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What Is Honor?: A Question of Moral Imperatives
by Alexander Welsh  Publisher Comments What is honor? Has its meaning changed since ancient times? Is it an outmoded notion? Does it still have the power to direct our behavior? In this provocative book Alexander Welsh considers the history and meaning of honor and dismisses the idea that we...
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Rhetoric of Fiction (2ND 83 Edition)
by Wayne C. Booth Publisher Comments The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form...
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Girl Sleuth : Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her (05 Edition)
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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Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal
by Rob Riemen Publisher Comments In the pages of this slim, powerful book Rob Riemen argues with passion that “nobility of spirit” is the quintessence of a civilized world. It is, as Thomas Mann believed, the sole corrective for human history. Without nobility of spirit...
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How to Read and Why
by Harold Bloom
Powells.com Staff Pick If Michael Jordan offered a seminar on jumping, you can bet anyone with a pair of Nikes would want to attend. Just so, when Harold Bloom published a book called How to Read and Why it went straight onto the New York Times Bestseller list. As a...
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Ecrits: A Selection
by Jacques Lacan Publisher Comments Brilliant and Innovative, Jacques Lacan's work has had a tremendous influence on contemporary discourse. Lacan lies at the epicenter of contemporary discourses about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, the drives, the law, and enjoyment. Yet his...
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Culture in the Age of Three Worlds
by Michael Denning Publisher Comments Before the midpoint of the twentieth century, culture as a subject was routinely relegated to the background of any period's study. From the 1950s on, however, it moved very clearly to the foreground. Suddenly culture was everywhere: no longer the...
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The Rhizomatic West: Representing the American West in a Transnational, Global, Media Age (Postwestern Horizons)
by Neil Campbell Publisher Comments Is the American West in Sergio Leone’s “spaghetti westerns” the same American West we find in Douglas Coupland’s Generation X? In Jim Jarmusch’s movies? In Calexico’s music? Or is the American West, as this book tells...
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Doing What Comes Naturally
by Stanley Fish Publisher Comments With six enormously influential and widely discussed books to his credit, Stanley Fish is perhaps the most quoted, most controversial, most in-demand, and most feared English teacher in the world, and one of the very best essayists in any field...
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The Archive
by Walter Benjamin Publisher Comments An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin's personal manuscripts, images, and documents from his own collection. The works of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin are a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps and fragments of everyday...
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The Jean Baudrillard Reader (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought & Cultural Criticism)
by Steve Redhead Publisher Comments Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was a controversial social and cultural theorist known for his trenchant analyses of media and technological communication. Belonging to the generation of French thinkers that included Gilles Deleuze, Jean-FranAois Lyotard...
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The Cultures of Globalization
by Fredric (edt) Jameson Publisher Comments A pervasive force that evades easy analysis, globalization has come to represent the export and import of culture, the speed and intensity of which has increased to unprecedented levels in recent years. The Cultures of Globalization presents an...
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Subculture: The Meaning of Style (New Accents)
by Dick Hebdige Publisher Comments Complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to skinheads and punks.' - "...
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Figures of Dissent: Critical Essays on Fish, Spivak, Zizek and Others
by Terry Eagleton Publisher Comments In this collection of more than a decade of bracing criticism, Eagleton comes face to face with Guardian Stanley Fish, Gayatri Spivak, Slavoj Zizek, Edward Said, and David Beckham. All are subjected to his pugnacious wit, scathing critical pen, and...
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Sexual Personae: Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
by Camille Paglia Publisher Comments From ancient Egypt through the nineteenth century, Sexual Personae explores the provocative connections between art and pagan ritual; between Emily Dickinson and the Marquis de Sade; between Lord Byron and Elvis Presley. It ultimately challenges the...
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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
by Harold Bloom Publisher Comments Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. He argues against ideology in literary criticism; he laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards; he deplores...
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Introducing Barthes (Introducing)
by Philip Thody and Piero Publisher Comments Introducing Barthes brilliantly explains Barthes' application of these ideas to literature and popular culture, and shows why he was a key figure in the structuralist movement....
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Rhetorical Occasions: Essays on Humans and the Humanities
by Michael Berube Publisher Comments A nationally known scholar, essayist, and public advocate for the humanities, Michael Bérubé has a rapier wit and a singular talent for parsing complex philosophical, theoretical, and political questions. Rhetorical Occasions collects...
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Intellectual Construction of America: Exceptionalism and Identity from 1492 to 1800
by Jack P. Greene Publisher Comments Jack Greene explores the changing definitions of America from the time of Europe's first contact with the New World through the establishment of the American republic. Challenging historians who have argued that colonial American societies differed...
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Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Beginnings)
by Peter Barry Publisher Comments In this second edition of Beginning Theory, the variety of approaches, theorists, and technical language is lucidly and expertly unraveled and explained, and allows readers to develop their own ideas once first principles have been grasped. Expanded and...
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