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Unspeakable Shaxxxspeares: Queer Theory and American Kiddie Culture by Richard Burt Publisher Comments Unspeakable ShaXXXspeares is a savvy look at the wide range of adaptations, spin-offs, and citations of Shakespeare’s plays in 1990s popular culture. The Bard has permeated contemporary film, television, video, and electronic media such as Internet... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list No Go the Bogeyman by Marina Warner Publisher Comments An exciting new work, richly illustrated, on the age-old images and stories about frightening men.In this provocative new work, Marina Warner goes beyond the terrain she covered in her widely praised From the Beast to the Blonde. She explores the darker,... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $9.71 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Grammar of Empire in Eighteenth-century British Writing by Janet Sorensen Publisher Comments Examines the role of language as an instrument of empire in eighteenth-century British literature.... (read more) Your price $62.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Books of the Century: 100 Years of Authors, Ideas, and Literature by Philip F Turner Publisher Comments Books of the Century is an extraordinary collection of the best writing about books and authors published in The New York Times Book Review, America's most widely read journal of the literary arts. Arranged chronologically from 1896 through 1997, this... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Shakespeare Criticism #30: Antony and Cleopatra: New Critical Essays by Deats Munson Deats Publisher Comments <BR>This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information.<BR>Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.... (read more) Your price $106.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Beauty and the Critic: Aesthetics in an Age of Cultural Studies by James Soderholm Publisher Comments This call to restore a sense of beauty to our culture will serve as a bellwether of the future of literary studies.<P>Beauty and the Critic brings together well-known members of the literary academy to reassert the importance of "aesthetic... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Iain Banks's Complicity: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries) by Cairns Craig Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [84]-89).... (read more) Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Twayne's Masterworks Studies #174: Atlas Shrugged by Mimi Reisel Gladstein Publisher Comments Author and Rand scholar, Mimi Gladstein, brings the novel sharply into focus in this "Twayne Masterworks" volume. She explores Rand's personal history and the development of her unique philosophy, and takes a look at the critical reception of "Atlas... (read more) List Price $33.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Tolkien Treasury by Alida Becker Publisher Comments For J. R. R. Tolkien lovers everywhere, here's an innovative book celebrating The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings through poems, stories, songs, and dozens of illustrations. Included are critical essays by such esteemed writers as W. H. Auden and Edmund... (read more) List Price $14.98 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Southern Europe by Guillermo A O'donnell Publisher Comments "Rich in nuanced, contextually sensitive analysis, and each of the case studies is written by a leading authority." -- Abraham F. Lowenthal, from the foreword 1986 Southern Europe - 232 pp. 0-8018-3190-3 $11.60 (reg. $14.50) pb Latin America - 256 pp. 0... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $5.95 (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   Modern American Women Writers by Elaine Showalter Publisher Comments Featuring original contributions by scholars in the field of women's studies, this invaluable reference illuminates the lives and works of Maya Angelou, Kate Chopin, Joan Didion, Anne Tyler, Susan Sontag, Gertrude Stein, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Vol. 31 (Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture) by Timothy Erwin Publisher Comments Throughout the eighteenth century, shifts in political power and social structures were making their way across Europe and into the New World. In this volume of "Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture," editors Ourida Mostefai and Catherine Ingrassia have... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Great War in Irish Poetry: W. B. Yeats to Michael Longley by Fran Brearton Publisher Comments The Great War in Irish Poetry explores the impact of the First World War on the work of W. B. Yeats, Robert Graves, and Louis MacNeice in the period 1914-45, and on three contemporary Northern Irish poets, Derek Mahon, Seamus Heaney, and Michael Longley.... (read more) Your price $86.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Part 20 Harvard Classics by And Cary Dante Alighieri Publisher Comments The Divine Comedy is the narrative of a journey down through Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory, and through the revolving heavens into the presence of God. It is also an allegory, representing under the symbolism of the stages and experiences of the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $25.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English by Ronald P Draper Publisher Comments This critical survey of modern poetry from Thomas Hardy to Seamus Heaney considers both the self-consciously revolutionary innovations of Modernism and more traditional developments, taking into account the extent to which "English" can no longer be... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Contributions to the Study of World Literature #80: The Other Mirror: Women's Narrative in Mexico, 1980-1995 by Kristine Ibsen Publisher Comments During the last decade, women's narrative has become a recognized force in Mexican letters. The essays in this collection explore the recent work of nine contemporary Mexican women writers. Many of the works have been translated into English; some, like... (read more) Your price $125.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Transition 96 (Tr) by Kwame Anthony Appiah Publisher Comments While other magazines routinely send writers around the world, Transition invites the world to write back. Its far-flung writers — who have included James Baldwin, Carlos Fuentes, Nadine Gordimer, Christopher Hitchens, bell hooks, Spike Lee, and... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Shakespeare's Romances by Alison Thorne Publisher Comments This New Casebook offers a collection of the liveliest and most innovative contemporary criticism on Shakespeare's "Romances": Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. The essays gathered in this volume exemplify the current diversity in... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $81.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cry, the Beloved Country Notes (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes by Richard O. Peterson Publisher Comments The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. CliffsNotes on Cry, the Beloved Country takes you into a compassionately told story set in the troubled and changing South Africa in... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price $2.95 (Used - Pamphlet) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World by Claudia Roth Pierpont Publisher Comments With a masterful ability to connect their social contexts to well-chosen and telling details of their personal lives, Claudia Roth Pierpont gives us portraits of twelve amazingly diverse and influential literary women of the twentieth century, women who... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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