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The Great War and Modern Memory
by Paul Fussell
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The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100... ( read more)
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Metaphors We Live by
by George Lakoff
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Selected Writings: 1950-1990
by Irving Howe
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In these essays celebrating a career of forty years, Howe provides the lineage for modern literary tastes, social attitudes, and political persuasions. An invaluable record of a stunningly original and consistently idealistic American mind. Foreword by... ( read more)
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The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
by Cambridge
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The most authoritative and international survey of world literature in English available.... ( read more)
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Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space
by Jules Boykoff and Kaia Sand
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Whether you call it political action, slogan, or aphorism, guerrilla poetry — the kind you hold in your hand (pamphlet or broadside) or see on the street — is probably more widely read and thought about than Walt Whitman. Imagine if Republican... ( read more)
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Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?
by Harold Bloom
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In this inspiring book, Harold Bloom, our preeminent literary critic, takes us from the Bible to twentieth-century writing, searching for the ways in which literature can inform our lives. Through comparisons of the Book of Job and Ecclesiastes; Plato... ( read more)
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Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
by Phyllis Rose
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In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses as examples the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor.... ( read more)
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Literature and Medicine #3: What's Normal?: Narratives of Mental and Emotional Disorders
by Carol C Donley
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While The Tyranny of the Normal: An Anthology is a collection of different perspectives on the lives of people whose physical appearance places them outside cultural norms, What's Normal?, the companion volume, examines the issues of "abnormalities" in... ( read more)
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Pleasure of the Text (75 Edition)
by Roland Barthes
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What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes’s answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism . . . not only a poetics of... ( read more)
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Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World
by David Denby
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THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER At the age of forty-eight, writer and film critic David Denby returned to Columbia University and re-enrolled in two core courses in Western civilization to confront the literary and philosophical masterpieces -- the "great books"... ( read more)
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Fragments of Rationality: Postmodernity & the Subject of Composition (Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture)
by Lester Faigley
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In an insightful assessment of the study and teaching of writing against the larger theoretical, political, and technological upheavals of the past thirty years, "Fragments of Rationality" questions why composition studies has been less affected by... ( read more)
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The Contemporary Irish Novel
by Linden Peach
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This new study offers innovative readings of key contemporary Irish novels, employing a range of historical, psychoanalytic and theoretical approaches. In reading texts by established writers such as Brian Moore and William Trevor against work by younger... ( read more)
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History of Japanese Literature #02: World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Era, 1600-1867
by Donald Keene
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The Tokugawa family held the shogunate from 1603 to 1867, ruling Japan and keeping the island nation isolated from the rest of the world for more than 250 years. Donald Keene looks within the "walls" of isolation and meticulously chronicles the period's... ( read more)
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Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives
by Marianna Torgovnick
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In this acclaimed book, Torgovnick explores the obsessions, fears, and longings that have produced Western views of the primitive. Crossing an extraordinary range of fields (anthropology, psychology, literature, art, and popular culture), Gone Primitive... ( read more)
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Shopping with Freud
by Rachel Bowlby
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In "Shopping with Freud," the author asks: what do we mean when we say consumer'? Tracking the complexity of the question through literature and psychology texts: "Lolita," "The Picture of Dorian Gray," "Lady Chatterley's Lover," and Freud's work on the... ( read more)
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Dialogic Imagination : Four Essays (81 Edition)
by M.m. Bakhtin
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These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)--known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky--as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in... ( read more)
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Incorporations
by Jonathan Crary
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This volume of Zone presents a diverse group of reflections and interventions on the fate of the body and of subjectivity within twentieth-century modernity. Essays, image-text projects, photographic dossiers, and philosophical and scientific articles... ( read more)
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The Truth in Painting
by Jacques Derrida
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"The four essays in this volume constitute Derrida's most explicit and sustained reflection on the art work as pictorial artifact, a reflection partly by way of philosophical aesthetics (Kant, Heidegger), partly by way of a commentary on art works and... ( read more)
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Subculture: The Meaning of Style (New Accents)
by Dick Hebdige
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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.' - "... ( read more)
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Readings (03 Edition)
by Dirda
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Intimate, humorous and insightful, "Readings" is a collection of classic essays and reviews by Michael Dirda, book critic of the "Washington Post" and winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for criticism.... ( read more)
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