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1	Atlas Shrugged more books like this by Andrew Bernstein add to wishlist Who is John Galt? This famous rhetorical question rings through Ayn Rand's best-selling novel as the people's anthem of despair in depressed economic times. Set in the future, the novel follows capitalist magnates as they battle looters, strikers, and the impending ruin of the United States' economy. The romantic and intellectual relationship ... see all copies from $2.63! new only from $2.63! \| SVS
2	Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature more books like this by Martha Craven Nussbaum add to wishlist This volume brings together Martha Nussbaum's published papers, some revised for this collection, on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. It also includes two new essays and a substantial Introduction. The papers, many of them previously not readily available to non-specialist readers, explore such ... see all copies from $19.60! new only from $28.48! \| SVS
3	Shakespeare's Philosophy: Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays more books like this by Colin McGinn add to wishlist Shakespeare's plays are usually studied by literary scholars and historians and the books about him from those perspectives are legion. It is most unusual for a trained philosopher to give us his insight, as Colin McGinn does here. In his brilliant commentary, McGinn explores Shakespeare's philosophy of life and illustrates how he was influenced, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Is There a Meaning in This Text?: The Bible, the Reader, and the Morality of Literary Knowledge more books like this by Mr. Kevin J Vanhoozer add to wishlist Written by a brilliant young author, this book develops an evangelical theological hermeneutic that sees meaning in the text of Scripture. see all copies from $13.58! new only from $16.89! \| SVS
5	The Chronicles of Narnia and Philosophy: The Lion, the Witch, and the Worldview more books like this by Gregory Bassham (Editor), Jerry L Walls, Ph.D. (Editor) add to wishlist Engagingly written for a lay audience, these essays consider a wealth of topics centered on the ethical, spiritual, mythic, and moral resonances in the adventures of Aslan, the Pevensie children, and the rest of the colorful cast. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	What Coleridge Thought more books like this by Owen Barfield add to wishlist Even a casual survey of the varied prose works in which Samuel Taylor Coleridge expressed his ideas on life and art gives immediately the impressioin of irreducible chaos. Beyond the simple physical disperson of these works-the numerous letters and lectures, the involute noteboooks, the several works published and unpublished in addition to The ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $24.51! \| SVS
7	The Nature of the Place: A Study of Great Plains Fiction more books like this by Diane Dufva Quantic add to wishlist 'Persuasive and engaging ...For those interested in understanding how the literature of a region both enacts and undermines its mythical past, Diane Quantic's book is the place to begin' - "Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature". 'This interesting and accessible book focuses on a broad range of mythic Great Plains images and how they ... see all copies from $3.98! new only from $4.45! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	The Sensible Spirit: Walter Pater and the Modernist Paradigm more books like this by F C McGrath add to wishlist see all copies from $2.86! new only from $63.76! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Crossing Color: Transcultural Space & Place in Rita Dove's Poetry, Fiction, & Drama more books like this by Therese Steffen, Therese Frey Steffen add to wishlist Rita Dove is one of the premier American poets. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1987 and US poet Laureate from 1993 to 1995, Dove appeals to a broad public by means of readings, stage productions, and the media. This work is a monographic investigation of the major African American author Rita Dove's writing. The book examines the linguistic ... see all copies from $15.80! new only from $51.24! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Wounded Animal: J.M. Coetzee & the Difficulty of Reality in L more books like this by Stephen Mulhall add to wishlist In 1997, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist J. M. Coetzee, invited to Princeton University to lecture on the moral status of animals, read a work of fiction about an eminent novelist, Elizabeth Costello, invited to lecture on the moral status of animals at an American college. Coetzee's lectures were published in 1999 as "The Lives of Animals", and ... see all copies from $25.49! new only from $25.49! \| SVS
11	Ayn Rand more books like this by Tibor R. Machan add to wishlist New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 1999. Masterworks in the Western Tradition. Vol. 5 General Editors: Nicholas Capaldi and Stuart Warner. Machan's book explores all the major themes of Ayn Rand's philosophical thought. He shows the frequent strengths and occasional weaknesses of Rand's mature philosophy of Objectivism, ... see all copies from $13.96! new only from $13.96! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	The Senses of Walden: An Expanded Edition more books like this by Stanley Cavell add to wishlist Stanley Cavell one of America's most distinguished philosophers, has written an invaluable companion volume to Walden, a seminal book in our cultural heritage. This expanded edition includes two essays on Emerson. see all copies from $5.92! new only from $11.93!
