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The Gothic Reader: A Critical Anthology by Martin Myrone Publisher Comments "The Gothic Reader" brings together texts and images from the origins of Gothic art and writing up to the 20th century. It is the first publication to present the Gothic through both the visual arts and literature, helping to establish a new framework... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Off Center: Power and Culture Relations Between Japan and the United States by Masao Miyoshi Publisher Comments What is the connection between the United States' imbalance of trade with Japan and the imbalance of translation in the other direction? Between Western literary critics' estimates of Japanese fiction and Japanese politicians' "America-bashing"? Between... (read more) List Price $19.50 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Figures of Thinking: Convergences in Contemporary Culture by Vicky A Clark Publisher Comments Works by contemporary artists address the circumstances in a global community that have given rise to hybrid cultures and expansive vocabularies.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks by Peter Gay Publisher Comments Typically, readers have been led to believe that fiction, especially the Realist novels that dominated Western culture for over half a century, is based on historical truth and that great novels possess documentary value. Stendhal called the novel a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Senses of the Text: Intensional Semantics and Literary Theory by William C Dowling Publisher Comments In recent years the notion of determinate meaning -- the idea that a word or a line in a literary text means one thing rather than another thing, X rather than Y -- has been widely rejected in the name of Derrida and differance, reader-response criticism,... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.46 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list After the New Criticism by Frank Lentricchia Publisher Comments This work is the first history and evaluation of contemporary American critical theory within its European philosophical contexts. In the first part, Frank Lentricchia analyzes the impact on our critical thought of Frye, Stevens, Kermode, Sartre, Poulet,... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Eudora Welty (Modern Critical Views) by Harold Bloom Synopsis -- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights -- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price $7.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rereading Russian Poetry (Russian Literature and Thought) by Stephanie Sandler Publisher Comments Russia's poets hold a special place in Russian culture, perhaps revealing more about their own country than do poets of any other nation. In this unique and wide-ranging collection of writings, contributors from the United States, Britain, and Russia... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Politics of Home: Postcolonial Relocations Twentieth-Cent by Rosemary Mar George Publisher Comments The Politics of Home examines the changing representations of home in twentieth-century English literature. Examining imperial fiction, contemporary literary and cultural theory, and postcolonial narratives on belonging, exile and immigration, Rosemary... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition by Helen Vendler Publisher Comments is also invaluable for what it has to tell us about the poetic process--about how art copes with the obdurate givens of life, and about the conflict in art between the whim of fate and the artist's will to choose.... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Literary Criticism on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Art & Revolution by Leon Trotsky Publisher Comments One of the outstanding revolutionary leaders of the 2Oth century discusses questions of literature, art, and culture in a period of capitalist decline and working-class struggle. In these writings, Trotsky examines the place and aesthetic autonomy of art... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Trying It Out in America: Literary and Other Performances by Richard Poirier Publisher Comments As the title suggests, Poirier (distinguished professor emeritus, Rutgers University) believes that the US has been uncommonly hospitable to literary and artistic experimentation. With analytical daring and shrewd literary delicacy, he advances this... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Modernity and Mass Culture by James Naremore Publisher Comments Modernity and Mass Culture is a wide-ranging analysis of the relationship among industrialization, democracy, and art in the 20th century. US and British scholars discuss the interaction of "high," "popular," and "mass" art, showing how Western culture... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rich and Strange: Gender, History, Modernism by Marianne Dekoven Publisher Comments Like the products of the "sea-change" described in Ariel's song in The Tempest, modernist writing is "rich and strange." Its greatness lies in its density and its dislocations, which have until now been viewed as a repudiation of and an alternative to... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy #85: I Am the Other: Literary Negotiations of Human Cloning by Maria Alin Ferreira Publisher Comments The idea of human cloning has fascinated writers and philosophers for centuries and has been dramatized in myths and fiction. This volume traces these fictional illustrations of human cloning from some of the earlier manifestations to more contemporary... (read more) List Price $59.95 Your price $47.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Heartbreakers: Women and Violence in Contemporary Culture and Literature by Josephine G Hendin Publisher Comments From Medea to Goneril to Sharon Stone's ice-pick murderer to Susan Smith, the image of the violent woman has fascinated readers and audiences in a way that other figures have not. Jo Hendin looks at the figure of the violent woman in her latest book... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $7.70 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Pretty in Punk: Girls' Gender Resistance in a Boys' Subculture by Lauraine Leblanc Powells.com Staff Pick Lauraine Leblanc has done a bang up job; Pretty in Punk is one of the most interesting youth ethnographies to date. Finally, in the wake of many books about girls' self-esteem, here's a publication that describes how some girls resist societal pressures... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $21.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Scholar's Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World by Jerome J Mcgann Publisher Comments For Jerome McGann, the purpose of scholarship is to preserve and pass on cultural heritage, a feat accomplished through discussion among scholars and interested nonspecialists. In The Scholar’s Art, a collection of thirteen essays, McGann both... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Reconfigured Spheres: Feminist Explorations of Literary Space by Margaret R Higonnet Book News Annotation A collection of essays that looks at literary representations of space--physical, psychological, political, and cultural--from a perspective that is both comparative and feminist. It examines the relationship between gender and geography in a broad... (read more) Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Character and Satire in Post-War Fiction: Satirising the Self by Ian Gregson Publisher Comments This monograph analyses the use of caricature as one of the key strategies in narrative fiction since the war. Close analysis of some of the best known postwar novelists, reveals how they use caricature to express postmodern conceptions of the self. In... (read more) List Price $110.00 Your price $45.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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