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The Dance of the Intellect: Studies in the Poetry of the Pound Tradition (Avant-Garde and Modernism) by Marjorie Perloff Publisher Comments Must poetic form be, as Yeats demanded, "full, sphere-like, single", or can it accommodate the "impurities" Yeats and his Modernist generation found so problematic? Sixty years later, these are still open questions, questions to which Marjorie Perloff... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Reader's Guide Contp.Lit Theory-Pa by Raman Selden Publisher Comments The liveliest and most readable and reliable guide to contemporary literary theory, Raman Selden's classic text is now available in an updated Third Edition, substantially revised to bring you into the vanguard of current theory.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Dialogue, Dialectic, and Conversation: A Social Perspective on the Function of Writing (Philosophical Explorations) by Gregory Clark Publisher Comments This book articulates an ethics for reading that places primary responsibility for the social influences of a text on the response of its readers. <BR>We write and read as participants in a process through which we negotiate with others whom we... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Doing Our Own Thing by John Mcwhorter Publisher Comments "Illustrated with an entertaining array of examples from both high and low culture, the trend that Mr. McWhorter documents is unmistakable." The Economist "Provocative, funny. . . McWhorter suggests that prose ought to be something [we decorate out of a... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Senses of the Text: Intensional Semantics & Literary Theory by William C. Dowling Publisher Comments Dowling aspires to a double goal: to approach the problem of determinate meaning in literature from a new angle; and to introduce the work of J.J. Katz to those in literary theory who have heard about his New Intensionalism but have also heard that is... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Reader's Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers by Peter Parker Synopsis One of two companion volumes, this title comprises some 700 entries containing information about writers from Peter Ackroyd to Benjamin Zephaniah. Each entry gives biographical summaries of the life and work of the most prominent novelists, poets and... (read more) Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Daughters of Decadence: Women Writers of the Fin-de-Siecle by Elaine Showalter Publisher Comments At the turn of the century, short stories by--and often about--New Women flooded the pages English and American magazines such as the Atlantic Monthly, Harpers, and the Yellow Book. This daring new fiction, often innovative in form and courageous in its... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Love Affair as a Work of Art by Dan Hofstadter Book News Annotation Anyone who's dated a writer and suspected that one day he or she might end up as a character in a novel (not necessarily well portrayed) and has saved letters for the eventual court proceedings will appreciate this historical treatise on writers, love... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American Century by Stacey Miche Olster Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-281) and index.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The search for the perfect language by Umberto Eco Publisher Comments The idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, theologians, mystics and others for at least two millennia. This is an... (read more) List Price $97.95 Your price $24.95 (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   Weasels and Wiseman: Ethics and Ethnicity in the Work of David Mamet by Leslie Kane Publisher Comments Winner of two Obie Awards, a New York Drama Critics Award, and the Pulitzer Prize, David Mamet is widely considered to be one of the most prolific and powerful voices in contemporary American theater. A seminal figure whose reputation as an innovative... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain by Edward W Said Publisher Comments In his fascinating last book, Edward Said looks at a selection of essays, poems, novels, films, and operas to determine what late style may explain about the evolution of the creative life. He discusses how the approaching death of an artist can make its... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Intersubjectivities and Popular Culture: Bakhtin and Beyond (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Esther Peeren Publisher Comments Peeren’s book brings the work of Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin to bear on contemporary expressions of popular culture, including the novel and television series Sex and the City, the television series Queer as Folk, the films Nell and... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $40.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list John Saul: A Critical Companion (Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Writers,) by Paul Bail Publisher Comments This is the first book-length study of best-selling writer John Saul's psychological and supernatural thrillers. Author Paul Bail compares John Saul's novels to a cocktail: "(mix) one part Psycho, one part The Exorcist, a dash of Turn of the Screw, blend... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $9.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Alienhood: Citizenship, Exile, and the Logic of Difference by Katarzyna Marciniak Publisher Comments "Alien" has a double meaning in the United States, suggesting both "foreigner" and "extraterrestrial creature." In Alienhood, Katarzyna Marciniak explores this semantic duality. Interrogating the dominant images of aliens in American popular culture--and... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list An Experiment in Criticism (Canto Book) by C S Lewis Publisher Comments 'Professor Lewis believed that literature exists above all for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He doubted the use of strictly evaluative criticism, especially its condemnations. Literary criticism... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism by Hayden White Publisher Comments Tropics of Discourse develops White's ideas on interpretation in history, on the relationship between history and the novel, and on history and historicism.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Strange Gourmets: Sophistication, Theory, and the Novel (Series Q) by Joseph Litvak Publisher Comments Theoretically sophisticated: How often has this term been used to distinguish a work of contemporary criticism, and what, exactly, does it mean? In Strange Gourmets, Joseph Litvak reclaims sophistication from its negative connotations and turns the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list D. H. Lawrence's Sons & Lovers by D H Lawrence Synopsis Part of a series of literature guides designed for GCSE coursework requirements, this book contains - author details, background to the work, summaries of the text, critical commentaries, analysis of characterization, and sample questions with guideline... (read more) Your price $1.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Against the Unspeakable: Complicity, the Holocaust and Slavery in America (Cultural Frames, Framing Culture) by Naomi Mandel Synopsis In the wake of World War II, the Nazi genocide of European Jews has come to stand for "the unspeakable," posing crucial challenges to the representation of suffering, the articulation of identity, and the practice of ethics in an increasingly... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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