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Greenblatt Reader by Stephen Greenblatt Publisher Comments This Reader makes available in one volume the most important writing by Stephen Greenblatt, one of the most influential practitioners of new historicism.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $20.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list John Milton: The Self and the World by John T. Shawcross Book News Annotation A psychobiographical study illuminating considerations given little treatment elsewhere, among them: his religion, career decisions and activities, conceptions of himself as talented and as a writer, and his personal life--particularly his marriages.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Kassandra and the Censors: Greek Poetry Since 1967 (Reading Women Writing) by Karen Van Dyck Synopsis In this pioneering study of contemporary Greek poetry, Karen Van Dyck investigates modernist and postmodernist poetics at the edge of Europe. She traces the influential role of Greek women writers back to the sexual politics of censorship under the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Pleasures of Babel: Contemporary American Literature and Theory by Jay Clayton Publisher Comments The Pleasures of Babel acquaints the layperson and the expert alike with the creative and intellectual achievements of America's multicultural society. Arguing that the present is "a great period of writing," Jay Clayton relates novels from the seventies,... (read more) List Price $53.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Charles Eliot Norton Lectures #1967: This Craft of Verse by Jorge Luis Borges Publisher Comments Available in cloth, paper, or audio CD Through a twist of fate that the author of Labyrinthshimself would have relished, these lost lectures given in English at Harvard in 1967-1968 by Jorge Luis Borges return to us now, a recovered tale of a life-long... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Juniper Fuse by Clayton Eshleman Publisher Comments A commanding meditation on the development of early human imagination.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $21.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Dangerous Masculinities: Conrad, Hemingway, and Lawrence 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 add to wish list The Eve/Hagar Paradigm in the Fiction of Quince Duncan 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 add to wish list A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World 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 add to wish list Literary Theory: An Anthology by Julia Rivkin Publisher Comments This anthology of classic and cutting-edge statements in literary theory has now been updated to include recent influential texts in the areas of Ethnic Studies, Postcolonialism and International Studies. A definitive collection of classic statements... (read more) List Price $80.50 Your price $10.95 (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   Critics at Work: Interviews 1993-2003 (Cultural Front) by Jeffrey J Williams Publisher Comments View the Table of Contents.   Read the Introduction. "These engaged conversations are extremely well-informed, interesting, readable, and revealing. Critics at Work is a beautifully composed work and both fun and rewarding to read." —... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature (Politically Incorrect Guides) by Elizabeth Kantor Publisher Comments Kantor takes readers on a fascinating tour through great literature in all its politically incorrect glory. She includes a syllabus and a guide to the English literature education most people were denied in school.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Contributions in Sociology, #101: Alexander Crummell: Pioneer in Nineteenth-Century Pan African Thought by Gregory U Rigsby Review `This study,' [the author] explains in the prologue, `will limit its focus to Crummell's Pan-African ideas and his spiritual approach to life.' As Crummell's life falls into four distinct periods, Rigsby has skillfully chronicled it into four chapters... (read more) List Price $68.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list My Business Is Circumference: Poets on Influence and Mastery by Stephen Berg Publisher Comments Twenty-eight distinguished contemporary American poets provide a multifaceted view of the creative process. Each poet has contributed a poem and chosen several poems by other poets that have influenced it. In an essay, each poet then describes how those... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Arts by Roger Shattuck Book News Annotation Now retired from Boston University, National Book Award winner Shattuck argues that literary studies in the US have embarked on a deeply wayward course of late. He finds that the increasing dominance if politics and theory threaten to eliminate... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $5.70 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care by John Mcwhorter Publisher Comments Critically acclaimed linguist John McWhorter has devoted his career to exploring the evolution to language. He has often argued that language change is inevitable and in general culturally neutral — languages change rapidly even in indigenous... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Mystery Beneath the Real: Theology in the Fiction of George Eliot 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 add to wish list Contemporary Reader 7TH Edition by Gary Goshgarian Publisher Comments The Contemporary Reader reader includes more contemporary selections than any other popular culture reader on the market with over 90% of the readings written in the last five years. The text's ten tightly focused thematic chapters cover a range of... (read more) List Price $49.00 Your price $2.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Modern Element: Essays on Contemporary Poetry 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 add to wish list The First Hundred Years of Mikhail Bakhtin 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 add to wish list

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