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by Deirdre Sabi Knight  Publisher Comments By examining how narrative strategies reinforce or contest deterministic paradigms, this work describes modern Chinese fiction's unique contribution to ethical and literary debates over the possibility for meaningful moral action. How does Chinese... (read more)  List Price $44.95 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Francesca Sawaya Publisher Comments "Sawaya's treatment of the dynamic relationship between discourses of domesticity and professionalism during the early decades of the twentieth century makes a strong contribution to debates about gender, race, and work."--Alice Gambrell, University of... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Erich Heller Publisher Comments Since first publication in 1952, The Disinherited Mind has been in continuous demand, recognized as a work whose significance extends far beyond the subject of German letters. The noted critic and poet Edwin Muir has written of it, The condition it... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jose Yglesias Publisher Comments Rafe Sabas is the ideal corporate man. He is on a first name basis with the president of his company and likes to think about a deal while talking about something else. "I am not good at thinking alone," he quips, "corporate life ruins you for that... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $3.38 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Holroyd Publisher Comments This, in his fashion, is Michael Holroyd's autobiography, a biography of a biographer, and a continuation of his never-ending love affair with human nature. Part detective story, part family-saga and part an oblique voyage of self discovery, Basil Street... (read more) Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Joanna Brooks Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-247) and index.... (read more) Your price $55.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Stanley Publisher Comments Of the large number of Dubliners who have made their mark in politics and literature, six famous personalities are chronicled here: W. B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Jonathan Swift, Wolfe Tone and Edward Carson. These concise but comprehensive... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bette London Publisher Comments Although Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault announced the death of the author several decades ago, critics have been slow to abandon the idea of the solitary writer. Bette London maintains that this notion has blinded us to the reality that writing is... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Patricia E Chu Publisher Comments An original study of the impact of increasing government controls on literary modernism.... (read more) List Price $91.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Brian Lockey Publisher Comments A study of the role literature played in the formation of the legal justification for imperialism.... (read more) List Price $91.00 Your price $35.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Alfred Kazin Publisher Comments Alfred Kazin, one of our most distinguished critics culls half a century from his journals. Russell Baker describes Kazin's work best: "A lovely book about 20th-century life lived gracefully on the New York literary battleground, and about the universal... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles R. Larson Publisher Comments This book demonstrates how only a small number of African writers--like Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, Nuruddin Farah, and Wole Soyinka--have become known outside of their own continent. It also details the enormous obstacles they face within Africa to get... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Moon Publisher Comments "This superb collection demonstrates the exciting new work being done in American literary history and criticism. Its many wide-ranging, richly detailed contributions are certain to shape and extend cultural and political debates about race, class... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Arthur Riss Publisher Comments This book raises controversial questions about the intersections between race, literature and American intellectual history.... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $50.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by J Whittier Ferguson Publisher Comments In Framing Pieces, Whittier-Ferguson recovers and explores drafts, notes, glosses, essays, and guides that high modernists, such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, and Ezra Pound generated in order to interpret their own work. These archival... (read more) List Price $52.00 Your price $12.38 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard R Lingeman Publisher Comments In this insightful new book, a veteran biographer explores the passions and betrayals that have enlivened the most significant, most fruitful friendships in American letters.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard H Brodhead Publisher Comments Using a variety of historical sources, Richard H. Brodhead reconstructs the institutionalized literary worlds that coexisted in nineteenth-century America: the middle-class domestic culture of letters, the culture of mass-produced cheap reading, the... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stanley Sultan Publisher Comments In this new look at Modernism, Sultan illuminates the shared enterprise of T. S. Eliot and James Joyce. The author discusses their seminal works, considering new aspects of the company they kept, and revealing their rich connection with the writers who... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Frederic Will Book News Annotation Papers of the Dec. 1988 meeting in Dallas on quantum cosmology, the early universe, superstring theory, quantum gravity, gravity waves, active galactic nuclei, quasar disks, quasar absorption lines, cosmic microwave background, primeval galaxies... (read more) Your price $2.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by David Fine Publisher Comments In this first literary history of Los Angeles in more than fifty years, David Fine traces the history of the place through the work of the authors who have defined it in our imaginations.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $16.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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