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Art of the Gawain Poet: New Edition by W. A. Davenport Publisher Comments Starting frmo the assumption that Pearl, Puriry, Patience and Sir Gawain and thg Green Knight are by one poet, W.A. Davenport seeks to define the nature of his art. He makes a close analysis of each poem, considering the four not so much in their... (read more) Your price $39.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial Studies by Fawzia Afzal Khan Publisher Comments The Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial Studies contains essays by both leading figures and younger scholars engaged in the field of postcolonial studies. In this state-of-the-field reader, editors Fawzia Afzal-Khan and Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks have created a... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list English as a Discipline, Or, is There a Plot in This Play? by James C Raymond Publisher Comments "This volume records, examines, and illuminates a moment in our professional history.... A valuable contribution". -- James F. Slevin Georgetown... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Twayne's Studies in Short Fiction #0060: Tillie Olsen a Study in Shortfiction by Joanne S Frye Publisher Comments This is the only series to provide in-depth critical introductions to major modern and contemporary short story writers worldwide.<P>Each volume offers: <P>-- A comprehensive overview of the artist's short fiction -- including detailed... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The New Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms by T V F Brogan Publisher Comments This reference volume makes available for convenient personal and classroom use nearly 200 entries selected from the "New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics," with primary emphasis on poetic and prosodic terms that are most common in literary... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Orgasms of History: 3000 Years of Spontaneous Insurrection by Yves Fremion Publisher Comments Every now and then, things explode. Riots, uprisings, revolutions, new and bizarre social groups spring up seemingly from nowhere. Our standard histories tend to treat these as oddities, if treated at all, or as misguided responses to hard times, limited... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Postcolonial Melancholia (Wellek Library Lectures) by Paul Gilroy Publisher Comments In "Postcolonial Melancholia," Paul Gilroy continues the conversation he began in his landmark study of race and nation, "'There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack," "'" by once again departing from conventional wisdom to examine-and defend... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fragments for a History of the Human Body #III: Zone 5: Fragments for a History of the Human Body - Part 3 by Michel Feher Publisher Comments The 48 essays and photographic dossiers in these three volumes examine the history of the human body as a field where life and thought intersect. They show how different cultures at different times have entwined physical capacities and mental mechanisms... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Traveling with Hermes: Hermeneutics & Rhetoric by Bruce Krajewski Book News Annotation In this slim volume, Krajewski entices even the uninitiated to venture into contemporary literary theory. He takes as his starting point the theoretical insights of Hans-Georg Gadamer, applying them to a series of texts, and discusses opposing... (read more) Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fast Cars, Clean Bodies: Decolonization and the Reordering of French Culture by Kristin Ross Publisher Comments 'Fast Cars, Clean Bodies' examines the crucial decade from Dien Bien Phu to the mid-1960s, when France shifted from an agrarian, insular, and empire-oriented society to a decolonized, Americanized, and fully industrial one.... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $14.00 (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   Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds by Harold Bloom Publisher Comments In the tradition of the bestselling the "Western Canon, Genius" is a monumental achievement of scholarship that offers a series of brief parallel appreciations of 100 of the greatest creative minds of all time.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Rustle of Language by Roland Barthes Publisher Comments In the 'The Rustle of Language' almost all the essays in this collection deal with language and with literary writing, or, better still, with the pleasure owed to the text.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hatchet Jobs: Writings on Contemporary Fiction by Dale Peck Publisher Comments Since the publication of Hatchet Jobs, the groves of literary criticism have echoed with the clatter of steel on wood. From heated panels at BookExpo America in Chicago to contretemps at writers' watering holes in New York, voices--even fists--have been... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Money Changes Everything: Twenty-Two Writers Tackle the Last Taboo with Tales of Sudden Windfalls, Staggering Debts, and Other Surprising Turns by Offill Jenny Publisher Comments The editors of The Friend Who Got Away are back with a new anthology that will do for money what they did for women’s friendships. Ours is a culture of confession, yet money remains a distinctly taboo subject for most Americans. In this riveting... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth and the Human by Barbara Herrnstein Smith Publisher Comments Throughout the recent culture and science ?wars,? the radically new conceptions of knowledge and science emerging from such fields as the history and sociology of science have been denounced by various journalists, scientists, and academics as... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Guide to Twentieth-Century Women Novelists by Kathleen Wheeler Publisher Comments Kathleen Wheeler's critical guide is a major work of reference analysing the narrative practices and stylistic devices of women novelists all over the English-speaking world.... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ten Poems to Change Your Life by Roger Housden Publisher Comments This is a dangerous book. Great poetry calls into question not less than everything. It dares us to break free from the safe strategies of the cautious mind. It opens us to pain and joy and delight. It amazes, startles, pierces, and transforms us. It can... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Contributions in Political Science #114: The Trinidad Awakening: West Indian Literature of the Nineteen-Thirties by Sander Reinhard W Publisher Comments This is the first comprehensive history of the Trinidadian literature that paved the way for the emergence over the past forty years of many major West Indian literary works. Sander contends that the sporadic nature of literary output in the island... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $24.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Passionate Lives: The Love Lives of D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller... by John Tytell Publisher Comments D.H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath-these five great writers lived lives of passionate intensity, and John Tytell shows how their own love affairs influences their writing. He also describes how they became models... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Postcolonial Whiteness: A Critical Reader on Race and Empire by Alfred J Lopez Publisher Comments "Postcolonial Whiteness examines the interrelations between whiteness and the history of European colonialism, as well as the status of whiteness in the contemporary postcolonial world. It addresses two fundamental questions: What happens to whiteness... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $20.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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