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1	The American Novel and Its Tradition more books like this by Richard Volney Chase add to wishlist "Since the earliest days, " writes Richard Chase in this classic study, "the American novel, in its most original and characteristic form, has worked out its destiny and defined itself by incorporating an element of romance." In his detailed study of works by Charles Brockden Brown, James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $23.96! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Mulligan Stew more books like this by Gilbert Sorrentino add to wishlist see all copies from $2.84! new only from $3.89! \| first editions
3	The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships more books like this by Robert B Silvers add to wishlist "Our most remarkable writers share what has influenced them the most: each other. " Many of the illustrious contributors to "The New York Review of Books" have had deep and abiding relationships-both personal and intellectual-with other poets, writers, artists, composers, and scientists of equal stature. "The Company They Kept" is a collection of ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $11.93! \| first editions \| SVS
4	My Business is Circumference: Poets on Influence and Mastery more books like this by Stephen Berg (Editor) add to wishlist Twenty-eight contemporary American poets reflect on the poems that have most influenced their own creative vision and offer their best new works in this examination of poetic expression. Each entry includes a new poem from the author, the text of a poem or poems that particularly influenced the development of the new poem, and an essay about that ... see all copies from $3.28! new only from $15.00! \| first editions
5	Revaluation: Tradition and Development in English Poetry more books like this by Frank Raymond Leavis add to wishlist An examination of English poetry from Donne to Keats, showing "the main lines of development in the English tradition...the essential structure." In this overview, Leavis first put forth new critical judgements that have since become part of the current wisdom. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Trash Culture: Popular Culture and the Great Tradition more books like this by Richard K Simon add to wishlist Drawing multiple comparisons between the works of the western canon and the products of contemporary consumer culture, this book argues that Jane Austen and Shakespeare bore the same relation to their contemporary audiences that SEINFELD and Cosmopolitan do to 20th-century audiences, and that great works of classic literature are best taught by ... see all copies from $2.08! new only from $3.40! \| first editions
7	Allegory and mirror: tradition and structure in Middle English literature more books like this by James I. Wimsatt add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
8	Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth more books like this by Ann W. Astell add to wishlist "Though present-day critics, who concentrate on form, generally find the epic discontinuous in the Middle Ages, Astell argues that the genre persisted as the biblical book of Job and Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy were imitated and alluded to as examples throughout the period. . . . The scholarship is prodigious, the argument convincing, and ... see all copies from $8.07! new only from $74.96! \| first editions
9	The Influence of Tennessee Williams: Essays on Fifteen American Playwrights more books like this by Philip C Kolin (Editor) add to wishlist The author of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" was never shy about drawing on his personal and family drama for stage material. This collection of 15 essays examines how Williams' confessional style influenced a diverse range of playwrights, both contemporaries and those writing for modern theater. Critical comparisons to ... see all copies from $19.31! new only from $49.10!
10	Interdisciplinary Architecture more books like this by Nicoletta Trasi (Editor), Giovanni Narici add to wishlist Interdisciplinary cooperations between art and architecture are extremely important in order to maintain the highest level of interaction and progression of design. This volume explores the collaborations that have achieved the maximum level of success, through presenting extracts from previous issues of "Architectural Design". see all copies from $3.37! new only from $4.75! \| first editions
11	Vision & Textuality - PB more books like this by Stephen Melville (Editor), Bill Readings (Editor), Stephen Melville (Editor) add to wishlist The influence of contemporary literary theory on art history is increasingly evident, but there is little or no agreement about the nature and consequence of this new intersection of the visual and the textual. "Vision and Textuality" brings together essays by many of the most influential scholars in the field--both young and more established ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.35! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Quotation Marks more books like this by Marjorie B Garber add to wishlist Marjorie Garber's collection of 14 essays considers aspects of language that include forays into topics such Monica Lewinsky, the novels of Jane Austen, and the way paintings of vegetables are related to sexuality. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.18! \| first editions
13	Boccaccio, Beauvau, Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde: Four Perspectives on Influence more books like this by Michael G Hanly add to wishlist see all copies from $3.11! new only from $3.11! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	A Door Ajar: Contemporary Writers and Emily Dickinson more books like this by Thomas Gardner add to wishlist Critics have said that Emily Dickinson has no heirs, that her poetry represents the zenith of the experimental method she developed in the mid-nineteenth century. Thomas Gardner disagrees. In this original study, he takes up conversation with four contemporary writers in whose work he finds an extension or expansion of Dickinson's literary legacy. ... see all copies from $4.47! new only from $4.98! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Willa Cather's Sexual Aesthetics and the Male Homosexual Literary Tradition more books like this by John P Anders add to wishlist Willa Cather is primarily known for her creation of strong female characters, yet her fiction often centers on male friendships. In this first full-length study of male homosexuality in Cather's short stories and novels, John P. Anders examines patterns of male friendship ranging on a continuum from the social to the sexual. He argues that Cather ... see all copies from $3.20! new only from $3.25! \| SVS
16 view cover	The Ghost of Tradition: Expansive Poetry and Postmodernism more books like this by Kevin Walzer add to wishlist This compelling book, the first to offer detailed analysis of Expansive Poetry's leading poets, takes readers inside the most influential movement in American poetry since the Beats. Praised and debated in the Times Literary Supplement, The Hudson Review, The Wall Street Journal, American Poetry Review, and hundreds of other international ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.48! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Homer and the Heroic Tradition more books like this by Cedric H Whitman add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.45! \| first editions \| SVS
18	Inspiriting Influences: Tradition, Revision, and Afro-American Women's Novels more books like this by Professor Michael Awkward, Professor Nancy K Miller (Editor), Professor Carolyn G Heilbrun (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $3.34! new only from $46.90! \| first editions
19 view cover	After New Formalism: Poets on Form, Narrative, and Tradition more books like this by Annie Finch (Editor) add to wishlist The essays collected here regard how various poets with different aesthetic backgrounds--Adrienne Rich, Anne Stevenson, Marilyn Nelson, Molly Peacock, Charles Olsen , and others-- have expressed themselves in form and free verse. The volume identifies the tenets of New Formalism, and investigates the formal concerns inherent to feminist poetics. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.94!
20	Yeats's Interactions with Tradition more books like this by Patrick J. Keane add to wishlist see all copies from $3.81! new only from $6.88! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Hopkins Re-Constructed more books like this by Justus George Lawler add to wishlist A critical and literary-religious study. The author offers novel readings of some of Hopkins' most celebrated poems in the light of historical and structuralist understanding of the poetic tradition and the Western religious and liturgical tradition in which Hopkins was steeped. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.00! \| first editions
22	Ppl Who Led My Plays more books like this by Adrienne Kennedy add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Allusion to the Poets more books like this by Christopher Ricks add to wishlist Allusion to the words and phrases of ancestral voices is one of the hiding-places of poetry's power. Poets appreciate the great debts that they owe to previous poets, and are often duly and newly grateful. Allusion to the Poets consists of twelve essays - four published here for the first time - on allusion and its relations, in particular on the ... see all copies from $24.14! new only from $24.14! \| first editions \| SVS
24	Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) more books like this by W. H. Gardner add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
25 view cover	Grafting Helen: Abduction of the Classical Past more books like this by Matthew Gumpert add to wishlist Classicism = cultural embezziement? History is a love story: a tale of desire and jealousy, abandonment and fidelity, abduction and theft, rupture and reconciliation. This contention is central is central to Grafting Helen, Matthew Gumpert's original and dazzling meditation on Helen of Troy as a crucial emblem for much of Western thought and ... see all copies from $14.05! new only from $17.46! \| SVS

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