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Coyote In The Maze: Tracking Edward Abbey in a World of Words

By: Abbey, Edward

Price: $7.95

Publisher: University of Utah Press: June 1998

Seller ID: 166610

ISBN: 0874805635

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The works of Edward Abbey have been well known to general readers since the 1960 s. This volume, the first comprehensive collection of literary criticism devoted to the entire challenging corpus of Abbey s fiction and nonfiction, couldn t be more timely or significant.
From the perspective of his scholarly critics in Western American literature and environmental studies Ed Abbey is, in a word, problematic. As Peter Quigley, volume editor, comments, "The title of this collection refers to a number of references within Abbey s work. The maze is a place of myriad canyons, of wonder, and a ...
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Natural Supernaturalism (Norton Library (Paperback))

By: Abrams, M. H.

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: August 1973

Seller ID: 376318

ISBN: 0393006093

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

But Abrams offers more than a work of scholarship, for he ranges before and after, to place the age in Western culture. he reveals what is traditional and what is revolutionary in the period, providing insights into those same two forces in the ideas of today. He shows that central Romantic ideas and forms of imagination were secularized versions of traditional theological concepts, imagery, and design, and that modern literature participates in the same process. Our comprehension of this age and of our own time is deepened by a work astonishing in its learning, vision, and humane unders...
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The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (Galaxy Books)

By: Abrams, Meyer H.

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Publisher: Oxford University Press: September 1971

Seller ID: 362864

ISBN: 0195014715

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett: A Reader's Guide to His Works, Life, and Thought

By: Ackerley, C. J.,Gontarski, S. E.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Grove Press: February 2004

Seller ID: 369973

ISBN: 0802140491

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Nobel Prize winning author Samuel Beckett is a literary treasure, and this work represents the only comprehensive reference to the concepts, characters, and biographical details mentioned by, or related to, Beckett. Painstakingly and lovingly compiled by acclaimed Beckett scholars C.J. Ackerley and S.E. Gontarski, it is alphabetical, cross-referenced, and laid out in a very user-friendly format. The Grove Companion to Samuel Beckett provides an organized trove of information for students and scholars alike, and is a must for any serious reader of Beckett. As most Beckettians know, "reading...
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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone book)

By: Adler, Mortimer J., Van, Charles Doren

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Touchstone: September 1972

Seller ID: 250609

ISBN: 0671212095

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

With half a million copies in print, How to Read a Book is the best and most successful guide to reading comprehension for the general reader, completely rewritten and updated with new material.

A CNN Book of the Week: "Explains not just why we should read books, but how we should read them. It's masterfully done." -Farheed Zakaria

Originally published in 1940, this book is a rare phenomenon, a living classic that introduces and elucidates the various levels of reading and how to achieve them--from elementary reading, through systematic skimming and inspect...
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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone book)

By: Adler, Mortimer J., Van, Charles Doren

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Touchstone: September 1972

Seller ID: 259443

ISBN: 0671212095

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A CNN Book of the Week: "Explains not just why we should read books, but how we should read them. It's masterfully done." -Farheed Zakaria

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (A Touchstone book)

By: Adler, Mortimer J., Van, Charles Doren

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Touchstone: September 1972

Seller ID: 361373

ISBN: 0671212095

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A CNN Book of the Week: "Explains not just why we should read books, but how we should read them. It's masterfully done." -Farheed Zakaria

Perrine's Literature: Structure, Sound and Sense (Eighth Edition)

By: Arp, Thomas R., Johnson, Greg

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Thomson / Wadsworth: August 2001

Seller ID: 377973

ISBN: 0155074946

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

This book is a classic. Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense has been consistently updated through its revised editions and remains the model for introductory literature texts. It is compact and easy to hold--not bloated and indiscriminate in its selections
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The Truants: Adventures Among the Intellectuals

By: Barrett, William

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Anchor Press/Doubleday: January 1982

Seller ID: 289311

ISBN: 0385159668

Binding: Hardcover

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Time of Need: Forms of Imagination in the Twentieth Century

