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1	How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines more books like this by Thomas C Foster add to wishlist A fun and practical introduction to literature and literary basics--symbols, themes, and contexts--shows how to make everyday reading experiences more rewarding and enjoyable. see all copies from $4.00! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Through the Eyes of a Child: An Introduction to Children's Literature more books like this by Donna E Norton add to wishlist For courses in Children's Literature. This is a fresh, new edition of one of the most widely-respected sources for introducing future teachers to the wealth of literature available to children. The sixth edition is replete with expanded coverage of key topics, numerous new features, and an enhanced focus on multicultural literature. Its unique ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Aproximaciones Al Estudio de La Literatura Hispanica more books like this by Carmelo Virgillo add to wishlist This is an introduction to literary analysis with readings from Spanish and Spanish-American literature. It provides a selection of readings, organized by the genres of prose, poetry, drama and essay. Historical introductions to the genres are included, providing an overview of periods, movements, significant figures and literary currents both in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.49! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Beowulf on the Beach: What to Love and What to Skip in Literature's 50 Greatest Hits more books like this by Jack Murnighan add to wishlist From Homer and Proust to "Beloved" and the Bible, "Beowulf on the Beach" is a user-friendly guide through the imposing world of literature. see all copies from $7.25! new only from $9.16! \| SVS
5	Mimesis : the representation of reality in Western literature more books like this by Erich Auerbach add to wishlist Auerbach traces the representation of reality with well-developed readings of major writers in Western literature from antiquity to the 20th century. His analysis of the development of realism in Stendahl, Balzac, Flaubert and Proust is especially worth noting. He ends his book with Virginia Woolf's "To the Lighthouse". see all copies from $5.00! new only from $17.50! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Children's Literature, Briefly more books like this by Michael O Tunnell add to wishlist Are you looking for a brief introduction to children's literature genres that leaves time to read actual works of children's literature? This new, significantly revised and streamlined edition of Children's Literature, Briefly introduces the reader to the essential foundations of each children's literature genre, supported by practical features ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.82! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice more books like this by Charles E Bressler add to wishlist This introduction to literary theory and criticism, its historical development and the variety of theoretical positions or schools of criticism, is designed to help students take conscious, informed and intelligent choices concerning their own methods of literary interpretation. The text places literary theory and criticism in historical ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $27.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had more books like this by Susan Wise Bauer add to wishlist This book is a wonderful resource for anyone wishing to explore and develop the mind's capacity to read and comprehend the greatest works in fiction, autobiography, history, poetry, and drama. It offers brief, entertaining histories of the five literary genres, accompanied by detailed instructions on how to read each type. see all copies from $12.70! new only from $14.65! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Greek Way more books like this by Edith Hamilton add to wishlist The aim of this work is not a history of events but an account of the achievement and spirit of Greece. Edith Hamilton is also the author of "The Roman Way". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination more books like this by Professor Sandra M Gilbert add to wishlist This reissue of the groundbreaking study of female 19th-century writers contains a new introduction in which Gilbert and Guber address the origins of their own interest in feminist literary criticism. see all copies from $2.71! new only from $11.99! \| first editions
11 view cover	Classics for Pleasure more books like this by Michael Dirda add to wishlist This is not your father's list of classics. In these delightful essays, Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Dirda introduces nearly ninety of the world's most entertaining books. Writing with affection as well as authority, Dirda covers masterpieces of fantasy and science fiction, horror and adventure, as well as epics, history, essay, and children's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Location of Culture more books like this by Homi K Bhabha, Homi K Bhadha add to wishlist This text sets out the conceptual imperative and political consistency of the post-colonial intellectual project. This series of essays explains why the post-colonial critique has altered forever the landscape of postmodern discourse. It examines, among other things, the displacement of the colonizer's legitimizing cultural authority and looks at ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $19.97! