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Geopoetics: The Politics of Mimesis in Poststructuralist French Poetry and Theory Geopoetics: The Politics of Mimesis in Poststructuralist French Poetry and Theory
by Joan Brandt

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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)

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The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham (Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature) The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham (Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature)
by Helen Vendler

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Children." View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the course.... (read more)

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Framing Pieces: Designs of the Gloss in Joyce, Woolf, and Pound Framing Pieces: Designs of the Gloss in Joyce, Woolf, and Pound
by J Whittier Ferguson

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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)

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Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives Gone Primitive: Savage Intellects, Modern Lives
by Marianna Torgovnick

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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)

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Claiming Earth: Race, Rage, Rape, Redemption: Blacks Seeking a Culture of Enlightened Empowerment Claiming Earth: Race, Rage, Rape, Redemption: Blacks Seeking a Culture of Enlightened Empowerment
by Haki R Madhubuti

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An important handbook, this guide encourages nurturing people, both young and old, into Black consciousness and activism.... (read more)

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Racing & (E)Racing Language: Living with the Color of Our Words Racing & (E)Racing Language: Living with the Color of Our Words
by Ellen J Goldner

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Explores poetry, critical essays, personal narrative, dialogue, and political speech of diverse ethnic groups.... (read more)

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Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World Interviews with Writers of the Post-Colonial World
by Feroza Jussawalla

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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)

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Transgressing Discourses: Communication and the Voice of Other (Suny Series, Human Communication Processes) Transgressing Discourses: Communication and the Voice of Other (Suny Series, Human Communication Processes)
by Michael Huspek

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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)

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Detective Agency Detective Agency
by Priscilla Walton

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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)

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Postmodern Literary Theory Postmodern Literary Theory
by Niall Lucy

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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)

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The Princeton Handbook of Multicultural Poetries The Princeton Handbook of Multicultural Poetries
by Princeton

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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)

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Masterpieces of African-american Literature Masterpieces of African-american Literature
by Frank N Magill

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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)

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The Death of Literature The Death of Literature
by Alvin B Kernan

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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)

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Literary Couplings: Writing Couples, Collaborators, and the Construction of Authorship Literary Couplings: Writing Couples, Collaborators, and the Construction of Authorship
by Marjorie Stone

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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)

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Recalling the Wild: Naturalism and the Closing of the American West Recalling the Wild: Naturalism and the Closing of the American West
by Mary Lawlor

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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)

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Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin Georges Bataille and the Mysticism of Sin
by Peter Tracey Connor

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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)

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Literature & the Immigrant Community: The Case of Arthur Landfors Literature & the Immigrant Community: The Case of Arthur Landfors
by Alan Swanson

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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)

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Jane Austens Discourse With New Rhetori Jane Austens Discourse With New Rhetori
by Lynn R Rigberg

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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)

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Founding the Lasting Volume 3 of the Fall & Founding the Lasting Volume 3 of the Fall &
by Frederic Will

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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)

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Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphors Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphors
by Mark Stefik

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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)

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