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Chaos and Order: Complex Dynamics in Literature and Science (New Practices of Inquiry) by N Katherine Hayles Publisher Comments The scientific discovery that chaotic systems embody deep structures of order is one of such wide-ranging implications that it has attracted attention across a spectrum of disciplines, including the humanities. In this volume, fourteen theorists explore... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Serendipities: Language & Lunacy by Umberto Eco Publisher Comments Serendipities is a careful unraveling of the fabulous and the false, a brilliant exposition of how unanticipated truths often spring from false ideas. From Leibniz's belief that the I Ching illustrated the principles of calculus to Marco Polo's mistaking... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sincerity and Authenticity (Harvard Paperbacks) by Lionel Trilling Publisher Comments "Now and then," writes Lionel Triling "it is possible to observe the moral life in process of revising itself." In this new book he is concerned with such a mutation: the process by which the arduous enterprise of sincerity, of being true to one's self... (read more) List Price $15.50 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Meeting the Professor: Growing Up in the William Blackburn Family by Alexander Blackburn Synopsis A personal memoir of Duke University's legendary professor William Blackburn, mentor to William Stytron, Reynolds Price, Fred Chappell, and others.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Marxism and Literary Criticism by Terry Eagleton Publisher Comments "Far and away the best short introduction to Marxist criticism (both history and problems) which I have seen."--Fredric R... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Literary Genius: 25 Classic Writers Who Define English & American Literature by Joseph Epstein Publisher Comments What constitutes literary genius? This collection of essays focuses on twenty-five English-language writers whose original and enduring works enrich our lives. Renowned portraitist Barry Moser provides a handsome engraving of each writer, together with... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $13.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature by Donna J Haraway Publisher Comments The idea that nature is constructed, not discovered — that truth is made, not found — is the keynote of recent scholarship in the history of science. Tracing the gendered roots of science in culture, Donna Haraway's writings about scientific... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Exiled in Paris by James Campbell Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-260) and index.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The End of the Novel of Love by Vivian Gornick Publisher Comments Offers powerful insight into the portrayal of romantic love by Jean Rhys, Clover Adams, Christina Stead, Willa Cather, Grace Paley, Raymond Carver, Andre Dubus, and others. "Gornick makes forceful and dramatic judgments. . . . She is fearless... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and "Les Miserables" by Mario Vargas Llosa Publisher Comments It was one of the most popular novels of the 19th century, yet today Victor Hugo's "Les Misrables" is neglected by readers and undervalued by critics. One of the world's great novelists Llosa helps readers to appreciate the incredible ambition, power... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $15.95 (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   Heart: A Personal Journey Through Its Myth and Meanings by Gail Godwin Publisher Comments "The Italians have a musical notation not found in any other language: tempo giusto 'the right tempo.' It means a steady, normal heat, between 66 and 76 on the metronome. Tempo giusto is the appropriate heat of the human heart." One of the preeminent... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $6.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature by C S Lewis Publisher Comments This, Lewis??'s last book, was hailed as ???the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind???.... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir by Anatole Broyard Publisher Comments "Nineteen forty-six was a good time — perhaps the best time — in the twentieth century. The war was over and there was a terrific sense of coming back, of repossessing life. Rents were cheap, restaurants were cheap, and it seemed to me that... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list ABC Cat by Harold B Segel Publisher Comments In this companion to ABC Dog, there are happy cats, party cats, jazz cats, ten-gallon-hat cats, queen cats, rub-my-belly cats, wet cats, extreme cats--Just about every kind of cat for every kind of cat fancier. Bold and bright and always hilarious, this... (read more) List Price $8.99 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age by Sven Birkerts Publisher Comments "[A] THOUGHTFUL AND HEARTFELT BOOK...A literary cri de coeur--a lament for literature and everything implicit in it."<BR>--The Washington Post<BR>In our zeal to embrace the wonders of the electronic age, are we sacrificing our literary... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Writers on the Air: Conversations About Books by Donna Seaman Publisher Comments Culled from Donna Seaman's Chicago radio program, Open Books, this collection of interviews highlights Seaman's in-depth conversations with writers of literary fiction and creative nonfiction. A wide range of topics are discussed, including writers... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Snobbery: The American Version by Joseph Epstein Publisher Comments Joseph Epstein's highly entertaining new book takes up the subject of snobbery in America after the fall of the prominence of the old Wasp culture of prep schools, Ivy League colleges, cotillions, debutante balls, the Social Register, and the rest of it.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality by Thomas Lynch Synopsis A poet and funeral director continues to examine the relationship between the "literary and mortuary" arts in essays speaking to the existentials: between being human and ceasing to be, between birth and death, we are bodies in motion and at rest.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cultural Theory: The Key Concepts by Andrew Edgar Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 436-485) and indexes.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Writing and Difference by Jacques Derrida Publisher Comments First published in 1967, Writing and Difference, a collection of Jacques Derrida's essays written between 1959 and 1966, has become a landmark of contemporary French thought. In it we find Derrida at work on his systematic deconstruction of Western... (read more) Your price $14.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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