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Critical Handbook of Children's Literature more books like this by Rebecca J Lukens add to wishlist Designed to facilitate the use of children's books from all genres, this exceptional resource helps teachers, librarians, and media specialists select the best children's literature for the classroom, library, or home. Unlike an anthology of children's literature, which includes selected chapters or text summaries, the Eighth Edition of this ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Essentials of Children's Literature more books like this by Carol Lynch-Brown, Carl Tomlinson add to wishlist The fifth edition of Essentials of Children's Literature energizes children's literature study by offering a concise, straightforward presentation of children's literature and by engaging students to share literature with children. Written as a "facts-only" approach for students and their instructors, this lucid text offers an abundance of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages more books like this by Professor Harold Bloom add to wishlist This text is a defence of the western literary canon which the author sees being eroded by the tyranny of cultural studies and political correctness in the academic and literary world. It is both a survey of the great authors from Dante to Beckett that make up the canon, with Shakespeare at its centre, as well as a polemical assault on the forces ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read more books like this by Pierre Bayard add to wishlist In this provocative, witty book, literature professor and psychoanalyst Bayard argues that non-reading can be just as useful an act as reading. He states that the truly cultivated person is not the one who has read a book, but the one who understands the book's place in culture. see all copies from $2.59! new only from $4.48! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Invitation to the Classics more books like this by Louise Cowan (Editor), Os Guinness (Editor) add to wishlist This overview of several literary works considered classics also provides an assessment of their relevance to Christianity and Christian readers. A series of short essays by Christian scholars place the works in their historical contexts. see all copies from $8.15! new only from $8.64! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Writing about Literature: A Portable Guide more books like this by Janet E Gardner add to wishlist "Writing about Literature "introduces strategies for reading literature, explains the writing process and common writing assignments for literature courses, provides instruction in writing about fiction, poetry, and drama, and includes coverage of writing a research paper and of literary criticism and theory. This volume in Bedford/St. Martin's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.64!
19 view cover	Exploring Literature: Writing and Arguing about Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and the Essay more books like this by Frank Madden add to wishlist Culturally rich and diverse literature, comprehensive coverage of the writing process, and strong coverage of arguing about literature describe this anthology. The first five chapters are dedicated to writing and arguing about literature followed by an anthology organized around five themes: Family and Friends; Innocence and Experience; Women ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $79.75! \| SVS
20 view cover	Fitzgerald's The great Gatsby more books like this by Kate Maurer, Ph.D. add to wishlist The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into key elements and ideas within classic works of literature. The latest generation of titles in this series also features glossaries and visual elements that complement the familiar format. CliffsNotes on The Great Gatsby explores F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel of triumph, tragedy, and a classic ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.44! \| SVS
21 view cover	The Great War and Modern Memory more books like this by Paul Fussell add to wishlist Paul Fussell's great book explores World War I as a cultural phenomenon--a cataclysmic force that wrought indelible changes in patterns of thought, habits of trust, and the literary imagination. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.92! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts & Contemporary Trends more books like this by David H Richter (Editor) add to wishlist This bestseller balances a comprehensive and up-to-date anthology of major documents in literary criticism and theory -- from Plato to the present -- with the most thorough editorial support for understanding these challenging readings. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $94.91! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Joy of Children's Literature more books like this by Denise Johnson add to wishlist The Joy of Children's Literature provides in-depth coverage of children's literature with integrated reading methods in a concise, accessible format. The compact length allows for more time during the course to read the numerous children's books highlighted in the text. Johnson emphasizes that reading, writing, discussing, and finding pleasure in ... see all copies from $36.00! new only from $36.00! \| first editions
24 view cover	Elementary Children's Literature: Infancy Through Age 13 more books like this by Nancy A Anderson add to wishlist Written in a personable tone, Elementary Children's Literature: Infancy through Age 13,3/e is filled with teaching strategies, technology applications, and discussion topics for teachers and parents of children from infancy to age 13. Organized around genres, this student-friendly text presents the basic children's literature content as well as ... see all copies from $43.92! new only from $48.00! \| SVS
25 view cover	Selected essays more books like this by Professor T S Eliot add to wishlist For this volume Eliot gathered together his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since 1917, when he became assistant-editor of "The Egoist". In his preface to the third edition (1951) he described the book as an historical record of his interests and opinions. see all copies from $4.65! new only from $17.51! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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