13	The Senses of Walden more books like this by Stanley Cavell add to wishlist see all copies from $5.49! first editions
14 view cover	Sather Classical Lectures more books like this by Bernard Williams add to wishlist Although humanity has changed since the times of the ancient Greeks, this study claims that the differences are not to be traced to a shift in basic conceptions of ethical life. We are more like the ancients than we are prepared to acknowledge, and only when this is understood can we properly grasp our most important differences from them, such as ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $43.95! \| first editions
15 view cover	The Rusted Hauberk: Feudal Ideals of Order and Their Decline more books like this by Liam O Purdon (Editor), Cindy L Vitto (Editor) add to wishlist The rusted hauberk, a chain mail tunic, metaphorically shapes and unifies this investigation of feudalism and medieval culture. Ideas of a fixed historical construct are challenged, the authors emphasise instead that all constructs should be elastic, to allow historical perspectives to expand. see all copies from $2.28! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and Empire more books like this by Kurt Koenigsberger add to wishlist see all copies from $27.37! new only from $31.61!
17 view cover	Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper more books like this by Charles Butler add to wishlist "Four British Fantasists" explores the work of four of the most successful and influential of the generation of fantasy writers who rose to prominence in the second Golden Age of children's literature in Britain. They are Susan Cooper, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Penelope Lively. see all copies from $27.64! new only from $27.64! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Mark Twain's Travel Literature: The Odyssey of a Mind more books like this by Harold H Hellwig add to wishlist This critical study analyzes major concepts in the travel literature of Mark Twain and notes how his ouvre (including his classic works of fiction) revolves around travel as a central issue. The book focuses especially on his representations of time, place, and identity in the travel works "Roughing It", "A Tramp Abroad", "The Innocents Abroad", ... see all copies from $21.75! new only from $21.75!
19 view cover	Lord of the Elves and Eldils: Fantasy and Philosophy in C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien more books like this by Richard L Purtill add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00! new only from $11.89! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Shame and Necessity more books like this by Bernard Williams add to wishlist We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom, and shame, and that now humanity has advanced from these to a more refined moral consciousness. Bernard Williams' original and radical book questions this picture of Western history. While we are in many ways different from the Greeks, Williams ... see all copies from $14.00! new only from $16.41! \| first editions \| SVS
21	Victorian Will more books like this by John R Reed add to wishlist see all copies from $3.92! new only from $4.98! \| first editions
22 view cover	John Crowe Ransom's Secular Faith more books like this by Kieran Quinlan add to wishlist Recent interest in the life and works of John Crowe Ransom has brought to light the many apparent contradictions and discontinuities in the career of this important man of letters. A noted poet, Ransom chose to devote his energies primarily to the composition of prose. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.98! \| first editions \| SVS
23	Heirs to Dionysus: A Nietzschean Current in Literary Modernism more books like this by John Burt Foster add to wishlist see all copies from $3.92! new only from $10.95! \| first editions
24 view cover	Meaning in Henry James more books like this by Ms. Millicent Bell add to wishlist Henry James rebelled against the tyranny and banality of plots. Believing a life to have many potential paths and a self to hold many destinies, he hung the evocative shadow of "what might have been" over much of what he wrote. Yet James also realized that no life can be lived - and no story written - except by submission to some outcome. In this ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $30.50! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Embodiment of Knowledge more books like this by William Carlos Williams, Ron Loewinshon (Designer) add to wishlist WCW, The Embodiment of Knowledge. Early essays. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.14! \| first editions \| SVS

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