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English Inside & Out: The Places of Literary Criticism
by Susan Gubar  Publisher Comments Amid diverse theoretical debates about the canon in the media and in academia, in "English Inside and Out leading proponents of literary studies take a close look at the discipline and the profession and envisage its future....
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Theory and History of Literature #72: Writings on Literature
by N S Trubetzkoy Book News Annotation Abramson (Hebrew literature, U. of Oxford) presents a detailed critical description and thematic analysis of Amichai's work, with reference to the historical background from which it has emerged. The problems of an emerging national culture are seen...
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Julia Kristeva, Interviews
by Julia Kristeva Publisher Comments A collection of 22 interviews and one personal essay, Julia Kristeva Interviews presents an intimate and accessible portrait of one of France's most important critical thinkers and intellectual personalities....
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Engendering Inspiration: Visionary Strategies in Rilke, Lawrence, and H. D.
by Helen Sword Publisher Comments Investigates the development of a gendered poetics of inspiration in the modernist period...
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Studies in Major Literary Authors #20: Machine That Sings; Modernism, Hart Crane and the Culture of the Body
by Gordon Tapper Publisher Comments "The Machine That Sings" examines the relationship between Crane's poetry and the widespread preoccupation with the animality of the body that helped define American modernism during the 1920s. Focusing on "Voyages," "The Wine Menagerie," "Possessions...
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Against Pre-Emptive War
by Tani Barlow Publisher Comments In the war on Iraq, the Bush administration has advanced a strategy of preemption--striking in advance of any realized threat. Creating its own reality of war and presenting the destabilization of a supposed threat as a measure of success, preemption...
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Symptoms of Culture
by Marjorie B Garber Publisher Comments The symptoms of culture are the anxieties that underlie modern life: the instability of gender roles, the mystery of female sexuality, the enigma of authority, the desire for greatness in ourselves and our heroes. With style, learning, and wit, Marjorie...
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Speaking of Beauty
by Denis Donoghue Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-202) and index....
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A Man's Game: Masculinity and the Anti-Aesthetics of American Literary Naturalism (Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism)
by John Dudley Publisher Comments This publication explores how concepts of masculinity shaped the aesthetic foundations of literary naturalism....
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Literary Value/Cultural Power: Verbal Arts in the 21st Century
by Lynette Hunter Publisher Comments Lynette Hunter explores the concept of literary values in this collection of essays based on the Gresham lectures. As the separation between what used to be called 'high art' and 'popular culture' dissolves, these fascinating essays address the question...
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The Smoking Book
by Lesley Stern Publisher Comments The Smoking Book is a dreamlike structure built on the solid foundation of two questions: how does it feel to smoke, and what does smoking mean? Lesley Stern, in an innovative, hybrid form of writing, muses on these questions through intersecting stories...
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Follow My Footprints (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life)
by Sylvia Bara Fishman Publisher Comments Twenty-one writers document the diverse representations and roles of Jewish women in American literature and culture....
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Discussions in Contemporary Culture #09: Culture on the Brink: Ideologies of Technology
by Gretchen Bender Publisher Comments "The best collection of advanced and stimulating essays on the meaning of the technology now available"....
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The Signs Reader: Women, Gender, and Scholarship
by Elizabeth Abel Publisher Comments Selected from the first thirty issues of "Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society," the thirteen articles in this volume indicate salient trends in feminist scholarship since 1975. Covering a wide variety of disciplines, this collection is...
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Aftershocks: The End of Style Culture
by Steve Beard Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-160) and indexes....
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Thomas Sebeok and the Signs of Life (Postmodern Encounters)
by Susan Petrilli Publisher Comments Through Sebeok's work it may come to be recognized that sign activity is the very definition of life in the universe....
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East European Monograph #547: Joseph Conrad: East European, Polish, and Worldwide
by Wiesaw Krajka Publisher Comments A collection of essays written by eminent and emerging Conrad scholars from all corners of the world, this book deals with (1) Joseph Conrad's East European and Polish contexts and (2) Joseph Conrad's imperial and American contexts, as well as selected...
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In Praise of Commercial Culture
by Tyler Cowen Publisher Comments Does a market economy encourage or discourage music, literature, and the visual arts? Do economic forces of supply and demand help or harm the pursuit of creativity? This book seeks to redress the current intellectual and popular balance and to encourage...
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Cultural Pessimism: Narratives of Decline in the Postmodern World
by Oliver Bennett Publisher Comments "Cultural Pessimism" charts the growth of pessimism in the West during the last decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on studies from a broad range of fields, the author shows how cultural pessimism in the postmodern world can be related to the...
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On Mourning: Theories of Loss in Modern Literature
by William Watkin Publisher Comments Since the events of September 11th the problems of loss, mourning and commemoration have preoccupied our culture. Ours is not a culture in mourning so much as a mourning culture. Mourning, and its ethical and communal implications, therefore, is central...
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