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by Roy Pascal  Publisher Comments A survey placing German literature in social and political context.... (read more)  List Price $72.50 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Ragai N Makar Publisher Comments 2,548 numbered entries of books, chapters in books, periodical articles, poems, and reference sources, covering all genres of literature including ballads, comedy, drama, fiction, Israeli literature, Islamic literature, biographies, Mahjar literature... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $24.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by R Howard Bloch Publisher Comments While modernists are currently so mired in the question of who did what to whom during World War II that they have lost a sense of intellectual urgency, the study of medieval literature and culture has never been more alive or at a more interestingly... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Miska Publisher Comments This anthology is a welcome enterprise. It gives readers a representative picture of Hungarian Canadian literature. The reader will find not only the recognized masters but also the younger generation of authors and poets.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edwin Thuboo Book News Annotation For his 80th birthday, Philippine fiction writer Jos... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $18.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michelle Burnham Publisher Comments In a radically new interpretation and synthesis of highly popular 18th- and 19th-century genres, Michelle Burnham examines the literature of captivity, and, using Homi Bhabha's concept of interstitiality as a base, provides a valuable redescription of... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $11.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Bernheimer Publisher Comments Ubiquitous in the streets and brothels of nineteenth-century Paris, the prostitute was even more so in the novels and paintings of the time. Charles Bernheimer discusses how these representations of the sexually available woman express male ambivalence... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $7.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Clyde N Wilson Book News Annotation Ten articles by academics from the fields of English, political science, and history explore the thought and work of southern intellectual Bradford. The authors examine his contributions to literary criticism, constitutional history, and rhetoric... (read more) Your price $35.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Debra Rae Cohen Publisher Comments An examination of how wartime rhetoric in World War I influenced the home front fiction of four British women writers -- Violet Hunt, Rose Macaulay, Stella Benson, and Rebecca West.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Joseph Leo Blotner Publisher Comments This thoroughly engaging memoir tells the story of a fascinating life marked by unlooked-for good fortune -- a life at once distinctive and representative of a generation. With the detail, immediacy, and character delineation of a novel, Joseph Blotner... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $16.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alfred Kazin Publisher Comments God and the American Writer does more to illuminate the fundamental purposes and motivations of our greatest writers from Hawthorne to Faulkner than any study I have read in the past fifty-five years--that is, since the same author's On Native Grounds. --... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John A Mccrossan Publisher Comments Books and reading have contributed to the success of generations of Americans, many of whom have had distinguished careers and have left their mark on history. While the accomplishments of these notable Americans are well known, their adventures with... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price $18.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Dolores Blyth Jones Publisher Comments This unique reference work offers a comprehensive listing of all Little Golden Book titles issued from the inception of the series in 1942 through 1985. Included are all titles issued in the familiar Little Golden Book format, and various subseries such... (read more) List Price $57.75 Your price $37.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Andrea Loselle Publisher Comments In History's Double, Andrea Loselle looks at the relation between tourism and French literature, drawing a distinction between the tourist industry and the "true" experience of travel. Examining the work of such notable writers as Blaise Cendrars, Paul... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Carlyle Publisher Comments Sartor Resartus ("The Tailor Retailored") is ostensibly an introduction to a strange history of clothing by the German Professor of Things in General, Diogenes Teufelsdrockh; its deeper concerns are social injustice, the right way of living in the world,... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by E P Thompson Publisher Comments Thompson galvanized audiences in New York and in England with his unique blend of historical analysis and literary acuity as he examined the turbulent 1790s through the work of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Mary Wollstonecraft, and that of such less well-known... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Harold Bloom Publisher Comments Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or J) writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the "Iliad," the "Aeneid," Dante's "Divine Comedy," "Hamlet," "King Lear... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price $3.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Emily Blair Publisher Comments Traces Woolf's persistent yet vexed fascination with nineteenth-century descriptions of English domesticity and female creativity.... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $45.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Nancy Armstrong Publisher Comments Victorians were fascinated with how accurately photography could copy people, the places they inhabited, and the objects surrounding them. Much more important, however, is the way in which Victorian people, places, and things came to resemble photographs.... (read more) List Price $33.00 Your price $28.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Robert Berold Book News Annotation The 21 interviews were taped, then the poet and editor worked together to edit transcripts down to about half their original length. They provide a record of the rapidly changing decade, jumping perspectives from narrator to narrator. Gecko Poetry is... (read more) Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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