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Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry 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 add to wish list Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English 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 add to wish list Literature and Medicine #3: What's Normal?: Narratives of Mental and Emotional Disorders 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 $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Dostoevsky's the Idiot and the Ethical Foundations of Narrative: Reading, Narrating, Scripting (Anthem Russian and Slavonic Studies) 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 add to wish list Other South: Faulkner, Coloniality, and the Mariategui Tradition (Illuminations) by Hosam Aboul Ela Publisher Comments Hosam Aboul-Ela provides a startlingly original perspective on Faulkner, examining his work in the transnational context of the “Global South”: the geopolitical and economic dynamics of the post-Reconstruction period that link the American... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Reference Sources for the Social Sciences and Humanities, #10: Elmer Diktonius. by George Schoolfield Publisher Comments The poems of Elmer Diktonius place him in the forefront of literary expressionism. His idylls and his novel give him high rank among Northern Europe's greatest literary innovators in the twentieth century. He has an unusual drama because of his ambiguous... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Book of Literary Terms: The Genres of Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, and Scholarship by Turco Lewis Publisher Comments An expert's indispensable guide to English letters and the writing arts.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Literary Lovers: the Private and Public Passions of Famous Writers by John Booth Publisher Comments Literary Lovers takes a light-hearted look at what authors have written on the expansive arena of love. Each writer is featured with a suitable quote from his or her work, accompanied by an illuminating analysis of that writer's love life.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $1.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Myth and Symbol: Critical Approaches and Applications by Northrop Frye Publisher Comments Critical Approaches Frye: The Road of Excess Knights: King Lear as Metaphor Kushner: The Critical Method of Gaston Bachelard Gershman: Surrealism: Myth and Reality Applications The Writer and His Method Winner: Myth as a Device in the Works of Chekhov... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Follow My Footprints (Brandeis Series in American Jewish History, Culture, and Life) by Sylvia Bara Fishman Publisher Comments Twenty-one writers document the diverse representations and roles of Jewish women in American literature and culture.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $8.95 (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   Environmental Change in Australia Since 1788 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 add to wish list The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies 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 add to wish list Barthes and the Empire of Signs (Postmodern Encounters) 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 add to wish list The Philosophy of Rhetoric by I A Richards Publisher Comments Our communication is limitedby misunderstanding. Rhetoric, as Professor Richards defines it, is the study of misunderstanding and its remedies. The conventional rules of the old rhetoric and the formulations of scientific language have narrow application... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Critic as Anti-Philosopher by F R Leavis Publisher Comments One of the century's great critics, now back in print. His concerns here are with the predicaments of contemporary civilization, the idea of the university as a creative center, and the nature of thought in creative writing. With an Introduction by Paul... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Warriors, Conjurers and Priests: Defining African-Centered Literary Criticism by Joyce Ann Joyce Publisher Comments This book is the seminal work in literary criticism of African American writers. It was given the American Book Award for Literary Criticism in 1995. An important work for all students of Black literature.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space (Postwestern Horizons) by Susan Kollin Publisher Comments Postwestern Cultures synthesizes the most critical topics of contemporary scholarship of the American West within a single volume. This interdisciplinary anthology features leading scholars in the varied fields of western American literary studies and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Paroxysm: Interviews with Philippe Petit by Jean Baudrillard Publisher Comments The collapse of communism, the Gulf War, Rwanda and the New World Order, the nature of war, Holocaust denial, and virtual reality are among the many topics covered by Baudrillard, "a sharp-shooting, lone-ranger from the post-Marxist left" ("New York... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $4.65 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Genius (Dreiser Edition) by Theodore Dreiser Publisher Comments 1914. American author, outstanding representative of naturalism, whose novels depict real-life subjects in a harsh light. Dreiser's books were held to be amoral, and he battled throughout his career against censorship and popular taste. The Genius, a... (read more) List Price $95.00 Your price $66.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society by Gertrude Himmelfarb Publisher Comments In these provocative essays, one of our most distinguished historians looks into the abyss of the present. Himmelfarb exposes the intellectual and spiritual impoverishment of some of our most fashionable current ideas--and shows how the vogue for... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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