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by Simon Joyce  Publisher Comments When Margaret Thatcher called in 1979 for a return to Victorian values such as hard work, self-reliance, thrift, and national pride, Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock responded that " Victorian values" also included " cruelty, misery, drudgery, squalor... (read more)  List Price $22.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Websters Synopsis Perfect for browsing or study, this book is a fascinating guide to America's greatest writers beginning in the early 1600s and continuing through contemporary authors. The dictionary is the official companion to the C-SPAN series "American Writers: A... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Price Publisher Comments Though he’ d lived in Iowa all his life, the allure of the prairie had somehow eluded John Price— until, after a catastrophic flood, a brief glimpse of native wildlife suddenly brought his surroundings home to him. Not Just Any Land is a... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.55 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James C Raymond Publisher Comments "This volume records, examines, and illuminates a moment in our professional history.... A valuable contribution". -- James F. Slevin Georgetown... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Offill Jenny Publisher Comments The editors of The Friend Who Got Away are back with a new anthology that will do for money what they did for women’s friendships. Ours is a culture of confession, yet money remains a distinctly taboo subject for most Americans. In this riveting... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara Herrnstein Smith Publisher Comments Throughout the recent culture and science ?wars,? the radically new conceptions of knowledge and science emerging from such fields as the history and sociology of science have been denounced by various journalists, scientists, and academics as... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Yves Fremion Publisher Comments Every now and then, things explode. Riots, uprisings, revolutions, new and bizarre social groups spring up seemingly from nowhere. Our standard histories tend to treat these as oddities, if treated at all, or as misguided responses to hard times, limited... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sander Reinhard W Publisher Comments This is the first comprehensive history of the Trinidadian literature that paved the way for the emergence over the past forty years of many major West Indian literary works. Sander contends that the sporadic nature of literary output in the island... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $24.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Bruce Krajewski Book News Annotation In this slim volume, Krajewski entices even the uninitiated to venture into contemporary literary theory. He takes as his starting point the theoretical insights of Hans-Georg Gadamer, applying them to a series of texts, and discusses opposing... (read more) Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Frederick Crews Publisher Comments Frederick Crews has always considered himself a skeptic. Forty years ago he thought he had found a tradition of thought -- Freudian psychoanalytic theory -- that had skepticism built into it. He gradually realized, however, that true skepticism is an... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Suman Gupta Publisher Comments The first extended analysis of the social and political implications of the Harry Potter phenomenon.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $15.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John R Adams Publisher Comments Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works.<P>Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's work, each study takes account of... (read more) List Price $33.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Harold Bloom Publisher Comments In the tradition of the bestselling the "Western Canon, Genius" is a monumental achievement of scholarship that offers a series of brief parallel appreciations of 100 of the greatest creative minds of all time.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joanne S Frye Publisher Comments This is the only series to provide in-depth critical introductions to major modern and contemporary short story writers worldwide.<P>Each volume offers: <P>-- A comprehensive overview of the artist's short fiction -- including detailed... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by T V F Brogan Publisher Comments This reference volume makes available for convenient personal and classroom use nearly 200 entries selected from the "New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics," with primary emphasis on poetic and prosodic terms that are most common in literary... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Judith Shklar Publisher Comments The seven deadly sins of Christianity represent the abysses of character, whereas Shklar's "ordinary vices"--cruelty, hypocrisy, snobbery, betrayal, and misanthropy--are merely treacherous shoals, flawing our characters with mean-spiritedness and... (read more) List Price $17.50 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kathleen Wheeler Publisher Comments Kathleen Wheeler's critical guide is a major work of reference analysing the narrative practices and stylistic devices of women novelists all over the English-speaking world.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Harold Bloom Publisher Comments In a monumental achievement of scholarship, America's preeminent literary critic presents an unprecedented celebration of one hundred of the most creative literary minds in history. What is genius? It is the trait, says Harold Bloom, of standing both... (read more) List Price $35.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Tytell Publisher Comments D.H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath-these five great writers lived lives of passionate intensity, and John Tytell shows how their own love affairs influences their writing. He also describes how they became models... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Carla Kaplan Publisher Comments Is feminism in "crisis?" With many feminists now questioning identification and focusing on differences between women, what is the fate of feminist criticism's traditional imperative to rescue women's stories and make their voices heard? In this... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $2.58 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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