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Waiting for Godot's First Pitch: More Poems from Baseball by Tim Peeler Publisher Comments In baseball, as in much poetry, beauty comes from tension. Groundrules and boundaries confine those who would play, but the best find ways to exploit their strictures, and just as the daring base runner takes second on a fly to right, the practiced poet... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Contributions to the Study of Science Fiction & Fantasy #77: A Century of Welsh Myth in Children's Literature by Donna R White Publisher Comments Myth, legend, and folklore have been entrenched in children's literature for several centuries and continue to be popular. Some of the most ancient traditional tales still extant come from the Celtic cultures of France and the British Isles, whose... (read more) Your price $89.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Basil Bunting on Poetry by Basil Bunting Publisher Comments All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price $29.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Geoffrey Chaucer (EC Membership Evaluated Series) by Janette Dillon Publisher Comments This volume situates Chaucer's life and writings within the context of fourteenth-century history, national and international, giving a broad general outline of the period for those coming to it for the first time.... (read more) List Price $90.00 Your price $56.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Shelley's Goddess: Maternity, Language, Subjectivity by Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi Publisher Comments The subject of Gelpi's new book is the importance of the mother-infant relationship in Percy Bysshe Shelly's poetry and life. However, her book also uses Shelley as a touchstone by which to examine the rich historical and theoretical issues relevant to... (read more) List Price $53.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Beginning Ethnic American Literatures by Helena Grice Publisher Comments This introductory book examines the work of ethnic writers, and the cultural contexts, and literary traditions in which their work is situated. The book is divided into four sections--African American, Asian American, Chicano/a, and Native American--each... (read more) Your price $68.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Her Husband: Hughes and Plath: A Marriage by Diane Middlebrook Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-350) and index.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $5.78 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list This Is Our Writing by T F Rigelhof Publisher Comments Punctuate his title as you like but T.F. Rigelhof considers "This is Our Writing" a declaration, an enquiry and an exclamation. As a writer of half a dozen, a reviewer of dozens upon dozens, and as a reader of a multitude more books, Terry Rigelhof knows... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list King Henry IV: Part 1 (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes by J K Lowers Publisher Comments This popular play entertains and inspires in alternating comic scenes and serious ones and is the birthplace of one of the theater's greatest characters, Sir John Falstaff. Young Prince Hal rebels against his father the king until he must go to the king... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price $0.75 (Used - Pamphlet) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Inferno of Dante Alighieri by Seth Zimmerman Publisher Comments THE INFERNO OF DANTE ALIGHIERI TRANSLATED IN TRIPLE-RHYMEWITH AN INTRODUCTION, NOTES AND COMMENTARYThis vigorous translation of the "Inferno," the first part of Dante's "Divine Comedy," makes accessible to the modern reader the poet's descent through the... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price $18.95 (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   Re-Reading Leavis: Culture and Literary Criticism by Gary Day Publisher Comments For too long F. R. Leavis has been reviled by the critical establishment. Gary Day explains why this has been the case and why it is time to meet the challenge of his work. In this groundbreaking and controversial book, Day shows that post-structuralism,... (read more) Your price $118.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ovid's Metamorphoses (Oxford Approaches Classical Literature) by Elaine Fantham Publisher Comments Ovid's Metamorphoses have been seen as both the culmination of and a revolution in the classical epic tradition, transferring narrative interest from war to love and fantasy. This introduction considers how Ovid found and shaped his narrative from the... (read more) Your price $57.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Dostoevsky and the Christian Tradition (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature) by George Pattison Publisher Comments This collection brings together Western and Russian perspectives on the issues raised by the religious element in Dostoevsky??'s work.... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $50.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Why Not Us? by Leigh Montville Publisher Comments Few books have caused as big a stir as John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, when it was published in April 1939. By May, it was the nation’s number one bestseller, but in Kern County, California—the Joads’ newfound home—the... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $2.90 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Theater enough :American culture and the metaphor of the world stage, 1607-1789 by Jeffrey H Richards Publisher Comments The early settlers in America had a special relationship to the theater. Though largely without a theater of their own, they developed an ideology of theater that expressed their sense of history, as well as their version of life in the New World... (read more) Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Sappho Companion by Margaret Reynolds Publisher Comments A beautifully illustrated anthology of works inspired by Sappho combined with fragments of the poet’s own writing. Born about 2,500 years ago on the island of Lesbos, Sappho is now regarded as the greatest lyrical poet of ancient Greece. Her work... (read more) Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Guilty Parties: a Mystery Lover's Companion, 195 Illustrations, 31 in Color by Ian Ousby Book News Annotation A lively compendium of information on the mystery/crime genre. Chapters are organized by chronological periods from the 19th century to the present, and feature lists, filmographies, biographical accounts, and a hard-boiled dictionary. Includes 195... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Browser's Ecstasy: A Meditation on Reading by Geoffrey O'brien Publisher Comments An expansive, learned, and utterly charming reverie on what it means to be lost in a... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list History and the Early English Novel by Robert Mayer Publisher Comments Exploration of the meaning of ???history??? and its relevance for the origins of the modern English novel.... (read more) List Price $43.00 Your price $35.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative by N J Lowe Publisher Comments How western literature developed the economical plotting still supreme in modern fiction and cinema.... (read more) Your price $42.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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