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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 add to wish list
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 add to wish list
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 add to wish list
by Margaret Reynolds Publisher Comments In "Vintage Living Texts," teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of A.S. Byatt. It is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with A.S. Byatt, relating specifically to the texts under discussion. This guide... (read more) Your price $13.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Robert Casillo Publisher Comments This book places Germaine de Stael's influential novel, Corrine, or Italy (1807) in relation to preceding and subsequent stereotypes of Italy as seen in the works of Northern European and American travel writers since the Renaissance.... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $70.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Michael A Bryson Publisher Comments The work of John Charles Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body of writing. Yet despite their range of genres -- including exploration... (read more) Your price $56.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Karin Jacobson Publisher Comments Question Victorian - and present-day - society as you study Charlotte Bronte' s popular novel with CliffsNotes on Jane Eyre. What is women' s position in society? What is the relationship of dreams and fantasy to reality? What is the basis of an... (read more) List Price $4.99 Your price $2.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Oscar Wilde Publisher Comments Epigrams, aphorisms, and other bon mots gathered from the celebrated wit's plays, essays, and conversation offer an entertaining selection of observations both comic and profound. Organized by category, the nearly 400 quotes range in subject from human... (read more) List Price $2.50 Your price $0.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Christopher A. Hubert Synopsis MAXnotes. . . - offer a fresh look at masterpieces of literature - present material in an interesting, lively fashion - are written by literary experts who currently teach the subjects - are designed to stimulate independent thinking by raising various... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Jonathan Swift Publisher Comments Wisdom's Above Suspecting Wiles; The Queen Of Learning Gravely Smiles, Down From Olympus Comes With Joy, Mistakes Vanessa For A Boy; Then Sows Within Her Tender Mind Seeds Long Unknown To Womankind.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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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 add to wish list
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 add to wish list
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 add to wish list
by David Seybold Publisher Comments This anthology brings together 30 stories, essays, and poems--by such authorsas P.J. O'Rourke, Richard Ford, and Thomas McGuane--that celebrate fishing asa sport and a communion with nature.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $3.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Paula R Backscheider Publisher Comments Revising Women is a collection of essays by a distinguished group of feminist critics. Each essay is a contribution to the history of the English novel, to our understanding of literature's place in cultural debate, and to women's studies. The essays... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by M Thomas Inge Publisher Comments A collected selection of reviews of William Faulkner??'s writings from 1926 to 1962.... (read more) List Price $185.00 Your price $106.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Kathleen Odean Publisher Comments Landmark books such as Meeting at the Crossroads and the phenomenally successful Reviving Ophelia helped send hundreds of thousands of readers a sobering message: ours is a girl-poisoning culture. Parents may strive to raise strong, confident daughters... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Claire L Carlin Publisher Comments "Selected writings of Ronald W. Tobin" / Claire Carlin: p. 23-32. Includes bibliographical references and index.... (read more) Your price $60.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by Gary K. Carey Publisher Comments This is the book that chronicled the lives and times of "the Lost Generation," American expatriates that filled Europe between the world wars. Hemingway's expatriates are there for two different reasons: one is there solely for entertainment, the other... (read more) List Price $6.97 Your price $1.69 (Used - Pamphlet) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
by And Newman Random House Publisher Comments The Secret Mulroney Tapes is an outrageous and intimate portrait of a Canadian prime minister, as told in his own words. There has never been a political book like this, and there will almost certainly never be another. Peter C. Newman, the author of... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list
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