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1	Literature and Society: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, Nonfiction more books like this by Pamela J Annas, Robert C Rosen This thematic anthology features comprehensive writing coverage that highlights both the writing process and how to write about fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction. It introduces and explains literature with reading selections centered on five enduring themes-Growing Up and Growing Older, Women and Men, Money and Work, Peace and War, and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $50.43! \| SVS
2	The Dreams Our Stuff is Made of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World more books like this by Thomas M Disch From acclaimed science fiction writer Thomas M. Disch comes "The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of", a keenly perceptive account of the impact science fiction has had on American culture. As only a consummate insider could, Disch provides a fascinating view of this world and its inhabitants, tracing science fiction's phenomenal growth into the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society more books like this by Lionel Trilling Lionel Trilling's first collection of essays, published in 1950, brought him much recognition and respect. The subtitle set forth the critical approach that was to mark all of his work. see all copies from $6.95! new only from $9.87! \| first editions \| SVS
4	A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us about Life more books like this by Arnold Weinstein 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 $8.70! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Land and Literature of England: A Historical Account more books like this by Robert M Adams see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.40! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Madame Bovary's Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature more books like this by David P Barash, Nanelle R Barash Merging the realms of science and literature, this engaging and provocative critique offers fresh insight into both the world of fiction and the stuff of life to illuminate just what makes great literature great. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
7	Writing to Change the World more books like this by Mary Pipher From the bestselling author of "Reviving Ophelia, Another Country" and "The Middle of Everywhere" comes an inspirational and instructional guide on how to write to effect change in the world. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.53! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture more books like this by Dana Gioia When Dana Gioia's essay "Can Poetry Matter?" appeared in the Atlantic in 1991, it sparked a firestorm of debate and discussion over the role of the poet in today's world - a dialogue in which Gioia participated on radio, television, and in print. One of the more stimulating and provocative figures on our literary horizon, and the author of two ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies more books like this by Betsy Erkkila (Editor), Jay Grossman (Editor) * Explores Whitman's homosexuality in relation to his poetry, politics, and life * Includes work by Eve Sedgewick, Michael Moon, and Jonathan Arac These new essays reject the persistent tendency in Whitman studies to isolate his sexuality from his politics, and his poetry from both. The issue of his sexuality is instead brought into contact with a ... see all copies from $10.45! new only from $20.00! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life more books like this by Professor Martha Nussbaum One of our most prominent philosophers and public intellectuals explores how literature can contribute to a more just society. "Timely and urgent . . . a tract for the times in the guise of a defense of the literary imagination".Morris Dickstein, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW. Index. see all copies from $5.50! new only from $20.70! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860 more books like this by Jane Tompkins, PH.D. What makes a literary classic? In " Sensational Designs" Jane Tompkins argues that it is not the intrinsic merit of a text, but rather the circumstances of its writing. Against the modernist belief that art, in order to be art, must be free from propaganda, Tompkins contends that writers like Brockden Brown, Cooper, Stowe, and Warner wrote in ... see all copies from $12.31! new only from $34.49! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Virginia Woolf and the Real World more books like this by Alex Zwerdling see all copies from $3.65! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Courtly Culture: Literature and Society in the High Middle Ages more books like this by Joachim Bumke Most of what we know of courtly culture from the Middle Ages came from medieval books and behavior manuals, which codified and also, inevitably, idealized the behaviors courtesans exhibited. This study describes the texture of daily life in the courts of the Middle Ages and analyzes the gap between how knights and ladies were expected to act and ... see all copies from $5.51! new only from $12.50! \| SVS
