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The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght (Women Writers in English 1350-1850)
by Rachel Speght  Publisher Comments Rachel Speght was the first Englishwoman to identify herself, unmistakably and by name, as a polemicist and critic of contemporary gender ideology. This edition includes her foray into the Jacobean gender wars and her collected poems. Speght's tract, A...
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Pieces of Resistance: Selected Essays
by Eugene Goodheart Publisher Comments This collection of essays and reviews written between 1960 and 1985 are a deliberate response to the current, increasingly specialized forms of criticism....
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The Best American Novels of the Twentieth Century: Still Readable Today
by E Gehres Publisher Comments What were the best novels written by Americans during the twentieth century? Does "best" necessarily mean the most influential at the time of publication, or that the book was a best-seller or held the highest standard of writing from purely an academic...
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Mythology: Notes (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes - Study Notes
by James Weigel Publisher Comments This review of the myths from seven different cultures provides an overview of the stories that we live by, from ancient times to the present. The gods and their stories depict all the relationships in life and present a moral code of human conduct...
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Sisters in Time: Imagining Gender in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
by Susan Morgan Publisher Comments Morgan's book begins with the fact that in a culture where women, both in life and in art, have continually been conceived of as less central to human concerns than men, one of the major periods of fiction should be so rich in novels that locate their...
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Critic's Notebook (Harvest Book)
by Irving Howe Publisher Comments This collection of accessible, idiosyncratic essays explores such enduring literary concepts as character, style, tone, and genre. All have their origin in Howe's passion, moral striving, and abiding faith in the common reader. Edited and with an...
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Truly Tasteless Jokes #2: Truly Tasteless Jokes
by Blanche Knott Publisher Comments One book wasn't enough. Demand was too great. The truly tasteless among us insisted on more outrageous insults, crude wit, and disgusting observations. Once again, no group is spared and nothing is too sacred to be ridiculed....
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Annie Proulx's the Shipping News: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries)
by Aliki Varvogli Synopsis This work is part of the "Continuum Contemporaries" series giving readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed and most influential contemporary novels. It contains a biography of the novelist and a full...
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Cliff's Notes on Faulkner's Short Stories (97 Edition) - Study Notes
by James L. (ed.) Cliff's Notes Publishing Staff / Roberts Publisher Comments Like his longer novels, Faulkner's shortest stories can be difficult to follow, given that events are presented out of order and the narrator is not easily identified. This study of five stories adds a clarity that leads to a greater appreciation of his...
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Modern American Women Writers
by Elaine Showalter Publisher Comments Featuring original contributions by scholars in the field of women's studies, this invaluable reference illuminates the lives and works of Maya Angelou, Kate Chopin, Joan Didion, Anne Tyler, Susan Sontag, Gertrude Stein, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O...
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Dictionary of Medieval Romance and Romance Writers
by Lewis Spence Publisher Comments This fascinating work reveals who the medieval writers were, what they wrote, and biographical information about each of them. Helpful resource and fascinating reading!...
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Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
by Camille Paglia Publisher Comments A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America....
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The Jungle Books
by Rudyard Kipling Publisher Comments The Jungle Books, by Rudyard Kipling, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully...
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Beyond Deconstruction: The Uses and Abuses of Literary Theory
by Howard Felperin Publisher Comments What have they done to literary criticism? Where is it leading-and where will it all end? The past two decades have seen swift and radical changes in the way literature is perceived and taught in this country and abroad. The emergence of a myriad of new...
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Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States
by Mikhail Iossel Publisher Comments This collection of beautifully written and entertaining literary essays by a wide range of Russian writers--young and old, funny and somber, angry and celebratory, many being translated for the first time--offers U.S. readers a unique chance to "see...
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Irish Myths and Legends
by Lady Gregory Publisher Comments Lady Gregory's translations of ancient Celtic stories inspired a generation of writers, including W. B. Yeats, whose original foreword to Gods and Fighting Men is abridged for this classic miniature version. A perfect gift for all lovers of literature....
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Loaded Vehicles: Studies in African Literary Media
by Bernth Lindfors Publisher Comments Among the most powerful forces driving contemporary literary movements in anglophone Africa have been the indigenous media that provided aspiring authors with opportunities to express themselves. Ephemeral printed publications -- ranging from school and...
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Modern Essays on Eighteenth-Century Literature
by Leopold Damrosch Publisher Comments Taking 1970 as his starting point, Leopold Damrosch, Jr. has assembled in one volume the finest and most useful essays on eighteenth-century literature. Covering all the major authors of the period and using a wide variety of scholarly and theoretical...
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Shakespeare in Africa (And Other Venues): Import and the Appropriation of Culture
by Lemuel A Johnson Synopsis This complex work explores "constellations of encounters and evidence of import in various contexts, ranging from Oxford to the popular stage in Bombay and from North America's various negotiations of its putative European ancestries to Shakespeare's...
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Playing Dolly: Technocultural Formations, Fantasies, and Fictions of Assisted Reproduction (Millennial Shifts)
by E Ann Kaplan Book News Annotation This compilation of essays written by scholars in the humanities explores the shifts in public perception of controversial reproduction technologies such as egg donation, cloning, and implantation. The general conclusion is that there is an increasing...
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