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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 
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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 $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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
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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
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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
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by Molly Mcquade Publisher Comments "Writers are both born and made, and their teachers share in the making of them, but in what ways?" Molly McQuade asks in An Unsentimental Education, a collection of candid interviews with twenty-one of our leading novelists and poets. Presented as first-... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $3.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by D C Greetham Publisher Comments What specifically should a reader expect to gain from consulting this book? An awareness of the process of textual scholarship; An ability to recognize in practice the major classes of identification described throughout the book; A familiarity with the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by William Hazlitt Synopsis This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional... (read more) List Price $51.95 Your price $27.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Walt Whitman Publisher Comments Generous sampling from "Leaves of Grass, "including "I Hear America Singing," "Song of the Open Road," "I Sing the Body Electric," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "O Captain! My Captain!" and 19 more.... (read more) Your price $1.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Arthur Rimbaud Publisher Comments Written by Rimbaud at the age of 18 in the wake of his tempestuous affair with fellow poet Paul Verlaine, "A Season in Hell" has been a touchstone for anguished poets, artists, and lovers for more than a century.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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
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by David Herman Publisher Comments Featuring a major synthesis and critique of interdisciplinary narrative theory, Story Logic marks a watershed moment in the study of narrative. David Herman argues that narrative is simultaneously a cognitive style, a discourse genre, and a resource... (read more) Your price $29.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Julia Kristeva Publisher Comments A thorough examination of the manner in which three of the most unsettling modern writers -- Aragon, Sartre, and Barthes -- affirm their personal rebellion followed by Kristeva's own ideas on the future of rebellion.... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $14.98 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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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
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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
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by Rita Felski Publisher Comments Recent commentators have portrayed feminist critics as grim-faced ideologues who are destroying the study of literature. Feminists, they claim, reduce art to politics and are hostile to any form of aesthetic pleasure. Literature after Feminism is the... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Arthur Asa Berger Publisher Comments In The Portable Postmodernist, Arthur Asa Berger introduces key concepts written by postmodernism's leading theorists including Lyotard, Baudrillard, and Jameson. This collage of influential writing is followed by Berger's concise, accessible comments... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gary Carey Publisher Comments Cliffs Test Preparation Guides help students prepare for and improve their performance on standardized tests ACT Preparation Guide CBEST Preparation Guide CLAST Preparation Guide ELM Review GMAT Preparation Guide GRE Preparation Guide LSAT Preparation... (read more) Your price $2.95 (Used - Pamphlet) check for new and sale copies
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by Ann Rule Publisher Comments Following the success of four top-ten New York Times bestsellers, former Seattle policewoman Ann Rule offers readers Volume Two of her Crime Files. In the trademark style that makes her books such extraordinary pageturners, Rule now focuses on one of... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Ann Rule Publisher Comments A Fever in the Heart probes a volatile triangle of one woman and the two men who trade roles as her lover/husband--until both are murdered, leaving a double widow and a killer. Publicity tie-in to Everything She Ever Wanted, and A Rose For Her Grave... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $2.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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