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Patterns for America: Modernism and the Concept of Culture
by Susan Hegeman  Publisher Comments In recent decades, historians and social theorists have given much thought to the concept of "culture," its origins in Western thought, and its usefulness for social analysis. In this book, Susan Hegeman focuses on the term's history in the United States...
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Shakespeare's Sonnets - Arden Shakespeare: Third Series - Paperback (Arden Shakespeare Third)
by Arden Publisher Comments 'The annotation is consistently thoughtful and well judged, giving plenty of precise help with lexical and syntactical problems, and offering valuable verbal and cultural analogues from contemporary literature' 'No edition of these difficult and...
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Witnessing Lynching: American Writers Respond
by Anne P Rice Publisher Comments Witnessing Lynching: American Writers Respond is the first anthology to bring together poetry, essays, drama, and fiction from the height of the lynching era (1889-1935). During this time, the torture of a black person drew thousands of local onlookers...
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Summing Up (UK Edition)
by W.somerset Maugham Publisher Comments The latest additions to the "Vintage Classics" series....
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Myth and Magic: Art According to the Inklings
by Eduardo Segura Synopsis This volume presents papers by Tom Shippey, Verlyn Flieger, Colin Duriez, Patrick Curry, John Garth, Martin Simonson, Dieter Bachmann, Devin Brown, Miryam Librn-Moreno, Eugenio Olivares-Merino, Margarita Carretero-Gonzlez, Fernando J. Soto & Marta Garca...
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Harbors & High Seas 3RD Edition
by Dean King Publisher Comments This indispensable guide to navigating the well-loved Aubrey-Maturin novels has been updated, with new chapters devoted to the final books in the series. Harbors and High Seas includes maps created exclusively for each of the novels in this world...
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The Iliad (Signet Classics)
by Homer Publisher Comments Humans and gods wrestling with towering emotions. Men fighting to the death amidst the devastation and destruction of the Trojan War. To this day, the heroism and adventure in "The Iliad" have remained unmatched in song and story. This edition features a...
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Literary Theory: The Basics
by Daniel Chandler Publisher Comments Part of the successful i Basics /i series, this accessible guide provides the ideal first step in understanding literary theory. Hans Bertens: br * leads students through the major approaches to literature which are signalled by the term 'literary theory'...
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The Paris Diary & the New York Diary, 1951-1961
by Ned Rorem Publisher Comments When The Paris Diary exploded on the scene in 1966 there had never been a book in English quite like it: Its intimate combination of personal, literary, and social insights was unprecedented. Rorem's self-portrait of the artist as a young man, written...
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Old Man and the Sea (96 Edition)
by Ernest Hemingway Publisher Comments The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, "The Old Man and the Sea" has proved itself to be one of the enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman and his supreme ordeal: a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant...
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English Reader : What Every Literate Person Needs To Know (06 Edition)
by Michael Ravitch Publisher Comments In this sequel to the best-selling The American Reader, mother-and-son team Diane and Michael Ravitch have gathered together the best and most memorable poems, essays, songs, and orations in English history, capturing in one compact volume writings that...
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Gravitys Rainbow Companion 2ND Edition
by Steven Weisenburger Book News Annotation Devoted fans as well as newbies to Pynchon's 1973 masterpiece will enjoy and appreciate this erudite guide, now much expanded from the 1988 first edition. Weisenburger (English, Southern Methodist U., Dallas, Texas)--who graciously acknowledges...
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Aesthetic Ideology
by Paul De Man Publisher Comments This book is a rigorous inquiry into the relation of rhetoric, epistemology, anesthetics, one that presents radical notions of materiality....
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Pornography, the Theory: What Utilitarianism Did to Action
by Frances Ferguson Publisher Comments Pornography first developed in western Europe during the late eighteenth century in tandem with the rise of utilitarianism, the philosophical position that stresses the importance of something's usefulness over its essence. Through incisive readings of...
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The Portable Western Reader (Viking Portable Library)
by William Kittredge Publisher Comments The American West is as varied in its inhabitants as it is in its landforms, yet what has come to stand for "Western" writing is the myth of the wagon train and the lone gunman. This authoritative anthology assembled poems, essays, stories, and excepts...
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The Senses of Walden: An Expanded Edition
by Stanley Cavell Publisher Comments Stanley Cavell, one of America's most distinguished philosophers, has written an invaluable companion volume to Walden, a seminal book in our cultural heritage. This expanded edition includes two essays on Emerson....
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Beowulf: a New Translation (UK Edition)
by Seamus Heaney Publisher Comments Unabridged reading by the poet. Three CD pack, running time: 2 hrs 15 mins....
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Essential Margaret Fuller
by Margaret Fuller Publisher Comments The leading feminist intellectual of her day, Margaret Fuller has been remembered for her groundbreaking work Woman in the Nineteenth Century, which recharted the gender roles of nineteenth-century men and women. In this new collection, the full range...
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Journey To the West Volume 4 Hsi Yu Chi
by Chengen/yu Wu Publisher Comments The Journey to the West, volume 4, comprises the last twenty-five chapters of Anthony C. Yu's four-volume translation of Hsi-yu Chi, one of the most beloved classics of Chinese literature. The fantastic tale recounts the sixteen-year pilgrimage of the...
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Mafia and Outlaw Stories from Italian Life and Literature (Toronto Italian Studies)
by Rob Pickering Iazzi Book News Annotation Pickering-Iazzi (French, Italian, and comparative literature, U. of Wisconsin-Milwaukie) presents a collection of fiction and nonfiction accounts, from the 1880s to 1990s, allowing readers to experience a variety of different ways in which Italian...
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