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Research and Scholarship in Composition #6: Feminism and Composition Studies: In Other Words by Susan Carol Jarratt Publisher Comments Feminism and Composition Studies: In Other Words is a feminist project that boldly places at its center differences among women. Topics discussed include American history, politics, language, racism, pedagogy, contingent labor in the teaching of writing,... (read more) List Price $19.75 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Texts & Contexts #0001: Inscribing the Other by Sander L Gilman Publisher Comments Inscribing the Other focuses on great authors who have by birth or choice (or both) found themselves outside the mainstream of their culture but who have still wished to address it: Goethe, Freud, Wilde, Heine, Nietzsche, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, among... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $8.65 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Book That Changed My Life: Interviews with National Book Award Winners and Finalists by Diane Osen Publisher Comments An original collection of literary interviews asks some of our greatest living writers, "What book most changed your life?" Contributors include E.L. Doctorow, Philip Levine, Alice McDermott, Grace Paley, and Robert Stone. All profits will be donated to... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Metaphor, Culture, and Worldview: The Case of American English and the Chinese Language by Dilin Liu Book News Annotation Arguing that metaphors commonly used in languages are key windows into the cultural worldviews of peoples, the author comparatively surveys the use of metaphor in American English and in Chinese. Using metaphors such as "touching base with someone... (read more) List Price $36.50 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Poetry and the Public by Joseph Harrington Publisher Comments An informative account of the social meaning of poetry in the 20th century US.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Semantics and the Body (Toronto Studies in Semiotics) by Horst Ruthrof Publisher Comments In Traditional Semantics, the Human Body Tends to be ignored in the process of constructing meaning. Horst Ruthrof argues, on the other hand, that the body is an integral part of this hermeneutic activity. Strictly language-based theories, and theories... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Principals of Literature: A Guide for Readers and Writers by Chris Myers Shaffer Publisher Comments This reference guide can serve as either a supplementary text for high school and introductory college literature courses, or as a general style manual for writers and writing instructors. The first of the book's two major sections focuses on the parts... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Modern African American Writers by Matthew J Bruccoli Publisher Comments This invaluable volume profiles the most important African-American authors, outlining their published works and interviews, as well as biographical, bibliographic, and critical studies concerning them.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $3.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cracking Up: American Humor in a Time of Conflict by Paul Lewis Publisher Comments What do Jon Stewart, Freddy Krueger, Patch Adams, and George W. Bush have in common? As Paul Lewis shows in "Cracking Up," they are all among the ranks of joke tellers who aim to do much more than simply amuse. Exploring topics that range from the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $13.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Engendering Inspiration: Visionary Strategies in Rilke, Lawrence, and H. D. by Helen Sword Publisher Comments Investigates the development of a gendered poetics of inspiration in the modernist period... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price $12.00 (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   Accent on Meter a Handbook for Readers Of by Joseph Powell Book News Annotation A text intended to be used in conjunction with a poetry anthology in a course on reading and appreciating poetry to teach students how to scan poetry. It describes the various forms of meter, and provides examples to practice on. Annotation ... (read more) Your price $44.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Pedagogy is Politics by Maria Regina Kecht Publisher Comments The authors of these twelve provocative essays believe the foremost purpose of education is to teach students how to think critically. Teachers, they assert, should enable students to read the world as a text and thus should encourage an inquisitive... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Art of Poetry: How to Read a Poem by Shira Wolosky Publisher Comments Sweden's Social Democratic movement is widely regarded as the most successful of its kind in the world. Its success is often attributed to its pragmatism rather than its consistent ideological commitment. This book argues that, on the contrary, Sweden's... (read more) Your price $22.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Moving Beyond Boundaries by Carole Boyce-davies Publisher Comments Moving Beyond Boundaries makes a major contribution to our understanding of under-represented literatures by expanding our knowledge about the issues, experiences, and concerns of black women writing in different communities and in a wide range of... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Genius to Improve an Invention: Literary Transitions by Piero Boitani Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-145) and index.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel: The Gothic, Scott, Dickens by Ian Duncan Publisher Comments Modern Romance examines the relationship between the revival of romance form and the ascendancy of the novel in British literary culture, from 1760 to 1850. The revival of romance as the literary embodiment of a national cultural identity provided a... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $40.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Secret Museum: Pornography in Modern Culture by Walter Kendrick Publisher Comments Walter Kendrick traces the relatively recent concept of pornography--the word was not coined until the late 18th century--which became a public issue once the printing press gave ordinary people access to the erotica of the Greeks and Romans, the art and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Puritan and the Cynic: Moralists and Theorists in French and American Letters by Jefferson Humphries Publisher Comments Why do Americans, and so often, American writers, profess moral sentiments and yet write so little in the traditionally "moralistic" genres of maxim and fable? What is the relation between "moral" concerns and literary theory? Can any sort of morality... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $6.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticism by Joseph Childers Publisher Comments < P> -- < I> Times Literary Supplement< /I> < /P>... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Talking Back to Emily Dickinson and Other Essays by William H Pritchard Publisher Comments This collection makes the case for literary criticism as an informed, aggressive, personal, and often humorous response to writers and writing. These eloquent commentaries on English and American writers are arranged chronologically, beginning with... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $11.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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