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Violence: Big Ideas/Small Books
by Slavoj Zizek
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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)
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Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
by Clive James
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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)
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Mythologies
by Roland Barthes
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"Ý"Mythologies"¨ illustrates the beautiful generosity of Barthes's progressive interest in the meaning (his word is signification) of practically everything around him, not only the books and paintings of high art, but also the slogans, trivia, toys... ( read more)
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Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her
by Melanie Rehak
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In 1930 a plucky girl detective stepped out of her shiny blue roadster, dressed in a smart tweed suit, ready to restore a stolen inheritance to its rightful owner. Tied up by the villains, she managed to free herself and bring them to justice - all while... ( read more)
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Metaphors We Live by
by George Lakoff
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Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future
by Cory Doctorow
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Hailed by Bruce Sterling as “a political activist, gizmo freak, junk collector, programmer, entrepreneur, and all-around Renaissance geek,” the Internet’s favorite high-tech culture maven is celebrated with the first collection of his... ( read more)
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Ten Poems to Change Your Life
by Roger Housden
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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)
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Secret Lives of Great Authors: What Your Teachers Never Told You about Famous Novelists, Poets, and Playwrights
by Robert Schnakenberg
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In the tradition of Cormac O'Brien's bestselling "Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents," Schnakenberg delivers uncensored profiles of the world's greatest writers, complete with hundreds of little-known, politically incorrect, and downright bizarre facts.... ( read more)
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The Bronte Myth
by Lucasta Miller
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Lucasta Miller's eminently sane "metabiography" of the famous sisters Brontë is a refreshingly original piece of literary detection, aptly stripping myth from known facts. Too often cast in a variety of stereotypical roles, these literary geniuses... ( read more)
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Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?
by Harold Bloom
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In this inspiring book, Harold Bloom, our preeminent literary critic, takes us from the Bible to twentieth-century writing, searching for the ways in which literature can inform our lives. Through comparisons of the Book of Job and Ecclesiastes; Plato... ( read more)
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Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays
by Camille Paglia
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A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America.... ( read more)
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Literary Theory : a Very Short Introduction (97 Edition)
by Jonathan Culler
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What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter? These questions and more are addressed in Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction, a book which steers a clear path... ( read more)
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Introducing Semiotics (Introducing...)
by Paul Cobley
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For anybody who wishes to know why signs are crucial to human existence and how we can begin to understand systems of signification, this book is the place to start.... ( read more)
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Mimesis
by Erich Auerbach
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A half-century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis still stands as a monumental achievement in literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to... ( read more)
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S/Z: An Essay
by Roland Barthes
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Preface by Richard Howard. Translated by Richard Miller. This is Barthes's scrupulous literary analysis of Balzac's short story "Sarrasine."... ( read more)
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How to Read and Why
by Harold Bloom
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American's wisest, most prolific reader--and the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human"--draws upon his more than 40 years as a college professor and critic to help readers attain a truly profound engagement with... ( read more)
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Sexual Personae: Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
by Camille Paglia
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From ancient Egypt through the nineteenth century, Sexual Personae explores the provocative connections between art and pagan ritual; between Emily Dickinson and the Marquis de Sade; between Lord Byron and Elvis Presley. It ultimately challenges the... ( read more)
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How to Travel with a Salmon and Other Essays (Harvest Book)
by Umberto Eco
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In these “impishly witty and ingeniously irreverent” essays (Atlantic Monthly), “the Andy Rooney of academia” (Los Angeles Times) takes on computer jargon, librarians, bureaucrats, meals on airplanes, bad coffee, taxi drivers, 33... ( read more)
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Rhyme's Reason : a Guide To English Verse (3RD 01 Edition)
by John Hollander
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In his classic text, Rhyme's Reason, the distinguished poet and critic John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse, illustrating each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example. In this substantially... ( read more)
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After Confession: Poetry as Autobiography
by Kate Sontag
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In an age of memoir, the distinction between fiction and nonfiction has become increasingly blurred, sparking controversy among writers and readers alike. But what about the autobiographical impulse in poetry? In this groundbreaking collection, some of... ( read more)
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