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Literary Lives
by Edward Sorel  Publisher Comments With amusing vignettes, award-winning caricaturist Sorel uses his distinctive style to illustrate the strange and eccentric lives of ten iconic literary figures: Tolstoy, Sartre, Eliot, Proust, Yeats, Brecht, Jung, Rand, Mailer, and Hellman....
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NASA/Trek: Popular Science and Sex in America
by Constance Penley Publisher Comments Penley investigates the American fascination with space, examining issues of sex and sexuality through Star Trek and NASA....
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Invention of Hysteria: Charcot and the Photographic Iconography of the Salpetriere
by Georges Didi-huberman Publisher Comments The first English-language publication of a classic French book on the relationship between the development of photography and of the medical category of hysteria....
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The Admen Move on Lhasa: Writing and Culture in a Virtual World
by Steven Heighton Publisher Comments Acclaimed fiction writer and poet Steven Heighton confronts our society's growing preference for the virtual—in the media, in our modes of communication, in art, in war—as opposed to the visceral. Heighton explores ways of remaining...
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Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies
by Stephen Greenblatt Publisher Comments In this collection of essays, 24 leading scholars examine the major developments that have expanded the horizons of English and American literary studies during recent decades. The volume reviews the significant scholarship for major historical periods...
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Northrop Fryeeastern and Western Persp (Frye Studies)
by Jean Ogrady Publisher Comments The first section - "Frye as Theorist" - offers insights into his theoretical approaches and the context provided by cross-cultural questions. The second section applies his theory to Canadian literature and includes a memorable reading of Margaret...
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Comparative Poetics: An Intercultural Essay on Theories of Literature
by Earl Miner Publisher Comments "Comparative literature," Earl Miner writes, "clearly involves something more than comparing two great German poets, and something different from a Chinese studying French literature or a Russian studying Italian literature." But what would a true...
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Nothing to Admire: The Politics of Poetic Satire from Dryden to Merrill
by Christopher Yu Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-211) and index....
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The Death of Discourse
by Ronald K. L. Collins and David M. Skover Review "No other book on the First Amendment even approximates it or rivals its creativity." David M. O'Brien, author of Constitutional Law...
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Literati Identity & Its Fictional Representations in Late Imperial China
by Stephen Roddy Publisher Comments “What makes this book so outstanding is that unlike the plethora of books that talk in generalities about ‘the literati’ as an undifferentiated group, Roddy disaggregates the literati, discussing the recognized literati vocations in...
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The Crisis of Criticism
by Maurice Berger Publisher Comments Do critics grant cultural permission or is their work merely descriptive? Is some art beyond criticism? How can critics bridge the gap between a sometimes hermetic art community and the general public? THE CRISIS OF CRITICISM is a collection of...
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Rape & Writing in the "Heptameron" of Marguerite de Navarre
by Patricia Cholakian Publisher Comments Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), the sister of the French king François I, composed the Heptaméron as a complex collection of seventy-two novellas, creating one of the first examples of realistic, psychological fiction in French...
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Suspect
by John Knechtel Publisher Comments Essays, graphic novels, films, and commentary examine the figure of the suspect and the politics of suspicion in a post-9/11 world....
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Colonialism Postcolonialism 2ND Edition
by Ania Loomba Publisher Comments "Colonialism/Postcolonialism" is a remarkably comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial and postcolonial discourses. It is the essential introduction to the vibrant, crucially important areas of literary...
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Failure!: Experiments in Aesthetic and Social Practices
by Nicole Antebi Publisher Comments With a design that's half pocket-book, half zine, this provocative volume offers an array of essays, interviews and artworks that describe a minor history of failure. Tracing the idea of failure through contemporary art, activism, literature and...
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Passions, Pedagogies, and 21st Century Technologies
by Gail E. Hawisher Publisher Comments A work on the cutting edge of technology and composition....
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Persons and Things
by Barbara Johnson Publisher Comments Moving effortlessly between symbolist poetry and Barbie dolls, artificial intelligence and Kleist, Kant, and Winnicott, Barbara Johnson not only clarifies psychological and social dynamics; she also re-dramatizes the work of important tropesandmdash...
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American Visions #3: The American Body in Context: An Anthology: An Anthology
by Jessica R Johnston Publisher Comments The body is a physical entity and a symbolic artifact. It is both created in the world of nature and also physically reconstructed by a culture. The body is both an internal, subjective environment and simultaneously an object for others to observe and...
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Interpreting Cultures: Literature, Religion, and the Human Sciences
by Jonathan Hart Publisher Comments This book focuses on how we perceive, know and interpret culture across disciplinary boundaries. The study ranges from the Bible and classical works to those by and about men and women in Europe, the Americas and beyond of Native, African, European and...
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Where Men Hide
by James B. Twitchell Publisher Comments If you ask men if they spend any time hiding, they usually look at you as if you're nuts. 'What, me hide?' But if you ask women whether men hide, they immediately know what you mean. Where Men Hide is a spirited tour of the dark and often dirty places...
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