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Masterpieces of African American Litera by Frank N Magill Book News Annotation This companion volume to Masterpieces of World Literature (1989) highlights the literary achievements of African-American authors from the 18th century to the present with individual articles on 149 major works of fiction, nonfiction, drama, and... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Literary Couplings: Writing Couples, Collaborators, and the Construction of Authorship by Marjorie Stone Publisher Comments This collection challenges the traditional focus on solitary genius by examining the rich diversity of collaborations from the early modern to the postmodern period. Literary Couplings explores some of the best-known literary partnerships—from the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin by Peter Tracey Connor Publisher Comments When Sartre referred to Georges Bataille as a new mystic, he meant the label as an insult. Sartre considered mysticism to be a less rigorous mode of inquiry than philosophy -- especially dangerous where the writings of mystics adapt philosophical... (read more) List Price $39.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory (Beginnings) by Peter Barry Publisher Comments In this second edition of Beginning Theory, the variety of approaches, theorists, and technical language is lucidly and expertly unraveled and explained, and allows readers to develop their own ideas once first principles have been grasped. Expanded and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Modern Visual Poetry by Willard Bohn Publisher Comments Devoted to poetry that is designed for the viewer as much as for the reader, Modern Visual Poetry covers the entire twentieth century, from the initial experiments by Guillaume Apollinaire to those by various Concrete poets and members of the Lettrist... (read more) Your price $35.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphors by Mark Stefik Publisher Comments The & quot; information superhighway& quot; is a metaphor oft used to describe the internet, used so often that Stefik fears we're in danger of subjecting the evolution of the net to the limiting implications of this metaphor. Stefik, along with... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Where the bee sucks :workers, drones, and queens of contemporary American poetry by Robert Peters Publisher Comments This book collects, in a single volume, the best of Robert Peters' fearless, impassioned, and often hilarious assessments of contemporary American poetry. Included are some thirty-five essays and reviews on such major figures as Robert Bly, Charles... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning (Wesleyan Paperback) by Owen Barfield Publisher Comments Barfield discusses poetry's meaning in terms of both his personal experience and objective standards of criticism.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Thomas Sebeok and the Signs of Life (Postmodern Encounters) by Susan Petrilli Publisher Comments Through Sebeok's work it may come to be recognized that sign activity is the very definition of life in the universe.... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $1.38 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The HarperCollins Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature, 2nd Edition by George Perkins Publisher Comments A classic reference work originally published forty years ago, The Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literatureis an irresistable guide to nearly everything there is to know about American literature. The thousands of entries, contributed by more than... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $11.20 (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   The Death of Literature by Alvin B Kernan Publisher Comments A distinguished writer and scholar explores literature's "crisis of confidence". Writing in anecdotal and witty style, Kernan relates the death of literature to a variety of agents and ponders whether literature's vitality can be restored in the changing... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Recalling the Wild: Naturalism and the Closing of the American West by Mary Lawlor Synopsis Ever since the first interactions between Europeans Native Americans, the 'West" has served as a site of complex geographical, social, and cultural transformation. American literature is defined, in part, by the central symbols derived from these points... (read more) List Price $52.00 Your price $11.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Literature & the Immigrant Community: The Case of Arthur Landfors by Alan Swanson Publisher Comments Alan Swanson discusses Swedish-American literature in terms of its relevance to its intended audience and the audience of today. He focuses on the function of literature generally and the function of Swedish-American literature in particular before... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $5.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Jane Austens Discourse With New Rhetori by Lynn R Rigberg Book News Annotation The author identifies major considerations in Jane Austen's novels with those of 18th century Scottish New Rhetoric. She shows how Austen uses fictional examples to argue the development of moral understanding in both sexes by educating them in... (read more) Your price $17.63 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Founding the Lasting Volume 3 of the Fall & by Frederic Will Book News Annotation Papers of the Dec. 1988 meeting in Dallas on quantum cosmology, the early universe, superstring theory, quantum gravity, gravity waves, active galactic nuclei, quasar disks, quasar absorption lines, cosmic microwave background, primeval galaxies... (read more) Your price $2.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Fruited Plain: Fables for a Postmodern Democracy by Alvin Kernan Publisher Comments In ten satiric episodes, Kernan visits virtually every important American institution - the family, education, religion, art, the military, law courts, sex, science and medicine, politics, and not least television and its advertisements. Unsparing with... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $11.21 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Smoking Book by Lesley Stern Publisher Comments The Smoking Book is a dreamlike structure built on the solid foundation of two questions: how does it feel to smoke, and what does smoking mean? Lesley Stern, in an innovative, hybrid form of writing, muses on these questions through intersecting stories... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Victorian Women Poets: Writing Against the Heart (Victorian Literature and Culture) by Angela Leighton Publisher Comments Victorian Women Poets aims to recover the lost map of Victorian women's poetry. In its sheer variety and energy it in fact offers nothing less than a complete refiguring of the Victorian poetic canon.... (read more) List Price $19.50 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Aftershocks: The End of Style Culture by Steve Beard Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 148-160) and indexes.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and 20th-Century American Poetry (Modern and Contemporary Poetics) by Lorenzo Thomas Publisher Comments Cultural Writing. African American Studies. New to SPD. This broad overview by an established poet and cultural critic reveals the rich tapestry of African American poetry as it has emerged over the past century. Written with intelligence and humor, this... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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