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by Howard Hampton  Publisher Comments Twenty years as an outsider scouring the underbelly of American culture has made Howard Hampton a uniquely hardnosed guide to the heart of pop darkness. Bridging the fatalistic, intensely charged space between Apocalypse Now Redux and Nirvana's Smells... (read more)  List Price $28.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Robert Scholes Publisher Comments Discussing a wide range of literary theory in a clear and accessible way, prize-winning author Robert Scholes here continues his ongoing construction of a humane semiotic approach to the problems of reading, writing, and teaching. Taking the view that... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Constance Coiner Publisher Comments Better Red is an interdisciplinary study addressing the complicated intersection of American feminism and the political left as refracted in Tillie Olsen's and Meridel Le Sueur's lives and literary texts. The first book-length study to explore these... (read more) List Price $52.00 Your price $24.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Joe Bellamy Publisher Comments This collection of interviews, photographs, and memorabilia from the Saranac writers conferences from the late 1970s features famous authors discussing themselves and their work, allowing readers a glimpse into what is was like to spend time at Saranac... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeffrey Wallen Publisher Comments It's committed. It's political. It's socially engaged. It's academic criticism in the nineties. But what does it achieve? In a provocative and fair-minded look at current critical practices and the future of the academy, Jeffrey Wallen draws a disturbing... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $4.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Wayne Booth Publisher Comments In The Company We Keep, Wayne C. Booth argues for the relocation of ethics to the center of our engagement with literature. But the questions he asks are not confined to morality. Returning ethics to its root sense, Booth proposes that the ethical critic... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sophy Dale Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 84-86) and index.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Helga Druxes Book News Annotation Examines the decline of the male hero in novels of the 19th and 20 centuries through the lens of a particular case, the Faust legend, in order to illuminate the corresponding rise of female Faustian heroes or would-be heroes. Excerpts from foreign... (read more) List Price $53.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by T Mihn Ha Trinh Publisher Comments In this collection of her provocative essays on Third World art and culture, award-winning filmmaker and theorist Trinh Minh-ha offers new challenges to Western regimes of knowledge. Bringing to her subjects an acute sense of the many meanings of the... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nikki L Kaltenbach Book News Annotation Kaltenback (French, Capital U.) analyzes the principle episodes of this 13th-century Occitan narrative on three levels: the personal growth of the hero in psychological terms, in light of Jungian theory; the journey of the hero, which describes the... (read more) Your price $6.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert B Silvers Publisher Comments "Our most remarkable writers share what has influenced them the most: each other." <BR>Many of the illustrious contributors to "The New York Review of Books" have had deep and abiding relationships-both personal and intellectual-with other poets... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Andre Philipp Brink Publisher Comments "The novel, Brink argues, is not about representation but the self-conscious play of language. From its inception, he suggests, the genre has been about the act of writing and self-reflection. This thesis is not new but is part of the currency of... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Ashbery Publisher Comments One of the greatest living poets in English here explores the work of six writers he often finds himself reading "in order to get started" when writing, poets he turns to as "a poetic jump-start for times when the batteries have run down." Among those... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by A Leslie Willson Publisher Comments "German Romantic criticism represents a fundamentally dialectical type of thinking, " says Ernst Behler in his Foreword. "With Romantic criticism we are on the threshold of that phase of modernity of which we are still the inheritors." Among the... (read more) Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Adrian Forty Publisher Comments In tracing the process through which monuments give rise to collective memories, this path-breaking book emphasizes that memorials are not just inert and amnesiac spaces upon which individuals may graft their ever-shifting memories. To the contrary, the... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $45.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Paul Sartre Publisher Comments ""What is Literature?" remains the most significant critical landmark of French literature since World War II. Neither abstract nor abstruse, it is a brilliant, provocative performance by a writer more inspired than cautious. ""What is Literature... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Holdcroft Publisher Comments This book offers a critical assessment of Saussure's central ideas.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price $20.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ethan Goffman Publisher Comments Imagining Each Other explores Black-Jewish relations by examining the complex ways they have portrayed each other in recent American literature. It illuminates their dramatic alliances and conflicts and their dilemmas of identity and assimilation, and... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $5.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marjorie Garber Publisher Comments From its beginning, the story of Medusa has fascinated and terrified listeners and readers--for what is most compelling in this myth is Medusa's intrinsic doubleness: the woman who could turn a careless onloker to stone has become a symbol of all that is... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Meltzer Publisher Comments "San Francisco Beat" is an essential archive of the Beat Generation, a rich moment in a fortunate place. America-somnolent, conformist, and paranoid in the 1950s-was changed forever by a handful of people who refused an existence of drudgery and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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