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Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (3RD 09 Edition)
Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms (3RD 09 Edition)
by Chris Baldick
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From Jacques Derridas différance to Henry Jamess ficelle, the vocabulary of literary theory and criticism can seem difficult if not opaque. To help remedy the average readers bafflement, this new Third Edition of Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms... (read more)

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From Shakespeare To Existentialism: Essays on Shakespeare and Goethe; Hegel and Kierkegaard; Nietzsche, Rilke and Freud; Jaspers, Heidegger, and Toynb
From Shakespeare To Existentialism: Essays on Shakespeare and Goethe; Hegel and Kierkegaard; Nietzsche, Rilke and Freud; Jaspers, Heidegger, and Toynb
by Walter Kaufmann
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[It] is critics like Mr. Kaufmann who often prove the most stimulating to read the most memorable in their effect. The... (read more)

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A Poetry Handbook
A Poetry Handbook
by Mary Oliver
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I bought A Poetry Handbook when I entered my first poetry-writing class as an undergrad. My professor was a notorious curmudgeon who didn't spare anyone's feelings and expected each progressive class in the term "to separate the sheep from the goats." I... (read more)

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A Little Book on the Human Shadow
A Little Book on the Human Shadow
by Robert Bly
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Robert Bly, renowned poet and author of the ground-breaking bestseller Iron John, mingles essay and verse to explore the Shadow -- the dark side of the human personality -- and the importance of confronting it.... (read more)

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Trauma Explorations in Memory
Trauma Explorations in Memory
by Cathy Caruth
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Because traumatic events are unbearable in their horror and intensity, they often exist as memories that are not immediately recognizable as truth. Such experiences are best understood not only through the straightforward acquisition of facts but through... (read more)

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Art of Description : World Into World (10 Edition)
Art of Description : World Into World (10 Edition)
by Mark Doty
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“It sounds like a simple thing, to say what you see,” Mark Doty begins. “But try to find words for the shades of a mottled sassafras leaf, or the reflectivity of a bay on an August morning, or the very beginnings of desire stirring in... (read more)

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Triumph of Narrative : Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture (99 Edition)
Triumph of Narrative : Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture (99 Edition)
by Robert Fulford
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A lively, strikingly original look at the prevalence and endurance of stories in our lives and our culture. When I hear a good story, I have an almost physical need to tell it. Of all the ways we communicate with one another the story has established... (read more)

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Falling Into Theory: Conflicting Views on Reading Literature
Falling Into Theory: Conflicting Views on Reading Literature
by David H Richter
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Falling into Theory is a brief and inexpensive collection of essays that asks literature students to think about the fundamental questions of literary studies today.... (read more)

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Mythologies
Mythologies
by Roland Barthes
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"[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, food,... (read more)

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How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies
How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies
by Robert Dale Parker
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Offering a refreshing combination of accessibility and intellectual rigor, How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies presents an up-to-date, concise, and wide-ranging historicist survey of contemporary thinking in... (read more)

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Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Post-contemporary Interventions Series) (91 Edition)
Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Post-contemporary Interventions Series) (91 Edition)
by Frederic Jameson
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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)

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The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature
The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature
by Malcolm Godden
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This book introduces students to the literature of Anglo-Saxon England, the period from 600-1066, in a collection of fifteen specially commissioned essays. The chapters are written by experts, but designed to be accessible to students who may be... (read more)

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The Pleasure of the Text
The Pleasure of the Text
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 Barthess answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism . . . not only a poetics of reading .... (read more)

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The Location of Culture
The Location of Culture
by Homi K Bhabha
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Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others. In The Location of Culture, he uses concepts such... (read more)

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Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition
Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition
by Umberto Eco
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How do we know a cat is a cat? And why do we call it a cat? How much of our perception of things is based on cognitive ability, and how much on linguistic resources? Here, in six remarkable essays, Umberto Eco explores in depth questions of reality... (read more)

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Mimesis
Mimesis
by Erich Auerbach
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A half-century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis still stands as a monumental achievement in literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to... (read more)

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Postmodern Theory (Critical Perspectives)
Postmodern Theory (Critical Perspectives)
by Steven Best
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In this timely volume, the authors systematically analyze postmodern theory to evaluate its relevance for critical social theory and radical politics today. Best and Kellner provide: * An introduction and critique of the work of Foucault, Deleuze and... (read more)

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The Rhetoric of Fiction
The Rhetoric of Fiction
by Wayne C Booth
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The first edition of The Rhetoric of Fiction transformed the criticism of fiction and soon became a classic in the field. One of the most widely used texts in fiction courses, it is a standard reference point in advanced discussions of how fictional form... (read more)

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Twenty Poems to Bless Your Marriage: And One to Save It
Twenty Poems to Bless Your Marriage: And One to Save It
by Roger Housden
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In this collection of reflective prose and poetry, author Roger Housden offers 20 poems and essays that celebrate and illuminate the life of marriage. Poems can teach us in ways that surpass other forms of understanding, especially when the subject... (read more)

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Culture and Imperialism
Culture and Imperialism
by Edward W Said
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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)

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