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In Plato's Cave by Alvin Kernan Publisher Comments In this candid and delightful memoir, Alvin Kernan recalls his life as a student, professor, provost, and dean during turbulent decades of change in the hallowed halls of Columbia, Williams, Oxford, Yale, and Princeton. His vividly remembered account is... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Symptoms of Culture by Marjorie B Garber Publisher Comments The symptoms of culture are the anxieties that underlie modern life: the instability of gender roles, the mystery of female sexuality, the enigma of authority, the desire for greatness in ourselves and our heroes. With style, learning, and wit, Marjorie... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list East European Monograph #547: Joseph Conrad: East European, Polish, and Worldwide by Wiesaw Krajka Publisher Comments A collection of essays written by eminent and emerging Conrad scholars from all corners of the world, this book deals with (1) Joseph Conrad's East European and Polish contexts and (2) Joseph Conrad's imperial and American contexts, as well as selected... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price $8.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature (Oxford Paperback Reference) by Oxford Publisher Comments What were people reading about as Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? How did the events around the industrial revolution influence the literary output of British writers and thinkers? What are we reading now and how does it differ... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.98 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism by Georges Bataille Publisher Comments Georges Bataille was one of the most provocative and controversial writers of his time. These essays, the result of profound reflection in the wake of World War II, comprise his most incisive study of surrealism, insisting on its importance as a cultural... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list As Easy as Lying: Essays on Poetry by H L Hix Publisher Comments If you were stranded on some far slope of Parnassus and could bring only one book to map the landscape, H.L. Hix's As Easy As Lyingwould be a good choice. Accessible, erudite, and ebullient, these essays delve into the workings of the poetic mind and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Dissenters and Mavericks: Writings about India in English, 1765-2000 by Margery Sabin Publisher Comments Dissenters and Mavericks reinvigorates the interdisciplinary study of literature, history, and politics through an approach to reading that allows the voices heard in writing a chance to talk back, to exert pressure on the presuppositions and preferences... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Charlotte Bronte and Victorian Psychology by Sally Shuttleworth Publisher Comments This ground-breaking study successfully challenges the traditional tendency to regard Charlotte Brontë as having existed in a historical vacuum. Using texts ranging from local newspapers to medical tomes belonging to the Brontës, Sally... (read more) List Price $52.00 Your price $50.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Realm of Unknowing by Mark Rudman Publisher Comments Powerful meditations on the nature and limits of human understanding.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Drinking Companion: Alcohol and Writers' Lives by Kelly Boler Publisher Comments In an effort to cut back on his drinking, F. Scott's Fitzgerald briefly limited himself to only one glass of beer--thirty times a day. Dashiell Hammett drank himself into a writer's block that lasted thirty years, and John Cheever conquered a... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (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 Fictive and the Imaginary: Charting Literary Anthropology by Wolfgang Iser Publisher Comments "Iser is an influential figure, and aficionados will welcome the comprehensive exposition he provides here."--Terence Cave, TLS The pioneer of "literary anthropology," Wolfgang Iser presents a wide-ranging and comprehensive exploration of this new field... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense by Normand Baillargeon Publisher Comments "My personal feeling is that citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self-defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis for more meaningful democracy."-Noam Chomsky "Exercising... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats by Helen Henne Vendler Publisher Comments strenuous process of thinking, evident in an evolving style--however ancient the theme--that is powerful and original.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Makers of the twentieth-century novel by Harry R. Garvin Publisher Comments A collection of critical essays, all dealing with a major European or American novelist of the twentieth century.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $4.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Biographer's Art: New Essays by Jeffrey Meyers Publisher Comments This history of the art of biography and case-by-case analysis of some of the great literary biographies, from Johnson's Life of Savage (1744) to Edel's monumental Henry James (1953-1972), confirms the idea that life-writing is a flourishing art form.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list What is It Between Us: Traditions of Love in American Poetry by Eric Murph Selinger Publisher Comments "What is it then between us?" Walt Whitman asks in "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry". In this generous, imaginative study, Eric Murphy Selinger uses Whitman's question to open a welcome new perspective on American poetry. From Anne Bradstreet to Adrienne Rich... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $4.33 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Satire and Sentiment 1660-1830: Stress Points in the English Augustan Tradition by Claude Rawson Publisher Comments This elegantly written book examines the evolution of satirical writing in the long eighteenth century -- from Swift and Pope to Byron, Shelley, and Austen -- and the social and cultural changes that conditioned it.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture by Jonathan Sawday Publisher Comments organization of knowledge which is now so familiar that it is only rarely questioned.... (read more) Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Oxford Guide To Literature in English Translat by Peter France Publisher Comments This book, written by a team of experts from many countries, provides a comprehensive account of the ways in which translation has brought the major literatures of the world into English-speaking culture. Part I discusses theoretical issues and gives an... (read more) List Price $99.00 Your price $24.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Post-Traumatic Culture: Injury and Interpretation in the Nineties by Kirby Earrell Publisher Comments According to Kirby Farrell, the concept of trauma has shaped some of the central narratives of the 1990s -- from the war stories of Vietnam vets to the video farewells of Heaven's Gate cult members, from apocalyptic sci-fi movies to Ronald Reagan's... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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