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by Simon During  Synopsis The first edition of The Cultural Studies Reader established itself as the leader in the field, providing the ideal introduction to this exciting and influential discipline. This expanded second edition offers a wider selection of essays covering every... (read more)  Your price $28.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by David E Roessel Publisher Comments Complementing and complicating Edward Said's view of relations between East and West, Roessel discusses the way perceptions of modern Greece have been shaped by historical events, arguing that the Greek struggle for independence became a touchstone in... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $16.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Del Martin Ogunsola Publisher Comments Born in Costa Rica in 1940, Quince Duncan has penned an impressive body of work, including novels, short stories, essays, and literary and cultural criticism. Despite his reputation as Costa Rica's leading novelist, Duncan remains one of the least... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Morris Dickstein Publisher Comments In a famous passage in The Red and the Black, the French writer Stendhal described the novel as a mirror being carried along a roadway. In the twentieth century this was derided as a naive notion of realism. Instead, modern writers experimented with... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Irena R Makaryk Book News Annotation Paper reprint of the work originally published in 1993 ($150) and reviewed in the September 1993 issue of Reference & Research Book News. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hans Mayer Publisher Comments The women in Outsiders are Joan of Arc (as presented by Schiller, Shaw, Brecht, and Vishnevskii), Judith and Delilah (as heroine and vamp), George Eliot and George Sand, Lulu, and contemporary feminists. The homosexuals include protagonists of Marlowe's... (read more) List Price $62.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Baker Publisher Comments An essential collection of essays by important contemporary poets about the forms and rhetorical strategies of lyric poetry"<BR>""We are delighted when we recognize patterns and continuities, as we are delighted by a new poem's radical adjustment... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ian Hamilton Publisher Comments The first and only comprehensive work of its kind, The Companion to Twentieth Century Poetry in English charts the development of poetry from 1900 to the present, across the whole of the English-speaking world, from the United States, Great Britain, and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roland Barthes Publisher Comments In this appealing and luminous collection of essays, Roland Barthes examines the mundane and exposes hidden texts, causing the reader to look afresh at the famous landmark and symbol of Paris, and also at the Tour de France, the visit to Paris of Billy... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Peri Trifonas Publisher Comments Roland Barthes' imaginative or fictive exploration of Japan prompted him to examine the social and historical contingency of signs, how their meaning changes through time and in different contexts.... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Strychacz Publisher Comments In Dangerous Masculinities, Thomas Strychacz has as his goal nothing less than to turn scholarship on gender and modernism on its head. He focuses on the way some early twentieth-century writers portray masculinity as theatrical performance, and... (read more) List Price $59.95 Your price $29.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter C Hodgson Publisher Comments Pioneering a postmodern religious stance George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans, 1819-80) was not only a prolific and profound English novelist and pioneering feminist. She was also directly engaged in the religious and theological battles of her day. She... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $13.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gary Goshgarian Publisher Comments A best-selling book now in it's Seventh Edition, The Contemporary Reader offers highly engaging readings about current cultural issues. This accessible, wide-ranging, and current essay collection is designed to stimulating and thought provoking. "The... (read more) List Price $49.00 Your price $2.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Adam Kirsch Publisher Comments A collection of bold, insightful, and controversial essays by "a poetry critic of the very first order" (New York Times). Over the last ten years, through essays in The New Republic, The New Yorker, and other magazines, Adam Kirsch—"one of the most... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Caryl Emerson Publisher Comments Among Western critics, Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) needs no introduction. His name has been invoked in literary and cultural studies across the ideological spectrum, from old-fashioned humanist to structuralist to postmodernist. In this candid assessment... (read more) List Price $41.50 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Stanley Corngold Publisher Comments Complex Pleasure deals with questions of literary feeling in eight major German writers—Lessing, Kant, Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Musil, Kafka, Trakl, and Benjamin. On the basis of close readings of these authors Stanley Corngold makes vivid the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $4.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ann Young Publisher Comments This book reviews the environmental changes which have occurred in Australia since European settlement. It aims to give a well-balanced account of controversial issues, and to provide students with a sound technical understanding of the physical... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $28.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ian Ousby Publisher Comments 'The Cambridge Guide to Fiction in English, an alphabetized reference work with over 2,000 entries, will be an invaluable resource to anyone with an interest in the novel, whether studying, teaching or reading for pleasure. Writers and major works from... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carol C Donley Publisher Comments While The Tyranny of the Normal: An Anthology is a collection of different perspectives on the lives of people whose physical appearance places them outside cultural norms, What's Normal?, the companion volume, examines the issues of "abnormalities" in... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sarah J Young Publisher Comments a truly outstanding and original piece of work. -- Robin Feuer Miller, Edytha Macy Gross Professor of Humanities, Brandeis University original, well argued, convincing and attractively written throughout.--Malcolm Jones, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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