argues is caused by womens access to the written word. What do women read and what happens to them, and the world, when they do?”—Lesley McDowell, Independent on... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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A Brighter Word Than Bright: Keats at Work (Muse Books: Iowa Series in Creativity and Writing) by Dan Beachy-quick Publisher Comments The Romantic poet John Keats, considered by many as one of the greatest poets in the English language, has long been the subject of attention from scholars who seek to understand him and poets who seek to emulate him. Bridging these impulses, A Brighter... (read more) Your price: $24.00 New - Hardcover
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Lake Methodism (Literature, Religion, & Postsecular Studies) by Jasper Cragwall Publisher Comments Lake Methodism: Polite Literature and Popular Religion in England, 1780-1830, reveals the traffic between Romanticism’s rhetorics of privilege and the most socially toxic religious forms of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The “Lake... (read more) Your price: $81.50 New - Hardcover
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Library of America #246: Susan Sontag: Essays of the 1960s & 70s by Susan Sontag Publisher Comments With the publication of her first book, Against Interpretation, in 1966, Susan Sontag placed herself at the forefront of an era of cultural and political transformation. What is important now,” she wrote, is to recover our senses . . . .... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $27.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Culture of Yellow: Or, the Visual Politics of Late Modernity by Sabine Doran Publisher Comments This is the first book to explore the cultural significance of the color yellow, showing how its psychological and aesthetic value marked and shaped many of the intellectual, political, and artistic currents of late modernity. It contends that yellow... (read more) Your price: $40.95 New - Trade Paper
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Atomic Comics: Cartoonists Confront the Nuclear World by Ferenc Morton Szasz Publisher Comments The advent of the Atomic Age challenged purveyors of popular culture to explain to the general public the complex scientific and social issues of atomic power. Atomic Comics examines how comic books, comic strips, and other cartoon media represented the... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Sailing by Starlight: In Search of Treasure Island and Robert Louis Stevenson by Alex Capus Publisher Comments When Robert Louis Stevenson arrived in Samoa in 1889 he planned to stay no more than a few days. But before long he set about building an opulent villa and lived out the rest of his days on the island in splendor. What had happened? Had Stevenson not... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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Lessons in Secular Criticism (Thinking Out Loud: The Sydney Lectures in Philosophy and Society) by Stathis Gourgouris Publisher Comments Secular criticism is a term invented by Edward Said to denote not a theory but a practice that counters the tendency of much modern thinking to reach for a transcendentalist comfort zone, the very space philosophy wrested away from religion in the name... (read more) Your price: $29.50 New - Trade Paper
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What W. H. Auden Can Do for You (Writers on Writers) by Alexander Mccall Smith Publisher Comments "Alexander McCall Smith's voice in this splendid book is instantly recognizable as the calm, sympathetic, psychologically shrewd, and morally generous one that narrates his novels. This is not only a convincing account of W. H. Auden's poetry and life... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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The Viewing Room (Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction) by Jacquelin Gorman Publisher Comments In The Viewing Room, two hospital chaplains console the living during the moments when they look upon their beloved dead for one last time in a large urban hospital in Los Angeles. But this room is also a character, linking stories together and bearing... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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The Story about the Story Vol. II by J C Hallman Synopsis In the second volume of The Story about the Story, editor J. C. Hallman continues to argue for an alternative to the staid five-paragraph-essay writing that has inoculated so many against the effects of good books. Writers have long approached writing... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Novel Cure: From Abandonment to Zestlessness: 751 Books to Cure What Ails You by Ella Berthoud Publisher Comments Publisher's Weekly "Delightful... elegant prose and discussions that span the history of 2,000 years of literature." A novel is a story transmitted from the novelist to the reader. It offers distraction, entertainment, and an opportunity to unwind or... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry by Howard Rambsy, Ii Publisher Comments The Black Arts Enterprise and the Production of African American Poetry offers a close examination of the literary culture in which the Black Arts Movements poets (including Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Sonia Sanchez, Larry Neal, Haki Madhubuti, Carolyn... (read more) Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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Scripting Reading Motions: The Codex and the Computer as Self-Reflexive Machines by Manuel Portela Publisher Comments In Scripting Reading Motions, Manuel Portela explores the expressive use of book forms and programmable media in experimental works of both print and electronic literature and finds a self-conscious play with the dynamics of reading and writing. Portela... (read more) Your price: $36.25 New - Hardcover
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The Triumph of Human Empire: Verne, Morris, and Stevenson at the End of the World by Rosalind H. Williams Publisher Comments In the early 1600s, in a haunting tale titled New Atlantis, Sir Francis Bacon imagined the discovery of an uncharted island. This island was home to the descendants of the lost realm of Atlantis, who had organized themselves to seek “the knowledge... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Hardcover
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The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (Oxford Paperback Reference) by M. C. Howatson Publisher Comments The third edition of The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature is the complete and authoritative reference guide to the classical world and its literary heritage. It not only presents the reader with all the essential facts about the authors, tales... (read more) Your price: $27.25 New - Trade Paper
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The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry by Deborah Ager Publisher Comments With works by over 100 poets, The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry celebrates contemporary writers, born after World War II , who write about Jewish themes.This anthology brings together poets whose writings offer fascinating... (read more) Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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The Culture of Yellow: Or, the Visual Politics of Late Modernity by Sabine Doran Publisher Comments This is the first book to explore the cultural significance of the color yellow, showing how its psychological and aesthetic value marked and shaped many of the intellectual, political, and artistic currents of late modernity. It contends that yellow... (read more) Your price: $138.95 New - Hardcover
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Secrets of Inferno: In the Footsteps of Dante and Dan Brown by Dan (edt) Burstein Publisher Comments SECRETS OF INFERNO is a reader's guide to the journey Dan Brown took us all on in INFERNO. The book gives readers the back story” on particular plot points, Dante references, symbols, historical events, philosophy, art, music, and... (read more) Your price: $12.95 New - Trade Paper
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