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1	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
2	Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare more books like this by Clare Asquith add to wishlist A revelatory new look at how Shakespeare secretly addressed the most profound political issues of his day, and how his plays embody a hidden history of England. In 16th-century England many loyal subjects to the crown were asked to make a terrible choice: to follow their monarch or their God. The era was one of unprecedented authoritarianism: ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life more books like this by Professor Martha Nussbaum add to wishlist 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 $3.92! new only from $10.55! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Political Shakespeare more books like this by Jonathan Dollimore add to wishlist see all copies from $13.00! new only from $28.53!
5	Rules of Art - Genesis and Structure of the Literary Field more books like this by Professor Pierre Bourdieu add to wishlist This is Bourdieu's long-awaited study of Flaubert and the formation of the modern literary field.It was in the nineteenth century that the literary universe as we know it today took shape, as a space set apart from the approved academies of the state. No one could any longer dictate with authority what ought to be written, or decree the canons of ... see all copies from $23.00! new only from $23.46! \| SVS
6	Tales for Little Rebels: A Collection of Radical Children's Literature more books like this by Julia L Mickenberg (Editor), Philip Nel (Editor), Professor Jack Zipes (Foreword by) add to wishlist In 1912, a revolutionary chick cries 'Strike down the wall!' and liberates itself from the 'egg state'. In 1940, ostriches pull their heads out of the sand and unite to fight fascism. In 1972, Baby X grows up without a gender and is happy about it.Rather than teaching children to obey authority, to conform, or to seek redemption through prayer, ... see all copies from $24.03! new only from $24.03! \| SVS
7	What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics more books like this by Adrienne Cecile Rich add to wishlist Through journals, letters, dreams and close readings of the work of many poets, Adrienne Rich reflects on how poetry and politics enter and impinge on American life. This edition includes a preface by the author and her post-9/11 "Six Meditations in Place of a Lecture". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Postmodern Novel in Latin America: Politics Culture and the Crisis of Truth more books like this by Raymond Leslie Williams add to wishlist This book examines the foremost postmodern Latin American writers of the past 25 years and places the current literary scene in its proper political and cultural context. Focusing on fiction from the 1970s to the present, Williams discusses the new generation of postmodern writers. see all copies from $7.17! new only from $80.85! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Shakespeare's politics more books like this by Allan Bloom add to wishlist Taking the classical view that the political shapes man's consciousness, Allan Bloom considers Shakespeare as a profoundly political Renaissance dramatist. He aims to recover Shakespeare's ideas and beliefs and to make his work once again a recognized source for the serious study of moral and political problems. In essays looking at Julius Caesar, ... see all copies from $7.95! new only from $16.75! \| SVS
10	Joyce, Race, and Empire more books like this by Vincent John Cheng add to wishlist In this first full-length study of race and colonialism in the works of James Joyce, Vincent J. Cheng argues that Joyce wrote insistently from the perspective of a colonial subject of an oppressive empire, and that Joyce's representations of 'race' in its relationship to imperialism constitute a trenchant and significant political commentary, not ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $33.24! \| SVS
11 view cover	Shakespeare and Politics more books like this by Catherine M S Alexander (Editor) add to wishlist This important collection of essays from Shakespeare Survey, the first published in 1975, shows a full range of writing on Shakespeare and politics with shifts of focus as diverse as biography, text and contexts, language and film, and from perspectives that are literary, historical, religious, theoretical and cultural. A new introductory article ... see all copies from $3.40! new only from $4.98! \| SVS
12 view cover	The Jack Ryan Agenda: Policy and Politics in the Novels of Tom Clancy: An Unauthorized Analysis more books like this by William Terdoslavich add to wishlist Ronald Reagan prepared for the Iceland summit by reading Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy. In and of itself this is not significant, except for the fact that according to, Reagan, it was the only book he read to prepare for the summit. Overnight, Clancy, a former insurance salesman from Maryland was transformed from mere bestselling author to a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Robert Frost and the Politics of Poetry more books like this by Tyler Hoffman, Jay Parini (Foreword by) add to wishlist A powerful and persuasive new reading of Frost as a poet deeply engaged with both the literary and public politics of his day. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| first editions \| SVS
