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Love's Litany: The Writing of Modern Homoerotics by Kevin Kopelson 9780804722995 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"At once invitingly stylish and excitingly lucid, Love's Litany disentangles a rich, distinct tradition of philosophizing homoerotic love that looks back to... -
In Praise of Nonsense: Kant and Bluebeard by Winfried Menninghaus 9780804729512 [USED COPY]
RRP: $128.64Booksplease Price: $1.42Shells, leafwork, picture frames, hummingbirds, wallpaper decorations, hems of clothing-such are the examples Kant's Critique of Judgment offers for a "free" and purely aesthetic beauty... -
In the Event: Reading Journalism, Reading Theory by Deborah Esch 9780804732505 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79Assuming the burden of reading imposed by the correlation of the order of language and the order of events, this book argues that the possibility of reading and writing history is tied to the... -
Philosophers and Thespians: Thinking Performance by Freddie Rokem 9780804763493 [USED COPY]
RRP: $128.64Booksplease Price: $1.42The interaction between philosophy and theater or performance has recently become an important and innovative area of inquiry. Philosophers and Thespians contributes to this emerging field by looking... -
Flint on a Bright Stone: A Revolution of Precision and Restraint in American, Russian, and German Modernism by Kirsten Blythe Painter 9780804750752 [USED COPY]
RRP: $96.48Booksplease Price: $4.30Flint on a Bright Stone closes a significant gap in the history of Modernist poetry by identifying the existence of "Tempered Modernism," which blossomed in the first two decades of the twentieth... -
Marriage, Writing, and Romanticism: Wordsworth and Austen After War by Eric C. Walker 9780804760928 [USED COPY]
RRP: $150.08Booksplease Price: $15.01Marriage, 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... -
Public Engagement for Public Education: Joining Forces to Revitalize Democracy and Equalize Schools by John Rogers 9780804763554 [USED COPY]
RRP: $128.64Booksplease Price: $12.86Community participation plays a large role in the success or failure of our public schools. This book focuses attention on the problem of inequality in public engagement, considering how race, class,... -
Sanctuary in the Wilderness: A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry by Alan Mintz 9780804762939 [USED COPY]
RRP: $84.42Booksplease Price: $8.44The effort to create a serious Hebrew literature in the United States in the years around World War I is one of the best kept secrets of American Jewish history. Hebrew had been revived as a modern... -
The Ridiculous Jew: The Exploitation and Transformation of a Stereotype in Gogol, Turgenev, and Dostoevsky by Gary Rosenshield 9780804759526 [USED COPY]
RRP: $80.40Booksplease Price: $8.04This book is a study devoted to exploring the use of a Russian version of the Jewish stereotype (the ridiculous Jew) in the works of three of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century... -
Critical Excess: Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Zizek and Cavell by Colin Davis 9780804763066 [USED COPY]
RRP: $107.20Booksplease Price: $10.72The "ancient quarrel" between philosophy and literature seems to have been resolved once and for all with the recognition that philosophy and the arts may be allies instead of enemies. Critical... -
Between Rites and Rights: Excision in Women's Experiential Texts and Human Contexts by Chantal Zabus 9780804756877 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11In the past five decades and over three generations, African women writers have introduced a new autobiographical discourse around their experience of excision that brings nuance to the Female... -
Literary Historicity: Literature and Historical Experience in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Ruth Mack 9780804759113 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79Literary Historicity explores how eighteenth-century British writers considered the past as an aspect of experience. Mack moves between close examinations of literature, historiography, and recent... -
Philosophers on Shakespeare by Paul A. Kottman 9780804759199 [USED COPY]
RRP: $107.20Booksplease Price: $10.72A number of the most influential thinkers of the past two hundred and fifty years, Herder, Goethe, Hegel, Benjamin, Marx, Schmitt, Lukacs, Derrida, Cavell, Agnes Heller, and others, have grappled... -
