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1	How to read and why more books like this by Professor Harold Bloom add to wishlist Harold Bloom writes about reading in an electronic age, making distinctions between information and knowledge (not to mention wisdom) and pointing out the indispensable virtues of such literary icons as Shakespeare, Austen, and Chekhov. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Classics of Western Thought Series: The Modern World, Volume III more books like this by Edgar E Knoebel (Editor) add to wishlist Originally published under the General Editorship of Thomas H. Greer, the series emanated from the Humanities Department of Michigan State University. The books remain today perhaps the best sources available for the comprehensive study in one volume of every subject area which might be included in the umbrella of humanities. Most major literary ... see all copies from $6.82! new only from $73.88! \| first editions \| SVS
3	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 $19.58! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Sexual Personae: Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson more books like this by Camille Paglia add to wishlist Is Emily Dickinson "the female Sade"? Is Donatello's David a bit of paedophile pornography? What is the secret kinship between Byron and Elvis Presley, between the Medusa and Madonna? How do liberals and feminists - as well as conservatives - fatally misread human nature? This audacious and omnivorously learned work of guerilla scholarship offers ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Nation and Narration more books like this by Homi K Bhabha add to wishlist A classic collection of essays providing an excellent introduction to the many different narrations of the 'nation'. see all copies from $20.00! new only from $33.16! \| SVS
6	Retellings: A Thematic Literature Anthology more books like this by Arlene Clarke, Marlene B Clarke add to wishlist This four-genre, thematically-arranged collection groups together selections that retell the same story or events: three interpretations of Cinderella from Walt Disney, The Brothers Grimm, and a Chinese folktale, for example, or the myth of Oedipus as told by Sophocles, Rita Dove, Randall Jarrell, and Sigmund Freud. "Retellings" includes many ... see all copies from $14.32! first editions
7	Modern Book Collecting more books like this by Robert A. Wilson add to wishlist From what to collect and who to buy from to how to care for a collection. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Din in the Head more books like this by Cynthia Ozick add to wishlist One of America"s foremost novelists and critics focuses on the essential joys of great literature, with particular emphasis on the novel. With razor-sharp wit, she investigates unexpected byways in the works of Leo Tolstoy, Saul Bellow, Helen Keller, Isaac Babel, Sylvia Plath, Susan Sontag, and more. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History more books like this by Professor Cathy Caruth add to wishlist This work examines the links between the language of literature and the language of psychoanalysis in terms of their uses in the examination of trauma in the 20th century. By examining trauma in the 20th century, we can recognize the possibility of a history no longer based on simple models of straightforward experience and reference. The author ... see all copies from $14.24! new only from $14.92!
10	Against interpretation and other essays more books like this by Susan Sontag add to wishlist Susan Sontag's first collection of essays, the book that made her famous, was published in 1966. Most of the essays--potent demonstrations of her dazzling analytical gifts--take avant-garde novelists, dramatists, and filmmakers as their subjects, including Sartre, Camus, Godard, and Beckett. But the collection also includes her erudite and ... see all copies from $4.95! new only from $6.99! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	The Cambridge Introduction to Modernism more books like this by Pericles Lewis add to wishlist More than a century after its beginnings, modernism still has the power to shock, alienate or challenge readers. Modernist art and literature remain thought of as complex and difficult. This introduction explains in a readable, lively style how modernism emerged, how it is defined, and how it developed in different forms and genres. Pericles Lewis ... see all copies from $18.57! new only from $18.57!
12 view cover	The Norton Book of Modern War more books like this by Paul Fussell (Editor) add to wishlist Here are moments on the battlefields of this century captured in the words of writers who faced wars in their newest and most brutal permutation. Divided into the First World War, the Wars in Asia, and includes prose and poetry from litery figures such as Rupert Brooke, Ernest Hemingway, and James Jones. see all copies from $3.73! new only from $16.15! \| first editions
13 view cover	Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative more books like this by Peter Brooks add to wishlist Uncovering the body in order to know it has been the quest of narrative since the 18th century. In this tour through art and literature - from Rousseau, Flaubert, and Manet at the origins of modernism to Duras and Mapplethorpe in our own time - Peter Brooks sees the dynamic of narrative as propelled by desire to expose truth that can be found ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $197.70! \| first editions
14 view cover	Hugging the Shore more books like this by John Updike add to wishlist In this collection of literary essays by the great American novelist, Updike's subjects range from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Don DeLillo, from folk tales to Lévi-Strauss. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Contemporary Authors: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Nonfiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Field more books like this by Gale Group (Creator) add to wishlist In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary Authors® New Revision Series brings researchers the most recent data on the world's most-popular authors. These exciting and unique author profiles are essential to your holdings because sketches are entirely revised and up-to-date, and completely replace ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $53.93! \| first editions \| SVS
16	The reader's encyclopedia more books like this by William Rose Benét add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
17	In the Wake of the Wake more books like this by Elliott Anderson (Editor), David Hayman (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.17! \| first editions
18 view cover	Critical Essays more books like this by Professor Roland Barthes add to wishlist These essays, written in the 1950s and '60s, pertain to the cultural assumptions one takes for granted. Some focus on the "anti-novels" of Robbe-Grillet and others, and the theater of Bertolt Brecht. see all copies from $3.00! new only from $23.42! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Against Interpretation more books like this by Susan Sontag add to wishlist Susan Sontag's first collection of essays, the book that made her famous, was published in 1966. Most of the essays--potent demonstrations of her dazzling analytical gifts--take avant-garde novelists, dramatists, and filmmakers as their subjects, including Sartre, Camus, Godard, and Beckett. But the collection also includes her erudite and ... see all copies from $3.31! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Cigarettes Are Sublime more books like this by Richard Klein add to wishlist This is a witty look at the history of smoking. In examining the literary, cultural and philosophical history of smoking, this book studies the negative pleasures and exacting benefits attached to smoking. Some serious questions arise: what is a cigarette? Why are cigarettes useful in times of war? How do they enable the condemned to face the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.98! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	James: Literary Criticism: Volume 2 more books like this by Henry James, Leon Edel (Editor), Mark Wilson (Editor) add to wishlist The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $24.03! \| first editions \| SVS
22	Ourselves Among Others: Cross-Cultural Readings for Writers more books like this by Carol J Verburg add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Characters in 20th-Century Literature II more books like this by Kelly King Howes add to wishlist This definitive resource provides essays on the most-studied literary characters from international contemporary writers. Book I features more than 1,000 fictional characters from the works of 300 writers. Book II covers characters from more than 300 works of 130 writers. see all copies from $2.68! new only from $6.98! \| first editions
24 view cover	A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us about Life more books like this by Arnold Weinstein add to wishlist A Brown University professor writes about books, which he believes are fundamental to the cultivation of true humanity. The "scream" of the title is, Weinstein believes, the subject of literature and art, and the thing that unites all people. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Global Voices: Contemporary Literature from the Non-Western World more books like this by Arthur W Biddle (Editor), Gloria Bien (Editor) add to wishlist Global Voices exists because we want our students to experience the literature of the major regions of the non-Western world--the Caribbean, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Chinua Achebe, Naguib Mahfouz, Anita Desai, and Bei Dao offer a friendly bridge between our culture and theirs. The editors believe ... see all copies from $54.54! first editions

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