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Listening to Reading 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 add to wish list Dorsality: Thinking Back Through Technology and Politics (Posthumanities) by David Wills Publisher Comments In this highly original book David Wills rethinks not only our nature before all technology but also what we understand to be technology. Rather than considering the human being as something natural that then develops technology, Wills argues, we should... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $14.95 (Used - Spiral) check for new and sale copies add to wish list How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays (Harvest Book) 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 $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list There's No Such Thing as Free Speech: And It's a Good Thing Too by Stanley Fish Publisher Comments A vigorous debunker of the pieties of both the left and the right, Stanley Fish takes aim at the ideological gridlock paralyzing academic and political exchange in the nineties. Fish is Arts and Sciences Professor of English and Professor of Law at Duke... (read more) List Price $33.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Ten Poems to Set You Free 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 add to wish list Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob 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 add to wish list Pedagogy of Place 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 add to wish list The ambiguity of taste :freedom and food in European romanticism 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 add to wish list In a Cardboard Belt!: Essays Personal, Literary, and Savage 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 add to wish list Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life: How Politics and Markets Helped Shape the Ideology and Culture of Aestheticism, 1790-1990 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 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   Deconstruction & Criticism 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 add to wish list Dark Fiber: Tracking Critical Internet Culture (Electronic Culture--History, Theory, Practice) by Geert Lovink Publisher Comments According to media critic Geert Lovink, the Internet is being closed off by corporations and governments intent on creating a business and information environment free of dissent. Calling himself a radical media pragmatist, Lovink envisions an Internet... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Serpents in the Garden: Liaisons with Culture & Sex (Counterpunch) 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 add to wish list Sisters of Salome 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 add to wish list Reader-Response Criticism: From Formalism to Post-Structuralism by Jane P Tompkins Publisher Comments With contributions by David Bleich, Jonathan Culler, Stanley Fish, Walker Gibson, Norman N. Holland, Wolfgang Iser, Walter Benn Michaels, Georges Poulet, Gerald Prince, and Michael Riffaterre.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Subject to Delusions: Narcissism, Modernism, Gender (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies) by Caroline Rupprecht Book News Annotation Rupprecht (comparative literature, City U, of New York) examines three modernist women writers (Henriette Hardenberg, Djuna Barnes and Unica Z... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Money and Modernity: Pound, Williams, and the Spirit of Jefferson 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 add to wish list Ecopoetry: A Critical Introduction by J Scott Bryson Publisher Comments The Burgeoning Field of ecocriticism is beginning to address the work of ecopoets such as Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver, W. S. Merwin, and Wendell Berry, among others, whose poems increasingly deal with ecological and environmental issues. Ecopoetry: A... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list After the Death of Poetry: Poet and Audience in Contemporary America by Vernon Shetley Publisher Comments In this deft analysis, Vernon Shetley shows how writers and readers of poetry, operating under very different conventions and expectations, have drifted apart, stranding the once-vital poetic enterprise on the distant margins of contemporary culture... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Economy of Literature 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 add to wish list

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