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Cosmopolitanism by Carol Appadurai (edt) Breckenridge Publisher Comments As the final installment of Public Culture's Millennial Quartet, Cosmopolitanism assesses the pasts and possible futures of cosmopolitanism--or ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond one's particular society. With contributions from distinguished... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $18.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Columbia Grangers Guide To Poetry Antho 2ND Edition by William Katz Book News Annotation **** The first edition (1991) is cited in Walford and ARBA 1992. This greatly expanded second edition includes comprehensive evaluations of 800 anthologies--all those indexed in the seventh through tenth editions of The Columbia Granger's Index to... (read more) List Price $107.50 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Recovering American Literature by Peter Shaw Publisher Comments Considering the treatment meted out to the great classics of American literature -- by Hawthorne, Melville, Mark Twain, and Henry James -- Shaw shows convincingly how they have been systematically raided by academic critics in the service of political... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Inside Clubbing: Sensual Experiments in the Art of Being Human by Phil Jackson Publisher Comments Inside Clubbing puts the spotlight on club culture--in all its sweaty, visceral, and seductive glory. Jackson guides us through the huge spectrum of the club experience, moving from hip-hop clubs to fetish events via queer, trance, Asian, techno, drum 'n'... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Scriptures for a Generation: What We Were Reading in the 60's by Philip D. Beidler Publisher Comments At the heart of Scriptures for a Generation are dozens of detailed entries discussing individual writers and the particular importance of their texts - bona fide '60s classics ranging from The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Styles of radical will by Susan Sontag Publisher Comments In her second essay collection, Sontag "displays an enlightened, energetic intellect exploring the margins of contemporary consciousness."-The New York... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Knowledge Goes Pop: From Conspiracy Theory to Gossip (Culture Machine) by Clare Birchall Publisher Comments A voice on late night radio tells you that a fast food restaurant injects its food with drugs that make men impotent. A colleague asks if you think the FBI was in on 9/11. An alien abductee on the Internet claims extra-terrestrials have planted a... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Counterpleasures by Karmen Mackendrick Book News Annotation Explores literary and physical pleasures that do not appear to be pleasurable, and places each in its cultural context to construct a history of transgressive pleasure and to argue that such practices are resistance against more totalizing forms of... (read more) List Price $59.50 Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism by Michael Groden Publisher Comments Postmodernism. Feminism. Bakhtin. New Historicism. Kristeva. Hermeneutics. Cultural Studies. Said. Deconstruction. Semiotics. Over the past generation, literary theory and criticism have become the focus of intellectual activity in the humanities and... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Modern Condition: Essays at Century's End by Dennis Hume Wrong Publisher Comments In this collection, a leading sociologist brings his distinctive method of social criticism to bear on some of the most significant ideas, political and social events, and thinkers of the late twentieth century. In the first section, the author examines... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $5.95 (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   The Tears of Eros by Georges Bataille Publisher Comments Tears of Eros is the culmination of Georges Bataille's inquiries into the relationship between violence and the sacred. Taking up such figures as Giles de Rais, Erzebet Bathory, the Marquis de Sade, El Greco, Gustave Moreau, Andre Breton, Voodoo... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition by Umberto Eco Publisher Comments From the author of "The Name of the Rose" comes this collection of six essays where Eco explores in depth questions of reality, perception, and experience. At once philosophical and amusing, "Kant and the Platypus" is a tour of the world of senses told... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Time-Fetishes: The Secret History of Eternal Recurrence (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Ned Lukacher Publisher Comments For over two and a half millennia human beings have attempted to invent strategies to discover the truth of time, to determine whether time is infinite, whether eternity is the infinite duration of a continuous present, or whether it too rises and falls... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Concise Oxford Companion To Irish Litera by Robert Welch Publisher Comments This book is intended for general readers and students interested in all aspects of Irish literature... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $2.83 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Triptych: Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich by Wendy Martin Publisher Comments Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, and Adrienne Rich share nationality, gender, and an aesthetic tradition, but each expresses these experiences in the context of her own historical moment. Puritanism imposed stringent demands on Bradstreet, romanticism... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bringing It All Back Home: Essays on Cultural Studies by Lawrence Grossberg Publisher Comments "These essays represent an original contribution to and sustained reflection on the central debates in critical cultural theory by one of its leading practitioners and most engaged and distinctive voices."--Stuart Hall "These essays are among the most... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $13.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Unrelenting Readers: The New Poet-Critics by Paul M Hedeen Publisher Comments This anthology offers fifteen seminal essays by the leading poet-critics of our day. Together they represent a revived seriousness and intelligence in a field--poetry criticism--that languished for decades as little more than a promotional sideshow. The... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list World on Fire by Michael Brownstein Publisher Comments In our era of apocalyptic change, everything from terrorism to a stifling cultural sameness has become globalized. World on Fire is a poet's impassioned, prophetic examination of the human and environmental consequences of transnational capitalism. From... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Metamorphosis in Russian Modernism by Peter I Barta Publisher Comments Examines metamorphoses in the works of prominent representatives of the divided Russian intelligentsia: the Symbolists; the most famous emigre writer, Nabokov; Olesha, the 'fellow traveller' attempting to find his place in the Soviet state; the... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price $14.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Wounded Body: Remembering the Markings of Flesh (Suny Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture) by Dennis Pat Slattery Publisher Comments An almost obsessive interest in the human body in literary and psychological theory over the past ten years has uncovered not just the physical body but the body as metaphor, political emblem, social construction, and symptom.<P>The Wounded Body... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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