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Romanticism, Nationalism, and the Revolt Against Theory by David Simpson Publisher Comments AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A History for Theory1. The Politics of MethodPeter Ramus, MartyrThe Method of the English RevolutionJohn Wesley, Methodist2. The Culture of British Common SenseUs and ThemSticking to the FactsThe Trials of ReasonBurke... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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 How Fiction Works by James Wood Publisher Comments What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fiction Works, the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $ (Used - ) 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 Dictionary of Poetic Terms by Jack Myers Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 428-434).... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord Publisher Comments Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle. From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $8.95 (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 Very Short Introductions #4: Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Culler Publisher Comments What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter? These questions and more are addressed in Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction, a book which steers a clear path... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $7.50 (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   Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays by Joan Acocella Publisher Comments A distinguished cultural critic presents an insightful compilation of thirty-one essays in which she reflects on the life and work--and the creative process involved--of Simone de Beauvoir, Dorothy Parker, Saul Bellow, Twyla Tharp, Jerome Robbins, Susan... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $21.00 (Used - Hardcover) 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 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 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 Work of Self-Representation: Lyric Poetry in Colonial New England (Urban and Regional Policy and Development Studies) by Ivy Schweitzer Publisher Comments In "The Work of Self-Representation" Ivy Schweitzer examines early American poetry through the critical lens of gender. Her concern is not the inclusion of female writers into the canon; rather, she analyzes how the metaphors of "woman" and "feminine... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.95 (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 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

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