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Literature and Medicine #2: The Tyranny of the Normal: An Anthology by Carol C Donley Publisher Comments Most cultures ostracize people who do not fit within their norms. They pressure abnormal people to change their appearance, fix what bothers others, or stay out of sight -- a pressure Leslie Fiedler has named "The Tyranny of the Normal". This anthology... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price $11.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list In the Event: Reading Journalism, Reading Theory (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Deborah Esch Publisher Comments Assuming the burden of reading imposed by the correlation of the order of language and the order of events, this book argues that the possibility of reading and writing history is tied to the endurance of traces of the past and their coming to legibility,... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $4.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Readings by Sven Birkerts Publisher Comments Readings combines the best of Sven Birkerts's previously published criticism with vital new essays. A dazzling writer whose clarity, rigor, and far-flung intellectual curiosity have been widely praised, Birkerts the literary critic is in top form in... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Marxism and Form: 20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature by Fredric Jameson Publisher Comments For more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. Marxism and Form provided a pioneering account of the work of the major... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Profile of Twentieth-Century American Poetry by Jack Myers Publisher Comments Seven chronologically arranged essays—each covering roughly a decade from 1908 through 1988—plus two special-focus essays on black and female poets, an introduction by Ed Folsom, and a preface by editors Jack Myers and David Wojahn, outline... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Theory & History of Literature Series #0077: Readings: The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kafka, Kleist, Lispector, and Tsvetayeva by Helene Cixous Book News Annotation Four striking and novel textual studies of major literary figures and emergent authors. Selected from Cixous's seminars taught between 1980 and 1986 at the Universite de Paris VIII (Saint-Denis) and at the College International de Philosphie, the... (read more) List Price $19.50 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Writing Vietnam, Writing Life: Caputo, Heinemann, O'Brien, Butler by Tobey C Herzog Publisher Comments Phillip Caputo, Larry Heinemann, Tim O’Brien, and Robert Olen Butler: four young midwestern Americans coming of age during the 1960s who faced a difficult personal decision—whether or not to fight in Vietnam. Each chose to participate. After... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $27.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Toils of Language by Noah Jonatha Jacobs Synopsis In his second book, Noah Jonathan Jacobs briefly and profoundly looks at the basis of our nature as revealed in language, the role of illusion in human life, the armed truce between the sexes, and the hate-filled origins of whole tribes of words now... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sisterhoods: Feminists in Film & Fiction by Deborah Cartmell Publisher Comments In this latest book in the successful Film/Fiction series, the contributors concentrate on recent portrayals of female relationships -- communities, friends, lovers, sisters, daughters, mothers and women against women -- and examine the ways in which the... (read more) Your price $1.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Reading the Sphere: The Landscape of Contemporary American Poetry by Richard Silberg Publisher Comments Richard Silberg analyzes the various styles of in-vogue poetry, from New Critical poets like Anthony Hecht and Language poets like Richard Silliman, to academic poets such as Anne Carson and "barbarian" poets who perform in interactive poetry slams. Each... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.95 (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   The Idea of Florida in the American Literary Imagination (Florida Sand Dollar Books) by Anne E Rowe Publisher Comments 'Demonstrates clearly that while the idea of Florida may change or appear under different guises, Florida as enigma in the American literary imagination remains a constant.' -Southern... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $5.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list No Island is an Island: Four Glances at English Literature in a World Perspective (Italian Academy Lectures) by Carlo Ginzburg Publisher Comments In No Island Is an Island, and internationally renowned historian approaches four works of English literature from unexpected angles. Following in the footsteps of a sixteenth-century Spanish bishop we gain a fresh view of Thomas More's Utopia. Comparing... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Literary Criticism: An Autopsy (Critical Authors & Issues) by Mark Bauerlein Publisher Comments "It's later than you think! Literary critics, practicing and prospective, had better take a close look at Mark Bauerlein's mordant and humorous 'autopsy.'"--Frederick Crews, editor,... (read more) List Price $16.50 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation by Melissa S Williams Publisher Comments Does fair political representation for historically disadvantaged groups require their presence in legislative bodies? The prevailing conception of fair representation concludes that the social identity of legislative representatives does not bear on... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price $14.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Way of Happeningrbledown by Fred Chappell Publisher Comments One of our most acclaimed and versatile authors, Fred Chappell is comfortably at home in fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. A Way of Happening gathers his essays and reviews of contemporary poetry. Chappell consider new writers as well as more... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $6.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Snobbery: The American Version by Joseph Epstein Publisher Comments Joseph Epstein's highly entertaining new book takes up the subject of snobbery in America after the fall of the prominence of the old Wasp culture of prep schools, Ivy League colleges, cotillions, debutante balls, the Social Register, and the rest of it.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Politics of Interpretation: Ideology, Professionalism, and the Study of Literature by Patrick Colm Hogan Publisher Comments This interpretive study analyzes the complex politics of literature, criticism, and professionalism. While affirming the profound importance of political analysis--from the ideological critique of literary texts to the social and economic critique of... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Alfred Kazins America Critical & Persona by Alfred Kazin Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [523]-525) and index.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Joseph Bristow Publisher Comments This book provides an introduction to Victorian poetry, and will interest scholars and students alike.... (read more) Your price $30.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Poetry and Culture, 1945-1980 by Robert Von Hallberg Publisher Comments Challenging the common perception of poets as standing apart from the mainstream of American culture, Robert von Hallberg gives us a fresh and unpredictable assessment of the poetry that has come directly out of the American experience since 1945. Who... (read more) List Price $18.50 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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