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by George Steiner  Publisher Comments passionately argued, Lessons of the Masters is itself a masterly testament to the high vocation and perilous risks undertaken by true teacher and learner alike.... (read more)  List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Allen E Hye Publisher Comments Within the excellent, if underrated, body of adult baseball fiction that emerged in the latter half of the twentieth century, one finds a distinctive subgenre of baseball novels that feature the religious aspirations of their characters and the spiritual... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $9.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Harold Bloom Synopsis Five essential and challenging essays by leading post-modern theorists on the art and nature of interpretation: Jacques Derrida, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Paul de Man, and J. Hillis Miller.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Ragussis Publisher Comments Michael Ragussis re-reads the novelistic tradition by arguing the acts of naming--bestowing, revealing, or earning a name; taking away, hiding, or prohibiting a name; slandering, or protecting and serving it--lie at the center of fictional plots from the... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Toni Bentley Publisher Comments As the nineteenth century gave way to the twentieth, a short-lived but extraordinary cultural phenomenon spread throughout Europe and the United States — ?Salomania.? The term was coined when biblical bad girl Salome was resurrected from the Old... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Lee Siegel 
Publisher Comments From the author hailed by the New York Times Book Review for his "drive-by brilliance" and dubbed by the New York Times Magazine as "one of the country's most eloquent and acid-tongued critics" comes a ruthless challenge to the conventional wisdom about... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $15.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alec Marsh Book News Annotation Marsh (English, Muhlenberg College, Pennsylvania) provides a history of the aesthetics of Jeffersonianism and its collision with Modernism in the works of poets Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams, tracing their analyses of money from the... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Scott Lash Publisher Comments This groundbreaking collective work announces a radical new departure from contemporary debates on modernism and postmodernism.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gene H Bell Villada Publisher Comments "Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life" is a history of literary aestheticism from the eighteenth century to modern deconstruction. Gene H. Bell-Villada examines writings by critics, philosophers, and other writers from Europe, Latin America, and the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $7.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Clive Bloom Publisher Comments In 1997, 30 years after the demise of "Swinging London," Britain again seemed to be the center of the cultural universe, with a thriving arts scene, a new Labour Government and a young and enterprising prime minister. "Cool Britannia" seemed to sum up... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $17.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Giles Gunn Publisher Comments Giles Gunn's important new work is at once a provocative defense of the kind of moral reflection once associated in America with the writings of Lionel Trilling and Edmund Wilson and an acknowledgement that this pragmatic legacy must be reevaluated in... (read more) List Price $34.50 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen Ratcliffe Publisher Comments Listening to Reading presents two different kinds of writing about poetry -- "critical analysis" and "performance" -- both of which pay particular attention to sound, shape, and the relation of sound/shape to meaning. It offers a critical and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Umberto Eco Publisher Comments In these “impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent” essays (Atlantic Monthly), “the Andy Rooney of academia” (Los Angeles Times) takes on computer jargon, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on airplanes, bad coffee, taxi drivers, 33... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alexander Cockburn Publisher Comments Everything you wanted to know about culture but were too afraid to ask.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Roger Housden Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-138).... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David M. (edt) Callejo-perez Publisher Comments Pedagogy of Place focuses on the embodiment of purposefully created space resulting from the creation and enactment of its participants' cultural and social conditions. It is also about education, the purposeful creation of spaces that comprise learning... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jocelyne Kolb Publisher Comments Between the political revolutions of 1789 and 1848 no other subject so directly challenged the notion of "good taste" in literature as food. To be "in good taste," a work of the high style excluded references to literal taste; culinary allusions in... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Joseph Epstein Publisher Comments Writing as a memoirist, polemicist, literary critic, and amused observer of contemporary culture, the author of "Snobbery" and "Friendship" presents this engaging collection of essays that captures his witty, entertaining responses to the richness and... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Marc Shell Publisher Comments Why did coinage, tyranny, and philosophy develop in the same time and place? Marc Shell explores how both money and language give "worth" by providing a medium of exchange, how the development of money led to a revolution in philosophical thought and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sander L Gilman Publisher Comments He is the epitome of health--or a walking time bomb. He is oversexed--or sexless. He is jolly--or hiding the tears of a clown. He is the picture of wealth and plenty--or the bloated, malnourished emblem of poverty. He is the fat man--a cultural icon, a... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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