Coming Soon!
There are 521 books in this aisle.
 New: $29.25 Trade Paper 
available August 2008 add to wish list |
|
Cannibal Democracy: Race and Representation in the Literature of the Americas (Critical American Studies)
by Zita Nunes  Publisher Comments Zita Nunes argues that the prevailing narratives of identity formation throughout the Americas share a dependence on metaphors of incorporation and, often, of cannibalism. From the position of the incorporating body, the construction of a national and...
|
||||||
New: $20.95 Trade Paper
available September 2008 add to wish list |
|
The Cambridge Introduction to Walter Benjamin. by David Ferris (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
by David Ferris Publisher Comments For students of modern criticism and theory, Walter Benjamin's writings have become essential reading. His analyses of photography, film, language, history, allegory, material culture, the poet Charles Baudelaire, and his vast examination of the social...
|
||||||
New: $82.75 Hardcover
available September 2008 add to wish list |
|
Joyce Through Lacan and Zizek: Explorations (New Directions in Irish & Irish American Literature)
by Shel Brivic Publisher Comments Brivic argues that James Joyce's fiction anticipated Jacques Lacan's idea that the perceivable world is made of language and that Joyce, Lacan, and Žižek all carry forward a psychological and linguistic groundwork for social reform....
|
||||||
New: $38.25 Trade Paper
available July 2008 add to wish list |
|
Philosophy of Literature (Foundations of the Philosophy of the Arts)
by Peter Lamarque Publisher Comments The latest volume in the Foundations of the Philosophy of the Arts series is a comprehensive study of a relatively new but increasingly influential branch of aesthetics....
|
||||||
New: $61.75 Hardcover
available August 2008 add to wish list |
|
Literature of the Caribbean (Literature as Windows to World Cultures)
by Lizabeth Paravisini-gebert Publisher Comments The Caribbean is an exotic yet not too distant land, full of rich cultural traditions. It is also a land of economic, political, and social concerns, and many American students have ties to the area. Literary works by Caribbean writers reflect the...
|
||||||
New: $27.25 Trade Paper
available September 2008 add to wish list |
|
Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language
by Sister Miriam Joseph Publisher Comments Sister Miriam Joseph's Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language remains, after more than half a century, an immensely valuable aid to serious students of the greatest of all writers. The book manifests enormous learning and real wisdom in applying that...
|
||||||
New: $58.95 Hardcover
available November 2008 add to wish list |
|
On the Divide: The Many Lives of Willa Cather
by David H. Porter Publisher Comments Willa Cather’s fiction frequently plays out on “the divide,” the high prairie land of Nebraska, where the author herself lived as a child. This book suggests that Cather’s own life played out on a divide as well, deliberately...
|
||||||
New: $82.75 Hardcover
available September 2008 add to wish list |
|
Wilkie Collins: A Literary Life: A Literary Life (Literary Lives)
by Andrew Maunder Publisher Comments This new volume in the Literary Lives series focuses on the career of the popular Victorian novelist Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), and provides a new account of his professional life in the literary world of nineteenth-century Britain. It draws on recently...
|
||||||
New: $11.95 Trade Paper
available July 2008 add to wish list |
|
The Civil War
by Julius Caesar Synopsis The Civil War is Caesar's masterly account of the celebrated war between himself and his great rival Pompey, from the crossing of the Rubicon in January 49 B.C. to Pompey's death and the start of the Alexandrian War in the autumn of the following year...
|
||||||
New: $19.99 Mp3 Cd
available July 2008 add to wish list |
|
10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help
by Benjamin Wiker Synopsis From Machiavelli to Marx, Nietzsche to Hitler, this volume offers a provocative look at some of Western civilization's most infamous authors and their literary works and shows how these works have inflicted great evil in the world---and still cause...
|
||||||
New: $22.95 Trade Paper
available August 12, 2008 add to wish list |
|
The Odyssey
by Homer Publisher Comments Most translations of The Odyssey are in the kind of standard verse form believed typical of high-serious composition in the ancient world. Yet some scholars believe the epic was originally composed in a less formal, phrase-by-phrase prosody. Charles...
|
||||||
New: $73.50 Hardcover
available September 2008 add to wish list |
|
The Cambridge Introduction to Michel Foucault (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
by Lisa Downing Publisher Comments French philosopher and historian Michel Foucault is essential reading for students in departments of literature, history, sociology and cultural studies. His work on the institutions of mental health and medicine, the history of systems of knowledge...
|
||||||
New: $210.75 Hardcover
available November 2008 add to wish list |
|
Cultural History of Reading [Two Volumes]
by Sara Quay Publisher Comments What is it about some books that makes them timeless? Cultural History of Reading looks at books from their earliest beginnings through the present day, in both the U.S. and regions all over the world. Not only fiction and literature, but religious works,...
|
||||||
New: $47.95 Hardcover
available July 2008 add to wish list |
|
Conrad's Trojan Horses: Imperialism, Hybridity, and the Postcolonial Aesthetic
by Tom Henthorne Publisher Comments An engaging and accessible analysis of Conrad's canon -- from the early novels and short stories to the major works, including The Nigger of the Narcissus, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, and Nostromo -- in light of the Trojan horse rhetorical and literary...
|
||||||
New: $20.95 Trade Paper
available September 2008 add to wish list |
|
The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath. by Jo Gill (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
by Jo Gill Publisher Comments Sylvia Plath is widely recognized as one of the leading figures in twentieth-century Anglo-American literature and culture. Her work has constantly remained in print in the UK and US (and in numerous translated editions) since the appearance of her first...
|
||||||
New: $74.95 Hardcover
available November 2008 add to wish list |
|
Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend
by Joseph Bristow Publisher Comments Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend explores the meteoric rise, sudden fall, and legendary resurgence of an immensely influential writer’s reputation from his hectic 1881 American lecture tour to recent Hollywood adaptations of...
|
||||||
New: $15.95 Trade Paper
available September 2008 add to wish list |
|
Otherworldly Maine
by Noreen Doyle Synopsis Elizabeth Hand, Stephen King, and Edgar Pangborn put Maine on the map as a place where otherworldly things happen. But they're not the only authors who see the state as a source of inspiration for fantasy and science fiction. Twenty-four writers from...
|
||||||
New: $26.95 Hardcover
available September 2008 add to wish list |
|
Why Not Us?
by Leigh Montville Publisher Comments Few books have caused as big a stir as John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, when it was published in April 1939. By May, it was the nation’s number one bestseller, but in Kern County, California—the Joads’ newfound home—the...
|
||||||
New: $20.95 Trade Paper
available September 2008 add to wish list |
|
The Cambridge Introduction to Zora Neale Hurston (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
by Lovalerie King Publisher Comments Their Eyes Were Watching God is a key text in African American literature. Its author Zora Neale Hurston has become an iconic figure for her literary works and for her invaluable contribution to documenting elements of black folk culture in the rural...
|
||||||
New: $102.75 Hardcover
available July 2008 add to wish list |
|
Shakespeare's Literary Authorship
by Patrick Cheney Publisher Comments Re-situating Shakespeare as an early modern professional, Patrick Cheney views him not simply as a man of the theatre, but also as an author with a literary career. Rather than present himself as a national or laureate poet, as Spenser does, Shakespeare...
|
||||||
