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Latina Self Portraits Interviews With Latina Self Portraits Interviews With
by Bridget Kevane

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Through frank and revealing interviews, takes a historical and literary approach to ten important contemporary Latina writers.... (read more)

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Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics
by Helen Vendler

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< p> < a href=http: //athome.harvard.edu/dh/vendler.html target=new> Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem Among School Children, View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and... (read more)

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Sweet Home: Invisible Cities in the Afro-American Novel Sweet Home: Invisible Cities in the Afro-American Novel
by Charles Scruggs

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In this groundbreaking book Charles Scruggs identifies the black urban experience as a driving force behind the twentieth-century Afro-American novel, resulting in a rich fictional tradition that runs from Paul Laurence Dunbar's The Sport of the Gods... (read more)

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Anthony Trollope (Sutton Pocket Biographies) Anthony Trollope (Sutton Pocket Biographies)
by Graham Handley

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Known for the imaginary worlds and characters he created in the Barsetshire and Palliser series, Anthony Trollope remains one of the most popular of Victorian novelists. This biography explores his life and literary career, along with his revitalization... (read more)

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Semiotics: An Introductory Anthology (Advances in Semiotics) Semiotics: An Introductory Anthology (Advances in Semiotics)
by Robert E Innis

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NB: The subject of this book is semiotics, which is not an option on your list. You need to work on that list to make it more inclusive.... (read more)

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Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction
by John Sutherland

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An engaging guide to a rich literary heritage, The Stanford Companion presents a fascinating parade of novels, authors, publishers, editors, reviewers, illustrators, and periodicals that created the culture of Victorian fiction. Its more than 6,000... (read more)

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The Sense of Form in Literature and Language The Sense of Form in Literature and Language
by Michael Shapiro

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The Sense of Form in Literature and Language demonstrates how form in language participates in and determines the meaning of literary texts. This entails seeing verse and prose as a structure, of which the building blocks are primarily linguistic; and... (read more)

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Charles Johnson: The Novelist as Philosopher Charles Johnson: The Novelist as Philosopher
by Marc C Conner

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Essays by Herman Beavers, Gena Chandler, Marc C. Conner, William Gleason, William R. Nash, Linda Selzer, Gary Storhoff, and John Whalen-Bridge In Charles Johnson: The Novelist as Philosopher, leading scholars examine the African American author's... (read more)

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Dwelling in Possibility: Women Poets and Critics on Poetry (Reading Women Writing) Dwelling in Possibility: Women Poets and Critics on Poetry (Reading Women Writing)
by Yopie Prins

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Contributors here suggest new ways of thinking and writing about poetry in light of contemporary questions about history and identity. The book covers a range of time, geography, and genre, considering poets from antiquity to the present and drawing on a... (read more)

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Booknotes Life Stories: Notable Biographers on the People Who Shaped America Booknotes Life Stories: Notable Biographers on the People Who Shaped America
by Brian Lamb

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From presidents to generals, from civil rights activists to poets, from inventors to scientists, Brian Lamb explores the lives of our most fascinating Americans on Booknotes, his weekly C-Span interview program. He and his guests have examined the lives... (read more)

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Literary Theories in Praxis Literary Theories in Praxis
by Shirley F Staton

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Literary Theories in Praxis analyzes the ways in which critical theories are transformed into literary criticism and methodology. To demonstrate the application of this analysis, critical writings of Roland Barthes, Harold Bloom, Cleanth Brooks, Jacques... (read more)

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Language of Life: A Festival of Poets Language of Life: A Festival of Poets
by Bill Moyers

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"Poets live the lives all of us live," says Bill Moyers, "with one big difference. They have the power--the power of the word--to create a world of thoughts and emotions other can share. We only have to learn to listen." <P><BR>In a series of... (read more)

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Essentials of the Theory of Fiction (3RD 05 Edition) Essentials of the Theory of Fiction (3RD 05 Edition)
by Michael J. Hoffman

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What accounts for the power of stories to both entertain and illuminate? This question has long compelled the attention of storytellers and students of literature alike, and over the past several decades it has opened up broader dialogues about the... (read more)

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The Social Construction of What? The Social Construction of What?
by Ian Hacking

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Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Is it a person? An object? An idea? A theory? Each entails a different notion of social... (read more)

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The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre, and Other Aspects of Popular Culture The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre, and Other Aspects of Popular Culture
by Robert Warshow

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This collection of essays, which originally appeared as a book in 1962, is virtually the complete works of an editor of Commentarymagazine who died, at age 37, in 1955. Longbefore the rise of Cultural Studies as an academic pursuit, in the pages of the... (read more)

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Subject As Action: Transformation & Totality in Narrative Aesthetics Subject As Action: Transformation & Totality in Narrative Aesthetics
by Alan Singer

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In this original and groundbreaking study, Alan Singer posits "narrative aesthetics" as a link between philosophical skepticism about the status of human subjectivity and literary theoretical skepticism about the autonomy of the text. By observing the... (read more)

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Born to Belonging: Writings on Spirit and Justice Born to Belonging: Writings on Spirit and Justice
by Mab Segrest

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Veteran activist Mab Segrest takes readers along on her travels to view a world experiencing extraordinary change. She visits Beijing, for the Fourth World Conference on Women; Atlanta, to examine gentrified Olympic development; Memphis, for the... (read more)

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Culture and Anarchy Culture and Anarchy
by Matthew Arnold

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Without the challenging precedent of 'Culture and Anarchy, ' literary criticism and sociology in England and the United States would want both purpose and direction. Manifesting the special intelligence of a literary critic of original gifts, 'Culture... (read more)

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Cultural Pessimism: Narratives of Decline in the Postmodern World Cultural Pessimism: Narratives of Decline in the Postmodern World
by Oliver Bennett

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"Cultural Pessimism" charts the growth of pessimism in the West during the last decades of the twentieth century. Drawing on studies from a broad range of fields, the author shows how cultural pessimism in the postmodern world can be related to the... (read more)

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The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics
by Arthur W Frank

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In At the Will of the Body, Arthur Frank told the story of his own illnesses, heart attack and cancer. That book ended by describing the existence of a "remission society," whose members all live with some form of illness or disability. The Wounded... (read more)

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