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The Vanishing: Shakespeare, the Subject, and Early Modern Culture by Christopher Pye 9780822325109 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79In The Vanishing Christopher Pye combines psychoanalytic and cultural theory to advance an innovative interpretation of Renaissance history and subjectivity. Locating the emergence of the modern... -
Anxious Intellects: Academic Professionals, Public Intellectuals, and Enlightenment Values by John Michael 9780822324607 [USED COPY]
RRP: $120.60Booksplease Price: $12.06Intellectuals occupy a paradoxical position in contemporary American culture as they struggle both to maintain their critical independence and to connect to the larger society. In Anxious Intellects... -
Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel by Lisa L. Moore 9780822320364 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79Refuting commonly held beliefs within women's and lesbian history, feminist theory, and histories of the novel, Dangerous Intimacies challenges the idea that sex between women was unimaginable in... -
Science Tests and Reviews by Buros Center for Testing 9780910674218 [USED COPY]
RRP: $37.51Booksplease Price: $3.75Science Tests and Reviews, consisting of science sections of the first seven MMYs and Tests in Print II, includes 217 original test reviews written by 81 specialists, 18 excerpted test reviews, 270... -
The Logic of Passion: The Literary Criticism of William Hazlitt by John L. Mahoney 9780823210749 [USED COPY]
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $3.62Hazlitt is easily the most representative of the major British critics writing during the period of 'High Romanticism' (1790-1830), as well as one of the two greatest...No other critic is so central... -
Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment: Appalachian Women's Literacies by Erica Abrams Locklear 9780821419663 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $3.35In many parts of Appalachia, family ties run deep, constituting an important part of an individual's sense of self. In some cases, when Appalachian learners seek new forms of knowledge, those family... -
Obscure Invitations: The Persistence of the Author in Twentieth-Century American Literature by Benjamin Widiss 9780804773232 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $2.68Literary studies in the postwar era have consistently barred attributing specific intentions to authors based on textual evidence or ascribing textual presences to the authors themselves. Obscure... -
Corruption and Realism in Late Socialist China: The Return of the Political Novel by Jeffrey C. Kinkley 9780804754859 [USED COPY]
RRP: $85.76Booksplease Price: $8.58As China's centrally planned economy and welfare state have given way to a more loosely controlled version of "late socialism," public concern about economic reform's downside has found expression in... -
Sing, Stranger: A Century of American Yiddish Poetry-A Historical Anthology by Benjamin Harshav 9780804751834 [USED COPY]
RRP: $75.04Booksplease Price: $7.50Sing, Stranger is a comprehensive historical anthology of a century of American poetry written in Yiddish and now translated into English for the first time. Here are the Proletarian or "sweat-shop"... -
Antonio's Devils: Writers of the Jewish Enlightenment and the Birth of Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature by Jeremy Asher Dauber 9780804749015 [USED COPY]
RRP: $89.78Booksplease Price: $8.98Antonio's Devils deals both historically and theoretically with the origins of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature by tracing the progress of a few remarkable writers who, for various reasons and in... -
Wave Forms: A Natural Syntax for Rhythmic Languages by James H. Bunn 9780804745079 [USED COPY]
RRP: $41.54Booksplease Price: $4.15In this daring book, the author proposes that artistic and literary forms can be understood as modulations of wave forms in the physical world. By the phrase "natural syntax," he means that physical... -
Charles W. Chesnutt: Essays and Speeches by Joseph R. McElrath 9780804744324 [USED COPY]
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $4.69Over the past decade, increasing attention has been paid to the life and work of Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932), considered by many the major African-American fiction writer before the Harlem... -
The Future of the City of Intellect: The Changing American University by Steven Brint 9780804744201 [USED COPY]
