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Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages: Archipelago, Island, England (New Middle Ages)
by Jeffrey J. Cohen  Publisher Comments Through close readings of both familiar and obscure medieval texts, the contributors to this volume attempt to read England as a singularly powerful entity within a vast geopolitical network. This capacious world can be glimpsed in the cultural flows...
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Home To Harlem (28 Edition)
by Claude Mckay Publisher Comments A novel that gives voice to the alienation and frustration of urban blacks during an era when Harlem was in vogue....
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The Magical Chorus: A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn
by Solomon Volkov Publisher Comments From the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to the brutal cult of Stalin to the ebullient, uncertain days of perestroika, nowhere has the inextricable relationship between politics and culture been more starkly illustrated than in twentieth-century Russia. In the...
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Theory's Empire: An Anthology of Dissent
by Daphne Patai Publisher Comments An anthology of literary theory that seeks to provide a unique alternative to the established canon....
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Enemies of Promise
by Cyril Connolly Publisher Comments “Whom the gods wish to destroy,” writes Cyril Connolly, “they first call promising.” First published in 1938 and long out of print, Enemies of Promise, an “inquiry into the problem of how to write a book that lasts ten...
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Letters From the Earth : Uncensored Writings By Mark Twain (91 Edition)
by Mark Twain 
Powells.com Staff Pick If the only Twain you've ever read is Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, or Connecticut Yankee, this collection shall prove much more than surprising (either pleasantly or appallingly, depending on your sensibilities). Published posthumously despite the objections...
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Triggering Town : Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing (79 Edition)
by Richard Hugo Publisher Comments The Triggering Town is hugo's now-classic collection of lectures, essays, and reflections, all 'directed toward helping the [the writer] with that silly, absurd, maddening, futile, enormously rewarding activity: writing poems.' Anyone, from the beginning...
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Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life
by James Hawes Publisher Comments Everybody knows the face of Franz Kafka, whether they have read any of his works or not. And that brooding face carries instant images: bleak and threatening visions of an inescapable bureaucracy, nightmarish transformations, uncanny predictions of the...
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Literary Societies of Republican China
by Kirk A. (edt) Denton Synopsis Denton and Hockx present thirteen essays treating a variety of literary organizations from China's Republican era (1911-1949). Interdisciplinary in approach, the essays are primarily concerned with describing and analyzing the social and cultural...
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Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
by Jennie A. Kassanoff Publisher Comments Kassanoff shows how Wharton participated in debates on race, class and democratic pluralism at the turn of the twentieth century....
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Housing Problems: Writing and Architecture in Goethe, Walpole, Freud, and Heidegger (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
by Susan Bernstein Publisher Comments In Housing Problems, Susan Bernstein studies the actual houses of Goethe, Walpole, and Freud alongside textual articulations of the architectonic problems of design, containment, shelter, and fragmentation. The linking of "text" and "house" brings into...
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Demon Box
by Ken Kesey Publisher Comments In this collection of short stories, Ken Kesey challenges public and private demons with a wrestler's brave and deceptive embrace, making it clear that the energy of madness must live on....
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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
by Melanie Rehak
Publisher Comments In 1930 a plucky girl detective stepped out of her shiny blue roadster, dressed in a smart tweed suit, ready to restore a stolen inheritance to its rightful owner. Tied up by the villains, she managed to free herself and bring them to justice - all while...
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Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God : a Casebook (00 Edition)
by Cheryl A. (ed.) Wall Publisher Comments Collecting the most widely cited and influential essays published on Hurston's landmark novel over the last quarter century, this Casebook presents contesting viewpoints by Hazel Carby, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Barbara Johnson, Carla Kaplan, Daphne...
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Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays (Trade) (03 Edition)
by Oscar Wilde Publisher Comments The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays, by Oscar Wilde, 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...
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The Hidden Writer
by Alexander Johnson Publisher Comments "Whom do I tell when I tell a blank page?" Virginia Woolf's question is one that generations of readers and writers searching to map a creative life have asked of their own diaries. No other document quite compares with the intimacies and...
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What's Wrong with Postmodernism?: Critical Theory and the Ends of Philosophy (Parallax)
by Christopher Norris Publisher Comments In What's Wrong with Postmodernism Norris critiques the "postmodern-pragmatist malaise" of Baudrillard, Fish, Rorty, and Lyotard. In contrast he finds a continuing critical impulse -- an "enlightened or emancipatory interest" -- in thinkers like Derrida,...
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Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter
by Seth Lerer Publisher Comments Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Its history is inseparable from the history of childhood, as children are indelibly molded by the tales they hear and read—stories they will one day share with...
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The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information
by Richard A Lanham Publisher Comments If economics is about the allocation of resources, then what is the most precious resource in our new information economy? Certainly not information, for we are drowning in it. No, what we are short of is the attention to make sense of that information...
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Toni Morrison and the Idea of Africa
by La Vinia Delois Jennings Publisher Comments Toni Morrison's fiction has been read as a contribution to and critique of Western civilization and Christianity. La Vinia Jennings reveals the fundamental role African traditional religious symbols play in her work. Based on extensive research into West...
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