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by Barry Miles  Publisher Comments Called a vivid picture of literary life along the Left Bank in the late 1950s and early 1960s . . . [and] fun reading by Library Journal, The Beat Hotel is a delightful chronicle of a remarkable moment in American literary history. From the Howl... (read more)  List Price $25.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by John Tomlinson Publisher Comments In Cultural Imperialism, John Tomlinson deals with issues ranging from the ideological effects of imported cultural products, to the process of cultural homogenization, to the nature of cultural autonomy. He examines a number of related discourses... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Geoffrey H. Hartman Publisher Comments Geoffrey Hartman is a pivotal figure in twentieth-century literary thinking, especially in literary theory and its transformation into such fields as Holocauststudies, trauma studies, and work on witnessing and testimony. The essays inthis reader... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Emerson R Marks Publisher Comments "What is the nature of poetic language? This topic has been the subject of debate among scholars, poets, and critics for centuries, and continues to be a notoriously thorny issue today. Taming the Chaos traces this subject, for the first time, from the... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Marshall Brown Publisher Comments Through a combination of general reflections, studies of important critics, and both comprehensive and specific analyses of cultural change in literature, music, art, and philosophy, Turning Points demonstrates the role of style and form in promoting and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $2.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Wood Publisher Comments James Wood's first book of essays, The Broken Estate, established him as the leading critic of his generation, one whose judgments "are distinguished by their originality and precision, the depth of reading that informs them, and the metaphorical... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Steven R Serafin Synopsis (Composed of more than 1,100 signed biographical-critical entries, this Encyclopedia serves as both guide and companion to the study and appreciation of American literature. Readers will also discover 70 topical articles covering subjects such as African... (read more) List Price $150.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Greg Sarris Publisher Comments This remarkable collection of eight essays offers a rare perspective on the issue of cross-cultural communication. Greg Sarris is concerned with American Indian texts, both oral and written, as well as with other American Indian cultural phenomena such... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Judy Little Publisher Comments Acknowledging the importance of Bakhtin’s concept of the dialogic, Judy Little utilizes the insights of Bakhtin and theorists such as Derrida, Foucault, and Lyotard as strategies for examining the political complexity of the "self" as Virginia... (read more) List Price $31.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mike Edwards Publisher Comments This volume guides students through Eliot's most widely studied novels: "The Mill on the Floss," "Silas Marner" and "Middlemarch," The first part of the book is based on analysis of extracts grouped by themes including relationships, society and morality.... (read more) Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Cathy L Jrade Publisher Comments Jrade's analysis reclaims the power of the visionary stance taken by these creative intellectuals. She firmly abolishes any lingering tendency to associate modernismo with affectation and effete elegance, revealing instead how the modernistas' new... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mustapha Marrouchi Book News Annotation Marrouchi explores how the postcolonial literature has theorized about itself, rerouting literature and theory through the work of a small group of writers. He applies the critical framework that emerges to such writers as Said, Derrida, Naipaul, and... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by E C Graf Publisher Comments This book is arguably the first serious and comprehensive attempt to theorize Cervantes as a modern. It is also a timely study that addresses the novel's relevance for thinking about contemporary issues such as the relation between Islam and Christianity... (read more) Your price $30.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Graeme Harper Publisher Comments Comedy, Fantasy and Colonialism provides a unique insight into the ways in which comedy and fantasy operate in colonial societies. For both the colonized and the colonizers, comic and fantastic modes of story-telling, cultural exchange and social... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Greg Forter Publisher Comments "Sumptuous, elegant, nuanced, and accessible, Greg Forter helps us to remember what language can do. But Forter minces more than words in Murdering Masculinities. He offers a transformative reading of American crime fiction, arguing that it is not to... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Harold Bloom Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-108) and index.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $6.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Theodore Ziolkowski Publisher Comments Immediately after World War I, four major European and American poets and thinkers--W. B. Yeats, Robinson Jeffers, R. M. Rilke, and C. G. Jung--moved into towers as their principal habitations. Taking this striking coincidence as its starting point, this... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $9.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Brian Mchale Publisher Comments In this trenchant and lively study Brian McHale undertake to construct a version of postmodernist fiction which encompassed forms as wide-ranging as North American metafiction, Latin American magic realism, the French New New novel, concrete prose and... (read more) Your price $36.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Christopher Miller Publisher Comments ""Blank Darkness: Africanist Discourse in French "is a brilliant and altogether convincing analysis of the way in which Western writers, from Homer to the twentieth century have . . . imposed their language of desire on the least-known part of the world... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $13.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Verena Ander Conley Publisher Comments Reflecting the broad spectrum of modern European and American theory, this introductory series focuses on those cultural theorists who have had the most significant impact in the twentieth century. This series aims to show how modern thinkers differ in... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $5.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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