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Perrines Sound and Sense by Laurence Perrine Publisher Comments Assigned more than any other introductory poetry text on the market! Features -- Known for its exemplary poetry selections, Perrine's Sound and Sense is written for the student who is beginning a serious study of poetry. -- Discusses the elements of... (read more) List Price $48.00 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How To Read a Poem and Fall in Love With Poetry (99 Edition) by Edward Hirsch Publisher Comments "Read a poem to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read it while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone sleeps next to you. Say it over to yourself in a place where silence reigns and the din of culture-the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Orientalism (78 Edition) by Edward W. Said Publisher Comments The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University,examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems by Camille Paglia Staff Pick Camille Paglia is a top-notch analyst, and she'll introduce you to poems, poets, and ideas for how to see the written word in new and exciting ways.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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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... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Apocalypse Culture by Adam Parfrey Publisher Comments Two thousand years have passed since the death of Christ and the world is going mad. Nihilist prophets, born-again pornographers, transcendental schizophrenics and just plain folks are united in their belief in an imminent global catastrophe. What are... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought by Marilynne Robinson Publisher Comments In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing "Calvinism" and its creator Jean Cauvin from the repressive "puritan" stereotype, or considering... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-By Essays on American Dread, American Dreams by Mark Dery Publisher Comments From the cultural critic Wired called “provocative and cuttingly humorous” comes a viciously funny, joltingly insightful collection of drive-by critiques of contemporary America where chaos is the new normal. Exploring the darkest corners of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Ten Poems to Set You Free by Roger Housden Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-138).... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Writers of the Bay Area by Sarah Rosenthal Publisher Comments A Community Writing Itself features internationally respected writers Michael Palmer, Nathaniel Mackey, Leslie Scalapino, Brenda Hillman, Kathleen Fraser, Stephen Ratcliffe, Robert Glück, and Barbara Guest, and important younger writers Truong Tran... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Post-contemporary Interventions Series) (91 Edition) by Frederic Jameson Publisher Comments The word postmodernism, for better or worse, has entered everyday discourse. Applied everywhere, it as acquired an authority to describe a variety of concerns--culture, critiques of culture, architecture, video, music, the penchant for economic forecasts... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies) by Jasbir K Puar Publisher Comments In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how liberal... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The American century :varieties of culture in modern times by Norman F Cantor Publisher Comments Deftly Moving from Movies to Marxism, Freud to feminism, The American Century covers an exhaustive range of topics relating to the vibrant culture of the twentieth century. Much more than just an exploration of art and literature, this entertaining and... (read more) Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader by Chris Kraus Publisher Comments Compiled in 2001 to commemorate the passing of an era,... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tears of Eros by Georges Bataille Publisher Comments Nonfiction. THE TEARS OF EROS is the culmination of Georges Bataille's inquiries into the relationship between violence and the sacred. Taking up such figures as Gilles de Rais, Erzebet Bathory, the Marquis de Sade, El Greco, Gustave Moreau, Andre Breton,... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Wounded Body: Remembering the Markings of Flesh (Suny Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture) by Dennis Pat Slattery Publisher Comments An almost obsessive interest in the human body in literary and psychological theory over the past ten years has uncovered not just the physical body but the body as metaphor, political emblem, social construction, and symptom.<P>The Wounded Body... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine by Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler Staff Pick Girl power, Riot Grrrl, first-, second-, or third-wave feminist — however you choose to label your gender-equality insistence, Bitch magazine has had you covered. To celebrate their ten year anniversary, Bitch has released this cultural compendium; a... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Very Short Introductions #74: Postmodernism by Christopher Butler Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-131) and index.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century: Letters From... by Sandra M Gilbert Publisher Comments This final volume in Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar's landmark trilogy argues that twentieth-century women of letters-from Virginia Woolf, Marianne Moore, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and H.D. to Zora Neale Hurston, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison, and... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Culture and Imperialism (93 Edition) by Edward W. Said Publisher Comments In Culture and Imperialism, Edward Said's immense erudition and interpretive audacity are brought to bear on a variety of literatures, reanimating the terms of his title and discovering, in the process, how some of the most revered cultural productions... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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