RRP: $160.80Booksplease Price: $16.08Based on new data and new analytical frameworks, this book assesses the forces of change at play in the development of American universities and their prospects for the future. The book begins with a... -
Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature by Haruo Shirane 9780804741057 [USED COPY]
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $3.62Today the term "Japanese literary classics" implies such texts as the Man'yoshu, Kojiki, Tale of Genji, Tale of the Heike, Noh drama, and the works of Saikaku, Chikamatsu, and Basho, which are... -
Poetry's Appeal: Nineteenth-Century French Lyric and the Political Space by E. S. Burt 9780804738736 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $3.22Socrates banished poetry from the ideal republic, adopting the philosophical position that poetic language operates outside the conventions of public discourse and is private in expression. But what... -
Allegories of the Purge: How Literature Responded to the Postwar Trials of Writers and Intellectuals in France by Philip Watts 9780804731843 [USED COPY]
RRP: $128.64Booksplease Price: $4.33This book is about four writers-Sartre, Eluard, Blanchot, and Celine-whose works confront and respond to the purge of collaborationist intellectuals in postwar France. It investigates how their... -
Phantom Communities: The Simulacrum and the Limits of Postmodernism by Scott Durham 9780804730716 [USED COPY]
RRP: $128.64Booksplease Price: $1.42Phantom Communities reconsiders the status of the simulacrum-sometimes defined as a copy of a copy, but more rigorously defined as a copy that subverts the legitimacy and authority of its model-in... -
Articulations of Difference: Gender Studies and Writing in French by Dominique D. Fisher 9780804729758 [USED COPY]
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $3.62This collection of fifteen essays deals with the representations, theories, and problematics of homosexuality in French writing of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Though focusing on... -
Terror and Consensus: Vicissitudes of French Thought by Jean-Joseph Goux 9780804729703 [USED COPY]
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $3.08This volume of twelve essays focuses on two interrelated issues. First, it addresses the historical and cultural determinants that have given rise to what frequently has been described as "the French... -
The Ends of Rhetoric: History, Theory, Practice by John Bender 9780804718172 [USED COPY]
RRP: $128.64Booksplease Price: $12.86The discipline of rhetoric-adapted through a wide range of reformulations to the specific requirements of Greek, Roman, Medieval, and Renaissance societies-dominated European education and discourse,... -
English Language Criticism Foreign Novel: 1965-1975 by Harriet Semmes Alexander 9780804009072 [USED COPY]
RRP: $75.04Booksplease Price: $7.50Critical interest in foreign novels, especially the Latin American and African novel, has burgeoned in the past two decades. The purpose of this reference bibliography is to provide easier access to... -
Cather Studies, Volume 4: Willa Cather's Canadian and Old World Connections by Cather Studies 9780803263987 [USED COPY]
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $3.62Cather Studies 4 contains eighteen essays and elaborates a theme, "Willa Cather's Canadian and Old World Connections." Such connections are central to Cather's art and artistry. She transported much... -
Cather Studies, Volume 1 by Cather Studies 9780803238954 [USED COPY]
RRP: $53.60Booksplease Price: $5.36Volume 1 of Cather Studies demonstrates the range of topics and approaches in contemporary discussions of Willa Cather's work for the informed reader or the specialized student.Twelve contributors... -
Mark Twain by Prof. Harold Bloom 9780791085691 [USED COPY]
RRP: $48.24Booksplease Price: $4.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791085691Author Harold BloomFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint -
Read This! Level 2 Student's Book: Fascinating Stories from the Content Areas by Daphne Mackey 9780521747899 [USED COPY]
RRP: $43.95Booksplease Price: $4.40Read This! is a four-level reading series designed to help for adult and young adult ESL students develop reading fluency. Read This!, Level 2 contains fifteen stories relating to the fields of... -
Word Order by Jae Jung Song 9780521693127 [USED COPY]
RRP: $45.56Booksplease Price: $4.56Word order is one of the major properties on which languages are compared and its study is fundamental to linguistics. This comprehensive survey provides an up-to-date, critical overview of this... -
The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers by Maren Tova Linett 9780521515054 [USED COPY]