Trauma and Transformation: The Political Progress of John Bunyan by Vera J. Camden 9780804757850 [USED COPY]
RRP: $75.04Booksplease Price: $7.50In 1649, the English people suffered a tremendous wound, a psychic lesion, as they both instigated and endured the killing of their king. John Bunyan came of age in the shadow of this rupture in the... -
Fiction Agonistes: In Defense of Literature by Gregory Jusdanis 9780804768757 [USED COPY]
RRP: $101.84Booksplease Price: $10.18In this path-breaking new work, Gregory Jusdanis asks why literature matters. Why are we afraid to admit our pleasures of reading, to defend the arts to the school board, to discuss the importance of... -
Racialized Identities: Race and Achievement among African American Youth by Na'ilah Suad Nasir 9780804760188 [USED COPY]
RRP: $107.20Booksplease Price: $4.84As students navigate learning and begin to establish a sense of self, local surroundings can have a major influence on the range of choices they make about who they are and who they want to be. This... -
Between Race and Reason: Violence, Intellectual Responsibility, and the University to Come by Susan Searls Giroux 9780804770477 [USED COPY]
RRP: $128.64Booksplease Price: $1.42Inquiring into the future of the university, Susan Giroux finds a paradox at the heart of higher education in the post-civil rights era. Although we think of "post-civil rights" as representing a... -
Does Literature Think?: Literature as Theory for an Antimythical Era by Stathis Gourgouris 9780804732130 [USED COPY]
RRP: $150.08Booksplease Price: $1.65What is the process by which literature might provide us with access to knowledge, and what sort of knowledge might this be? The question is not simply whether literature thinks, but whether... -
Oedipus Unbound: Selected Writings on Rivalry and Desire by Rene Girard 9780804747790 [USED COPY]
RRP: $128.64Booksplease Price: $12.86Did Oedipus really kill his father and marry his mother? Or is he nothing but a scapegoat, set up to take the blame for a crisis afflicting Thebes? For Rene Girard, the mythic accusations of... -
The Works by Geoffrey Chaucer 9780192811578 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.31Booksplease Price: $1.68This complete critical edition of Chaucer's poetry and prose has, as the Cambridge Review prophesied when it first appeared, become the standard edition of Chaucer for all who are seriously... -
Raising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity by Sharon Patricia Holland 9780822324751 [USED COPY]
RRP: $120.60Booksplease Price: $12.06Raising the Dead is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death's relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that... -
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Actors and Acting by Simon Williams 9780521769549 [USED COPY]
RRP: $201.00Booksplease Price: $20.10Acting is widely acknowledged to be the central art of the theatre and has a long and vibrant history. With over one thousand entries, this is the first encyclopedia of stage actors and acting around... -
The Doubtful Strait / El estrecho dudoso by Ernesto Cardenal 9780253209030 [USED COPY]
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $2.28" . . . very well translated . . . Cardenal merits praise for presenting, on such an ambitious scale, a passionate alternative history of the Spanish encounter with Central America."... -
The Politics of Canonicity: Lines of Resistance in Modernist Hebrew Poetry by Michael Gluzman 9780804729840 [USED COPY]
RRP: $75.04Booksplease Price: $7.50The Politics of Canonicity sheds new light on the dynamics of canon formation in modern Hebrew literature. It explores the ways in which literary culture-as site and as tool-participates in the... -
Modernism and Mildred Walker by Carmen Pearson 9780803237605 [USED COPY]
RRP: $53.60Booksplease Price: $5.36Modernism and Mildred Walker is the first full-length critical study of the major fictional works of this American author whose life spanned the twentieth century (1905-98) and whose literary... -
Cultural Institutions of the Novel by Deidre Lynch 9780822318545 [USED COPY]
RRP: $139.36Booksplease Price: $13.94The story of the development of the novel-its origin, rise, and increasing popularity as a narrative form in an ever-expanding range of geographic and cultural sites-is familiar and, according to the... -
Affective Genealogies: Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and the "Jewish Question" after Auschwitz by Elizabeth J. Bellamy 9780803212497 [USED COPY]
