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The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary Irish Poetry by Matthew Campbell Publisher Comments A unique introduction to major figures such as Seamus Heaney, as well as significant precursors and vital contemporary poets.... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $26.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Practical Sourcebook on National Identity: Writing Englishness, 1900-1950 by Judy Giles Synopsis The very word "England" conjures up a multitude of images: from cricket and warm beer to grey industrial towns. Whatever Englishness is, it cannot be defined purely by geography. The first half of the twentieth century, which saw two World Wars, the... (read more) Your price $33.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Lectures on Greek Prose Composition by A Sidgwick Publisher Comments 1887. This booklet contains notes on structure and idiom and lectures on: Queen of Scots; Death of Antony; Zapena; Phyllidas; Calais; Paulinus; Cleveland; Charles; Daneios; Exeter; Plancius-(Cicero); Cobden-(Bright); Present Discontents-(Burke... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Macbeth (Shakespeare Handbooks) by Alistair Mccallum Publisher Comments By guiding readers through the difficulties of plot and language, this handbook leave them free to enjoy the depth, beauty, and vitality of Shakespeare's works.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Authority of Experience: Sensationist Theory in the French Enlightenment (Literature & Philosophy) by John C O'neal Publisher Comments Sensationism, a philosophy that gained momentum in the French Enlightenment as a response to Lockean empiricism, was acclaimed by Hippolyte Taine as the doctrine of the most lucid, methodical, and French minds to have honored France. The first major... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $24.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Edgar Allan Poe Selected Poems by Edgar Allan Poe Publisher Comments Take this kiss upon the brow! And in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream... --From A Dream Within a Dream His poem The Raven caused a sensation, and was nevermore forgotten, but Edgar... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Mind-Body Problem in German Literature 1770-1830: Wezel, Moritz, and Jean Paul (Oxford Modern Languages & Literature Monographs) by Catherine J Minter Publisher Comments With reference to the treatment of mind-body problems in the novels and non-fictional writings of Johann Karl Wezel, Karl Philipp Moritz, and Jean Paul, this impressive study follows the development of, and demonstrates the continuity, in the history of... (read more) Your price $118.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Little Light Weeding by Richard Briers Synopsis This book is an affectionate and entertaining collection gathered and presented with Richard Brier's own distinctive sense of humor and appreciation of the 'good life' in all its forms.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Culture, Class and Gender in the Victorian Novel: Gentlemen, Gents and Working Women by Arlene Young Publisher Comments This book examines the interrelation of social class and its literary representation in Victorian Britain, focusing for the first time on the emergence of the lower middle class as a social and cultural phenomenon. It places the evolution of the lower... (read more) Your price $98.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Faerie Queene, Notes - Study Notes by Harold M Priest Publisher Comments Through stories of chivalric adventures, this poem is intended to present the profile of "the perfect gentleman" of the 16th century. Both as a narrative of these adventures and as an allegory, this literary masterpiece has remained a favorite of... (read more) List Price $3.75 Your price $2.50 (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   The Death and Return of the Author: Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes, Foucault and Derrida by Sean Burke Synopsis In contemporary thought, the death of the author has assumed a significance comparable only to the death of God in the 19th century. This work explains anti-authorialism and shows how, even taken in its own terms, the attempt to abolish the author is... (read more) Your price $51.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list God's Struggler: Religion in the Writings of Nikos Kazantzakis by Peter A Bein Book News Annotation Argues that while Nikos Kazantzakis may have occupied the so-called borderlands between belief and unbelief throughout much of his career, he nonetheless possessed, or was possessed by, an intense awareness of the sacred. These 11 essays analyze in... (read more) Your price $35.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Criterion: Cultural Politics and Periodical Networks in Inter-war Britain by Jason Harding Publisher Comments In this detailed study of literary culture in the inter-war period, Jason Harding examines the standing of T. S. Eliot's journal the Criterion in relation to other literary periodicals and, beyond that, to the larger cultural networks of the time... (read more) List Price $115.50 Your price $111.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list D.H. Lawrence (Modern Novelists) by G M Hyde Publisher Comments This book is written from a sense of D.H. Lawrence's continuing importance not only within English culture but as a part of European Modernism, with its heightened awareness of the problems of form and language, and its search for cross-cultural and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Modern Movement: A Tls Companion (Tls Companions) by John Gross Publisher Comments For the past ninety years the "Times Literary Supplement "has scrutinized, dissected, applauded, and occasionally disparaged the work of the twentieth century's leading writers. It has taken a major role in the making--and breaking--of literary... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $3.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Offbeat--Eschew Obfuscation: A Literary Collection by Theresa M Mlinarcik Publisher Comments The Offbeat is an independent literary series devoted to publishing a diverse collection of voices, and to promoting contact and discussion among Michigan writers. The Offbeat is run entirely by Michigan State University undergraduates and student... (read more) Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Articles on Tolstoy by Vladimir I Lenin Publisher Comments CONTENTS: Leo Tolstoy as the Mirror of the Russian Revolution L. N. Tolstoy Is this the Turn of the Tide? L. N. Tolstoy and the Present-Day Working-Class Movement Tolstoy and the Proletarian Struggle Heroes of "Reservations" L. N. Tolstoy and His Epoch... (read more) Your price $24.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bluebeard's Chamber: Guilt and Confession in Thomas Mann by Michael Maar Publisher Comments Over the last twenty years, much critical discussion of Thomas Mann has highlighted his homosexuality. This not only is presented as a dynamic underlying Mann's creative work, but also is the supposed reason for the theme of guilt and redemption that... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Shakespeare's Monarchies: Ruler and Subject in the Romances by Constance Jordan Synopsis Constance Jordan looks at how Shakespeare, through his romances, contributed to the cultural debates over the nature of monarchy in Jacobean England. Stressing the differences between absolutist and constitutionalist principles of rule, Jordan reveals... (read more) List Price $41.50 Your price $24.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Shakespeare's Promises by William Kerrigan Publisher Comments "It is impossible to imagine any kind of moral life without obligations, and impossible to imagine obligations without types of promises. We are always up against them. Before we ever reflect on what a promise is, we have made them and are expected to... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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