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The Discovery of Poetry: A Field Guide to Reading and Writing Poems (Harvest Original) by Frances Mayes Publisher Comments The bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun brings poetry out of the classroom and into the homes of everyday readers. Before she fell in love with Tuscany, Frances Mayes fell in love with verse. After publishing five books of poetry and teaching... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Introducing Literary Theories: A Guide and Glossary by Julian Wolfreys Publisher Comments An ideal introduction for those coming to literary theory for the first time. It covers the major theoretical approaches: Bakhtinian Criticism, Structuralism, Feminist Theory, Marxist Literary Theories, Reader-Response Theories, Psychoanalytic Criticism,... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Postmodern Explained: Correspondence, 1982-1985 by Jean Franco Lyotard Publisher Comments A major figure in the contemporary critical world, Jean-Francois Lyotard originally introduced the term 'postmodern' into current discussions of philosophy. The Postmodern Explained is an engaging collection of letters addressed to young philosophers... (read more) List Price $18.50 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Virtual Realities and Their Discontents by Robert Markley Publisher Comments The recognition that cyberspace is a fiction -- a narrative that creates a coherence it would like to imagine really exists -- is crucial to any theoretically sophisticated critique of the limitations of this consensual hallucination and the discontents... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Translator's Turn (Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society) by Douglas Robinson Publisher Comments "Robinson's book is original and stimulating, and I suspect it will remain a provocative landmark in its field for some time to come."--Steven Rendall, Philosophy and... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty & Venus in Furs by Gilles Deleuze Publisher Comments In his stunning essay, Coldness and Cruelty, Gilles Deleuze provides a rigorous and informed philosophical examination of the work of the late 19th-century German novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Deleuze's essay, certainly the most profound study yet... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Theories of Contemporary Culture #18: The Mirror and the Killer-Queen: Otherness in Literary Language by Gabriele Schwab Synopsis Gabriele Schwab revitalizes debates about literature's cultural function by exploring literary experience as an encounter with otherness. Drawing on literary theory, anthropology, and psychoanalysis, Schwab contends that literature facilitates contact... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Theories of Contemporary Culture #20: Ethics After Idealism: Theorycultureethnicityreading by Rey Chow Publisher Comments From theorists Slavoj Zizek and Gayatri Spivak to Frantz Fannon, from songwriter Luo Dayou to poet Leung Ping-Kwan, and from the film "M. Butterfly" to the films The Joy Luck Club, To Live, and Rouge, Rey Chow discusses a collection of source materials... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Mieke Bal Reader by Mieke Bal Publisher Comments Mieke Bal has had a significant impact on every field she has touched, from Old Testament scholarship and narratology to critical methods and visual culture. This brilliant and controversial intellectual invariably performs a high-wire act at the point... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $22.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sailing the Inland Sea: On Writing, Literature, and Land by Susan Neville Publisher Comments Essays that explore the creative process in the context of Midwestern... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (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   Green Thoughts, Green Shades by Jonathan F S Post Publisher Comments Green Thoughts, Green Shades is a collection of essays by eminent contemporary poets on the early modern lyric of the seventeenth century.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list East-West Montage: Reflections on Asian Bodies in Diaspora by Sheng-mei Ma Publisher Comments Approximately twelve hours' difference lies between New York and Beijing. The West and the East are, literally, night and day apart. Yet East-West Montage crosscuts the two in the manner of adjacent filmic shots to accentuate their montage-like... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Post-Colonial Studies Reader by Ashcroft Publisher Comments The Post-Colonial Studies Reader is the most comprehensive selection of key texts in post-colonial theory and criticism yet compiled. This collection covers a huge range of topics, featuring nearly ninety of the discipline's most widely read works. The... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Thinking with History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism by Carl E Schorske Publisher Comments In this book, the distinguished historian Carl Schorske--author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fin-de-Siècle Vienna--draws together a series of essays that reveal the changing place of history in nineteenth-and twentieth-century cultures. In most... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hyper/Text/Theory by George P Landow Publisher Comments In his widely acclaimed book Hypertext George P. Landow described a radically new information technology and its relationship to the work of such literary theorists as Jacques Derrida and Roland Barthes. Now Landow has brought together a distinguished... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Joel Barlow's Columbiad: A Bicentennial Reading by Steven Blakemore Synopsis The year 2007 marks the two-hundredth anniversary since Joel Barlow, an American poet and diplomat, first published his controversial and lengthy poem, The Columbiad. Grandiose in its ambition, Barlow framed the poem as an epic for the New World, a... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $24.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Contributions in Political Science #3: Models for the Multitudes: Social Values in the American Popular Novel, 1850-1920 by Karol L Kelley Publisher Comments This provocative study was developed to uncover the thought processes of the best-selling authors from 1850 to 1920 concerning the subject of success. Based on the conviction that the reading of novels strongly influences social values and behavioral... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $15.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list No Passion Spent: Essays, 1978-1995 by George Steiner Publisher Comments George Steiner is one of the preeminent essayists and literary thinkers of our era. In this remarkable book he concerns himself with language and the relation of language to literature and to religion. Written during a period when the art of reading and... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Modern Novel: A Short Introduction (Blackwell Introductions to Literature) by Jesse Matz Publisher Comments This book introduces readers to the history of the novel in the twentieth century and demonstrates its ongoing relevance as a literary form.... (read more) Your price $23.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Modernist Literature: An Introduction by Vicki Mahaffey Publisher Comments This inclusive guide to Modernist literature considers the 'high' Modernist writers such as Eliot, Joyce, Pound and Yeats alongside women writers and writers of the Harlem Renaissance.... (read more) Your price $37.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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