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Idea of a Colony by Edward Marx Book News Annotation From a perspective weighted toward postcolonialism, Marx explores the relationship between two propositions: that the formative years of modern poetry coincided with the climax of what is usually called High Imperialism, and that the most visible link... (read more) List Price $53.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Affecting Fictions: Mind, Body, and Emotion in American Literary Realism by Jane F Thrailkill Publisher Comments What happens when the cerebral--that is, theories of literature and of affect--encounters the corporeal, the human body? In this study by Jane Thrailkill, what emerges from the convergence is an important vision of late-nineteenth-century American... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $29.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Spasm: Virtual Reality, Android Music, and Electric Flesh (Culturetexts) by Arthur Kroker Publisher Comments Spasm is the 1990s. A theory-fiction about the crash world of virtual reality, from the cold sex of Madonna Mutant, the pure sex of Michael Jackson and the dead sex of Elvis to the technological fetishes of Silicon Valley. Written from the perspectives... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $3.53 (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.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Higher Form of Cannibalism by Carl E Rollyson Publisher Comments Carl Rollyson's lively and anecdotal investigation of writing about the lives others examines his own practices as well as those of biographers from Samuel Johnson to Richard Ellmann and many others. By its very nature, Mr. Rollyson argues, biography is... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Dryden and the Problem of Freedom: The Republican Aftermath, 1649-1680 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 add to wish list Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life 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 add to wish list Blood and Ink: An International Guide to Fact-Based Crime Literature 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 add to wish list City Scriptures: Modern Jewish Writing 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 add to wish list The Very Telling: Conversations with American Writers 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 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   Recovering the U S Hispanic Lit Volume 5 by Ke Dworkin Y Mendez Publisher Comments A stimulating collection of essays by leading scholars of U.S. Hispanic Literature.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $20.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (Oxford World's Classics) by Walter Pater Publisher Comments Oscar Wilde called this collection of essays the "holy writ of beauty." Published to great acclaim in 1837, it examines the work of Renaissance artists such as Winckelmann and the then neglected Botticelli, and includes a celebrated discussion of the... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Why Literature Matters: Permanence and the Politics of Reputation by Glenn C Arbery Publisher Comments Through an examination of the work of poets and novelists who have managed to garner honor -- including Shakespeare, Homer, and Emily Dickinson -- and those whose reputations are of more recent vintage and therefore more difficult to evaluate such as Tom... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Feminist Literary Studies: An Introduction by K K Ruthven Publisher Comments K. K. Ruthven looks at the impact of Marxism, structuralism, and post-structuralism on feminist critical practice.... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price $4.46 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Postmodern Fables by Jean-franco Lyotard Publisher Comments This latest offering from one of the founding figures of postmodernism is a collection of fifteen "fables" that ask, in the words of Jean-Francois Lyotard, "how to live, and why?" Here, Lyotard provides a mixture of anarchistic irreverence and sober... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Integral Music: Languages of African American Innovation (Modern and Contemporary Poetics) 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 add to wish list Recovering Your Story: Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison 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 add to wish list PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy 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 add to wish list Positivism and imagination :scientism and its limits in Emile Hennequin, Wilhelm Scherer, and Dmitrii Pisarev 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 add to wish list Inter/View 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 add to wish list

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