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New Arrivals $16.00 Trade Paper add to wishlist The Paris Review Interviews, Volume III Paris Review (cor) $27.25 Trade Paper add to wishlist Rough Writing: Ethnic Authorship in Theodore Roosevelt's America Aviva F. Taubenfeld $32.95 Hardcover add to wishlist Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature Julia A. (edt) Mickenberg $14.00 Hardcover add to wishlist The Writer as Migrant (Campbell Lectures) Ha Jin $27.50 Hardcover add to wishlist The Norman MacLean Reader Norman Maclean $30.50 Trade Paper add to wishlist Genius of Shakespeare Jonathan Bate $87.75 Hardcover add to wishlist Violence, Politics, and Gender in Early Modern England (Early Modern Cultural Studies) Joseph P. (edt) Ward $13.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Eavan Boland: A Critical Companion Jody Allen Randolph $24.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Modernism, Media, and Propaganda: British Narrative from 1900 to 1945 Mark Wollaeger $11.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Classics for Pleasure Michael Dirda $21.00 Hardcover add to wishlist The Deepening Darkness: Patriarchy, Resistance, and Democracy's Future Carol Gilligan $34.25 Trade Paper add to wishlist Transgression: Identity, Space, Time (Transitions) Julian Wolfreys General Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes by Edith Hamilton Publisher Comments MONSTERS, MORTALS, GODS, AND WARRIORS<P>For over fifty years readers have chosen this book above all others to discover the thrilling, enchanting, and fascinating world of Western mythology. From Odysseus's adventure-filled journey to the Norse god... (read more) Your Price $4.95 Used - Mass Market check for new and sale copies Sale Books The Writer in Politics by Willian H. Gass and Lorin Cuoco Publisher Comments William H. Gass and Lorin Cuoco here present an edited but uncut record of the proceedings of the first international conference convened by the International Writers Center at Washington University in St. Louis. Major addresses were delivered by Breyten... (read more) Your Price $9.98 (Sale - Hardcover) Browse more featured Sale titles Used Books The Outsider by Colin Wilson Publisher Comments The seminal work on alienation, creativity, and the modern mindset. First published 30 years ago, it illuminated the struggle of those who seek not only the transformation of the Self, but of society as a whole.... (read more) Your Price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) Browse more featured Used titles Sign up to get our most recent used additions in Literary Criticism to your inbox Literary and Cultural Studies Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts by Clive James Publisher Comments Forty years in the making, a new cultural canon that celebrates truth over hypocrisy, literature over totalitarianism. Echoing Edward Said's belief that Western humanism is not enough, we need a universal humanism, the renowned critic Clive James... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your Price $12.98 Sale - Hardcover check for used copies Poetry Criticism Ten Poems to Change Your Life by Roger Housden Publisher Comments This is a dangerous book. Great poetry calls into question not less than everything. It dares us to break free from the safe strategies of the cautious mind. It opens us to pain and joy and delight. It amazes, startles, pierces, and transforms us. It can... (read more) Your Price $7.95 Used - Hardcover check for new and sale copies Literary Reference NTC's Dictionary of Literary Terms by Kathleen Morner Publisher Comments * 600 Terms, Concepts, and Critical Theories. Are all defined, explained, and illustrated in clear, easy-to-understand language. * Comprehensive. Providing students with all the literary and critical terms commonly encountered in the study of literature,... (read more) Your Price $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper check for used copies Literary Interviews The language of life :a festival of poets by Bill Moyers Publisher Comments Poets live the lives all of us live, says Bill Moyers, with one big difference. They have the power--the power of the word--to create a world of thoughts and emotions other can share. We only have to learn to listen. In a series of fascinating... (read more) Your Price $9.95 Used - Hardcover check for new and sale copies General Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason by Nancy Pearl Publisher Comments What to read next is every book lover's greatest dilemma. Nancy Pearl comes to the rescue with this wide-ranging and fun guide to the best reading new and old. Pearl, who inspired legions of litterateurs with "What If All (name the city) Read the Same... (read more) Your Price $7.95 Sale - Trade Paper check for used copies General Travels in HyperReality by Umberto Eco Publisher Comments Eco displays in these essays the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum. His range is wide, and his insights are acute, frequently ironic, and often downright funny. Translated... (read more) Your Price $7.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies General The Paris Review Interviews, Volume III by Paris Review (cor) Publisher Comments "I have all the copies of the Paris Review and like the interviews very much. They will make a good book when collected and that will be very good for the Review." Ernest Hemingway Since the Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable... (read more) Your Price $16.00 New - Trade Paper check for used and sale copies General Bizarre Books: A Compendium of Classic Oddities by Russell Ash Publisher Comments A hilarious and offbeat collection of the wildest and weirdest book titles, subtitles, and author names ever compiled. This unique and fun collection includes color illustrations of some of the most extraordinary book jackets ever produced as well as... (read more) Your Price $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper check for used copies Literary and Cultural Studies Violence: Big Ideas/Small Books by Slavoj Zizek Publisher Comments Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world. Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Ži... (read more) Your Price $11.25 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies

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