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Claiming Earth: Race, Rage, Rape, Redemption: Blacks Seeking a Culture of Enlightened Empowerment by Haki R Madhubuti Publisher Comments An important handbook, this guide encourages nurturing people, both young and old, into Black consciousness and activism.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $3.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World by Feroza Jussawalla Publisher Comments This book of interviews conducted by Jussawalla and Dasenbrock is the first to feature third-world authors discussing their works and their careers. These are joined by three Chicano writers from the U.S. All fourteen included here write in English, a... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Detective Agency by Priscilla Walton Publisher Comments A fun book about genre fiction and the ways women have appropriated the hard-boiled tradition of Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, and Mike Hammer and the writings of Hammet, Chandler, Spillane, and others. A story of texts, movies, TV shows, and publishing, it... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Postmodern Literary Theory by Niall Lucy Publisher Comments You couldn't use terms like 'text' in an English course without incurring the disapproval of some crusty old moralist....In a postmodern world, literature is just another text....Forget depth: think surface ...... everything is a text.In this brilliantly... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 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 $6.00 (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   Racing & (E)Racing Language: Living with the Color of Our Words by Ellen J Goldner Publisher Comments Explores poetry, critical essays, personal narrative, dialogue, and political speech of diverse ethnic groups.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.13 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Transgressing Discourses: Communication and the Voice of Other (Suny Series, Human Communication Processes) by Michael Huspek Publisher Comments Argues that the voice of other has not been sufficiently heard. Clarifies the nature of this communicative failing and develops an appropriate corrective.<P>"...This volume is engaging to read. It addresses important theoretical issues from styles... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages by Harold Bloom Publisher Comments Harold Bloom explores our Western literary tradition by concentrating on the works of twenty-six authors central to the Canon. He argues against ideology in literary criticism; he laments the loss of intellectual and aesthetic standards; he deplores... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Princeton Handbook of Multicultural Poetries by Princeton Publisher Comments Drawn from the acclaimed New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, the articles in this concise new reference book provide a complete survey of the poetic history and practice in every major national literature or cultural tradition in the world.... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 $7.95 (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 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

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