By: Barrett, William

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Harper & Row: June 1972

Seller ID: 289313

ISBN: 0060102160

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory

By: Barry, Peter

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Manchester University Press: July 2002

Seller ID: 281309

ISBN: 0719062683

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Expanded second edition of this hugely successful introduction to literary theory, a book which has already proven itself as the first port of call for students - Two new chapters added which take account of the changes since the first publication (1995), and all bibliographies have been updated - Given approval by academics and teachers the world over as the clearest and most concise introduction in the area - A consistent bestseller for the last five years
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Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory

By: Barry, Peter

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Publisher: Manchester University Press: March 2009

Seller ID: 322529

ISBN: 0719079276

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary and cultural theory for well over a decade now. This new and expanded third edition continues to offer students and readers the best one-volume introduction to the field.

The bewildering variety of approaches, theorists and technical language is lucidly and expertly unravelled. Unlike many books which assume certain positions about the critics and the theories they represent, Peter Barry allows readers to develop their own ideas once first principles and concepts have been grasped.

The book has been up...
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Writing Desgree Zero

By: Barthes, Roland

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Hill & Wang: May 1977

Seller ID: 358436

ISBN: 0809013843

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Pleasure of the Text

By: Barthes, Roland

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Hill and Wang: January 1975

Seller ID: 358443

ISBN: 0374521603

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes's answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism . . . not only a poetics of reading . . . but a much more difficult achievement, an erotics of reading . . . . Like filings which gather to form a figure in a magnetic field, the parts and pieces here do come together, determined to affirm the pleasure we must take in our reading as against the indifference of (mere) knowledge." --Richard Howard

Elements of Semiology

By: Barthes, Roland

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Hill and Wang: April 1977

Seller ID: 358474

ISBN: 0374521468

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

"In his Course in General Linguistics, first published in 1916, Saussure postulated the existence of a general science of signs, or Semiology, of which linguistics would form only one part. Semiology, therefore aims to take in any system of signs, whatever their substance and limits; images, gestures, musical sounds, objects, and the complex associations of all these, which form the content of ritual, convention or public entertainment: these constitute, if not languages, at least systems of signification . . . The Elements here presented have as their sole aim the extr...
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Criticism And Truth

By: Barthes, Ronald

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Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press: May 1987

Seller ID: 358442

ISBN: 0816616094

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Baudelaire: A Collection of Critical Essays (20th Century Views)

By: Baudelaire

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Publisher: Prentice Hall: December 1963

Seller ID: 119684

ISBN: 0130724963

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Signing the Body Poetic: Essays on American Sign Language Literature

By: Bauman, H-Dirksen

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Publisher: University of California Press: December 2006

Seller ID: 360470

ISBN: 0520229762

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This unique collection of essays, accompanied by a pioneering DVD, at last brings a dazzling view of the literary, social, and performative aspects of American Sign Language to a wide audience. The book presents the work of a renowned and diverse group of deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing scholars who examine original ASL poetry, narrative, and drama. The DVD showcases the poems and narratives under discussion in their original form, providing access to them for hearing non-signers for the first time. Together, the book and DVD provide new insight into the history, culture, and creative achie...
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Berryman's Shakespeare: Essays, Letters, and Other Writings

By: Berryman, John

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: December 2000

Seller ID: 345068

ISBN: 0374527504

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

John Berryman, one of America's most talented modern poets, was winner of the Pulitzer Prize for 77 Dream Songs and the National Book Award for His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, He gained a reputation as an innovator whose bold literary adventures were tempered by exacting discipline. Berryman was also an active, prolific, and perceptive critic whose own experience as a major poet served to his advantage.
Berryman was a protege of Mark Van Doren, the great Shakespearean scholar, and the Bard's work remained one of his most abiding passions--he would devote a lifetime to writing about it. His v...
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The Uses of Enchantment: the Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales

By: Bettelheim, Bruno

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Vintage: April 1977

Seller ID: 361546

ISBN: 0394722655

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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