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The Origins of Postmodernity by Perry Anderson Publisher Comments A panoramic study of the genesis, consolidation, and consequences of the notion of the postmodern.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work by Philip Roth Publisher Comments In Philip Roth's intimate intellectual encounters with an international and diverse cast of writers, they explore the importance of region, politics, and history in their work and trace the imaginative path by which a writer's highly... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition, Second Edition by Jack Zipes Publisher Comments For centuries fairy tales have been a powerful mode of passing cultural values onto our children, and for many these stories delight and haunt us from cradle to grave. But how have these stories become so powerful and why? In When Dreams Came True, Jack... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays (Harvest Book) by Umberto Eco Publisher Comments In these “impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent” essays (Atlantic Monthly), “the Andy Rooney of academia” (Los Angeles Times) takes on computer jargon, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on airplanes, bad coffee, taxi drivers, 33... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fat Boys: A Slim Book by Sander L Gilman Publisher Comments He is the epitome of health--or a walking time bomb. He is oversexed--or sexless. He is jolly--or hiding the tears of a clown. He is the picture of wealth and plenty--or the bloated, malnourished emblem of poverty. He is the fat man--a cultural icon, a... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Negotiations 1972-1990 (European Prespectives: a Series in Social Thought & Cultural Criticism) by Gilles Deleuze Publisher Comments A provocative guide to Deleuze by Deleuze, this collection traces the intellectual journey of one of the most important French philosophers and clarifies the key critical concepts in the work of this vital figure who has had an impact on aesthetics, film... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World by David Denby Publisher Comments THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER At the age of forty-eight, writer and film critic David Denby returned to Columbia University and re-enrolled in two core courses in Western civilization to confront the literary and philosophical masterpieces -- the "great books"... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World by Edward W Said Publisher Comments In this landmark work, for which he has written a new Introduction, one of our foremost public thinkers examines to origins and repercussions of the media's monolithic images of Islam. Combining political commentary with literary criticism, Edward Said... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Real Presences by George Steiner Publisher Comments Can there be major dimensions of a poem, a painting, a musical compostion created in the absence of God? Or, is God always a real presence in the arts? Any new book by Steiner is an event according to Eva Hoffman of the New York Times.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Concise Oxford Companion To Irish Litera by Robert Welch Publisher Comments This book is intended for general readers and students interested in all aspects of Irish literature... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $2.83 (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   Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights by Bill Ivey Publisher Comments In this impassioned and persuasive book, Bill Ivey, the former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, assesses the current state of the arts in America and finds cause for alarm. Even as he celebrates our ever-emerging culture and the way it... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? by Harold Bloom Publisher Comments In this inspiring book, Harold Bloom, our preeminent literary critic, takes us from the Bible to twentieth-century writing, searching for the ways in which literature can inform our lives. Through comparisons of the Book of Job and Ecclesiastes; Plato... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Who Wrote What?: A Dictionary of Writers & Their Works by Michael Cox Publisher Comments A quick, easy-to-use reference resource on authors and their works, covering nearly 3,000 authors and 25,000 comprehensively cross-referenced book titles from 1475 to the present day. Poetry, drama and non-fiction are covered alongside novels and short... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Economy of Literature by Marc Shell Publisher Comments Why did coinage, tyranny, and philosophy develop in the same time and place? Marc Shell explores how both money and language give "worth" by providing a medium of exchange, how the development of money led to a revolution in philosophical thought and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Tyranny of the Normal by Leslie Fiedler Publisher Comments Bound Together By the common thread of bioethics, these essays encompass such issues as abortion, the removal of life support, the role that doctors play in our society, and how we confront old age and Eros. Controversial, at times infuriating, Fiedler's... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Morals of History: A Leading European Intellectual Offers a Wide-Ranging Study of the Role Of... by Tzvetan Todorov Publisher Comments The celebrated theorist Tzvetan Todorov offers here a thought provoking study of the complex relationship between 'ethics' and 'history'. In exploring such issues as how one practices and assesses equality among different societies, Todorov confronts... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Postmodern Contentions: Epochs, Politics, Space (Mappings) by John Paul Jones Publisher Comments John Paul Jones III, Wolfgang Natter, and Theodore Schatzki are co-Directors of the University of Kentucky Committee on Social Theory. They are members, respectively, of the departments of Geography, Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Philosophy.<... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Book of Common Praise by Robert Boyers Publisher Comments Miniature critical essays on contemporary poets and fiction writers. Originally written as introductions to public readings, these essays are unabashedly celebratory, a welcome relief from the usual critical fare. As a critic, Boyers has been praised by... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $3.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Tears of Eros by Georges Bataille Publisher Comments Tears of Eros is the culmination of Georges Bataille's inquiries into the relationship between violence and the sacred. Taking up such figures as Giles de Rais, Erzebet Bathory, the Marquis de Sade, El Greco, Gustave Moreau, Andre Breton, Voodoo... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Image, Music, Text by Roland Barthes Publisher Comments These essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena of sound and image. The classic pieces "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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