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by Guy Debord  Publisher Comments Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively... (read more)  List Price $12.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Paul Johnson Publisher Comments A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sarte, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillan Hellman, Cyril... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Cobley Publisher Comments For anybody who wishes to know why signs are crucial to human existence and how we can begin to understand systems of signification, this book is the place to start.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Harold Bloom Publisher Comments In a monumental achievement of scholarship, America's preeminent literary critic presents an unprecedented celebration of one hundred of the most creative literary minds in history. What is genius? It is the trait, says Harold Bloom, of standing both... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lee Siegel Publisher Comments From the author hailed by the New York Times Book Review for his “drive-by brilliance” and dubbed by the New York Times Magazine as “one of the country’s most eloquent and acid-tongued critics” comes a ruthless challenge to... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $15.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Clive James Publisher Comments Forty years in the making, a new cultural canon that celebrates truth over hypocrisy, literature over totalitarianism. Echoing Edward Said's belief that Western humanism is not enough, we need a universal humanism, the renowned critic Clive James... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $24.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Homi K Bhabha Synopsis Explains why the post-colonial critique has altered forever the landscape of postmodern discourse. This work examines the displacement of the colonizer's legitimizing cultural authority and looks at the cultural and political boundaries which exist in... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Erich Auerbach Publisher Comments 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) List Price $18.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Adam Sisman Publisher Comments The story of the legendary friendship between Wordsworth and Coleridge The friendship between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced dazzling results. From it came Lyrical Ballads, the volume that kick-started the Romantic Movement in... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $19.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Carole Burns Publisher Comments A guide where today's best writers reveal their secrets. How do writers approach a new novel? Do they start with plot, character, or theme? A. S. Byatt starts with color. E. L. Doctorow begins with an image. In Off the Page, authors tell us how they work,... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $11.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joseph Epstein Publisher Comments What constitutes literary genius? This collection of essays focuses on twenty-five English-language writers whose original and enduring works enrich our lives. Renowned portraitist Barry Moser provides a handsome engraving of each writer, together with... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $13.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Terry Eagleton Synopsis This is a collection of Terry Eagleton's best criticisms and book reviews. His skill in this field is notable: never content merely to assess the ideas of a writer, Eagleton, in his inimitable style, always paints a vivid theorectical fresco as the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Roland Barthes 
Powells.com Staff Pick This is a book best read immediately after the end of an intimate relationship. Devoid of sentimentality, it is a meditation of a lover when alone. Written in fragments, the overriding theme is that the lover, I, never absolutely, truly sees the beloved,... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Harold Bloom
Synopsis This is a revised and enlarged edition of the most extensive and detailed critical reading of English Romantic poetry ever attempted in a single volume.... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by M H Abrams Publisher Comments First published in 1957, A GLOSSARY OF LITERARY TERMS contains succinct essays on the terms used in discussing literature, literary history, and literary criticism. This text is an indispensable reference for students.... (read more) List Price $39.50 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by George Steiner Publisher Comments Can there be major dimensions of a poem, a painting, a musical composition created in the absence of God? Or, is God always a real presence in the arts? Steiner passionately argues that a transcendent reality grounds all genuine art and human... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carol C Donley Synopsis Most cultures ostracize people who do not fit within their norms. They pressure abnormal people to change their appearance, fix what bothers others, or stay out of sight -- a pressure Leslie Fiedler has named "The Tyranny of the Normal". This anthology... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price $11.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Georg Lukacs Publisher Comments Georg Lukács (1885–1971) is now recognized as one of the most innovative and best-informed literary critics of the twentieth century. Trained in the German philosophic tradition of Kant, Hegel, and Marx, he escaped Nazi persecution by fleeing... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ziauddin Sardar Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-173) and index.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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