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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 The American Century: Varieties of Culture in Modern Times by Norman Cantor Publisher Comments Twentieth-century culture from Mao to McLuhan, The Rite of Spring to The Right Stuff, Freud to Frank Lloyd Wright, Eliot to Elvis, Marxism to modernism.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 Reading for Form (Robert B. Heilman Book) by Susan J Wolfson Book News Annotation Formalism has always been a part of the weft of literary studies, and it shows no signs of being cast aside now. In this collection of survey articles and critiques contributors with a range of theoretical frameworks and areas of study call for a... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $19.95 (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 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

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   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 On Mourning: Theories of Loss in Modern Literature by William Watkin Publisher Comments Since the events of September 11th the problems of loss, mourning and commemoration have preoccupied our culture. Ours is not a culture in mourning so much as a mourning culture. Mourning, and its ethical and communal implications, therefore, is central... (read more) List Price $99.00 Your price $55.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Helene Cixous: Live Theory (Live Theory) by Ian Blyth Publisher Comments Part of a major new series of guidebooks for students offering clear introductions to the work of contemporary cultural theorists and including new interviews with the subjects.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 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 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

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