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Dictionary of Shakespeare by Louise Mcconnell Synopsis This is a reference about Shakespeare's plays, characters, productions and themes. It includes over 1500 entries that should help explain all the terms used in Sheakespeare's texts and in their execution.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Literature: Its Opponents and Its Power by Arther Trace Book News Annotation The author argues that literature is under attack by a variety of forces in American culture. He identifies these forces as being the scientific rationalists who elevate the authority of reason over that of the imagination, the literary theorists who... (read more) Your price $31.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Last of the Mohicans (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes by Thomas J Rountree Publisher Comments The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price $0.88 (Used - Pamphlet) check for new and sale copies add to wish list James Baldwin's Later Fiction: Witness to the Journey by Lynn Orilla Scott Publisher Comments This book examines the decline of Baldwin's reputation after the middle 1960s, his tepid reception in mainstream and academic venues, and the ways in which critics have often mis-represented and undervalued his work. Scott develops readings of "Tell Me... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets by Helen Hennessy Vendler Publisher Comments Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children". View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the course. The poets nearest to us in time often seem the... (read more) List Price $31.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Shakespeare and Politics by Catherine M S Alexander Publisher Comments Selection of sixteen provocative and stimulating essays on the complex subject of Shakespeare and politics.... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $62.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A.E. Van Vogt: Science Fantasy's Icon by H. L Drake Publisher Comments "Science Fantasy's Icon" presents the results of a nearly three-decades long project about the late "golden age" science fantasy author, A.E. Van Vogt. This book emphasizes an interest that H.L. Drake and Van Vogt shared in the subject of general... (read more) List Price $15.50 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Representing Revolution in Milton and His Contemporaries: Religion, Politics, and Polemics in Radical Puritanism by David Loewenstein Publisher Comments Loewenstein explores the interactions of literature, polemics and religious politics in the English Revolution.... (read more) Your price $80.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Registering the Difference by Lance St John Butler Publisher Comments The concept of register is a wonderful tool for readers of all kinds of texts, especially literary ones. This book explains how register can be used without resorting to the full panoply of linguistic jargon. Readers at all levels often shy away from... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cabinet 15: The Average Issue by Eva Geulen Publisher Comments Coined by the Belgian statistician Adolphe Quetelet in 1835, the term "average man" evokes both contentment and anxiety. In some sense an inverted history of the genius, the story of the average has had a formative influence on modern aesthetics... (read more) List Price $10.00 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   Black Boy (Cliffs Notes) - Study Notes by Carl Senna Publisher Comments The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. "CliffsNotes on Black Boy" chronicles the alienation of the author - not only from white society, but from... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price $2.95 (Used - Pamphlet) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Modernism and Morality: Ethical Devices in European and American Fiction by Martin Halliwell Publisher Comments "Modernism and Morality" discusses the relationship between artistic and moral ideas in European and American literary modernism. Rather than reading modernism as a complete rejection of social morality, this study shows how early 19th-century writers... (read more) List Price $62.00 Your price $55.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester Publisher Comments Simon Winchester delivers an account of the seventy-year odyssey and key players behind the making of the unrivalled Oxford English Dictionary.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nick Hornby's High Fidelity: A Reader's Guide by Joanne Knowles Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [93]-94).... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Arthurian Literature #19: Arthurian Literature XIX: Comedy in Arthurian Literature by Keith Busby Synopsis Articles on comedy in Arthurian romance - French, Dutch, Italian, Scottish and English.... (read more) Your price $102.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Final Drafts: Suicides of World-Famous Authors by Mark Seinfelt Publisher Comments Incorporates historical, biographical, and psychological examinations of some of the greatest authors over the last century who decided to end their lives. Seinfelt, a writer living in Pennsylvania, begins with the suicide of Constance Woolson in 1894... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list English Literature and the Russian Aesthetic Renaissance (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature) by Rachel Polonsky Publisher Comments The first study of the Russian reception of English literature from Romanticism to aestheticism.... (read more) Your price $75.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary: A Reader's Guide (Continuum Contemporaries) by Imelda Whelehan Publisher Comments This is an excellent guide to Helen Fieldings genre-defining novel. It features a biography of the author, a full-length analysis of the novel, and a great deal more. If youre studying this novel, reading it for your book club, or if you simply want to... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Stephen Spender: A Literary Life by John Sutherland Publisher Comments One of the leading poets and cultural icons of the 20th century, Stephen Spender was a prominent writer, literary critic, and social commentator — and close friend of some of the best-known creative talents of his day. Now, in this penetrating... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Cage Without Bars by Ibrahim Yared Publisher Comments The small boy was trying to climb over the wall surrounding the labyrinth that he wanted to leave, when he heard the elderly people back home shouting and telling him to go back to bed. His grip on the wall loosened and he fell to the ground waking up... (read more) List Price $12.50 Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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