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Grief and Gender, 700-1700 by Jennifer C Vaught Publisher Comments This collection is the first to examine the relation of grief and gender from 700-1700 in the literature and visual arts of England, France, Italy, and Germany. These essays on Anglo-Saxon, later medieval, and Renaissance texts illustrate how... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $8.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Narrative Discourse: An Essay in Method by Gerard Genette Publisher Comments Gerard Genette, a critic of international stature, here builds a systematic theory of narrative upon an analysis of the writings of Marcel Proust, particularly Remembrance of Things Past. Adopting what is essentially a structuralist approach, the author... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Geoffrey Hartman Reader 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 add to wish list The Public Intellectual by Helen Small Publisher Comments New essays by prestigious thinkers such as Edward Said, Bruce Robbins, Jacqueline Rose, and Stefan Collini on the public role of writers and intellectuals.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Taming the Chaos: English Poetic Diction Theory Since the Renaissance 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 $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Dictations: On Haunted Writing by Avital Ronell Book News Annotation Goethe, the great master of German literary and scientific works, populated his writing with ghosts and, long after his own demise, went on to haunt others. Ronell (German, comparative literature, German, New York U.) argues that Goethe is the undead... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Murdering Masculinities: Fantasies of Gender and Violence in the American Crime Novel (Sexual Cultures) 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 add to wish list Culture/Metaculture (New Critical Idiom) by Francis Mulhern Publisher Comments Francis Mulhern offers a stimulating and concise introduction to the meanings of "culture" in contemporary Western society. In this critical survey, he provides a compelling account of the conceptual and political issues involved in the changing... (read more) Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The View from the Tower: Origins of an Antimodernist Image 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 add to wish list Post Modernist Fiction 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) List Price $39.95 Your price $30.50 (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   The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963 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 add to wish list Signifying with a Vengeance: Theories, Literatures, Storytellers 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 add to wish list Cervantes and Modernity: Four Essays on Don Quixote 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) List Price $47.50 Your price $30.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille Publisher Comments "Literature is not innocent,"Bataille declares in the preface to this unique collection of literary profiles. "It is guilty and should admit itself so."The word, the flesh, and the devil are explored by this extraordinary intellect in the work of eight... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Comedy, Fantasy and Colonialism 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 add to wish list Turning Points: Essays in the History of Cultural Expressions 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 add to wish list Encyclopedia of American Literature 1 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 add to wish list Maternal Pasts, Feminist Futures: Nostalgia, Ethics, and the Question of Difference by Lynne Huffer Publisher Comments This book examines the relations among nostalgia, gender, and foundational philosophies through a critique of the lost mother as a ground for thinking about sexual difference. More specifically, the author critiques the nostalgic tendencies of feminist... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $4.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Keeping Slug Woman Alive: Holistic Approach American Indian 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 add to wish list Sexuality (New Critical Idiom) by Joseph Bristow Publisher Comments Sexuality is generally seen as perhaps the most basic of human forces, a wholly natural feature of life. In "Sexuality," this assumption is challenged, as social, moral and political issues are examined in terms of their relationship to sexuality. These... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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