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Against Interpretation: And Other Essays
by Susan Sontag

ISBN 0312280866 (0-312-28086-6)
Softcover, Picador USA

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The first collection of essays by the brilliant critic and writer to be published in book form, containing her best writings between 1961 and 1965. [via]
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Aristotle Poetics
by Aristotle

ISBN 0198141750 (0-19-814175-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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The original, Aristotle's short study of storytelling, written in the fourth century B.C., is the world's first critical book about the laws of literature. Sure, it's 2400 years old, but Aristotle's discussions--Unity of Plot, Reversal of the Situation, Character--though written in the context of ancient Greek Tragedy, Comedy and Epic Poetry, still apply to our modern literary forms. The book is quite short, and Aristotle illuminates his points with clear examples, making the Poetics perfectly readable, the better to impress people at parties when you say, "Of course, as Aristotle says..." [via]
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Aristotle: Poetics
by D.W. Lucas

ISBN 019814024X (0-19-814024-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand

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Aristotle's on the Art of Poetry
by Aristotle

ISBN 0198141106 (0-19-814110-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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This book, "Aristotle, On the art of poetry (1920)", by Aristotle, Bywater, Ingram, 1840-1914, Murray Gilbert, is a replication of a book originally published before 1920. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible. This book was created using print-on-demand technology. Thank you for supporting classic literature. [via]
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Art and Answerability: Early Philosophical Essays
by M.M. Bakhtin

ISBN 0292704127 (0-292-70412-7)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr

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Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) is one of the preeminent figures in twentieth-century philosophical thought. Art and Answerability contains three of his early essays from the years following the Russian Revolution, when Bakhtin and other intellectuals eagerly participated in the debates, lectures, demonstrations, and manifesto writing of the period. Because they predate works that have already been translated, these essays--"Art and Answerability," "Author and Hero in Aesthetic Activity," and "The Problem of Content, Material, and Form in Verbal Art"--are essential to a comprehensive understanding of Bakhtin's later works. A superb introduction by Michael Holquist sets out the major themes and concerns of the three essays and identifies their place in the canon of Bakhtin's work and in intellectual history. The introduction, together with Vadim Liapunov's scholarly gloss, makes these essays accessible to students as well as scholars.
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The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms
by Ross C. Murfin, Supryia M. Ray

ISBN 0312259107 (0-312-25910-7)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan

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The Bedford Glossary includes lengthy (and easy-to-follow) discussions of ideas including such biggies as cultural studies, deconstruction, feminist criticism, gender criticism, irony, Marxist criticism, the new historicism, poststructuralism, psychological criticism and psychoanalytic criticism, and reader-response criticism. More obscure terms--anagnorisis, epithalamium, Menippean satire, kenning--receive shorter but equally careful treatment. This is a clear and comprehensive reference for academics, intellectuals, and anyone else who wants to hold forth intelligently on subjects literary and critical. --Jane Steinberg [via]
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Billion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction
by Brian Wilson Aldiss

ISBN 0297765558 (0-297-76555-8)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson

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Billion Year Spree: The True History of Science Fiction
by Brian Wilson Aldiss

ISBN 0385088876 (0-385-08887-6)
Hardcover, Doubleday

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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
by Roland Barthes

ISBN 0374521344 (0-374-52134-4)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub

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This personal, wide-ranging, and contemplative volume--and the last book Barthes published--finds the author applying his influential perceptiveness and associative insight to the subject of photography. To this end, several black-and-white photos (by the likes of Avedon, Clifford, Hine, Mapplethorpe, Nadar, Van Der Zee, and so forth) are reprinted throughout the text.
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Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends
by David H. Richter

ISBN 0312415206 (0-312-41520-6)
Hardcover, Bedford/st Martins

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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.
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Criticism: Major Statements
by Charles Kaplan, William Davis Anderson

ISBN 0312137451 (0-312-13745-1)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

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Criticism of major statements by crictics [via]
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De Arte Poetica Liber
by Aristotle, Rudolf V. Kassel

ISBN 0198145640 (0-19-814564-0)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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A Dictionary of Literary Terms
by Chris Baldick

