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by Barbara A Heavilin  Publisher Comments John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is one of the most widely read American novels. Much has been written about the book, yet a number of recent critics have challenged its merits and questioned its place in the canon. The novel was published... (read more)  Your price $75.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Walt Whitman Publisher Comments Generous sampling from "Leaves of Grass, "including "I Hear America Singing," "Song of the Open Road," "I Sing the Body Electric," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "O Captain! My Captain!" and 19 more.... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Derek Attridge Publisher Comments This is a series of connected essays by one of today??'s leading commentators on James Joyce.... (read more) Your price $86.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles A. Peek Publisher Comments A book told in and out of sequence, it recounts the lunacy of war. There is escapism, courage, and responsibility here, all dressed up in the existential absurdity and hilarity of a wartime setting.... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price $3.50 (Used - Pamphlet) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Mcdowell Synopsis In his groundbreaking essay "Can Poetry Matter?" (reprinted here), Dana Gioia suggested that many types of poetry, assumed by some readers to be marginal art, should not so easily be deleted from mainstream American literature. Throughout the twentieth... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jim Egan Publisher Comments The emphasis on practical experience over ideology is viewed by many historians as a profoundly American characteristic, one that provides a model for exploring the colonial challenge to European belief systems and the creation of a unique culture. Here... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Bell Publisher Comments "Sentimentalism, Ethics and the Culture of Feeling" defends feeling against customary distrust or condescension by showing that the 18th-century cult of sentiment, despite its sometimes surreal manifestations, has led to a positive culture of feeling... (read more) Your price $118.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Derek Cohen Publisher Comments The Politics of Shakespeare is an attempt to explore Shakespearean drama from the vantage point of the oppressed, invisible, and silent individuals and collectivities of the plays. It examines the ideological apparatuses which produce and naturalise... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $60.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Percy Bysshe Shelley Publisher Comments A milestone in literary scholarship, the publication of the Johns Hopkins edition of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley makes available for the first time critically edited clear texts of all poems and translations that Shelley published or... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $47.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Fred Botting Publisher Comments Bataille is the first book of its kind--a lucid guide to reading literary and cultural texts in the light of George Bataille's work. It explores the significance of Bataillean notions such as heterology, transgression, and eroticism through detailed... (read more) Your price $65.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Allan Pease Publisher Comments New edition, perfect for people who are fed up with others telling you what to say or how to think. The jokes in this book are politically incorrect, rude or both.... (read more) Your price $2.30 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rupert S Holland Publisher Comments 1919. Those who love brave and knightly deeds, those who love the gorgeous trappings of the mediaeval romance, come to the story of Arthur and his Round Table, of Lancelot and Perceval and Galahad and Gawain, of Guinevere and Elaine, and of the Quest for... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $28.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Margaret Reynolds Publisher Comments In "Vintage Living Texts," teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Sebastian Faulks. It is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with Sebastian Faulks, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. This guide... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Karen Haber Publisher Comments NOMINATED FOR THE 2002 HUGO AND LOCUS AWARD When J.R.R. Tolkien created the extraordinary world of Middle-earth and populated it with fantastic, archetypal denizens, reinventing the heroic quest, the world hardly noticed. Sales of The Lord of the Rings... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles P Bowditch Publisher Comments A contribution to the controversial claim that Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare's plays. Includes cryptographic analysis of the First Folio and alleged included anagrams. Numerous beautiful plates and reproduced prints.... (read more) Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Deborah Douglas Publisher Comments Initially conceived as a Who's Who of Texas authors, Stirring Prose was born of Deborah Douglas's brilliant deduction that asking authors to write about their favorite recipes freed them from "the big toe-digging constraints of having to talk directly... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ford Madox Ford Publisher Comments Critical Essays showcases a critic whom Ezra Pound called in 1914, "the best critic in England, one might say the only critic of any importance." This volume provides access to the best of Ford Madox Ford's essays. The essays are arranged chronologically... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $13.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lawrence Ferlinghetti Synopsis Poetry. Having an aversion to the idea of discussing the "craft" of poetry or the "process" of creating a poem, Lawrence Ferlinghetti usually mumbles something about "It's a trade secret" when pressed on the subject. But "What is Poetry?" is the closest... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by Harold Bloom From Powells.com Published in 1999, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human provided a mammoth capstone to the career of one of the most important literary critics of our era. Though the book was called by some the most significant contribution to Shakespeare scholarship... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robin Griffith-jones Publisher Comments The Da Vinci Code, soon to be a major motion picture, continues to fascinate both conspiracy theorists and regular people the world over. Author Robin Griffith-Jones, the Master of the Temple, lives at the hub of this excitement. As Master of the Temple... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $2.88 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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