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Mythologies (72 Edition) by Roland Barthes Publisher Comments "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) List Price $13.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Paris Review Interviews, IV by Paris Review Synopsis 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) List Price $18.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Poetry as Spiritual Practice: Reading, Writing, and Using Poetry in Your Daily Rituals, Aspirations, and Intentions by Robert McDowell Publisher Comments "[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) List Price $20.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Subculture: The Meaning of Style (New Accents) by Dick Hebdige Publisher Comments '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) List Price $28.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Paris Review Interviews, Volume II by The Paris Review and Philip Gourevitch Publisher Comments 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) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives by Elizabeth Benedict Synopsis 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) List Price $24.99 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems by Camille Paglia Publisher Comments 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) List Price $20.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Intertextuality (New Critical Idiom) by Graham Allen Publisher Comments 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) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Technologies of the Gendered Body: Reading Cyborg Women by Anne Balsamo Publisher Comments "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) List Price $29.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Structuralism in Literature by Robert E Scholes Publisher Comments 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) List Price $30.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Literature as Exploration by Louise M Rosenblatt Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You about Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights by Robert Schnakenberg Synopsis 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) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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An Introduction to English Poetry by James Fenton Publisher Comments 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) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art of Time in Memoir: Then, Again by Sven Birkerts Publisher Comments 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) List Price $12.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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No Mans Land Volume 1 by Sandra M Gilbert Publisher Comments 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) List Price $38.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth by Nina Auerbach Publisher Comments 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) List Price $30.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Paris Review Interviews, I by The Paris Review and Philip Gourevitch Special Offer 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) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dubliners (Dover Thrift Editions) by James Joyce Publisher Comments 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) List Price $3.25 Your price: $0.60 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Chant: Languages of African-American Postmodernism (Cambridge Studies in American Literature & Culture) by Aldon Lynn Nielsen Publisher Comments 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) List Price $44.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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