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A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction by Linda Hutcheon Publisher Comments "A Poetics of Postmodernism "is neither a defense nor a denunciation of the postmodern. It continues the project of Linda Hutcheon's " Narcissistic Narrative "and "A Theory of Parody "in studying formal self-consciousness in art, but adds to this both an... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 S/Z: An Essay by Roland Barthes Publisher Comments Preface by Richard Howard. Translated by Richard Miller. This is Barthes's scrupulous literary analysis of Balzac's short story "Sarrasine."<BR>... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $10.50 (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 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 $11.95 (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 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 The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms by Ross C Murfin Publisher Comments Clear, succinct, and lively definitions of more than 700 terms reflect how literature is now being taught. Examples are drawn from traditional canonical literature, contemporary literature, and contemporary popular culture. Combined perspectives of a... (read more) List Price $12.50 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Admen Move on Lhasa: Writing and Culture in a Virtual World by Steven Heighton Publisher Comments Acclaimed fiction writer and poet Steven Heighton confronts our society's growing preference for the virtual—in the media, in our modes of communication, in art, in war—as opposed to the visceral. Heighton explores ways of remaining... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.50 (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 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 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 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 $16.00 (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 $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) 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 Playing Dolly: Technocultural Formations, Fantasies, and Fictions of Assisted Reproduction (Millennial Shifts) by E Ann Kaplan Book News Annotation This compilation of essays written by scholars in the humanities explores the shifts in public perception of controversial reproduction technologies such as egg donation, cloning, and implantation. The general conclusion is that there is an increasing... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $5.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Uncontained: Urban Fiction in Postwar America by Elizabeth A Wheeler Publisher Comments In the postwar era, American urban fiction was dominated by the imagery of containment. Across the fictional landscape, the city was divided into segregated zones, marked by the threat of inevitable violence. In Uncontained, Elizabeth A. Wheeler offers a... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $5.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Pages Passed from Hand to Hand: Stories from the Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature from the Eighteenth Century to the Great War by Mark Mitchell Publisher Comments Before E. M. Forster's Maurice, written in 1914, introduced a new openness about the favorable depiction of homosexuality in English fiction, a number of novels and stories carried coded portraits of homosexuals and homosexuality. Many of these were, by... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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