RRP: $119.26Booksplease Price: $11.93Women played a central role in literary modernism, theorizing, debating, writing, and publishing the critical and imaginative work that resulted in a new literary culture during the early twentieth... -
Quick Change! Level Starter/Beginner by Margaret Johnson 9788483238097 [USED COPY]
RRP: $15.76Booksplease Price: $1.58Cambridge Experience Readers is an award-winning series of graded readers including original fiction, adapted fiction and non-fiction especially written for teenagers. It's Helen's twelfth... -
Celan Studies by Peter Szondi 9780804744010 [USED COPY]
RRP: $101.84Booksplease Price: $10.14Peter Szondi's Celan Studies marked the beginning of critical work on Paul Celan, the most important German poet of the second half of the twentieth century. The book's three studies each... -
American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader by Michael A. Elliott 9780814722152 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11American Literary Studies: A Methodological Reader gathers together leading scholars of American literature to address the questions of methodology that have invigorated and divided their field: the... -
A Great Plains Reader by Diane Dufva Quantic 9780803288539 [USED COPY]
RRP: $41.54Booksplease Price: $4.15The Great Plains are as rich and integral a part of American literature as they are of the North American landscape. In this volume the stories, poems, and essays that have described, celebrated, and... -
Knowledge and Opinion: Essays and Literary Criticism of John G. Neihardt by John G. Neihardt 9780803283817 [USED COPY]
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $4.69How important were Sioux authors such as Charles Eastman in the opinion of the writer responsible for Black Elk Speaks? What will be the legacy of modern poetry according to the poet behind The Cycle... -
Critics at Work: Interviews 1993-2003 by Jeffrey J. Williams 9780814793909 [USED COPY]
RRP: $40.19Booksplease Price: $4.02Featuring interviews with nineteen leading U.S. literary and cultural critics, Critics at Work offers a unique picture of recent developments in literary studies, critical theory, American studies,... -
Watching War by Jan Mieszkowski 9780804782395 [USED COPY]
RRP: $128.64Booksplease Price: $1.42What does it mean to be a spectator to war in an era when the boundaries between witnessing and perpetrating violence have become profoundly blurred? Arguing that the contemporary dynamics of... -
The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel by Gary Morson 9780804780513 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79Brevity may be the soul of wit, but it is also much more. In this exploration of the shortest literary works-wise sayings, proverbs, witticisms, sardonic observations about human nature, pithy... -
Reading Colonial Japan: Text, Context, and Critique by Michele M. Mason 9780804776967 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $8.48By any measure, Japan's modern empire was formidable. The only major non-western colonial power in the 20th century, Japan controlled a vast area of Asia and numerous archipelagos in the Pacific... -
Enhancing Campus Capacity for Leadership: An Examination of Grassroots Leaders in Higher Education by Adrianna Kezar 9780804776479 [USED COPY]
RRP: $150.08Booksplease Price: $1.34Enhancing Campus Capacity for Leadership contributes to the growing tradition of giving voice to grassroots leaders, focusing on the largely untapped potential of faculty and staff on college... -
The Stillbirth of Capital: Enlightenment Writing and Colonial India by Siraj Ahmed 9780804775229 [USED COPY]
RRP: $139.36Booksplease Price: $13.94This book targets one of the humanities' most widely held premises: namely, that the European Enlightenment laid the groundwork for modern imperialism. It argues instead that the Enlightenment's... -
The Conditions for Admission: Access, Equity, and the Social Contract of Public Universities by John Aubrey Douglass 9780804755580 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79The social contract of public universities-the progressive idea that any citizen who meets specified academic conditions can gain entry to their state university-has profoundly shaped American... -
Family Fictions: Narrative and Domestic Relations in Britain, 1688-1798 by Christopher Flint 9780804741880 [USED COPY]
RRP: $50.92Booksplease Price: $5.09By revealing the investment of eighteenth-century British prose fiction in contemporary debates about domestic ideology, this book addresses the multiple ways in which traditional notions of the...