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Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays by Camille Paglia Publisher Comments A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Liberal Imagination by Lionel Trilling Publisher Comments '\'\\\'\\\\\\\'\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'The NYRB Classics series is designedly and determinedly exploratory and eclectic, a mix of fiction and non-fiction from different eras and times and of various sorts. The series includes nineteenth century novels and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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True Friendship: Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound (Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities) by Christopher Ricks Publisher Comments True Friendship looks closely at three outstanding poets of the past half-century—Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell—through the lens of their relation to their two predecessors in genius, T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Recent Theories of Narrative by Wallace Martin Publisher Comments This book ranges over the entitle spectrum of recent theories of narrative to show how they have altered our understanding not only of fiction but of nonfictional forms such as biography and historical writing.... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fame by Tom Payne Publisher Comments We may regard celebrities as deities, but that does not mean we worship them with deference. From prehistory to the present, humanity has possessed a primal urge first to exalt the famous but then to cut them down (Michael Jackson, anyone?). Why do... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mythologies by Roland Barthes Publisher Comments "[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) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Prison-House of Language: A Critical Account of Structuralism and Russian Formalism (Princeton Essays in Literature) by Fredric Jameson Review A densely but lucidly written critique of modern linguistic theory and its application in and implications for formalism and structuralism. . . . The Prison-House of Language ought to be purchased by every library and read by everyone interested in... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure by Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser Publisher Comments Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity — six words at a time. One Life. Six Words. What's Yours? When Hemingway famously wrote, "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn," he... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $5.50 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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Perceiving Other Worlds. (Reprint, 1991). by Edwin Thumboo And Thiru Kandiah Synopsis The papers in this volume were delivered at the Symposium on Literature in Asia and the Pacific Region: Perceiving Other Worlds held in Singapore in November 1989. Writers, critics and scholars from Southeast Asia, South Asia, Australia, New Zealand, the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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All That Is Solid Melts Into Air by Marshall Berman Publisher Comments "A bubbling caldron of ideas . . . Enlightening and valuable." —Mervyn Jones, New Statesman. The political and social revolutions of the nineteenth century, the pivotal writings of Goethe, Marx, Dostoevsky, and others, and the creation of new... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Female Subjects in Black and White by Elizabeth Abel Publisher Comments This landmark collaboration between African American and white feminists goes to the heart of problems that have troubled feminist thinking for decades. Putting the racial dynamics of feminist interpretation center stage, these essays question such... (read more) List Price $42.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Culture and Imperialism 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: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze Publisher Comments This is an essential text for feminists, literary theorists, social scientists, philosophers, and others interested in the problems of contemporary Western culture.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by Harold Bloom Publisher Comments Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. He argues against ideology in literary criticism; he laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards; he deplores... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Symbolic Exchange and Death (Theory, Culture & Society) by Jean Baudrillard Publisher Comments Hailed as a classic, Symbolic Exchange and Death is a key source for the redefinition of contemporary social thought. Jean Baudrillard's critical gaze appraises social theories as diverse as cybernetics, ethnography, psychoanalysis, feminism, Merxism... (read more) List Price $66.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Poet's Dictionary: A Handbook of Prosody and Poetic Devices by William Packard Publisher Comments This handbook defines the tools, terms, and techniques of poetry. Arranged alphabetically from "accent" to "zeugma," The Poets Dictionary is clear, superb, and complete.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language by Douglas Hofstadter Publisher Comments Lost in an art—the art of translation. Thus, in an elegant anagram (translation = lost in an art), Pulitzer Prize-winning author and pioneering cognitive scientist Douglas Hofstadter hints at what led him to pen a deep personal homage to the witty... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Fables of Identity: Studies in Poetic Mythology by Northrop Frye Publisher Comments In this outstanding collection of sixteen essays, the world-renowned critic and scholar discusses various works in the central tradition of English mythopoeic poetry, paying particular attention to the centrality of Romanticism.... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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