ISBN 0198608837 (0-19-860883-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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Containing over 1,000 of the most troublesome literary terms encountered by students and general readers, this gem of a book gives clear and often witty explanations to terms such as hypertext, multi-accentuality, and postmodernism. The dictionary also provides extensive coverage of traditional drama, rhetoric, literary history, and textual criticism. It offers pronunciation guides and suggestions for further reading for many entries, and includes a new preface and terms that have become prominent in literature in the last few years, such as cyberpunk and antanaclasis. This second edition is the most up-to-date and accessible dictionary of literary terms available, popular with both students and teachers of literature at all levels. [via]
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The Force of Poetry
by Christopher B. Ricks

ISBN 0198183267 (0-19-818326-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand

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George Eliot
by T. S. Pearce

ISBN 023744545X (0-237-44545-X)
Hardcover, Evans Bros

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Letters to a Young Poet
by Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Xaver Kappus, Herter Norton

ISBN 0393310396 (0-393-31039-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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It would take a deeply cynical heart not to fall in love with Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet. At the end of this millennium, his slender book holds everything a student of the century could want: the unedited thoughts of (arguably) the most important European poet of the modern age. Rilke wrote these 10 sweepingly emotional letters in 1903, addressing a former student of one of his own teachers. The recipient was wise enough to omit his own inquiries from the finished product, which means that we get a marvelously undiluted dose of Rilkean aesthetics and exhortation.
The poet prefaced each letter with an evocative notation of the city in which he wrote, including Paris, Rome, and the outskirts of Pisa. Yet he spends most of the time encouraging the student in his own work, delivering a sublime, one-on-one equivalent of the modern writing workshop:
Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether you must create. Accept it, just as it sounds, without inquiring into it. Perhaps it will turn out that you are called to be an artist. Then take that destiny upon yourself and bear it, its burden and its greatness, without ever asking what recompense might come from outside.
Every page is stamped with Rilke's characteristic grace, and the book is free of the breathless effect that occasionally mars his poetry. His ideas on gender and the role of the artist are also surprisingly prescient. And even his retrograde comment on the "beauty of the virgin" (which the poet derives from the fact that she "has not yet achieved anything") is counterbalanced by his perception that "the sexes are more related than we think." Those looking for an alluring image of the solitary artist--and for an astonishing quotient of wisdom--will find both in Letters to a Young Poet. --Jennifer Buckendorff [via]
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Literary Seductions: Compulsive Writers and Diverted Readers
by Frances Wilson

ISBN 0312261934 (0-312-26193-4)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr

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Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books
by H. J. Jackson

ISBN 0300097204 (0-300-09720-4)
Softcover, Yale University Press

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From Pierre de Fermat to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Graham Greene, readers have related to books through the notes they write in the margins. In this pioneering book the first to examine the phenomenon of marginalia - H.J. Jackson surveys an extraordinary range of annotated books to explore the history of marginalia, the forms they take, the psychology that underlies them, and the reactions they provoke. Based on a study of thousands of books annotated by readers both famous and obscure over the last three centuries, this book reveals the intensity of emotion that characterises the process of reading. For hundreds of years, readers have talked to other people in the margins of their books - not only to authors, but also to friends, lovers, and future generations. With an infectious enthusiasm for her subject, Jackson reflects on the cultural and historical value of writing in the margins, examines works that have invited passionate annotation, and presents examples of some of the most provocative marginalia. Imaginative, amusing, and poignant, this book will be treasured by - and maybe even annotated by - anyone who cares about reading. [via]
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Meditations on Middle Earth
by Karen Haber, John Howe

ISBN 0312302908 (0-312-30290-8)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press

