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Contemporary Issues in Australian Literature. by David Callahan Publisher Comments The contemporary study of Australian literature, as befitting that of a country that has been at the forefront of postcolonial studies, is a highly self-conscious and theoreticized enterprise, carried on by academics across the globe and not just... (read more) List Price $125.00 Your price $38.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Diamonds Are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball by And Chronicle Books Smithsonian Institute Travel Exhibitions Publisher Comments This handsome reissue of a beloved baseball classic, sporting a new cover, collects the work of America?s finest writers and artists as they celebrate the passion and excitement of our national pastime. Published in cooperation with the Smithsonian... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ragas of Longing by Sam Solecki Publisher Comments In Ragas of Longing, Sam Solecki offers the first book-length study of Michael Ondaatje's poetry and its place in his body of work. Relating the poetry to various poetic traditions from classical Tamil to postmodern, Solecki presents a chronological... (read more) Your price $28.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Twayne's Studies in Short Fiction #0061: Jean Rhys a Study in Short Fiction by Cheryl Alexander Malcolm Publisher Comments Over the last decade a proliferation of books and articles have been published about the novelist and short story writer Jean Rhys ("Voyage in the Dark" and "Wide Sargasso Sea"). Despite her slim output - five short novels, three volumes of short stories,... (read more) Your price $34.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Never Marry a Girl with a Dead Father: Hysteria in the 19th Century Novel by Helen Hayward Publisher Comments Freud's "discovery" of hysteria was both anticipated by, and grounded in, 19th-century realist fiction. Here, the author reveals how the dark continent that Freud called femininity was brought to life by these realist novelists. The hysterical character,... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Charlotte Bronte: The Novels (Analysing Texts) by Mike Edwards Publisher Comments Charlotte Brontë's novels have retained a strong appeal for readers from her own time to the present day. Her rich and subtle writing rewards careful study, revealing a fine balance of comedy, romance, and passion, and touching on contemporary... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Oh, Lord, It's Monday Again by Esther Blumenfeld Publisher Comments Laugh your way through a day at the office with this latest offering from two bestselling Peachtree humorists--authors of the hit Oh, Lord, I Sound Just Like Mama. Their new work reveals all the foibles and fables of the workplace, from memo madness to... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Monographs in International Studies. Southeast Asian Series #90: The Tale of Prince Samuttakote: A Buddhist Epic from Thailand by Thomas John Hudak Publisher Comments During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Thai poets produced epics depicting elaborate myths and legends which intermingled the human, natural, and supernatural worlds. One of the most famous of these classical compositions is the Samuttakhoot... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $15.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Complete Poems and Selected Essays (Everyman) by Edgar Allan Poe Synopsis Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction, a chronology of the life and times of the author and selected criticism.... (read more) Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Passions of the Sign: Revolution and Language in Kant, Goethe, and Kleist (Parallax: Re-Visions of Culture and Society) by Andreas Gailus Publisher Comments Gailus traces the impact of the French Revolution on Enlightenment thought in Germany as evidenced in the work of three major figures around the turn of the nineteenth century: Immanuel Kant, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Heinrich von Kleist.... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $52.50 (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   Contributions to the Study of World Literature #81: James Merrill's Poetic Quest by Don Adams Publisher Comments Relatively little critical attention has been directed towards the explication of James Merrill's difficult poems, much less towards the understanding of his densely-layered symbolism. This is the first comprehensive study to look at Merrill's difficult... (read more) List Price $96.95 Your price $27.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Women's Fiction and the Great War by Suzanne Raitt Publisher Comments The Great War stimulated a sudden growth in the novel industry, and the trauma of the war continued to reverberate through much of the fiction published in the years that followed its inglorious end. The essays in this volume, by a number of leading... (read more) List Price $82.00 Your price $49.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Novel in Antiquity by Tomas Hagg Publisher Comments Tracing the development of Greek romances from 200 B.C. through twelfth-century Byzantium, Tomas Hagg analyses the content, plot and narrative techniques of the ancient novel, and explores the social and literary milieu in which the genre flourished.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native Literatures by Joanna Brooks Publisher Comments The 1780s and 1790s were a critical era for communities of color in the new United States of America. Even Thomas Jefferson observed that in the aftermath of the American Revolution, "the spirit of the master is abating, that of the slave rising from the... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price $35.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Securing the Commonwealth: Debt, Speculation, and Writing in the Making of Early America by Jennifer J Baker Publisher Comments The British colonies in America and the early American republic relied heavily on borrowing and paper currency for trade, a matter of both practical and abstract moral concern for many at the time. In Securing the Commonwealth Jennifer Baker considers... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $41.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race by J Gerald Kennedy Publisher Comments Edgar Allan Poe's strength as a writer lay in fabricating fantisies in settings far removed from his own place and time. This dislocation renders the attitudes embedded in his fiction open to interpretation, and over the years some readers have found Poe... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Jeanette Winterson: The Essential Guide to Contemporary Literature (Vintage Living Texts) by Margaret Reynolds Publisher Comments In "Vintage Living Texts," teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Jeanette Winterson.  It is unique in that it offers an in-depth interview with  Jeanette Winterson, relating specifically to the texts under... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Cambridge Companion to James Joyce by Derek Attridge Publisher Comments This Companion, designed primarily as a students' reference work (although it is organised so that it can also be read from cover to cover), will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Joyce for the new reader. The eleven essays, by an... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Reader's Delight by Noel Perrin Publisher Comments One of America's finest essayists writes about 40 literary masterpieces that have been wrongfully forgotten or were ignored in the first place.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Latina Self-portraits: Interviews With Contemporary Women Writers by Bridget A Kevane Publisher Comments Through frank and revealing interviews, takes a historical and literary approach to ten important contemporary Latina writers.... (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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