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The Bourgeois Interior by Julia Prewitt Brown Publisher Comments From Robinson Crusoe's cave to Henry Selwyn's hermitage, the domestic interior tells a story about things and their relation to character and identity. Beginning with a description of a typical middle-class interior in America today -- noting how its... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $21.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Devil's Details: A History of Footnotes by Chuck Zerby Publisher Comments Footnotes have not had it easy. Their dominance of eighteenth- and nineteenth- century literature and scholarship was both hard-won -- following many years of struggle -- and doomed, as it led to belittlement in the twentieth century. In "The Devil's... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $3.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry by Molly Mcquade Publisher Comments Have women finally moved beyond the status of cultural outsiders to become full participants in American poetry and its criticism? In "By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry," contemporary women poets reconsider their art form on their own terms, and the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bodies at Risk: Unsafe Limits in Romanticism and Postmodernism (Suny Series, Postmodern Culture) by Robert Bu Neveldine Publisher Comments Taking a fundamentally post-psychoanalytical approach, Bodies at Risk links philosophical and aesthetic issues in two distinct periods, with postmodernism continuing and amplifying the central concerns of Romanticism, including subject formation, the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Flaubert & Kafka: Studies in Psychopoetic Structure by Charles Bernheimer Publisher Comments Although their styles appear remarkably different, Flaubert and Kafka share a common identification with the writing process itself. I am a human pen, wrote Flaubert; I am nothing but literature, declared Kafka. This stimulating book is the first to... (read more) List Price $61.00 Your price $16.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Anatomy of Disgust by William Ian Miller Publisher Comments William Miller embarks on an alluring journey into the world of disgust, showing how it brings order and meaning to our lives even as it horrifies and revolts us. Our notion of the self, intimately dependent as it is on our response to the excretions and... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Boss Ladies, Watch Out!: Essays on Women, Sex, and Writing by Terry Castle Publisher Comments "Boss Ladies Watch Out!" brings together in a convenient format Terry Castle's most scintillating recent essays on literary criticism, women's writing and sexuality. Readers of Castle's many books and reviews already know her as one of the most incisive... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Booknotes: America's Finest Authors on Reading, Writing, and the Power of Ideas by Brian Lamb Publisher Comments For nearly a decade, Booknotes has been an oasis of book programming on television, the only place where Americans can regularly find in-depth, quality discussions of books. <P>"From the Hardcover edition.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $3.63 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Breaking the Fall: Religious Readings of Contemporary Fiction by Robert Detweiler Publisher Comments "The power of his writing reminds us of the relative neglect of modern and post modern literature by most studies which are concerned with the relation-ship between literature and religion.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Literary Mind by Mark Turner Publisher Comments We usually consider literary thinking to be peripheral and dispensable, an activity for specialists: poets, prophets, lunatics, and babysitters. Certainly we do not think it is the basis of the mind. We think of stories and parables from Aesop's Fables... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $22.50 (Used - Hardcover) 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   Cultural History (Theory and History) by Anna Green Publisher Comments In this volume, Anna Green provides a coherent and accessible introduction to the major theories within this most diverse of historical fields. Cultural History explores the conceptual, affective and imaginative worlds of human consciousness, as... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cool Rules: Anatomy of an Attitude (Focus on Contemporary Issues) by Dick Pountain Publisher Comments Cool Rules introduces the reader to a new cultural category. While the authors do not claim to have discovered Cool, they believe they are the first to take a broad view of the phenomenon. Cool Rules systematically analyzes Cool's history and psychology,... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Wounded Surgeon: Confession and Transformation in Six American Poets by Adam Kirsch Publisher Comments This book reclaims the achievements of six American poets--Lowell, Bishop, Berryman, Jarrell, Schwartz, and Plath--by offering critical "biographies of the poetry."... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Contemporary Irish Novel by Linden Peach Publisher Comments This new study offers innovative readings of key contemporary Irish novels, employing a range of historical, psychoanalytic and theoretical approaches. In reading texts by established writers such as Brian Moore and William Trevor against work by younger... (read more) List Price $95.00 Your price $15.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list In Praise of Flattery (Stages) by Willis Goth Regier Publisher Comments < div> < div> Where would we be without flattery? Hobbes deemed it an honorable duty and Meredith called it the & #8220; finest of the arts.& #8221; Alexander the Great applied it as imperial policy; Caesar and Cleopatra were masters... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list What is Deconstruction? by Christopher Norris Publisher Comments Provides comprehensive documentation of deconstruction theory.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Writers on the Air: Conversations About Books by Donna Seaman Publisher Comments Culled from Donna Seaman's Chicago radio program, Open Books, this collection of interviews highlights Seaman's in-depth conversations with writers of literary fiction and creative nonfiction. A wide range of topics are discussed, including writers... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cigarettes Are Sublime by Richard Klein Publisher Comments Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good. With its origins in the author's urgent desire to stop smoking, Cigarettes Are Sublime offers a provocative look at the literary, philosophical, and cultural history of smoking. Richard Klein... (read more) List Price $87.75 Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Learning from Experience by Paula M L Moya Publisher Comments An extended theoretical argument about the principle of identity--ethnic and gendered--as a basis for intellectual, political, and educational projects.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures by Joseph Gibaldi Synopsis In lively, informative discussions fifteen distinguished scholars of language and literature address graduate students and advanced undergraduates. Each essay examines the significance, underlying assumptions, and limits of an important field in... (read more) List Price $15.50 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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