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Articulations of Difference: Gender Studies and Writing in French by Dominique D. Fisher 9780804729758 [USED COPY]
RRP: $64.24Booksplease Price: $6.43This 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: $54.72Booksplease Price: $5.47This 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: $228.48Booksplease Price: $2.52The 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: $133.28Booksplease Price: $13.33Critical 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: $64.24Booksplease Price: $6.43Cather 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: $95.20Booksplease Price: $9.52Volume 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: $85.68Booksplease Price: $8.57Apologies 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: $78.06Booksplease Price: $7.81Read 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: $80.92Booksplease Price: $8.09Word 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: $211.82Booksplease Price: $21.18Women 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: $27.99Booksplease Price: $2.81Cambridge 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: $180.88Booksplease Price: $18.02Peter 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: $161.84Booksplease Price: $16.18American 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: $73.78Booksplease Price: $7.38The 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: $83.30Booksplease Price: $8.33How 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: $71.38Booksplease Price: $7.14Featuring 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: $228.48Booksplease Price: $22.85What 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: $209.44Booksplease Price: $20.94Brevity 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: $209.44Booksplease Price: $20.94By 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: $266.56Booksplease Price: $26.66Enhancing 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: $247.52Booksplease Price: $2.71This 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: $209.44Booksplease Price: $20.94The 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: $90.44Booksplease Price: $9.04By 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... -
The Belated Witness: Literature, Testimony, and the Question of Holocaust Survival by Michael G. Levine 9780804755559 [USED COPY]
RRP: $49.96Booksplease Price: $5.00The Belated Witness stakes out an original place within the field of recent work on the theory and practice of literary writing after the Holocaust. Drawing in productive and unsettling ways from... -
The Rhetoric of Mao Zedong: Transforming China and Its People by Xing Lu 9781611177527 [USED COPY]
RRP: $109.48Booksplease Price: $10.95Mao Zedong fundamentally transformed China from a Confucian society characterized by hierarchy and harmony into a socialist state guided by communist ideologies of class struggle and radicalization... -
Signs of Borges by Sylvia Molloy 9780822314066 [USED COPY]
RRP: $199.92Booksplease Price: $19.99Available for the first time in English, Signs of Borges is widely regarded as the best single book on the work of Jorge Luis Borges. With a critical sensibility informed by Barthes, Lacan, Foucault,... -
Coyote Country: Fictions of the Canadian West by Arnold E. Davidson 9780822314691 [USED COPY]
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $4.76For most North Americans-Canadians as well as Americans-the term "Western" evokes images of the frontier, brave sheriffs and ruthless outlaws, good cowboys and bad Indians. As Arnold E. Davidson... -
The Teacher's Attention: Why Our Kids Must and Can Get Smaller Schools and Classes by Garrett Delavan 9781592138944 [USED COPY]
RRP: $54.72Booksplease Price: $5.47Reframes the goals of school reformReframes the goals of school reformAbout the AuthorGarrett Delavan is a secondary teacher in the Salt Lake City public schools.Reviews"Delavan makes his case well... -
Body of Writing: Figuring Desire in Spanish American Literature by Rene Prieto 9780822324515 [USED COPY]
RRP: $223.72Booksplease Price: $2.45Body of Writing focuses on the traces that an author's "body" leaves on a work of fiction. Drawing on the work of six important Spanish American writers of the twentieth century, RenE Prieto examines... -
The Orient of Style: Modernist Allegories of Conversion by Beryl Schlossman 9780822310945 [USED COPY]
RRP: $64.24Booksplease Price: $6.43In this study of modernist aesthetics, Beryl Schlossman reveals how for such writers as Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, and Charles Baudelaire, the Orient came to symbolize the highest aspirations... -
Critics at Work: Interviews 1993-2003 by Jeffrey J. Williams 9780814793893 [USED COPY]
RRP: $204.68Booksplease Price: $20.47Featuring 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,... -
Mexican Roots, American Schools: Helping Mexican Immigrant Children Succeed by Robert Crosnoe 9780804755221 [USED COPY]
RRP: $180.88Booksplease Price: $18.09The children of Mexican immigrant families are the fastest growing population in American schools today. Education can be the key to a better quality of life, especially for a population that faces... -
Telling Narratives: Secrets in African American Literature by Leslie W. Lewis 9780252032110 [USED COPY]
RRP: $85.68Booksplease Price: $8.57Telling Narratives analyzes key texts from nineteenth- and early twentieth-century African American literature to demonstrate how secrets and their many tellings have become slavery's legacy. By... -
After <I>La Dolce Vita</I>: A Cultural Prehistory of Berlusconi's Italy by Alessia Ricciardi 9780804781497 [USED COPY]
RRP: $228.48Booksplease Price: $2.52This book chronicles the demise of the supposedly leftist Italian cultural establishment during the long 1980s. During that time, the nation's literary and intellectual vanguard managed to lose the... -
Post-Postmodernism: or, The Cultural Logic of Just-in-Time Capitalism by Jeffrey T. Nealon 9780804781442 [USED COPY]
RRP: $199.92Booksplease Price: $19.99Post-Postmodernism begins with a simple premise: we no longer live in the world of "postmodernism," famously dubbed "the cultural logic of late capitalism" by Fredric Jameson in 1984. Far from... -
Speech Acts in Literature by J. Hillis Miller 9780804742153 [USED COPY]
RRP: $209.44Booksplease Price: $20.94This book demonstrates the presence of literature within speech act theory and the utility of speech act theory in reading literary works. Though the founding text of speech act theory, J. L... -
Postsocialist Modernity: Chinese Cinema, Literature, and Criticism in the Market Age by Jason McGrath 9780804758741 [USED COPY]
RRP: $247.52Booksplease Price: $2.71This book examines Chinese culture under the age of market reforms. Beginning in the early 1990s and on into the new century, fields such as literature and film have been fundamentally transformed by... -
THE GOTHIC TEXT by Marshall Brown 9780804739139 [USED COPY]
RRP: $57.10Booksplease Price: $5.71Romantic gothic fiction is not exciting. Gothic novels are not ghost stories. Gothic novels are not women's writing. Opening with these three theses, The Gothic Text undertakes a fresh approach to a... -
Marriage, Writing, and Romanticism: Wordsworth and Austen After War by Eric C. Walker 9780804773652 [USED COPY]
RRP: $64.24Booksplease Price: $6.43Marriage, Writing, and Romanticism studies marriage in two sets of literary texts from the Regency decade: the novels of Jane Austen-who avoided marriage in her own life but seems to have written... -
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Contemporary Jewish Writing in Switzerland: An Anthology by Rafael Newman 9780803233423 [USED COPY]
RRP: $123.76Booksplease Price: $12.38This anthology features an eclectic mix of eighteen modern works by a selection of Switzerland's heterogeneous community of Jewish writers. Questions about Jewish identity and the legacy of the...