RRP: $64.32Booksplease Price: $6.43Affective Genealogies is an incisive contribution to the current reassessment of postmodern culture and theory. Elizabeth J. Bellamy examines how the Holocaust and Jews have been represented in a... -
American English in Mind Starter Teacher's Edition by Brian Hart 9780521733304 [USED COPY]
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $7.10American English in Mind is an integrated, four-skills course for beginner to advanced teenage learners of American English. The American English in Mind Starter Teacher's Edition provides an... -
Robinson Jeffers: The Dimensions of a Poet by Robert J. Brophy 9780823215669 [USED COPY]
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $3.62American Poet Robinson Jeffers (1887-1962) was educated in the classics from an early age and published his first book of poetry in 1912. Most of Jeffers' work is distinguished by strong elemental... -
The Little Red Hen and the Grains of Wheat (English/French) by L. R. Hen 9781844442058 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.73Booksplease Price: $1.68Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Paper Terms 9780838974278 [USED COPY]
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $1.68This series of thesauri was developed for use in the MARC field 655 and 755. Each volume provides standardized vocabulary for retrieving items by form and genre or by various physical characteristics... -
Contemporary Mexican Women Writers: Five Voices by Gabriella de Beer 9780292715868 [USED COPY]
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $3.08Mexican women writers moved to the forefront of their country's literature in the twentieth century. Among those who began publishing in the 1970s and 1980s are Maria Luisa Puga, Silvia Molina,... -
Intention Interpretation by Gary Iseminger 9780877229711 [USED COPY]
RRP: $81.74Booksplease Price: $18.75A complete analysis of the postmodern debate on authorial intentionA complete analysis of the postmodern debate on authorial intentionAbout the AuthorGary Iseminger, William H. Laird Professor of... -
Reading for Realism: The History of a U.S. Literary Institution, 1850-1910 by Nancy Glazener 9780822318705 [USED COPY]
RRP: $41.54Booksplease Price: $4.15Reading for Realism presents a new approach to U.S. literary history that is based on the analysis of dominant reading practices rather than on the production of texts. Nancy Glazener's focus is the... -
Idle Fictions: The Hispanic Vanguard Novel, 1926-1934, Expanded edition by Gustavo Perez Firmat 9780822314233 [USED COPY]
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $3.22The "idle fictions" of the vanguard novel of the 1920s and 1930s in Spain and Spanish America represented a kind of interlude of playfulness--a vacation or parenthetical insertion--in what was... -
Theater Enough: American Culture and the Metaphor of the World Stage, 1607-1789 by Jeffrey H. Richards 9780822311072 [USED COPY]
RRP: $146.06Booksplease Price: $14.61The early settlers in America had a special relationship to the theater. Though largely without a theater of their own, they developed an ideology of theater that expressed their sense of history, as... -
Personality Tests and Reviews I by Buros Center for Testing 9780910674102 [USED COPY]
RRP: $58.96Booksplease Price: $5.90Personality Tests and Reviews I, consists of the personality sections of the first six MMYs and Tests in Print I. These materials include a comprehensive bibliography on the construction, use, and... -
Correct Your English Errors by Tim Collins 9780071470506 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $1.88Speak and write English as if it were your native tongue! Are you tired of making the same mistakes in English again and again? End the bad habits that can leave the people you talk to confused... -
The Eighth Mental Measurements Yearbook (2 Volumes): 2 Volumes by Buros Center for Testing 9780910674249 [USED COPY]
RRP: $93.80Booksplease Price: $11.22Customers who place a standing order for the Tests in Print series or the Mental Measurements Yearbook series will receive a 10% discount on every volume. To place your standing order, please call... -
Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary by Paul Giles 9780822329541 [USED COPY]
RRP: $125.96Booksplease Price: $8.52Arguing that limited nationalist perspectives have circumscribed the critical scope of American Studies scholarship, Virtual Americas advocates a comparative criticism that illuminates the work of...