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Mythologies (72 Edition)
Mythologies (72 Edition)
by Roland Barthes
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"Ý"Mythologies"¨ illustrates the beautiful generosity of Barthes's progressive interest in the meaning (his word is signification) of practically everything around him, not only the books and paintings of high art, but also the slogans, trivia, toys... (read more)

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The Paris Review Interviews, IV
The Paris Review Interviews, IV
by Paris Review
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With an Introduction by Salman Rushdie For more than fifty years, The Paris Review has brought us revelatory and revealing interviews with the literary lights of our age. This critically acclaimed series continues with another eclectic lineup, including... (read more)

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Poetry as Spiritual Practice: Reading, Writing, and Using Poetry in Your Daily Rituals, Aspirations, and Intentions
Poetry as Spiritual Practice: Reading, Writing, and Using Poetry in Your Daily Rituals, Aspirations, and Intentions
by Robert McDowell
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"[When we read and write poetry,] it is as if a long-settled cloud in our mind suddenly dissipates, and we are divine once again." — from the Introduction Poetry is the language of devotion in prayer, chant, and song. Reading and writing poetry... (read more)

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The Poetics of Space
The Poetics of Space
by Gaston Bachelard
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The classic book on how we experience intimate spaces. "A magical book. . . . A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced—and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will... (read more)

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Subculture: The Meaning of Style (New Accents)
Subculture: The Meaning of Style (New Accents)
by Dick Hebdige
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'Hebdige's Subculture: The Meaning of Style is so important: 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... (read more)

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The Paris Review Interviews, Volume II
The Paris Review Interviews, Volume II
by The Paris Review and Philip Gourevitch
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Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works of finely crafted literature. From William Faulkner's determination that a great... (read more)

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Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives
Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives
by Elizabeth Benedict
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Benedict delivers a collection of essays by 30 of today's most important writers, detailing the people, events, or books that have influenced their writing.... (read more)

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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems
Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems
by Camille Paglia
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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems is destined to become a landmark. In it, America's premier intellectual provocateur explores and celebrates a series of great poems of the Western tradition, including some... (read more)

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Intertextuality (New Critical Idiom)
Intertextuality (New Critical Idiom)
by Graham Allen
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No text has its meaning alone; all texts have their meaning in relation to other texts. Since Julia Kristeva coined the term in the 1960s, "intertextuality" has been a dominant idea within literary and cultural studies leaving none of the traditional... (read more)

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Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women
Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women
by Anne Balsamo
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"Balsamo takes us further into cyborg territory than any intelligent book has done. Her surveys provide a surefooted guide to the survival both of womens' health and feminist politics in many of those new and unfamiliar areas of hi-tech experience that... (read more)

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Structuralism in Literature
Structuralism in Literature
by Robert E Scholes
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A distinguished literary critic explores the linguistic background of structuralism, its historical connections to romanticism and Russian formalism, and the theory and practice of the leading contemporary structuralist literary critics. "Beautifully... (read more)

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Literature as Exploration
Literature as Exploration
by Louise M Rosenblatt
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In Literature as Exploration, Rosenblatt presents her unique theory of literature and focuses on the immense, often untapped, potential for the study and teaching of literature in a democratic society. Her "transactional" theory of literature examines... (read more)

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Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You about Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights
Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You about Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights
by Robert Schnakenberg
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In the tradition of Cormac O'Brien's bestselling Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents, Schnakenberg delivers uncensored profiles of the world's greatest writers, complete with hundreds of little-known, politically incorrect, and downright bizarre facts.... (read more)

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An Introduction to English Poetry
An Introduction to English Poetry
by James Fenton
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A wise, absorbing, and surprising introduction to poetry written in English, from one of England's leading poetsJames Fenton is that rare scholar not ashamed to admit that he mostly reads for pleasure (Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books). In... (read more)

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The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again
The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again
by Sven Birkerts
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The Art Of series is a new line of books reinvigorating the practice of craft and criticism. Each book will be a brief, witty, and useful exploration of fiction, nonfiction, or poetry by a writer impassioned by a singular craft issue. The Art Of volumes... (read more)

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No Mans Land Volume 1
No Mans Land Volume 1
by Sandra M Gilbert
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With this powerful and provocative book the authors of the classic The Madwoman in the Attic launch a landmark three-volume overview of modern literature in England and America, bringing feminist theory to bear on writings by men as well as women. In... (read more)

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Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth
Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth
by Nina Auerbach
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Here is a bold new vision of Victorianculture: a study of myths of womanhoodthat shatters the usual generalizationsabout the squeezed, crushed, and ego-less Victorian woman. Through copious examples drawn fromliterature, art, and biography... (read more)

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The Paris Review Interviews, I
The Paris Review Interviews, I
by The Paris Review and Philip Gourevitch
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Two-time National Magazine Awards Nominee, The Paris Review, offers Powell's readers an exclusive subscription offer — the best deal around. Click here for details. The Paris Review has introduced the important writers of the day... (read more)

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Dubliners (Dover Thrift Editions)
Dubliners (Dover Thrift Editions)
by James Joyce
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Declared by their author to be a chapter in the moral history of Ireland, this collection of 15 tales offers vivid, tightly focused observations of the lives of Dublin's poorer classes. A fine and accessible introduction to the work of one of the 20th... (read more)

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Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism (Cambridge Studies in American Literature & Culture)
Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism (Cambridge Studies in American Literature & Culture)
by Aldon Lynn Nielsen
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This book traces the embrace and transformation of black modernisms and postmodernisms by African-American poets in the decades after World War II.... (read more)

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