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1	The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature more books like this by Gilbert Highet add to wishlist A reissue in paperback of a title first published in 1949. see all copies from $4.50! new only from $23.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Degeneration more books like this by Max Nordau add to wishlist "Degeneration is one of the most important documents of the fin de siecle, the years between the 1880s and 1900 when the robust views of the nineteenth century clashed with the heightened sensibilities of a searching and disillusioned generation...[It] is a mirror of conflicting attitudes which are, in fact, contemporary with our present cultural ... see all copies from $17.95! new only from $22.24! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Strangers to ourselves more books like this by Julia Kristeva add to wishlist This is a study of the stranger, both as a deep personal sense of self as distinct from that being known to outsiders, and as the foreigner, an alien in a different country or society not his or her own. The work covers the fields of literature and philosophy - from Greek tragedy and the Bible, through the literature of the Middle Ages, the ... see all copies from $7.50! new only from $17.44! \| SVS
4	Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms more books like this by E Quinn add to wishlist Theoretical, historical, and cultural terms defined as they relate to literature--which, in this reference book's expanded definition, includes writing for television and film. Also included are essays on such themes as evil, alienation, love, politics, existentialism, war, AIDS, and anti-Semitism. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.12! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Allegory of Love more books like this by C S Lewis add to wishlist see all copies from $15.00! first editions
6	The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story more books like this by Professor John T Irwin add to wishlist In "The Mystery to a Solution", John Irwin examines the deeper significance of the genre Poe created and the meaning of Borges's efforts to "double" its origin. Drawing on history, literary history, and practical and speculative criticism, Irwin pursues issues underlying the detective genre into areas as various as the history of mathematics, ... see all copies from $3.49! new only from $3.49! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Realist Vision more books like this by Professor Peter Brooks add to wishlist "Realist Vision" explores the claim to represent the world 'as it is'. Peter Brooks takes a new look at the realist tradition and its intense interest in the visual. Discussing major English and French novels and paintings from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Brooks provides a lively and perceptive view of the realist project.Centering ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $12.94! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance more books like this by Northrop Frye (Introduction by) add to wishlist SECULAR SCRIPTURE consists of the Charles Eliot Norton lectures delivered at Harvard University in 1974-75. Frye examines the conventions of the romance and draws examples from classical and medieval literature and discusses the rise of the novel. see all copies from $2.66! new only from $23.01! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Love in the Western world more books like this by Denis de Rougemont add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
10	Using Multiethnic Literature in the K-8 Classroom more books like this by Violet J. Harris (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $11.78! new only from $79.95!
11	Chaucer and the French Tradition: A Study in Style and Meaning more books like this by Charles Muscatine add to wishlist see all copies from $2.15! new only from $24.50! \| first editions
12	Translating the Orient: The Reception of Sakuntala in Nineteenth-Century Europe more books like this by Dorothy Matilda Figueira add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00! new only from $2.40! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Moorings & Metaphors: Figures of Culture and Gender in Black Women's Literature more books like this by Karla F C Holloway, F Holloway Karla add to wishlist see all copies from $2.23! new only from $15.00!
14 view cover	Death of a Discipline more books like this by Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak add to wishlist For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $10.95! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Ulysses Theme more books like this by William Bedell Stanford add to wishlist see all copies from $50.00! new only from $200.00! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Cross-Addressing: Resistance Literature and Cultural Borders more books like this by John C Hawley (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $2.50! new only from $19.99!
17 view cover	Tannaitic Parallels to the Gospels more books like this by Morton Smith add to wishlist see all copies from $13.00! new only from $20.29! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction more books like this by Susan Bassnett add to wishlist This major new introduction to comparative literature is for the students coming to the subject for the first time. Through an examination of a series of case studies and new theoretical developments, Bassnett reviews the current state of comparative literature world-wide in the 1990s. In the past twenty years of a range of new developments in ... see all copies from $13.90! new only from $35.48! \| SVS
19 view cover	Ulysses in Black: Ralph Ellison, Classicism, and African American Literature more books like this by Patrice D Rankine add to wishlist In this groundbreaking work, Patrice D. Rankine asserts that the classics need not be a mark of Eurocentrism, as they have long been considered. Instead, the classical tradition can be part of a self-conscious, prideful approach to African American culture, esthetics, and identity. "Ulysses in Black" demonstrates that, similar to their white ... see all copies from $16.84! new only from $18.40! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization more books like this by Professor Haun Saussy (Editor) add to wishlist As an academic discipline built upon Enlightenment thought and a cosmopolitan worldview - not grounded in the literary tradition of any single language or nation - comparative literature has benefited from regular reexamination of its basic principles and practices. The American Comparative Literature Association's 1993 report on the state of the ... see all copies from $15.52! new only from $15.52! \| SVS
21	Light in Troy: Imitation and Discovery in Renaissance Poetry more books like this by Thomas M Greene add to wishlist see all copies from $125.00! signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	What is World Literature? more books like this by David Damrosch add to wishlist World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challenged both this European focus and the very category of "the masterpiece." The first book to look broadly at the contemporary scope and purposes of world literature, "What Is World Literature?" probes the ... see all copies from $28.32! new only from $28.32! \| SVS
23	Varieties of Literary Thematics more books like this by Theodore Ziolkowski add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $45.50! \| first editions
24 view cover	Through Other Continents: American Literature Across Deep Time more books like this by Wai Chee Dimock add to wishlist What we call American literature is quite often a shorthand, a simplified name for an extended tangle of relations. This is the argument of "Through Other Continents", Wai Chee Dimock's sustained effort to read American literature as a subset of world literature. Inspired by an unorthodox archive - ranging from epic traditions in Akkadian and ... see all copies from $24.66! new only from $24.66! \| SVS
25 view cover	The Oxford Book of Aging more books like this by Thomas R Cole, Mary G Winkler add to wishlist This anthology offers a range of fiction, poetry, memoirs and reflections by philosophers, historians, scientists and writers illuminating the pain and pleasure of later life. The contributors include Confucius, Mark Twain, Shakespeare and Gabriel Garcia Marquez among many others. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $82.94! \| first editions

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