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by Joseph Epstein  Publisher Comments Epstein's sixth collection of personal pieces winningly and brilliantly rounds off his 23-year tenure as editor of "The American Scholar". Among the topics covered are naps, Gershwin aging, name-dropping, long books, pet peeves, talent vs. genius... (read more)  List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Teresa De Lauretis Publisher Comments In an eccentric reading of Freud through Laplanche and the Lacanian and feminist revisions, Teresa de Lauretis delineates a model of "perverse" desire and a theory of lesbian sexuality as represented in Radclyffe Hall's novel The Well of Loneliness... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Oxford Publisher Comments What were people reading about as Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? How did the events around the industrial revolution influence the literary output of British writers and thinkers? What are we reading now and how does it differ... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.98 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kelly Boler Publisher Comments In an effort to cut back on his drinking, F. Scott's Fitzgerald briefly limited himself to only one glass of beer--thirty times a day. Dashiell Hammett drank himself into a writer's block that lasted thirty years, and John Cheever conquered a... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lewis Spence Publisher Comments This fascinating work reveals who the medieval writers were, what they wrote, and biographical information about each of them. Helpful resource and fascinating reading!... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Camille Paglia Publisher Comments America’s most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis and appreciation to bear on the great poems of the Western tradition, and on some unexpected discoveries of her own. Combining close reading with a panoramic breadth of... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Arnold Weinstein Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-404) and index.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by E M Forster Publisher Comments Forster’s lively, informed originality and wit have made this book a classic. Avoiding the chronological approach of what he calls “pseudoscholarship,” he freely examines aspects all English-language novels have in common: story, people,... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Matthew Arnold Publisher Comments 'Culture and Anarchy' is one of the central texts of the western intellectual tradition and continues to shape thinking about the tasks and requirements of culture and civil society.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Johnson Publisher Comments A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sarte, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillan Hellman, Cyril... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Denby About the Author David Denby David Denby has been film critic of New York magazine since 1978, and is a contributing editor of The New Yorker. His reviews and essays have also appeared in The New Republic, The Atlantic, and The New York Review of Books. He lives in... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $7.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Valerie Rohy Publisher Comments Impossible Women fills a critical gap in queer theory by spotlighting representations of lesbian sexuality in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature. Reading through the lens of feminist and psychoanalytic theory, Valerie Rohy considers... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dick Hebdige Publisher Comments Complex and remarkably lucid, it's the first book dealing with punk to offer intellectual content. Hebdige is concerned with the UK's postwar, music-centred, white working-class subcultures, from teddy boys to mods and rockers to skinheads and punks.' - "... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Cinzia Sartini Blum Publisher Comments Drawing on recent feminist and psychoanalytic criticism, Cinzia Sartini Blum provides the first analysis of the rhetoric, politics, and psychology of gender in the avant-garde writings of the Italian Futurist F.T. Marinetti. Her book explores the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sigi Jottkandt Publisher Comments Addresses ethical and aesthetic issues in three major works by Henry James.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Catherine Belsey Publisher Comments Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture, and the world. Following a brief account of the historical relationship between structuralism and poststructuralism, this Very Short Introduction traces... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ruth Bernar Yeazell Publisher Comments Fascinating and mysterious, the idea of the harem long captured the imagination of the West. The Muslim practice of concealing the women of the household from the eyes of alien men tempted Europeans to extravagant projections of their own wishes and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Laura Miller Publisher Comments Since it began in 1995, Salon.com has been showered with awards and praise. Now, its 150,000 devoted readers can devour The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors – an all-original, A-to-Z guide to 225 of the most fascinating writers of our... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Walter Kendrick Publisher Comments Walter Kendrick traces the relatively recent concept of pornography--the word was not coined until the late 18th century--which became a public issue once the printing press gave ordinary people access to the erotica of the Greeks and Romans, the art and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Stevens Publisher Comments Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. The gothic influence on modern writers such as Angela Carter, Iain Banks and Stephen King is vivid and great as is the effect on the world of film and rock music. Part of the function of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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