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Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages
by Phyllis Rose
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In her study of the married couple as the smallest political unit, Phyllis Rose uses as examples the marriages of five Victorian writers who wrote about their own lives with unusual candor.... ( read more)
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Orientalism
by Edward W Said
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The noted critic and a Palestinian now teaching at Columbia University,examines the way in which the West observes the Arabs.... ( 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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Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure
by Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser
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Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity — six words at a time.
One Life. Six Words. What's Yours?
When Hemingway famously wrote, "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn," he... ( read more)
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Limited Inc
by Jacques Derrida
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Limited Inc. is a major work in the philosophy of language by the celebrated French thinker Jacques Derrida. The book's two essays, 'Limited Inc.' and 'Signature Event Context, ' constitute key statements of the Derridean theory of deconstruction. They... ( read more)
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Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
by Toni Morrison
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Beloved and "Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we read American literature even as it opens a new chapter in the American... ( read more)
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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-Three of the World's Best Poems
by Camille Paglia
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Break, Blow, Burn: Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems is destined to become a landmark. In it, America's premier intellectual provocateur explores and celebrates a series of great poems of the Western tradition, including some... ( read more)
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Telling Stories
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Asks important questions about the very nature of stories--examines why we read stories rather than just learning the endings.... ( read more)
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Intertextuality (New Critical Idiom)
by Graham Allen
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No text has its meaning alone; all texts have their meaning in relation to other texts. Since Julia Kristeva coined the term in the 1960s, "intertextuality" has been a dominant idea within literary and cultural studies leaving none of the traditional... ( read more)
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The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
by Cambridge
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The most authoritative and international survey of world literature in English available.... ( read more)
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An Introduction to English Poetry
by James Fenton
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A wise, absorbing, and surprising introduction to poetry written in English, from one of England's leading poetsJames Fenton is that rare scholar not ashamed to admit that he mostly reads for pleasure (Charles Simic, The New York Review of Books). In... ( read more)
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Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth
by Nina Auerbach
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Here is a bold new vision of Victorianculture: a study of myths of womanhoodthat shatters the usual generalizationsabout the squeezed, crushed, and ego-less Victorian woman. Through copious examples drawn fromliterature, art, and biography... ( read more)
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The Location of Culture
by Homi K Bhabha
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Homi Bhabha is one of that small group occupying the front ranks of cultural theoretical thought. Any serious discussion of post-colonial/postmodern scholarship is inconceivable without referencing Mr. Bhabha. - Toni... ( read more)
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Metaphors We Live by
by George Lakoff
Cambridge Companion To American Modernism (05 Edition)
by Walter (ed.) Kalaidjian
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An authoritative overview of the achievements of American literary modernism in its social and cultural contexts.... ( read more)
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Dubliners (Dover Thrift Editions)
by James Joyce
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Declared by their author to be a chapter in the moral history of Ireland, this collection of 15 tales offers vivid, tightly focused observations of the lives of Dublin's poorer classes. A fine and accessible introduction to the work of one of the 20th... ( read more)
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Convergences: Essays on Art and Literature
by Octavio Paz
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Engrossing essays that reflect the author’s vast and subtle knowledge of the world. Topics range from the religious rites of the Aztecs to modern american painting, from Eastern art and religion to love and eroticism. Translated by Helen Lane.... ( read more)
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From Shakespeare To Existentialism: Essays on Shakespeare and Goethe; Hegel and Kierkegaard; Nietzsche, Rilke and Freud; Jaspers, Heidegger, and Toynb
by Walter Kaufmann
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[It] is critics like Mr. Kaufmann who often prove the most stimulating to read the most memorable in their effect.... ( read more)
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My Mother, Madame Edwarda and the Dead Man (95 Edition)
by Georges Bataille
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My Motheris a unique bildungsromanof a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother.?Publishers Weekly My Mother, Madame Edwarda and The Dead Mancomprises three short pieces of erotic prose that fuse elements of sex and spirituality in a... ( read more)
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Poetry as Spiritual Practice: Reading, Writing, and Using Poetry in Your Daily Rituals, Aspirations, and Intentions
by Robert McDowell
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"[When we read and write poetry,] it is as if a long-settled cloud in our mind suddenly dissipates, and we are divine once again." — from the Introduction
Poetry is the language of devotion in prayer, chant, and song. Reading and writing poetry... ( read more)
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