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by Maya Mortimer  Publisher Comments The early twentieth century Shirakaba ('White Birch') movement's later involvement with "prewar Japanese nationalism has hitherto caused especially Western scholars to neglect its major significance. <BR>Shirikaba was created by graduates of the... (read more)  List Price $149.00 Your price $12.98 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by E L Doctorow Publisher Comments "The writer," according to Emerson, "believes all that can be thought can be written...In his eyes a man is the faculty of reporting, and the universe is the possibility of being reported." And what writer worth his name, E. L. Doctorow asks, will not... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $11.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ben Sonnenberg Publisher Comments Ben Sonnenberg chronicles for us his coming-of-age at 19 Gramercy Park, once described by The New Yorker as "the greatest house...in private hands in New York." In a voice that is both candid and cultivated, he reflects upon his political, sexual, and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $2.96 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Collins Publisher Comments Literacy and Literacies is a new, engaging account of literacy and its relation to power.... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $44.90 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary F Corey Publisher Comments Today The New Yorkeris one of a number of general-interest magazines published for a sophisticated audience, but in the post-World War II era the magazine occupied a truly significant niche of cultural authority. A self-selected community of 250,000... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $9.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Peter Kafer Publisher Comments In 1798, a decade after the Founding Fathers created a nation based on the principles of liberty and equality, Charles Brockden Brown, then an unknown Philadelphia writer, invented the American Gothic novel. His first book, Wieland, is the story of a... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $40.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Shaun Oconnell Publisher Comments How writers living in and around the city contributed to America's rich literary heritage.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark C Carnes Publisher Comments Historical fiction is a contradiction in terms. History is what happened; fiction, what did not. Yet great novelists have often disregarded this logical difficulty, taking up the tools of the historian to explore the shadowy recesses of the past. Their... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ray Ryan Publisher Comments While political connections between Ireland and Scotland have been vigorously promoted in recent years, Ray Ryan's book is the first sustained, comparative study of literature and culture from both sites. Analyzing a broad range of Irish and Scottish... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $5.45 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Vivian Liska Synopsis With contributions from a dozen American and European scholars, this volume presents an overview of Jewish writing in post??????World War II Europe. Striking a balance between close readings of individual texts and general surveys of larger movements and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles J Stivale Publisher Comments Twenty essays investigate how teaching practices can address the changing status of literature in the French classroom.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $16.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Morris Dickstein Publisher Comments The twenty-five years after the Second World War were a lively and fertile period for the American novel and an era of momentous transformation in American society. Taking his title from the Kafka parable about the leopards who kept racing into the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Brannon Costello Publisher Comments In Plantation Airs, Brannon Costello argues persuasively for new attention to the oft-neglected issue of class in southern literary studies. Focusing on the relationship between racial paternalism and social class in American novels written after World... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Anne Malena Book News Annotation Using a multifaceted approach, Malena (French and translation, U. of Alberta-Edmonton) explores questions of identity in novels by Danny Bebel-Gisler, Maryse Conde, and Emile Olivier. She finds that identity is a constantly changing semiotic process... (read more) Your price $28.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gertrude Himmelfarb Publisher Comments A study of intellectuals in crisis and of ideologies in transition, elegant in style and thought. Few works that I know convey the excitement of the intellectual life of 19th-century England as immediately....The essays are remarkable no less for the... (read more) List Price $19.90 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Dagmar C G Lorenz Publisher Comments Keepers of the Motherland is the first comprehensive study of German and Austrian Jewish women authors. Dagmar Lorenz begins with an examination of the Yiddish author Glikl Hamil, whose works date from the late-seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries,... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $35.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Anthony Arthur 
Publisher Comments Praise for Anthony Arthur's Previous Books Deliverance at Los Banos "A superb job of telling a splendid story."--Stephen Ambrose "Engaging style."--Booklist "Taut account of heroism...the stuff of high adventure."--Los Angeles Herald Examiner Bushmasters... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $5.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by John Worthen Publisher Comments Over a dramatic six-month period in 1802, William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, Wordsworth's sister Dorothy, and the two Hutchinson sisters, Sara and Mary, formed a close-knit group whose members saw or wrote one another constantly. In this fascinating... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Barbara Ma Stafford Publisher Comments What has happened to the magic of learning? Playful illusions, spellbinding games, and lifelike automata were once integral to education. Artful Science reveals the exhilarating but paradoxical intertwining of enchantment with enlightenment in the early... (read more) Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tey Diana Rebolledo Synopsis This first book-length analysis of the Chicana literary tradition is a substantial contribution to American feminist literature and a fitting companion to the author's popular anthology Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature (Rebolledo... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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