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by Jorge Luis Borges  Publisher Comments "The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry".<P>"What does being a writer mean to me? It means simply being true to my imagination. When I write something, I think of it not as... (read more)  List Price $24.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Edward W Said Publisher Comments In the radically changed and highly charged political atmosphere that has overtaken the United States -- and to varying degrees the rest of the world -- since September 11, 2001, the notion that cultures can harmoniously and productively coexist has come... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Anthony Cunningham Publisher Comments Cunningham addresses Kantian ethics as the most prominent modern ethical theory and demonstrates that the theory cannot adequately account for the claims of our most intimate attachments and commitments.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $7.46 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bill Moyers Publisher Comments "Poets live the lives all of us live," says Bill Moyers, "with one big difference. They have the power--the power of the word--to create a world of thoughts and emotions other can share. We only have to learn to listen." <P><BR>In a series of... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by M M Bakhtin Publisher Comments These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)--known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky--as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roland Barthes 
Powells.com Staff Pick This is a book best read immediately after the end of an intimate relationship. Devoid of sentimentality, it is a meditation of a lover when alone. Written in fragments, the overriding theme is that the lover, I, never absolutely, truly sees the beloved,... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Guy Debord Publisher Comments Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Terry Eagleton Publisher Comments This classic work is designed to cover all of the major movements in literary studies during this century. Noted for its clear, engaging style and unpretentious treatment, Literary Theory has become the introduction of choice for anyone interested in... (read more) List Price $18.50 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Mcwhorter Publisher Comments "Illustrated with an entertaining array of examples from both high and low culture, the trend that Mr. McWhorter documents is unmistakable." The Economist "Provocative, funny. . . McWhorter suggests that prose ought to be something [we decorate out of a... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Camille Paglia Publisher Comments From ancient Egypt through the nineteenth century, Sexual Personae explores the provocative connections between art and pagan ritual; between Emily Dickinson and the Marquis de Sade; between Lord Byron and Elvis Presley. It ultimately challenges the... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Donna Landry Publisher Comments 'The Spivak Reader' offers a selection of a major critic's work, making it accessible to as wide an audience as possible in post-colonial studies, literature, women's studies, cultural studies, philosophy, and sociology. Many pieces in the Reader have... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roland Barthes Publisher Comments With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies--of Japan itself.<BR>... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jonathan Franzen Publisher Comments From the National Book Award-winning author of "The Corrections," a collection of essays that reveal him to be one of the sharpest, toughest, and most entertaining social critics.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Walter Benjamin Publisher Comments Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the twentieth century, but until now only a few of his writings have been available in English. Harvard University Press has now undertaken to publish a significant portion of... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price $13.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Leon Kass Publisher Comments How shall we promote and protect human flourishing in a world of ever-emerging technologies? At what point should we limit our quest for physical and mental perfection? The President's Council on Bioethics, composed of doctors, philosophers, and... (read more) List Price $35.50 Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gayatri Chak Spivak Publisher Comments through transnational cultural studies into considerations of globality.... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joseph Epstein
Publisher Comments "Snobbery" is Epstein's "deliciously readable" ("Harper's Bazaar") collection of essays skewering all manner of elitism. Filled with dishy detail, "Snobbery" takes up its subject in contemporary America, examining the discriminating qualities in all.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger Housden Publisher Comments This is a dangerous book. Great poetry calls into question not less than everything. It dares us to break free from the safe strategies of the cautious mind. It opens us to pain and joy and delight. It amazes, startles, pierces, and transforms us. It can... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Camille Paglia
Publisher Comments Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems is destined to become a landmark. In it, America's premier intellectual provocateur explores and celebrates a series of great poems of the Western tradition, including some... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Margery Wolf Publisher Comments A Thrice-Told Tale is one ethnographer’s imaginative and powerful response to the methodological issues raised by feminist and postmodernist critics of traditional ethnography. The author, a feminist anthropologist, uses three texts developed out... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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