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Dante: The Divine Comedy (Landmarks of World Literature) by Robin Kirkpatrick Synopsis In this accessible introduction to Dante's Divine Comedy Kirkpatrick principally focuses on Dante as a poet and storyteller. He addresses important questions such as Dante's attitude towards Virgil, and demonstrates how an early work such as the Vita... (read more) Your price $53.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Hidden Library of Tanith Lee: Themes and Subtexts from Dionysos to the Immortal Gene by Mavis Haut Publisher Comments Despite the great diversity of settings in Tanith Lees novels--from the pre-historic origins of Christianity to robot-dominated futurescapes--certain underlying thoughts and references appear consistently. While adhering formally to many of the writing... (read more) Your price $32.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Henry V (Shakespeare in Performance) by James N Loehlin Publisher Comments This study examines the profound changes that 20th-century performance has wrought on Shakespeare's complex drama of war and politics. What was accepted at the turn of the century as a patriotic celebration of a national hero has emerged in the modern... (read more) Your price $23.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rewriting Scotland: Welsh, McLean, Warner, Banks, Galloway, and Kennedy by Christie L March Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [166]-177) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Great Books for Boys by Kathleen Odean Publisher Comments Boys in our culture are raised to achieve, to hide such feelings as uncertainty and fear, to compete rather than cooperate. Boys also trail girls in reading and a love of books. What parents, grandparents, teachers, and librarians need is a tool that... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Japanese Copula: Forms and Functions by Tomiko Narahara Publisher Comments In this innovative study, Tomiko Narahara offers a multi-disciplinary description of the Japanese copula, revealing it to be at the interface of morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Most striking is her discovery of the copula's function to... (read more) List Price $90.00 Your price $67.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sun Tracks #0029: Returning the Gift: Poetry and Prose from the First North American Native Writers' Festival by Joseph Bruchac Publisher Comments An unprecedented gathering of more than 300 Native writers was held in Norman, Oklahoma, in 1992. The Returning the Gift Festival brought more Native writers together in one place than at any other time in history. 'Returning the Gift, ' observes co... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list East German Writers and the Politics of Culture: Dealing with the Stasi (New Perspectives in German Studies) by Paul Cooke Publisher Comments Before the fall of the Berlin Wall many East German writers were praised in the Western world as dissident voices of truth, bravely struggling with the draconian constraints of living under the GDR's communist regime. However, since unification, Germany... (read more) Your price $91.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Tolstoy's Anna Karenina (Cliffs Notes) by Marianne Sturman Publisher Comments The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. CliffsNotes on Anna Karenina delves into the complex web of relationships in Tolstoy's epic novel. As the... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price $2.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Jane Austen: The Novels (Analysing Texts) by Nicholas Marsh Publisher Comments Jane Austen's novels--Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion --are among the most polished, carefully crafted works in the English literary heritage. This book takes extracts and examines them in close detail, bringing out the... (read more) Your price $90.95 (Used - Hardcover) 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   Communities of Cultural Value: Reception Study, Political Differences, and Literary History by Philip Goldstein Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-234) and index.... (read more) List Price $31.00 Your price $21.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Gloria Naylor: Critical Perspectives Past and Present (Amistad Literary Series) by Gloria Naylor Publisher Comments In the history of the African-American literary tradition, perhaps no author has been immersed in the formal history of that tradition than Gloria Naylor. As an undergraduate student of Afro-American literature at Brooklyn College and a graduate student... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Bloom's Literary Characters #4: Hester Prynne by Pamela Loos Publisher Comments - Examines the most complex and memorable characters in Western literature<BR>- A selection of critical essays provides in-depth analysis of the character considered in each volume<BR>- A concise character profile discusses the character's... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $14.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Walking a Literary Labyrinth: A Spirituality of Reading by Nancy M Malone Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-198) and index.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fifteenth-century English Dream Visions: an Anthology by Julia Boffey Publisher Comments This anthology presents new editions of five English dream vision poems from the fifteenth century, exploring issues of love, philosophy, governance, life at court, and some of the anxieties of writing in a newly-forged English tradition. The texts are... (read more) List Price $99.00 Your price $76.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age by Emory Elliott Publisher Comments Aesthetics in a Multicultural Age examines a variety of significant multidisciplinary and multicultural topics within the subject of aesthetics. Addressing the vexed relation of the arts and criticism to current political and cultural concerns, the... (read more) Your price $62.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Renaissance Realism: Narrative Images in Literature and Art by Alastair Fowler Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-209) and index.... (read more) Your price $98.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list From Bondage to Liberation: Writings by and about Afro-Americans from 1700 to 1918 by Faith Berry Publisher Comments Unfolds a multifaceted literary history of race relations in the United States. This book features narratives on such well-known figures as Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Frederick Douglass, and others.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Three Brontes by May Sinclair Publisher Comments ..".because all the best things about the Brontk's have been said already, I have had to fall back on the humble day-labour of clearing away some of the rubbish that has gathered round them."Round Charlotte it has gathered to such an extent that it is... (read more) Your price $31.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Gender and Fascism in Modern France (Contemporary French Culture and Society) by Melanie Hawthorne Publisher Comments Discovering the ways gender issues are articulated in the cultures of the extreme right in modern France.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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