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The Professor and the Profession The Professor and the Profession
by Robert Bech Heilman

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In The Professor and the Profession, Heilman looks back yet his life and times from his perspective as both an academic and an American. Differing in theme and subject matter, the essays included in this collection are ultimately unified by the author... (read more)

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Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Arts Candor and Perversion: Literature, Education, and the Arts
by Roger Shattuck

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With "Candor & Perversion" Shattuck presents the most complete assessment of the poxes that threaten Western literary heritage. With incisive analysis, he interprets the nature of intellectual craftsmanship, defends art's undeniable moral component... (read more)

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Early American Women Critics: Performance, Religion, Race Early American Women Critics: Performance, Religion, Race
by Gay Gibson Cima

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An analysis of written and spoken critical commentaries by early American women critics.... (read more)

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Lives of the Poets Lives of the Poets
by Michael Schmidt

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National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist <BR>In this stunning volume of epic breadth, Michael Schmidt connects the lives and works of more than 300 poets over the last 700 years--spanning distant shores from Scotland to Australia to the... (read more)

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Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations (Post-Contemporary Interventions) Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
by Lydia H Liu

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"This impressive volume expands the metaphor of translation to encompass a broad spread of transcultural negotiations, thereby opening new possibilities for approaching the language and practices of East Asian modernities. The volume presents exemplary... (read more)

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H.L. Mencken on American Literature H.L. Mencken on American Literature
by H L Mencken

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Having edited several other volumes of American writer Mencken's (1880-1956) writings, Joshi here reprints his book reviews from their original appearance in the , , and other magazines and newspapers between 1908 and the 1930s. He includes four... (read more)

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The Politics of Liberal Education (Post-Contemporary Interventions) The Politics of Liberal Education (Post-Contemporary Interventions)
by Darryl Gless

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Controversy over what role the great books should play in college curricula and questions about who defines the literary canon are at the forefront of debates in higher education. The Politics of Liberal Education enters this discussion with a... (read more)

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A Sourcebook for Hispanic Literature and Language A Sourcebook for Hispanic Literature and Language
by Donald W Bleznick

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Encompasses a broad spectrum of references to general bibliographical guides, bibliographies of Hispanic literature, literary dictionaries and encyclopedias, histories of Hispanic literatures, linguistics, and a guide to scholarly journals. Includes... (read more)

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Colonial Karma: Self, Action, and Nation in the Indian English Novel Colonial Karma: Self, Action, and Nation in the Indian English Novel
by Josna E Rege

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"Colonial Karma" tracks the Indian English novel from its colonial origins to the present... (read more)

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Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism
by Steven Watson

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A cultural history of a famous collaboration, Virgil Thomson's and Gertrude Stein's making of the modernist opera, Four Saints in Three Acts. Watson explores the transatlantic, commercial, racial, gay, and artistic aspects of this story (NewYork/Paris... (read more)

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The Vampire Lectures The Vampire Lectures
by Laurence A Rickels

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Rickles, a UC Santa Barbara professor, sifts through mythology of vampirism, from folklore to Marilyn Manson, to explore the profound and unconscious appeal of the undead in an original and intellectual look at vamps.... (read more)

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Class Representation in Modern Fiction and Film Class Representation in Modern Fiction and Film
by Keith Gandal

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‘Rich girl meets poor boy who liberates her then dies.’ Or, ‘low-life girl is trashed by lower-life boy.’ The contemporary middle-class fictions of poverty that inform films such as Titanic and Kids are a far cry from the... (read more)

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Kant and the Platypus: Essays Kant and the Platypus: Essays
by Umberto Eco

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How do we know that a cat is a cat? Why do we agree on calling the beast a cat? Interesting questions, but an even more intriguing question lies at the heart of all modern philosophy-how much of our perception of things depends on our cognitive ability... (read more)

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Literature, Race and Ethnicity : Contesting American Identities (02 Edition) Literature, Race and Ethnicity : Contesting American Identities (02 Edition)
by Joseph T. Skerrett

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Literature, Race and Ethnicity is a text-anthology of American literature organized around issues of race and ethnicity. Divided into nine units, the anthology gives focus to issues of race and ethnicity faced by members of different communities... (read more)

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CONTMP MARXIST LIT CRIT CONTMP MARXIST LIT CRIT
by Francis Mulhern

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The outlines of contemporary critical theory are now often taught as a standard feature of a degree in literary studies. This text aims to explore the theoretical issues and conflicts embodied in the essays selected and locates areas of disagreement... (read more)

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Plato's Cave: Desire, Power, and the Specular Functions of the Media Plato's Cave: Desire, Power, and the Specular Functions of the Media
by John Oneill

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This book argues that our world is inescapably "mediated" or "specularized." It investigates human dilemmas without taking flight into cultural and political elitism and at the same time does not ignore the corporate and military agenda that is serviced... (read more)

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Teach Yourself Postmodernism (Teach Yourself) Teach Yourself Postmodernism (Teach Yourself)
by Glenn Ward

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Are there no new ideas to be invented? Are today's ideas really just borrowed from previous times? Postmodernism says this is so, and it's one of the hottest philosophies of today. The book provides an indispensable guide to this often-demanding terrain... (read more)

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Coming of Age in Contemporary American Fiction Coming of Age in Contemporary American Fiction
by Kenneth Millard

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This book explores the ways in which a range of recent American novelists have handled the genre of the 'coming-of-age' novel, or the Bildungsroman, Novels of this genre characteristically dramatise the vicissitudes of growing up and the trials and... (read more)

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Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James Literature as Conduct: Speech Acts in Henry James
by J Hillis Miller

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The work of a master critic writing at the peak of his powers, this magisterial book draws on speech act theory, as it originated with J. L. Austin and was further developed by Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida, to investigate the many dimensions of doing... (read more)

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Fair Sex, Savage Dreams: Race, Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference Fair Sex, Savage Dreams: Race, Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference
by Jean Walton

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In Fair Sex, Savage Dreams Jean Walton examines the work of early feminist psychoanalytic writing to decipher in it the unacknowledged yet foundational role of race. Focusing on the 1920s and 1930s, a time when white women were actively refashioning... (read more)

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