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The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings from the 1950s Through the 1990s by Norman Podhoretz Publisher Comments Norman Podhoretz "is a thinker and writer and polemicist, a geopolitician and student of religious ideas, an autobiographer of genius, a man who reacts sharply to the news as it pours from the press and the airwaves, who thinks deeply, angrily, and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list An American Procession by Alfred Kazin Publisher Comments In this illuminating study of the "crucial century" (1830-1930), Alfred Kazin views the major figures in American writing, beginning in the 1830s when Ralph Waldo Emerson founded a national literature on the basis of a religious revolution, and ending on... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Way We Grieve by Sandra M. Gilbert Publisher Comments Prominent critic, poet, and memoirist Sandra M. Gilbert explores our relationship to death though literature, history, poetry, and societal practices. <BR>Does death "change"--and if it does, how has it changed in the last century? And how have our... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Framing Pieces: Designs of the Gloss in Joyce, Woolf, and Pound by J Whittier Ferguson Publisher Comments In Framing Pieces, Whittier-Ferguson recovers and explores drafts, notes, glosses, essays, and guides that high modernists, such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound generated in order to interpret their own work. These archival... (read more) List Price $52.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy, Politics (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Phi Lacoue Labarthe Publisher Comments Essays on the relation between philosophy and aesthetics, introduced by Jacques Derrida.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $9.95 (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

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 Cultural Politics of Fur by Julia Emberley Publisher Comments Fur has been sparking controversies ever since sumptuary laws marked it as a luxury item and as a sign of medieval class privilege. Drawing on wide-ranging historical and contemporary sources, Julia Emberley explains how a material goods has become both... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Impolitic Bodies: Poetry, Saints, and Society in Fifteenth-Century England: The Work of Osbern Bokenham by Sheila Delany Publisher Comments This pioneering book explores the work of English Augustinian friar Osbern Bokenham, an ardent Yorkist on the eve of the "Wars of the Roses" and a gifted poet. Sheila Delany focuses on a manuscript written in 1447, the "Legend of Holy Women." Narrating... (read more) List Price $53.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Geopoetics: The Politics of Mimesis in Poststructuralist French Poetry and Theory by Joan Brandt Publisher Comments By focusing on the problematic of mimesis—in its linguistic, psychoanalytical, and cultural incarnations—this book argues, in opposition to those who stress the political inadequacies of the French poststructuralists' "privileging" of... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives by Marianna Torgovnick Publisher Comments In this acclaimed book, Torgovnick explores the obsessions, fears, and longings that have produced Western views of the primitive. Crossing an extraordinary range of fields (anthropology, psychology, literature, art, and popular culture), Gone Primitive... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 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 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 $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

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