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by Elizabeth A Wheeler  Publisher Comments In the postwar era, American urban fiction was dominated by the imagery of containment. Across the fictional landscape, the city was divided into segregated zones, marked by the threat of inevitable violence. In Uncontained, Elizabeth A. Wheeler offers a... (read more)  List Price $22.00 Your price $5.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Warren F. Motte Publisher Comments Small Worlds examines the minimalist trend in French writing, from the early 1980s to the present. Warren Motte first considers the practice of minimalism in other media, such as the plastic arts and music, and then proposes a theoretical model of... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $30.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Howarth Publisher Comments An informative and inspiring account of the themes and debates that have shaped British poetry of the last century.... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $75.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mineke Schipper Publisher Comments A fresh, innovative, and powerful case for African literature on its own terms. Erudite, well executed, and politically committed....A magnificent and masterful critical reading. --V. Y. Mudimbe, Duke... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $5.45 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Regina Marler Book News Annotation Celebrated and maligned with equal vigor, the Bloomsbury Group is the best-documented artistic coterie in 20th century literature. This volume examines Bloomsbury's persistent allure and tracks the resurgence of interest in them, from a handful of... (read more) Your price $7.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Muriel Whitaker Publisher Comments The setting of medieval Arthurian romance, as typified by Malory's Morte Darthur, plays an important part in the creation of the atmosphere ofthe stories, and in intensifying the drama of the action. Professor Whitaker looks at the Arthurianworld which... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price $24.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by C Sawyer Laucanno Publisher Comments Between 1944 and 1960, a second wave of expatriate American writers took up residence in Paris, some seeking the exiting ambiance of art and the bohemian life that Paris has offered earlier generations, some escaping from racist and materialistic aspects... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $2.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Limb Publisher Comments Provides extensive coverage of the writings of both established and promising new authors in all continental African countries and Madagascar. Arranged primarily by language, with emphasis on literatures in English and French.... (read more) List Price $66.00 Your price $2.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard H Brodhead Publisher Comments In The School of Hawthorne, Brodhead uses Hawthorne as a prime example of how literary traditions are made, not born. Under Brodhead's scrutiny, the Hawthorne tradition opens out onto a wide array of subjects, many of which have received little previous... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gershon Shaked Synopsis This matchless history traces the development of a literature from its European roots into the 1880s, when it had neither a country nor a spoken language, to its flowering on Israeli soil through the 1990s. The product of over 20 years of research, it is... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Felicia Fahey Publisher Comments For the past three decades, Latin American and Latina women writers have used autobiography, fiction, and a blend of the two genres to address the psychological struggle to heal from both personal and political traumas. Felicia Fahey focuses on six... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ian Campbell Publisher Comments Don't miss a single volume. Subscribe today Back volumes are available for purchase. To ensure that you don't miss a single issue, subscribe to The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle today. For more information, click here. In volume 31... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Plotz Publisher Comments Plotz, a smart young tenured professor at Johns Hopkins, offers a new history and theory of the crowd in the British literary and political imagination of 19th-century London.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $4.80 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Holmes Publisher Comments In 1985 Richard Holmes published a book called Footsteps, and the writing of biography was changed forever. A daring mixture of travel, biographical sleuthing, and personal memoir, it broke all the conventions of the genre and remains one of the most... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $5.13 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Aleksandr Voronsky Publisher Comments Voronsky was an outstanding figure of post-revolutionary Soviet intellectual life, editor of the most important literary journal of the 1920s in the USSR and a supporter of Trotsky and the Left Opposition in the struggle against Stalinism. A defender of... (read more) Your price $21.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Barry Miles Publisher Comments Called a vivid picture of literary life along the Left Bank in the late 1950s and early 1960s . . . [and] fun reading by Library Journal, The Beat Hotel is a delightful chronicle of a remarkable moment in American literary history. From the Howl... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gay Wachman Publisher Comments Gay Wachman provides a critical new reading of sexually radical fiction by British women in the years during and after the First World War. She examines work by Sylvia Townsend Warner, Virginia Woolf, and Radclyffe Hall, along with the less well known... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $6.10 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by F. Abiola Irele and Simon Gikandi Publisher Comments This magisterial history of African literature is an essential resource for specialists and students.... (read more) Your price $150.00 (Used - Set Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ronald B Sakolsky Publisher Comments In these fierce and lyrical essays, David Levi Strauss calls for an art—and implicitly for an approach to art writing—that is passionately experiential, intellectually grounded, and politically fearless. He addresses the always conflicted... (read more) Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Belinda Jack Publisher Comments The canon of French literature has undergone substantial transforation in recent years and francophone literature is now an increasingly important element in French literature courses. This study introduces the diverse literatures from the numerous... (read more) List Price $83.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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