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by Gary Richards  Publisher Comments A challenge to traditional criticism, this engaging study demonstrates that issues of sexuality--and same-sex desire in particular--were of central importance in the literary production of the Southern Renaissance. Especially during the 1940s and 1950s... (read more)  List Price $19.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Claudia Stokes Publisher Comments In the aftermath of America's centennial celebrations of 1876, readers developed an appetite for chronicles of the nation's past. Born amid this national vogue, the field of American literary history was touted as the balm for numerous "ills"--from... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Steven C Caton Publisher Comments "Caton's study joins a brilliant ethnography of tribal poetic tradition with a discussion of central issues in anthropological thought."--Dale F. Eickelman, Dartmouth... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Burton Feldman Publisher Comments Published to coincide with the 2000 Nobel Prize awards, this reference is the only book to explore every aspect of the coveted prize: its founder, its aura, all its six fields, its laureates' personalities and rivals, and its controversies and blunders.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Heather Glen Publisher Comments New work on British Romanticism is often characterised as much by its conscious difference from preceding positions as it is by its approach to or choice of material. As a result, writing neglected or marginalised in one account will be restored to... (read more) List Price $96.00 Your price $60.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Joyce Johnson Publisher Comments A National Book Critics Circle Award-winner, Minor Characters has deservedly become known among the cognoscenti as a classic about the 1950s, a vivid and compelling memoir of one womans coming of age amidst the angels and poets of the Beat Generation... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Stouck Publisher Comments When Ethel Wilson published her first novel, Hetty Dorval, she was in her sixtieth year. With her subsequent books, among them the widely read Swamp Angel (1954), she established herself as one of Canada's most important writers. Although she fostered a... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Joseph Frank Publisher Comments Joseph Frank's continuing biography of Dostoevsky is by now recognized as one of the major achievements of this century in this form, and perhaps the best work on the author in any language. During the course of this long-range effort, Frank has also... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $1.30 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nicholas Riasanvsky Publisher Comments Although primarily known as an eminent historian of Russia, Nicholas Riasanovsky has been a longtime student of European Romanticism. In this book, Riasanovsky offers a refreshing and appealing new interpretation of Romanticism's goals and influence. He... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Juan Pablo Dabove Publisher Comments Nightmares of the Lettered City presents an original study of the popular theme of banditry in works of literature, essays, poetry, and drama, and banditry's pivotal role during the conceptualization and formation of the Latin American nation-state. Juan... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by T. J. Reed Publisher Comments "It draws on a profound knowledge of European literature, its argument is coherent from beginning to end, it is compellingly written."--Times Higher Education Supplement. While in Weimar, Goethe wrote literature which gave his country an artistic and... (read more) List Price $68.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gregory Woods Synopsis This important book is the first full-scale account of male gay literature across cultures and languages and from ancient times to the present. Works by writers of wide-ranging literary status are featured, including Virgil, Dante, Marlowe, Shakespeare... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $5.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Lucas Book News Annotation Studies writers from the 1920s with regard to their political radicalism. Draws on the works of D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Patrick Hamilton, among others, to identify the decade as a time of both political activism and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $5.13 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edmund Wilson Publisher Comments Edmund Wilson was the dominant American literary critic from the 1920s until his death in 1972, but he was also far more than that: a chronicler of his times, a historian of ideas, a probing observer of himself and of the society around him. With this... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $28.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Sally Allen Mcnall Publisher Comments Who Is in the House? provides the first scholarly historical and psychological analysis of both the content and the appeal of women's popular fiction in America during the past two centuries. Principal attention is given to the power of the images of... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $3.20 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Howard Felperin Publisher Comments An important contribution to the current rethinking of "English," and to the reconsideration of Shakespeare's role within it, this book focuses on the emergence of the New Historicism, clarifying a number of key positions in the criticism of the past... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $16.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jack Cady Publisher Comments Having considered the subject for more than sixty years, Jack Cady shares his knowledge of the American Writer in this wonderful and provocative book. The American Writer is both an open letter to young writers and a lovely overview for anyone interested... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marilyn C. Wesley Publisher Comments Travel is the root metaphor for Western progress, a fact particularly evident in a colonizing and immigrant nation like the United States. Despite changing historical circumstances from one American epoch to another, men have generally been associated... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dorothy Kaufmann 
Publisher Comments Follows a remarkable French woman of letters (and lover of Dominique Aury, author of the "Story of O) who was deeply involved in the traumatic upheavals of her time including the French resistance to Nazi occupation and the Spanish Civil War.... (read more) List Price $28.50 Your price $14.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Juan Carlos Ubilluz Synopsis Sacred Eroticism addresses a neglected chapter in Latin American literature, namely, the influence of Georges Bataille and Pierre Klossowski's atheist mysticism in the Latin American erotic novel of the twentieth century. Combining a Lacanian analytical... (read more) List Price $62.50 Your price $29.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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