14	The imperial self; an essay in American literary and cultural history. more books like this by Quentin Anderson add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Ideology and Classic American Literature more books like this by Professor Sacvan Bercovitch (Photographer), Myra Jehlen (Photographer), Albert Gelpi, PH.D. (Editor) add to wishlist This volume of essays brings together some of the best work by Americanists concerned with the problem of ideology and its bearing upon American literature and culture. It projects neither a particular ideological view nor a particular view of ideology. On the contrary: these essays highlight the many uses of ideology as a critical term, and, in ... see all copies from $20.99! new only from $45.00! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy more books like this by Lawrie Balfour, Katharine Lawrence Balfour add to wishlist The Evidence of Things Not Said employs the rich essays of James Baldwin to interrogative the politics of race in American democracy. Lawrie Balfour reveals Baldwin to be a powerful political thinker whose work deserves full consideration by political theorists. Baldwin's essays challenge appeals to race-blindness and formal but empty guarantees ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $6.28! \| first editions
17 view cover	Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England: John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham more books like this by Dr. Blair Worden add to wishlist In this book the pre-eminent historian of Cromwellian England takes a fresh approach to the literary biography of the two great poets of the Puritan Revolution, John Milton and Andrew Marvell. Blair Worden reconstructs the political contexts within which Milton and Marvell wrote, and reassesses their writings against the background of volatile ... see all copies from $25.25! new only from $25.25! \| SVS
18	Subversive Genealogy more books like this by Michael Paul Rogin add to wishlist see all copies from $7.00! new only from $22.95! \| first editions
19 view cover	Cultural Studies of Modern Germany: History, Representation, and Nationhood more books like this by Russell A Berman add to wishlist The opening of the Berlin Wall uncovered a host of political, cultural, and historical concerns. The German past, which seemed frozen beneath the divisions of the Cold War, has re-emerged, eliciting both enthusiasm and apprehension. Russell A. Berman argues that, for the Germans, national unity will mean either encompassing democracy or ... see all copies from $2.61! new only from $2.61! \| first editions
20 view cover	Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action more books like this by Lisa Birman (Editor), Anne Waldman (Editor) add to wishlist As cultural absurdities, apathy-inspiring ambient noise, and political and ecological disasters threaten the 21st-century world, art's role in engaging society and coalescing dissent becomes more apparent and more urgent. "Civil Disobediences" offers a manual for understanding poetry's history and enacting its ultimate power to dismantle and ... see all copies from $4.99! new only from $10.78! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Play of Power: Mythological Court Dramas of Calderon de La Barca more books like this by Margaret R. Greer add to wishlist Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681), one of the great dramatists of Spains Golden Age, wrote a series of mythological spectacle plays for the Habsburg courts. Written when court spectacles were an instrument of monarchical absolutism, these later works by Calderon have often been dismissed by critics as servile flattery of the royalty or mere ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $21.50! \| first editions
22 view cover	Required Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now more books like this by Andrew Delbanco add to wishlist A collection of 11 essays by the noted literary critic and Columbia professor, considering subjects ranging from Edith Wharton to Thoreau to Kate Chopin. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Quest for Graham Greene: A Biography more books like this by W. J. West add to wishlist A look at the life of this elusive writer explores his true ambitions, involvement with tax fraud, mental breakdown, espionage ties to Kim Philby, and other information about this unusual literary figure. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.69! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Insubordination of Signs: Political Change, Cultural Transformation, and Poetics of the Crisis more books like this by Nelly Richard, Nelly Richard, Stanley Fish (Editor) add to wishlist Nelly Richard is one of the most prominent cultural theorists writing in Latin America today. As a participant in Chile's neo-avantgarde, Richard worked to expand the possibilities for cultural debate within the constraints imposed by the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990), and she has continued to offer incisive commentary about the country's ... see all copies from $6.75! new only from $16.00!
25	Partings Welded Together: Politics and Desire in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel more books like this by David E Musselwhite add to wishlist Focuses on questions of class, the role of women in society, the nature of knowledge and democracy and the distinction between public and private in "Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Mansfield Park, Vanity Fair" , and the novels of Charles Dickens. see all copies from $3.16! new only from $37.40! \| first editions \| SVS

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