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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 Lewis Lapham Synopsis The American experience is explored through this collection of the magazine's best reports, poetry, fiction, commentary, speeches and humorous writings--from authors ranging from Mark Twain to Annie Dillard. 200+ illustrations.... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark C Carnes Publisher Comments History records the accomplishments of individuals. For successive generations of Americans, iconic figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, and Emily Dickinson have been household names and role models, inspiring us all by the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 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 Alvin Sullivan Review Edited by a specialist in contemporary British literature, the 108 signed critiques are primarily by academicians from the US and other parts of the English-speaking world. Each of the profiles includes information such as location sources, reprint... (read more) List Price $120.00 Your price $34.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Victor H Brombert Publisher Comments In an age of upheaval and challenged faith, traditional heroes are hard to come by, and harder still to love, with their bloodstained hands and backs unbowed by the consequences of their actions. Through penetrating readings of key works of modern... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Jacquemond Publisher Comments Egyptian writers divided between social commitment and individual... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Warren Motte Publisher Comments Choosing ten novels published during the 1990s, Warren Motte traces the resurgence of the novel in France.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Patr Roberts Miller Publisher Comments What has gone wrong with discourse and deliberation in the United States? It remains monologic, argues Patricia Roberts-Miller in Voices in the Wilderness, which traces America's dominant form of argumentation back to its roots in the rhetorical... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $10.95 (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 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 Catriona Kelly Publisher Comments Rather than presenting a conventional chronology of Russian literature, Russian Literature: A Very Short Introduction explores the place and importance in Russian culture of all types of literature. How and when did a Russian national literature come... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Timothy Parrish Publisher Comments Why don't we read novels as if they were histories and histories as if they were novels? Recent postmodern theorists such as Hayden White and Linda Hutcheon have argued that since history is a narrative art, it must be understood as a form of narrative... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Noel Riley Fitch Publisher Comments The story of Sylvia Beach's love for Shakespeare and Company supplies the lifeblood of this book. 'An absorbing book, backed by an impressive amount of research. Working from the rich collection of Sylvia Beach's papers, Noel Fitch has written an... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Antje Harnisch Publisher Comments Since German unification, there have been many reports about xenophobia in Germany and the government has attempted to stem the new wave of racism. In contrast, the voices of the victims of racism -- refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants -- are seldom... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Katharine Cap Smith Publisher Comments An essential work demonstrating the importance of children's literature to the writers of the Harlem Renaissance... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Virgil Nemoianu Publisher Comments In this sequel to his Harry Levin Prize-winning The Taming of Romanticism, Virgil Nemoianu expands his survey of the intellectual and literary movement that swept Europe in the early and middle decades of the nine-teenth century to include rarely studied... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $12.88 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ved Mehta Synopsis In Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker, Mr. Mehta gives us the closest, most careful, and most refined description that has yet been written of Shawn's editorship of the magazine. He portrays in detail the peculiar, nurturing atmosphere at the New Yorker.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Efrain Kristal Publisher Comments A stimulating collection of new essays on the development of the novel in Latin America.... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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