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by David B Haley  Publisher Comments In this revisionary study of Dryden's thought, David Haley argues that Dryden was the first English poet after Shakespeare to engage in historical reflection upon his own culture. Addressing an audience for whom literature was bound up with religion and... (read more)  List Price $35.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Martha C Nussbaum Publisher Comments One of our most prominent philosophers and public intellectuals explores how literature can contribute to a more just society. "Timely and urgent . . . a tract for the times in the guise of a defense of the literary imagination".Morris Dickstein, THE NEW... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Albert Borowitz Publisher Comments Albert Borowitz provides a guide to "fact-based crime literature" focusing on two principle groups of works: nonfiction accounts of crimes and criminal trials. The book includes essays, monographs, journalism editions of court transcripts, and more.... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $20.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Lauter Publisher Comments This collection of essays places issues central to literary study, particularly the question of the canon, in the context of institutional practices in American colleges and universities. Lauter addresses such crucial concerns as what students should... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Catherine Legouis Publisher Comments During the nineteenth century, the positivists attempted to turn literary criticism into an exact science explaining the esthetics and social context of literature without recourse to subjective reactions. Catherine LeGouis examines the works of three... (read more) Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mickey Pearlman Book News Annotation Pearlman and Henderson, authors themselves, interviewed 28 American women writers and present each in a from the writers (instead of in a Q and A format). The interviewers had in mind the themes of memory, space, and family, but the writers... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $3.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sara Salih Publisher Comments A welcome addition to the "Routledge Critical Thinkers" series, "Judith Butler" is the first guidebook on this renowned feminist and queer theory scholar, which will help not only students of literary criticism but also students of law, sociology... (read more) Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William A Gleason Publisher Comments An analysis of issues surrounding work and leisure in nineteenth and early twentieth-century American literature.... (read more) List Price $77.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Szondi Publisher Comments The first English translation of an important introductory work on the historical development and contemporary relevance of hermeneutics.... (read more) Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Raman Selden Publisher Comments The best of the many guides to literary theory that are currently available. Widdowson and Brooker chart a clear and comprehensively documented path through the full range of what is best in contemporary literary theory…indispensable for... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Aldon Lynn Nielsen Publisher Comments "A stunning performance! . . . Aldon Nielsen's work reminds one of how adventuresome and delightful an experience reading can be. His criticism offers fresh perspectives informed by a wide range of contextual data. Presented with wit and clarity, Dr... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Arnold Weinstein 
Publisher Comments "Great art discovers for us who we are," writes eminent literature professor and critic Arnold Weinstein in this magisterial new book about how we can better uncover and understand our own stories by reading five major modern writers. Professor Weinstein,... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeffrey Williams Publisher Comments b /b b i PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy /i /b addresses the very issue of political correctness and the current skirmishes in the culture wars. It includes statements from many of our leading contemporary public intellectuals, including Joan... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price $4.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Murray Baumgarten Publisher Comments This richly suggestive book examines the common bonds of thought and shared manner of expression that unite Jewish writers working in America, Eastern Europe, and Israel. Murray Baumgarten shows how Jewish traditions are reflected in the themes and... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sarah Anne Johnson Publisher Comments Once again, Sarah Anne Johnson offers insightful interviews with some of today's most popular and accomplished writers. Steeped in a thorough knowledge of each writer's work, Johnson asks about a range of topics on the writing craft, nurturing fictional... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Adam Sisman Publisher Comments The story of the legendary friendship between Wordsworth and Coleridge The friendship between William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge produced dazzling results. From it came Lyrical Ballads, the volume that kick-started the Romantic Movement in... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rikki Ducornet Publisher Comments With the great Renaissance voyages to the New World came the popularity of Wunderkammern, or cabinets of wonders, in which newly discovered monsters and marvels could be displayed. Like such a cabinet, this collection of essays surveys the monstrous and... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lynn Hunt Publisher Comments By the end of the nineteenth century, women had become an undeniable force both in the public discussion of social life and in politics itself. Yet in art and literature women's bodies continued to be represented-- and domesticated-- by men. They were... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by A M Cinquemani Book News Annotation Explores the literary and linguistic influences that John Milton drew from his encounters with Florentine intellectuals in 1638-39. After a brief exploration of the life of Italian scholar Benedetto Buonmattei and Milton's sojourn in Florence, topics... (read more) Your price $24.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Cynthia Ozick Publisher Comments Quarrel & Quandary" showcases the manifold talents of one of our leading and award-winning critics and essayists. <BR>In nineteen opulent essays, Cynthia Ozick probes Dostoevsky for insights into the Unabomber, questions the role of the public... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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