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Left Politics and the Literary Profession by Lennard J Davis Book News Annotation Leftist, feminist, lesbian, African-American, Chicano, Palestinian, and other literary criticism present viewpoints that provide an illuminating link between the radical politics of the 1960s and the intellectual activities of radicals who study... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Medieval Interpretation: Models of Reading in Literary Narrative, 1100-1500 by Robert S. Sturges Publisher Comments Viewing the medieval period as an era of constant change rather than as a monolithic whole, Robert S. Sturges examines a wide variety of English and French literary works within the cultural contexts of the early and late Middle Ages. Sturges analyzes... (read more) List Price $44.00 Your price $7.63 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Spreading the Word: Poetry and the Survival of Community in America by Ross Talarico Publisher Comments In 1985 poet Ross Talarico began a grassroots program in creative expression in Rochester, New York. As the program came together, so did the community--young and old, poor and privileged, even those who could not read or write but wanted to tell their... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rape & Writing in the "Heptameron" of Marguerite de Navarre by Patricia Cholakian Publisher Comments Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), the sister of the French king François I, composed the Heptaméron as a complex collection of seventy-two novellas, creating one of the first examples of realistic, psychological fiction in French... (read more) List Price $39.00 Your price $5.97 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Collected Works of Northrop Frye #23: Northrop Fryes Notebooks for Anatomy of Criticism by Northrop Frye Publisher Comments Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism (1957) is widely regarded as a masterpiece of literary theory. The product of years of reading and reflection, the book's value extends far beyond its impact on criticism as a whole; ultimately, it must be viewed as a... (read more) List Price $95.00 Your price $45.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Reading After Theory (Blackwell Manifestos) by Valentin Cunningham Publisher Comments Valentine Cunningham's controversial manifesto asks what will and should happen to reading in the post-theory era.... (read more) Your price $22.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Language, Text, Subject: A Critique of Hispanism by Malcolm K Read Publisher Comments Rereading canonic Spanish texts from Renaissance humanism to modernist literature, Read deploys a theoretical basis of post-structuralist thinking to offer a critique of traditional Hispanism in the light of its assumption of a transcendental subject and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $4.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Women & Islam in Early Modern English LI by Bernadette Andrea Publisher Comments In this innovative study, Bernadette Andrea focuses on the contributions of women and their writings in the early modern cultural encounters between England and the Islamic world. She examines previously neglected material, such as the diplomatic... (read more) Your price $55.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Bush Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination by Northrop Frye Publisher Comments <div>Originally published by Anansi in 1971, this attractive new edition of Frye's timeless essays on literature and painting features an introduction by Canadian literature scholar Linda Hutcheon.</div>... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Break, Blow, Burn by Camille Paglia Publisher Comments America’s most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis and appreciation to bear on the great poems of the Western tradition, and on some unexpected discoveries of her own. Combining close reading with a panoramic breadth of... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $9.50 (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   Killing the Imposter God: Philip Pullman's Spiritual Imagination in His Dark Materials by Donna Freitas Publisher Comments Killing the Imposter God explores the complex religious and spiritual dimensions of the best-selling fantasy series. Donna Freitas and Jason King--scholars of religion and popular culture--reveal how humanity's moral and religious issues play out in... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Literati Identity & Its Fictional Representations in Late Imperial China by Stephen Roddy Publisher Comments “What makes this book so outstanding is that unlike the plethora of books that talk in generalities about ‘the literati’ as an undifferentiated group, Roddy disaggregates the literati, discussing the recognized literati vocations in... (read more) List Price $57.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Crisis of Criticism by Maurice Berger Publisher Comments Do critics grant cultural permission or is their work merely descriptive? Is some art beyond criticism? How can critics bridge the gap between a sometimes hermetic art community and the general public? THE CRISIS OF CRITICISM is a collection of... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Empire and Poetic Voice: Cognitive and Cultural Studies of Literary Tradition and Colonialism (Suny Series, Explorations in Postcolonial Studies) by Patrick Colm Hogan Publisher Comments In "Empire and Poetic Voice Patrick Calm Hogan draws on abroad and detailed knowledge of Indian, African, and European literary cultures to explore the way colonized writers respond to the subtle and contradictory pressures of both metropolitan and... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Critical Terms for Literary Study 2ND Edition by Frank Lentricchia Publisher Comments Since its publication in 1990, Critical Terms for Literary Study has become a landmark introduction to the work of literary theory—giving tens of thousands of students an unparalleled encounter with what it means to do theory and criticism... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mind as Action by James V Wertsch Publisher Comments Contemporary social problems typically involve many complex, interrelated dimensions--psychological, cultural, and institutional, among others. But today, the social sciences have fragmented into isolated disciplines lacking a common language, and... (read more) Your price $37.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Strange Talk :The Politics of Dialect Literature in Gilded Age America by Gavin Jones Publisher Comments Late-nineteenth-century America was crazy about dialect: vernacular varieties of American English entertained mass audiences in local color stories, in realist novels, and in poems and plays. But dialect was also at the heart of anxious debates about the... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Automatic Woman: The Representation of Woman in Surrealism by Katharine Conley Publisher Comments Contemporary feminist critics have often described surrealism as a misogynist movement. In Automatic Woman, Katharine Conley addresses this issue, confirming some feminist allegations while qualifying and overturning others. Through insightful analyses... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $29.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Poisoned Embrace: A Brief History of Sexual Pessimism by Lawrence Osborne Publisher Comments Since the days of the Early Fathers, sex and death have formed a theological equation known as "sexual pessimism"--an aversion to the carnal which consequently elevates the virginal and the chaste. Here, Osborne gives a bracing account of how we imagine... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $3.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt Publisher Comments Renaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance—... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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