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D. H. Lawrence: The Novels (British Authors, Introductory Critical Studies) by Alastair Niven Publisher Comments A revaluation of Lawrence??'s novels, tracing his development through them as an artist and thinker.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $3.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Postmodern Pooh by Frederick Crews Publisher Comments Purporting to be the proceedings of a forum on Pooh convened at the Modern Language Association's annual convention, Postmodern Pooh brilliantly parodies the academic fads and figures that hold sway at the millennium. Deconstruction, poststructuratist... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Collected Works of William Hazlitt by William Hazlitt Synopsis This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional... (read more) List Price $51.95 Your price $27.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Twentieth-Century Novel: An Introduction by R B Kershner Publisher Comments The only college-level survey of the twentieth-century novel, this very brief and inexpensive guide presents key historical background for, issues concerning, and critical approaches to the modern, post-modern, and contemporary novel.... (read more) List Price $33.50 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Trouble with Principle by Stanley Fish Publisher Comments Stanley Fish is an equal opportunity antagonist. A theorist who has taken on theorists, an academician who has riled the academy, a legal scholar and political pundit who has ruffled feathers left and right, Fish here turns with customary gusto to the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Take My Word by Anne E. Goldman Publisher Comments In an innovative critique of traditional approaches to autobiography, Anne E. Goldman convincingly demonstrates that ethnic women can and do speak for themselves, even in the most unlikely contexts. Citing a wide variety of nontraditional texts... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights by Bill Ivey Publisher Comments In this impassioned and persuasive book, Bill Ivey, the former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, assesses the current state of the arts in America and finds cause for alarm. Even as he celebrates our ever-emerging culture and the way it... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Writing to the Moment: Selected Critical Essays, 1980-1995 by Tom Paulin Publisher Comments Subjects as diverse as Ian Paisley's rhetoric and T.S. Eliot's anti-Semitism; poets including Elizabeth Bishop, John Clare, Louis MacNeice and Gerard Manley Hopkins; the art of criticism itself--all come under the eye of one of our most impassioned and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list History at the Limit of World-History (Italian Academy Lectures) by Ranajit Guha Publisher Comments The past is not just, as has been famously said, another country with foreign customs: it is a contested and colonized terrain. Indigenous histories have been expropriated, eclipsed, sometimes even wholly eradicated, in the service of imperialist aims... (read more) List Price $16.50 Your price $13.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Literature as Meaning (Penguin Academics Series) (Penguin Academics) by Wendy Steiner Publisher Comments Using contemporary themes, culturally and historically diverse selections, and thought-provoking questions that illuminate key literary concepts, this brief, thematic anthology invites readers to explore vital human issues raised by various genres of the... (read more) List Price $33.33 Your price $25.00 (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   Autobiographical Tightropes: Simone de Beauvoir, Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras, Monique Wittig, and Maryse Conde by Leah Dianne Hewitt Publisher Comments "In order to write" said Simone de Beauvoir, "the first essential condition is that reality can no longer be taken for granted." She and four other French women writers of the second half of the twentieth century—Nathalie Sarraute, Marguerite Duras,... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $2.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Chicana Ways: Conversations with Ten Chicana Writers by Karin Ikas Publisher Comments A collection of compelling interviews by Karin Rosa Ikas with ten Mexican-American writers fills a void in Chicana studies, women's studies, and ethnic studies scholarship.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The New Hegemony in Literary Studies: Contradictions in Theory (Rethinking Theory) by Tony Hilfer Publisher Comments A critique reveals the logical flaws that joins--and compromises--all the major recent modes of criticism that operate udner the rubric of Theory.... (read more) Your price $21.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Streams of Cultural Capital (Mestizo Spaces =) by David Palumbo Liu Publisher Comments This anthology examines the questions arising from the transpositions and recontextualizations of cultural objects across and between national borders: How is culture recognized, reconfigured, disseminated, appropriated, and practiced? How is cultural... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Drunk the Night Before: An Anatomy of Intoxication by Marty Roth Publisher Comments This invigorating work traces the cultural history of convivial drinking before the concept of addiction overshadowed intoxication's reputation as a creative, philosophical, and spiritual force.  Marty Roth's Drunk the Night Before illustrates... (read more) List Price $67.50 Your price $7.88 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Stalking (Focus on Contemporary Issues) by Bran Nicol Publisher Comments It scares—and titillates—in such movies as The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and Basic Instinct. It violently ended the lives of legendary artists such as Selena and John Lennon, and thousands of people endure it daily in anonymity from ex... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody (Slp Writers Guide) by Alfred Corn Publisher Comments The Poem's Heartbeatis a progressive, step-by-step introduction to prosody--the art and science of metrical composition in poetry. This second edition includes a new appendix of sample scansions, and a comprehensive index of poets and poems cited. "This... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Shop Talk: A Writer and His Colleagues and Their Work by Philip Roth Publisher Comments In Philip Roth's intimate intellectual encounters with an international and diverse cast of writers, they explore the importance of region, politics, and history in their work and trace the imaginative path by which a writer's highly... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Sentimental Education of the Novel by Margaret Cohen Publisher Comments The nineteenth-century French novel has long been seen as the heroic production of great men, who confronted in their works the social consequences of the French Revolution. And it is true that French realism, especially as developed by Balzac and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Selected Writings: 1950-1990 by Irving Howe Publisher Comments In these essays celebrating a career of forty years, Howe provides the lineage for modern literary tastes, social attitudes, and political persuasions. An invaluable record of a stunningly original and consistently idealistic American mind. Foreword by... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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