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Creative Collaboration by Vera John Steiner Publisher Comments Rodin's sculpture "The Thinker" dominates our collective imagination as the purest representation of human inquiry — the lone, stoic thinker. But while the Western belief in individualism romanticizes this perception of the solitary creative process,... (read more) Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bibliographies and Indexes in Afro-American and African Stud #62: Silence and Narrative: The Early Novels of Gertrude Stein by Janice L Doane Publisher Comments Making use of recent feminist critical theory, Doane considers Gertrude Stein's modernist preoccupation with narrative silence in her early novels. She demonstrates the effects of this preoccupation on Stein's literary development, from the... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Reading the Classics With C. S. Lewis by Thomas L. Martin Synopsis An in-depth study of Lewis's great love of literature and his monumental work as a literary critic.... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price $17.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Justice, Nature and the Geography of Differen by David Harvey Publisher Comments This book engages with the politics of social and environmental justice, and seeks new ways to think about the future of urbanization in the twenty-first century. It establishes foundational concepts for understanding how space, time, place and nature... (read more) List Price $33.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Literature and the Marketplace: Romantic Writers and Their Audiences in Great Britain and the United States by William G Rowland Publisher Comments Literature and the Marketplace addresses one of the great ironies of nineteenth-century British and American literature: the fact that authors of that era, in voicing their alienation from middle-class readers, paradoxically gave expression to feelings... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Comparative Criticism: An Annual Journal: Representations of the Self, Volume 12 by E. S. Shaffer Publisher Comments This volume, 'Representations of the Self', explores a theme that has become central in our time, as 'the death of God' is widely seen to be succeeded by 'the death of Man'. Our contributors set forth its urgency in a variety of contexts. Peter Stern... (read more) List Price $125.00 Your price $40.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list An Introduction to English Poetry by James Fenton Publisher Comments A wise, absorbing, and surprising introduction to poetry written in English, from one of England's leading poets James Fenton is that rare scholar "not ashamed to admit that he mostly reads for pleasure" (Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books). In... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $8.98 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Transparent Minds: Narrative Modes for Presenting Consciousness in Fiction by Dorrit Cohn Publisher Comments This book investigates the entire spectrum of techniques for portraying the mental lives of fictional characters in both the stream-of-consciousness novel and other fiction. Each chapter deals with a main technique, illustrated from a wide range of 19th... (read more) Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Landscapes of a Distant Mother by Said And Northcott Publisher Comments Your smile. There wasn't one. You never smiled. Born in Tehran but living in Germany, the eminent writer SAID has suffered two forms of exile. Force to leave Iran for political reasons, he was also separated from his mother shortly after his birth when... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Literature and Feminism: An Introduction by Pam Morris Publisher Comments "Literature and Feminism is an exemplary new introduction to feminist literary criticism and theory which assumes no previous knowledge of the field. Clear, informative and carefully structured, it provides a thorough guide to, and path through, one of... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price $12.95 (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   Literature Against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society by Gerald Graff Publisher Comments The first and still one of the best critiques of post-1960s cultural radicalism, analyzing why and how the defenders of literature have gone wrong. A wonderfully trenchant and illuminating inquiry.--Virginia Quarterly... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry by Edward Hirsch Publisher Comments Read a poem to yourself in the middle of the night. Turn on a single lamp and read it while you're alone in an otherwise dark room or while someone sleeps next to you. Say it over to yourself in a place where silence reigns and the din of culture-the... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght (Women Writers in English 1350-1850) by Rachel Speght Publisher Comments Rachel Speght was the first Englishwoman to identify herself, unmistakably and by name, as a polemicist and critic of contemporary gender ideology. This edition includes her foray into the Jacobean gender wars and her collected poems. Speght's tract, A... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $3.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Conscience and Purpose: Fiction and Social Consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather (Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism) by Paul Petrie Publisher Comments Explores literature's social mission at the turn of the century as defined by William Dean Howells and practiced by him and others. "This work's originality resides in its resurrection of and careful, well-crafted response to the issue of social... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price $25.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list What Is Honor?: A Question of Moral Imperatives by Alexander Welsh Publisher Comments What is honor? Has its meaning changed since ancient times? Is it an outmoded notion? Does it still have the power to direct our behavior? In this provocative book Alexander Welsh considers the history and meaning of honor and dismisses the idea that we... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price $28.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature by Ivy Schweitzer Publisher Comments Schweitzer explains that the contemporary notion of friendship as a private, feminized relationship of sympathy and affection leads to a misunderstanding of American history. In an exploration of early American literature and culture, she uncovers... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Men of Tomorrow by Gerard Jones Publisher Comments By the author of The Comic Book Heroes, Killing Monsters, and scores of successful comic books and screenplays, Men of Tomorrow is the first book to tell the surprising story of the young Jewish misfits, hustlers and nerds who invented the superhero and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Poetic Structure of the World: Copernicus and Kepler by Fernand Hallyn Publisher Comments In this major reconsideration of a crucial turning point in Western thought and culture - the heliocentric revolution of Copernicus and Kepler - Fernand Hallyn applies a theory of rhetoric to the philosophy and history of science to show how the new sun... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Meeting the Professor: Growing Up in the William Blackburn Family by Alexander Blackburn Synopsis A personal memoir of Duke University's legendary professor William Blackburn, mentor to William Stytron, Reynolds Price, Fred Chappell, and others.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list ABC Cat by Harold B Segel Publisher Comments In this companion to ABC Dog, there are happy cats, party cats, jazz cats, ten-gallon-hat cats, queen cats, rub-my-belly cats, wet cats, extreme cats--Just about every kind of cat for every kind of cat fancier. Bold and bright and always hilarious, this... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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