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1	The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature more books like this by Gilbert Highet A reissue in paperback of a title first published in 1949. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.94! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Allegory of Love more books like this by Lewis see all copies from $10.29! first editions
3	The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and the Analytic Detective Story more books like this by Professor John T Irwin 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 $3.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Strangers to ourselves more books like this by Julia Kristeva This book is concerned with the notion of the "stranger" -the foreigner, outsider, or alien in a country and society not their own- as well as the notion of strangeness within the self -a person's deep sense of being, as distinct from outside appearance and their conscious idea of self. Kristeva begins with the personal and moves outward by ... see all copies from $11.06! new only from $18.93!
5	Degeneration more books like this by Max Nordau "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 $15.00! new only from $32.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Death of a Discipline more books like this by Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 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 $13.90! new only from $14.57! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Secular Scripture: A Study of the Structure of Romance more books like this by Northrop Frye (Introduction by) Northrop Frye's thinking has had a pervasive impact on contemporary interpretations of our literary and cultural heritage. In his "Anatomy of Criticism," a landmark in the history of modern critical theory, he demonstrated his genius for mapping out the realm of imaginative creation. In "The Secular Scripture" he turns again to the task of ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $24.42! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	What is World Literature? more books like this by David Damrosch 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 $15.99! new only from $23.38! \| SVS
9	Vital Signs: Medical Realism in Nineteenth-Century Fiction more books like this by Lawrence Rothfield "Vital Signs" offers both a reinterpretation of the 19th-century novel and a methodological challenge to literary historians. Rejecting theories that equate realism with representation, Lawrence Rothfield argues that literary history forms a subset of the history of discourses and their attendant practices. He demonstrates in particular how ... see all copies from $3.76! new only from $7.06! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition more books like this by C S Lewis Love is the commonest these of serious imaginative literature and is still generally regarded as anble and ennbling passion. Love has not always taken such precedence, however, and it was in fact not until the eleventh century that French poets first began to express the romantic species of passion which English peots were still writing about in ... see all copies from $17.78! first editions
11	Comparative Literature in the Age of Multiculturalism more books like this by Professor Charles Bernheimer (Editor) In recent years, the idea of multiculturalism has become a powerful - and controversial - influence in a variety of social and cultural territories. In the academic world it has influenced curriculum and scholarship in the humanities, particularly in traditionally Eurocentric disciplines such as comparative literature. The 1993 report "Comparative ... see all copies from $14.82! new only from $28.29! \| SVS
12 view cover	The Translatability of Cultures: Figurations of the Space Between more books like this by Professor Sanford Budick (Editor), Professor Wolfgang Iser (Editor) Translation between any two languages sets in motion a cultural tug-of-war. This struggle can be perilous for the culture that has less power to retain the usages of its language. Since translation wields powerful forces of cultural change, it is an arena both of the global coercions of national cultures and of the local dominations of everyday ... see all copies from $22.21! new only from $22.21!
13	Translating the Orient: The Reception of Sakuntala in Nineteenth-Century Europe more books like this by Dorothy Matilda Figueira see all copies from $2.40! new only from $3.44! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Chaucer and the French Tradition: A Study in Style and Meaning more books like this by Charles Muscatine see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	The Oxford Book of Aging more books like this by Thomas R Cole, Mary G Winkler Most of us today can expect to live into our seventies in reasonably good health. (In fact, the fastest growing segment of the population is the group eighty-five and older.) Yet our culture offers few convincing ways to help us find purpose in our later years. The ancient and medieval vision of aging as a mysterious part of the eternal order of ... see all copies from $2.47! new only from $19.45! \| first editions
16 view cover	Readings: The Poetics of Blanchot, Joyce, Kafka, Kleist, Lispector, and Tsvetayeva more books like this by Helene Cixous, Verena Andermatt Conley (Editor) see all copies from $6.00! new only from $18.95! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Dictionary of Literary and Thematic Terms more books like this by E Quinn This is an insightful guide to literary terms in context. In clear, non-technical language, this dictionary explores more than 1,000 literary terms and themes - with 200 new to this edition. Taking an expanded view of the term "literary," this book gives readers not only a traditional literary vocabulary, but also the knowledge of related ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.45! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Mythology and the Renaissance tradition in English poetry more books like this by Douglas Bush see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.86! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Early Modern Women's Writing and Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz more books like this by Stephanie Merrim This study maps the field of 17th century women's writing in Spanish, English and French and situates the work of Sor Juana more clearly within that field. It holds up the multilayered, protofeminist writings of Sor Juana as a meaningful lens through which to examine the literary production of her female contemporaries. Early modern women writers ... see all copies from $13.42! new only from $19.45! \| first editions
20 view cover	Binding Cultures: Black Women Writers in Africa and the Diaspora more books like this by Gay Wilentz "The theoretical apparatus which forms the foundation [of "Binding Cultures"] will cause it to be a source that succeeding critics will not be able to ignore...Wilentz has done her research thoroughly, and makes convincing arguments for the connections between African and Afro-American women's culture." - Nellie McKay. The history of their ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Puritan and the Cynic: Moralists and Theorists in French and American Letters more books like this by Jefferson Humphries Why do Americans, and so often, American writers, profess moral sentiments and yet write so little in the traditionally "moralistic" genres of maxim and fable? What is the relation between "moral" concerns and literary theory? Can any sort of morality survive the supposed nihilism of deconstruction? Jefferson Humphries undertakes a discussion of ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $6.59! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Matter of Araby in Medieval England more books like this by Dorothee Metlitzki This book examines the literary and intellectual relationships between "Piers Plowman" and "The Faerie Queene". It links these two rich and problematical poems by showing their development from a common religious and artistic matrix and by assessing their roles in the evolution of allegory. "A valuable contribution to our understanding of the ... see all copies from $13.50! new only from $37.28! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Common Literature-P more books like this by Firmat Gustavo Perez, Gustavo Perez Firmat This volume takes an important step toward the discovery of a common critical heritage that joins the diverse literatures of North America and Latin America. Traditionally, literary criticism has treated the literature of the Americas as "New World" literature, examining it in relation to its "Old World"--usually European--counterparts. This ... see all copies from $13.93! new only from $17.95!
24	Metamorphoses of Helen: Authority, Difference, and the Epic more books like this by Mihoko Suzuki Mihoko Suzuki sheds light on a literary tradition that seemingly holds Helen of Troy and her descendants responsible for causing epic conflicts, while it appropriates the woman's perspective as a source of insight and poetic power. "A superb study of the uses and abuses of female characters in the epic tradition and their complex, sympathetic ... see all copies from $2.54! new only from $2.87! \| first editions
25 view cover	Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes more books like this by Lina Eckenstein This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $19.71! \| first editions \| SVS

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