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The Semiotic Challenge by Roland Barthes Publisher Comments Most of these essays were written between 1963 and 1973 and constitute either the elements of the semiotic discipline or the analysis of texts--ranging from the Bible to advertising--in order to determine the site of possible meanings in narratives... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin by William Logan Publisher Comments For more than a quarter century, William Logan has delivered clear-eyed and razor-sharp assessments of contemporary and classic poetry. Combining the sensibilities of poet and critic, Logan vividly conveys what he finds most memorable and most damning in... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $21.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Down Home & Uptown by Sylvia Walla Holton Publisher Comments Examining the potential of black English as a literary medium, this book considers the historical origins of black English as a linguistic phenomenon, surveys the ways in which it has been represented and the political implications of those modes of... (read more) Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rhetoric in Popular Culture by Barry Brummett Publisher Comments Designed for courses in media criticism, rhetorical criticism, and popular culture, this text draws on recent work in semiotics and cultural studies as it applies critical methods to texts from popular culture.... (read more) List Price $19.60 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Book of Common Praise by Robert Boyers Publisher Comments Miniature critical essays on contemporary poets and fiction writers. Originally written as introductions to public readings, these essays are unabashedly celebratory, a welcome relief from the usual critical fare. As a critic, Boyers has been praised by... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $3.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Alter Ego: Avatars and Their Creators by Robbie Cooper and Julian Dibbell and Tracy Spaight Publisher Comments This cool concept book presents the phenomenon of the contemporary avatar--the virtual characters gamers choose and design to engage in 3D worlds online. Portraits of gamers from the United States, Europe, China, and Japan are paired with digital images... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $18.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mimesis, Genres and Post-Colonial Discourse: Deconstructing Magic Realism by Jean Pierre Durix Publisher Comments Through a broad-ranging survey of the allegory, utopia, the historical novel, and the epic in post-colonial literature, Jean-Pierre Durix proposes a critical reassessment of the theory of genres. By analyzing texts by contemporary writers, Durix pleads... (read more) Your price $80.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Arms and the Woman: War, Gender, and Literary Representation by Helen Cooper Publisher Comments Although the themes of women's complicity in and resistance to war have been part of literature from early times, they have not been fully integrated into conventional conceptions of the war narrative. Combining feminist literary criticism with the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Filled Pen: Selected Non-Fiction of P.K. Page by P K Page Publisher Comments P.K. Page is best known as one of Canada's finest poets, but over the course of her career she has also written a number of essays - meditations - on her life and work, on the nature of art and the imagination, and on Canadian works of literature... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Introducing Postmodernism by Richard Appignanesi Publisher Comments Takes us on a roller-coaster ride through structuralism, deconstruction, cyberspace and semiotics.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $6.50 (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   Consuming Silences: How We Read Authors Who Don't Publish by Myles Weber Publisher Comments An exploration of literary celebrity and the cultural place of authors who do not publish.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $2.98 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list This Is My Country Whats Yours by Noah Richler Publisher Comments Winner of the 2007 B.C. Award for Canadian Non-fiction A Globe and Mail Best 100 Book (2006) National Post Best Books (2006) A bold cultural portrait of contemporary Canada through the work of its most celebrated novelists, short story writers, and... (read more) Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Angles on the English Speaking World V3 by Ostermark Johansen Book News Annotation The first two volumes of the annual publication produced by the English department at the University of Copenhagen collected conference papers, but this third, focused on literature of the Romantic period, presents nine papers and three book reviews... (read more) Your price $4.33 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list We Know What You Want: How They Change Your Mind by Martin Howard Publisher Comments In this handbook for locating the hidden sales messages that bombard us everyday, Martin Howard explains the new techniques that corporations are using to make subconscious approaches without your consent. It covers the five major zones where consumers... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Afro-American Literary Study in the 1990s by Houston A Baker Publisher Comments Featuring the work of the most distinguished scholars in the field, this volume assesses the state of Afro-American literary study and projects a vision of that study for the 1990s. "A rich and rewarding collection."—Choice. "This diverse and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Poetry Handbook a Dictionary of Terms 4TH Edition by Babette Deutsch Review "A much-needed work, splendidly done: the definitions are clear; the illustrations apt; what is more, it is a pleasure to read for its own sake, and so belongs to the aristocracy of reference books."(--Richard Wilbur)... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Intimate Critique: Autobiographical Literary Criticism by Diane P Freedman Publisher Comments ""The Intimate Critique" marks the coming out of a new critical genre, sure to generate controversy, pleasure, rage, support, disbelief, acclaim (i.e., strong reactions!) among its readers."--Alice Kaplan, author of "French Lessons: A Memoir" "This... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Real Presences by George Steiner Publisher Comments Can there be major dimensions of a poem, a painting, a musical compostion created in the absence of God? Or, is God always a real presence in the arts? Any new book by Steiner is an event according to Eva Hoffman of the New York Times.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Impossible by Georges Bataille Publisher Comments In a philosophical erotic narrative, an essay on poetry, and in poems Georges Bataille pursues his guiding concept, the impossible. The narrator engages in a journey, one reminiscent of the Grail quest; failing, he experiences truth. He describes a... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Introducing Semiotics (Introducing...) 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 add to wish list

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