14 view cover	The Witness of Poetry more books like this by Czeslaw Milosz, Czesaw Miosz Czeslaw Miosz, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature, reflects upon poetry's testimony to the events of our tumultuous time. From the special perspectives of "my corner of Europe," a classical and Catholic education, a serious encounter with Marxism, and a life marked by journeys and exiles, Milosz has developed a sensibility at once warm ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.35! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays more books like this by Professor Guy Davenport In the 40 essays that constitute this collection, Guy Davenport, one of America's major literary critics, elucidates a range of literary history, encompassing literature, art, philosophy and music, from the ancients to the grand old men of modernism. see all copies from $3.29! new only from $9.72! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Bloody Crossroads: Where Literature and Politics Meet more books like this by Norman Podhoretz Through an analysis of writers such as Orwell, Solzhenitsyn, and Camus, Podhoretz examines the conflict between totalitarianism and the democratic West at the bloody crossroads where literature and politics meet. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| first editions
17 view cover	Professional Correctness: Literary Studies and Political Change more books like this by Stanley Fish The discipline of literary criticism is strictly defined, and the most pressing issues of the late 20th-century - racism, violence against women and homosexuals, cultural imperialism and the like - are located outside its domain. Stanley Fish raises a provocative challenge in this text to those who try to turn literary studies into an instrument ... see all copies from $2.45! new only from $3.92! \| first editions \| SVS
18	William Blake and the age of revolution more books like this by Jacob Bronowski see all copies from $9.14! new only from $21.95! \| first editions
19 view cover	Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater: Studies in the Social Dimension of Dramatic Form and Function more books like this by Professor Robert Weimann Criticism based on literary or formalist conceptions of structure or on the history of ideas, Robert Weimann contends, has removed Shakespeare from the theater, and the theater from society at large. 'It is only when Elizabethan society, theater, and language are seen as interrelated that the structure of Shakespeare's dramatic art emerges as ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $24.90! \| SVS
20 view cover	Myth, Literature and the African World more books like this by Wole Soyinka Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the foremost living African writers, here analyses the interconnecting worlds of myth, ritual and literature in Africa. The ways in which the African world perceives itself as a cultural entity, and the differences between its essential unity of experience and literary form and the ... see all copies from $2.50! new only from $4.45! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Exiled Royalties Melville and the Life We Imagine more books like this by Robert Milder "Exiled Royalties" is a literary/biographical study of the course of Melville's career from his experience in Polynesia through his retirement from the New York Custom House and his composition of three late volumes of poetry and "Billy Budd, Sailor". Conceived separately but narratively and thematically intertwined, the ten essays in the book are ... see all copies from $29.94! new only from $29.94! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	A Historical Guide to Henry David Thoreau more books like this by William B Cain (Editor) As an essayist, philosopher, ex-pencil manufacturer, notorious hermit, tax protester, and all-around original thinker, Thoreau led so singular a life that he is in some ways a perfect candidate for the historical and biographical treatments made possible by the Historical Guides to American Authors series format. William E. Cain, the volume editor ... see all copies from $3.42! new only from $3.42! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Culture of Criticism and the Criticism of Culture more books like this by Giles B Gunn Giles Gunn's challenging new work is at once a passionately argued defense of the kind of moral reflection once associated in America with the writings of Lionel Trilling and Edmund Wilson and an acknowledgment that this pragmatic legacy must be reevaluated in the light of challenges posed by structuralist and post-structuralist theory. Gunn's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.88! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Ethnography of Reading more books like this by Jonathan Boyarin (Editor) Writing, the subject of much innovative scholarship in recent years, is only half of what we call literacy. The other half, reading, now receives its due in this collection of essays. The essays move well beyond the simple rubric of "literacy" in its traditional sense of evolutionary advancement from oral to written communication. Some investigate ... see all copies from $9.39! new only from $32.34! \| first editions \| SVS
25	American Literacy: Fifty Books That Define Our Culture and Ourselves more books like this by J North Conway Beginning with Amerigo Vespucci's Cosmographiae Introductio (1507), this work examines 50 such books and their authors that are essential to understanding America's character. While many of the titles are familiar to most readers--Thomas Paine's Common Sense--others are familiar but less expected--Frank Norris' The Octopus. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.95! \| first editions

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