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Is Heathcliff a Murderer? by John Sutherland Publisher Comments In this quirky and intriguing book, John Sutherland has conveniently gathered together thirty-four nagging little questions, puzzles, errors, and enigmas from some of the best-loved examples of Victorian fiction. Readers often have stumbled upon seeming... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mythmaking & Metaphor in Black Women's Fiction by Jacquelin De Weever Publisher Comments This original critical study examines the significance of mythology for contemporary black women writers. It illustrates the narrative strategies used to elucidate themes of mythmaking in such writers as Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Ntozake Shange, Toni... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Terry Teachout Reader by Terry Teachout Publisher Comments Terry Teachout's thought-provoking observations on everyone from Louis Armstrong to The Sopranos, and on everything from American opera to serials on TV. Terry Teachout, one of our most acute cultural commentators, here turns his sharp eye to every... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Marxism and Literature (Marxist Introductions) by Raymond Williams Synopsis This study examines the place of literature within Marxist cultural theory, and offers an assessment of the contributions of previous thinkers to Marxist literary theory.... (read more) List Price $34.50 Your price $17.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Female Adolescence: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Literature by Katherine Dalsimer Publisher Comments In this book my subject is the experience of the girl in becoming a woman. It is a subject about which a psychoanalytic perspective is invaluable: our understanding of the development of children and adolescents has been richly elaborated in recent... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $3.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Jerusalem Calling: A Homeless Conscience in a Post-Everything World by Joel Schalit Publisher Comments Jerusalem Calling signals the emergence of a new breed of public intellectual. American by birth, Israeli by association, and homeless by conscience, thirty-four-year-old Punk Planet and Bad Subjects editor Joel Schalit is uniquely qualified to dissect... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hatchet Jobs: Cutting Through Contemporary Literature by Dale Peck Publisher Comments The acclaimed novelist takes a vigorous swipe at contemporary fiction and its progenitors. "Rick Moody is the worst writer of his generation." — from Hatchet Jobs According to Dale Peck, contemporary fiction is at an impasse. Its place as... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list How to Read a Poem by Terry Eagleton Publisher Comments Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poem is designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends the subject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personal possession of the students and the general reader.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Coyote at Large: Humor in American Nature Writing by Katrina Sch Peiffer Synopsis Coyote at large shatters the misconception that nature writing -- works that seem limited to expressing conventional awe, reverence, piety and wonder -- is a humorless genre. In this important and surprising book, Katrina Peiffer reveals and explores the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Violent Adventure: Contemporary Fiction by American Men by Marilyn C Wesley Publisher Comments As the mother of young sons, Marilyn Wesley became increasingly concerned about the conflicting messages they received in a world where "Han Solo replaced John Wayne as a national hero and the lost war in Vietnam was mediated by GI Joe dolls and Rambo... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $10.00 (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   God Between Their Lips: Desire Between Women in Irigaray, Bronte, and Eliot by Kathryn B3 Stockton Publisher Comments This book encompasses aspects of feminist theory, post-structuralist materialisms, Victorian essays, and two prominent nineteenth-century women's novels (Villette and Middlemarch) to explore desire between women as a form of what the author calls... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $5.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Literature Reading Reacting Writing 5TH Edition by Kirszner Publisher Comments This compact edition retains all the features that have made the full edition so successful in a smaller, affordable volume: The first compact three-genre introduction to literature text to address the changing canon is now the first to include a guide... (read more) List Price $58.95 Your price $35.00 (Used - Softcvr W/comp Media) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Does Literary Studies Have a Future? by Eugene Goodheart Publisher Comments Eugene Goodheart's book is as direct as its title: Does Literary Studies Have a Future? As we approach the end of a millennium, the battle for the fate of literary scholarship has taken on near apocalyptic overtones, with more than a few predictions of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Responses: On Paul de Man's Wartime Journalism by Werner Hamacher Publisher Comments This collection of essays serves as a forum for a broad spectrum of responses to the war-time writing of Paul de Man, responses rarely in agreement and often sharply contradictory, differing in approach, affect, and style. Responses engages in reading de... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Interface Between the Written and the Oral (Studies in Literacy, Family, Culture, & the State) by Jack Goody Publisher Comments Whilst the fundamental significance of the spoken language for human interaction is widely acknowledged, that of writing is less well known, and in this wide-ranging series of essays Jack Goody examines in depth the complex and often confused... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $20.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list No Passion Spent: Essays, 1978-1995 by George Steiner Publisher Comments George Steiner -- one of the preeminent essayists and literary thinkers of our era -- here addresses issues of language and the relation of language to literature and to religion. He covers a wide range of subjects, from Homer, Shakespeare, Kafka... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Popular & the Canonical by David Johnson Publisher Comments This volume ranges from the Second World War to the postmodern, considering issues of the "popular" and the competing criteria by which literature has been judged in the later twentieth century. As well as tracing the transition from modernism to... (read more) Your price $33.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list In Fact: Essays on Writers and Writing by Thomas Mallon Review Praise for Thomas Mallon A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries "It is inclusive . . . but not a bit long-winded. It is learned but never pedantic. It is also charming, diverting, and exceptionally intelligent. The book is literary criticism, yet... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Questioning Romanticism by John Beer Publisher Comments Romanticism is notoriously hard to define. There are, indeed, those who believe that a concept which has by now been projected through so many perspectives has become so miasmic in the process that the very term should be dropped from the critical... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $5.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Agitations: Essays on Life and Literature by Arthur Krystal Publisher Comments ?To apologize for one?s own tastes, or to excuse another?s taste, is to slight one?s ability to make informed judgments, for ultimately what leads us to prefer Proust over Sidney Sheldon is not chacun à son goût but rather ?the real labour of thinking.?... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $6.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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