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by Edward W Said  Publisher Comments Out of Place is an extraordinary story of exile, a narrative of many departures, a celebration of an irrecoverable past. A fatal medical diagnosis in 1991 convinced Edward Said that he should leave a record of where he was born and spent his childhood... (read more)  List Price $26.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Dennis Porter Publisher Comments Rousseau's Legacy focuses on the new and influential paradigm of the writer that emerged in the decades immediately preceding the French Revolution. Ushered in by Rousseau's combining revolutionary sociopolitical critique with a new art of autobiography,... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gary Giddins Publisher Comments Long recognized as America's most brilliant jazz writer, the winner of many major awards--including the prestigious National Book Critics Circle Award--and author of a highly popular biography of Bing Crosby, Gary Giddins has also produced a wide range... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Cy Johnson Roullier Publisher Comments Reading on the Edge explores the notion of multiple cultural identity and exile in the work of Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and James Baldwin. Focusing on the cultural politics of modernism through the prism of cultural theory, the book reconceives each... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by E Joseph Sharkey Publisher Comments Some of the most important literary works of the twentieth century wrestle with a deep distrust of language, a distrust born of an untenable skepticism that insists on the manufacture of doubts where doubts are nonsensical. Common to each expression of... (read more) List Price $64.95 Your price $51.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Raymond Federman Publisher Comments This book examines how, beginning in the 1960s up to the present, a new type of fiction was created in America, but also in Europe and Latin America, in response to the cultural, social, and political turmoil of the time.... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stanley Aronowitz Publisher Comments In these far-reaching essays, Stanley Aronvitz examines some of the crucial cultural shifts associated with the crisis of modernity and argues that art is a kind of social knowledge.... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Eugene Goodheart Publisher Comments This collection of essays and reviews written between 1960 and 1985 are a deliberate response to the current, increasingly specialized forms of criticism.... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $3.35 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Susan Morgan Publisher Comments Morgan's book begins with the fact that in a culture where women, both in life and in art, have continually been conceived of as less central to human concerns than men, one of the major periods of fiction should be so rich in novels that locate their... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $5.65 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lewis Spence Publisher Comments This fascinating work reveals who the medieval writers were, what they wrote, and biographical information about each of them. Helpful resource and fascinating reading!... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Christopher Ricks Publisher Comments This book collects fifty of Christopher Ricks' reviews from newspapers and journals on both sides of the Atlantic — TLS, London Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, and others — to several of which he has been a regular contributor.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $15.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Joseph Claro Publisher Comments Plot synopsis of this classic is made meaningful with analysis and quotes by noted literary critics, summaries of the work's main themes and characters, a sketch of the author's life and times, a bibliography, suggested test questions, and ideas for... (read more) Your price $20.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gerald Prince Publisher Comments History, literature, religion, myth, film, psychology, theory, and daily conversation all rely heavily upon narrative. So it is hardly surprising that studies of the art of narrative abound. Narrative has a language much its own, with regularly recurring... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $ (Used - ) check for new and sale copies
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by Cinzia Sartini Blum Publisher Comments Drawing on recent feminist and psychoanalytic criticism, Cinzia Sartini Blum provides the first analysis of the rhetoric, politics, and psychology of gender in the avant-garde writings of the Italian Futurist F.T. Marinetti. Her book explores the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Allan Stoekl Publisher Comments The term intellectual first came into use at the turn of the century as a reproach to a group of writers who defended Dreyfus against the military and government of France. The role and status of the intellectual has been closely scrutinized and fiercely... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Wyatt Publisher Comments Risking Difference revisions the dynamics of multicultural feminist community by exploring the ways that identification creates misrecognitions and misunderstandings between individuals and within communities. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, Jean... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $13.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roland Barthes Publisher Comments I define the Neutral as that which outplays the paradigm, or rather I call Neutral everything that baffles paradigm. With these words, Roland Barthes describes a concept that profoundly shaped his work and was the subject of a landmark series of lectures... (read more) List Price $31.00 Your price $24.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Stanley Eugene Fish Publisher Comments Stanley Fish is an equal opportunity antagonist. A theorist who has taken on theorists, an academician who has riled the academy, a legal scholar and political pundit who has ruffled feathers leftand right, Fish here turns with customary gusto to the... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Bess Vanrenen Publisher Comments Seemingly a bit ludicrous and even comical, the quarter-life crisis is actually a very real phenomenon afflicting more rudderless twenty-somethings with each passing year. In Generation What?, young up-and-coming writers recount their individual quarrels... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $7.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Camille Paglia Publisher Comments A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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