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Postmodernism for Beginners by Richard Appignanesi Publisher Comments A look at the building blocks of postmodernism: structuralism, deconstruction, semiotics and the postmodern icons. B/W illustrations throughout.... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Masters of Repetition: Poetry, Culture, and Work in Thomson, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Emerson by Lisa M Steinman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [238]-242) and index.... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Flame Wars: The Discourse by Cyberculture by Mark Dery Publisher Comments ""Flame Wars" . . . connects the dots of cyberculture's pixilated universe."--"Voice Literary Supplement" "Most (cybercrit) is pure hype. "Flame Wars" is different. "Flame Wars" is better. "Flame Wars" is like jacking into the heart of microprocessor... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Literature and Gender: Thinking Critically Through Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (Longman Literature and Culture Series) by Robyn Wiegman Publisher Comments * Each part has an introduction and selections are preceded by a brief biographical note about the author. * The section on "Learning" includes stories from Bobbie Ann Mason, Raymond Carver, and Cathy Song. * Part III, "Resisting," includes selections... (read more) List Price $48.60 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Geder, & Culture) by Wendy Doniger Publisher Comments "Somehow I woke up one day and found myself in bed with a stranger." Meant literally or figuratively, this statement describes one of the best-known plots in world mythology and popular storytelling. In a tour that runs from Shakespeare to Hollywood and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Blazing the Trail: Way Marks in the Exploration of Symbols (Anthropology of Form & Meaning) by Victor Turner Publisher Comments Victor Turner (1920-1983) stands as one of the leading anthropologists of the twentieth century, known especially for his work on the process of ritual. This new collection of Turner's writings gathers seven late pieces that reflect his thoughts on such... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Keys of Middle-Earth: Discovering Medieval Literature Through the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien by Stuart D Lee Publisher Comments Introduces Old and Middle English Literature through Tolkein's "The Hobbit "and "Lord of the Rings,"... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Dying Planet: Mars in Science and the Imagination by Robert Markley Publisher Comments Analyzes scientific, literary, and popular works of the last century to offer a cross-disciplinary reading of Mars as both an object of scientific study and as a site on which humankind has projected its fears of ecological... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Theory and History of Literature #72: Writings on Literature by N S Trubetzkoy Book News Annotation Abramson (Hebrew literature, U. of Oxford) presents a detailed critical description and thematic analysis of Amichai's work, with reference to the historical background from which it has emerged. The problems of an emerging national culture are seen... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $17.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fatal Strategies by Jean Baudrillard Publisher Comments In this shimmering manifesto against dialectics, Jean Baudrillard constructs a condemnatory ethics of the andquot;false problem.andquot; One foot in social science, the other in speculation about the history of ideas, this text epitomizes the assault... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $10.00 (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 Oxford Companion to Irish Literature by Robert Welch Publisher Comments By turns sacred or profane, mystical or earthy, scathingly satirical and modern or achingly nostalgic for the ever-receding past, the literature of Ireland has long entranced and entertained readers the world over. Now The Oxford Companion to Irish... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cigarettes Are Sublime by Richard Klein Publisher Comments Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good. With its origins in the author's urgent desire to stop smoking, Cigarettes Are Sublime offers a provocative look at the literary, philosophical, and cultural history of smoking. Richard Klein... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics #2: The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism by Walter Michaels Publisher Comments "The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism" discusses ways of creating value in turn-of-the-century American capitalism. Focusing on such topics as the alienation of property, the invention of masochism, and the battle over free silver, it examines... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Contemporary Critical Theory: A Selective Bibliography by Donald G. Marshall Publisher Comments An up-to-date overview of important theories and theorists in literary studies, this volume contains introductory essays on a range of critical theories--from Russian formalism and New Criticism to post-colonial studies and the new historicism--and lists... (read more) List Price $15.50 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs and Corso in Paris, 1958-1963 by Barry Miles Publisher Comments The Beat Hotel is a delightful chronicle of a remarkable moment in American literary history. From the Howl obscenity trial to the invention of the cut-up technique, Barry Miles's extraordinary narrative chronicles the feast of ideas that was Paris... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Conversations with American Women Writers by Sarah Anne Johnson Publisher Comments Interviews on the craft of writing and the writing life with some of the foremost contemporary American women fiction writers.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia Publisher Comments From ancient Egypt through the nineteenth century, Sexual Personae explores the provocative connections between art and pagan ritual; between Emily Dickinson and the Marquis de Sade; between Lord Byron and Elvis Presley. It ultimately challenges the... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list When the Kissing Had to Stop: Cult Studs, Khmer Newts, Langley Spooks, Techno-Geeks, Video Drones, Author Gods, Serial Killers, Vampire Media, Alien by John Leonard Publisher Comments One of our most sophisticated commentators looks at contemporary literature and pop culture.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bad Girls & Sick Boys: Fantasies in Contemporary Art Culture by Linda S Kauffman Publisher Comments ""Bad Girls and Sick Boys is an exhilarating rollercoaster ride, a superb piece of cultural investigation that skillfully anatomies some of the most deviant imaginations at work today."--J. G. Ballard "Linda Kauffman is the perfect guide through the... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature by Richard Ruland Synopsis This literary history considers the complexity of American literature in social, historical and ideological context, at the same time recognizing that American literature has been a Western literature, related to the thought and art movements that have... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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