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If you remember where you were when you first read The Hobbit or the Lord of the Rings trilogy, then this collection of essays by some of fantasy and science fiction's most popular authors is worth a look. J.R.R. Tolkien's impact on fantastic fiction--and its writers--is explored in contributions that range from intensely personal expressions of the power and beauty of Tolkien's work to more analytical examinations of his style, language, and influences.
Standouts include Michael Swanwick's thoughtful and powerful meditation on heroism and consequences; Ursula K. Le Guin's analysis of narrative rhythm and language in the trilogy; Terri Windling's moving reflection on an escape from abuse fueled by the power of fairy tales; and Douglas A. Anderson's examination of the critical response to Tolkien's work.
This is an uneven collection, with a couple of downright clunkers, but it should appeal to Tolkien aficionados who are interested in the master's influence on those working in the field today. --Roz Genessee [via]
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Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature
by Meyer Howard Abrams

ISBN 0393006093 (0-393-00609-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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"The first modern study of the Romantic achievement, its origins and evolution both in theory and practice."Stuart M. Sperry, Jr., Indiana Unviersity
In this remarkable new book, M. H. Abrams definitively studies the Romantic Age (17891835)the age in which Shelley claimed that "the literature of England has arisen as it were from a new birth." Abrams shows that the major poets of the age had in common important themes, modes of expression, and ways of feeling and imagining; that the writings of these poets were an integral part of a comprehensive intellectual tendency which manifested itself in philosophy as well as poetry, in England and in Germany; and that this tendency was causally related to drastic political and social changes of the age.

But Abrams offers more than a work of scholarship, for he ranges before and after, to place the age in Western culture. he reveals what is traditional and what is revolutionary in the period, providing insights into those same two forces in the ideas of today. He shows that central Romantic ideas and forms of imagination were secularized versions of traditional theological concepts, imagery, and design, and that modern literature participates in the same process. Our comprehension of this age and of our own time is deepened by a work astonishing in its learning, vision, and humane understanding. [via]
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature
by Meyer Howard Abrams, Stephen Greenblatt

ISBN 0393151085 (0-393-15108-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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Majors authors edition. This book presents a rich selection of the best and most characteristic writings of thirty-one masters of English literature. [via]
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Norton Anthology of English Literature
by M. H. Abrams

ISBN 0393950395 (0-393-95039-5)
Hardcover, Norton & Company Limited, W. W.

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This anthology covers writers and works of English literature. Among the major works included are the complete texts of Milton's "Paradise Lost" and Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"; Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night"; Beckett's tragicomic "Endgame"; and Achebe's "Things Fall Apart". The 7th edition features works by 60 women writers, 21 writers new to the "Norton Anthology", 20 represented with additional selections or reselected works. Fourteen new and expanded thematic clusters gather short texts that illuminate cultural, historical, and literary concerns within each period. Examining 20th-century literature in English, this edition reflects the global reach of literature in English with ten new authors - Jean Rhys, Chinua Achebe, Alice Munro, V. S. Naipaul, Anita Desai, Les Murray, Salman Rushdie, J. M. Coetzee, Eavan Boland, and Paul Muldoon. "The Persistence of English", a new essay by Geoffrey Nunberg, Stanford University and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, provides a lively exploration of the English language - its emergence and spread, and its apparent "triumph" as a world language. Visual materials are included from several periods - Hogarth's satiric "Marriage A-la-Mode", engravings by Blake, and illustrations by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Period introductions, author headnotes, annotations, and bibliographies have been thoroughly revised, many completely rewritten, for the 7th Edition. New pedagogical features include timelines for each period and revised endpaper maps. The text is accompanied by 2 audio CDs. [via]
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The Norton Anthology of English Literature
by Stephen Greenblatt, M. H. Abrams

ISBN 0393925315 (0-393-92531-5)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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Norton Anthology of English Literature of Major Authors
by M. Abrams

ISBN 0393947513 (0-393-94751-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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This anthology aims to enable the reader to gauge the achievement of principal authors of English literature by providing examples of their most characteristic work. Works featured range from Beowulf written in the 15th century to contemporary literature from the likes of Larkin and Rushdie. [via]
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Norton Anthology of English Literature Package
by Greenblatt

ISBN 0393928330 (0-393-92833-0)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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Read by millions of students over seven editions, The Norton Anthology of English Literature remains the most trusted undergraduate survey of English literature available and one of the most successful college texts ever published.
Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologiesthorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possibleThe Norton Anthology of English Literature has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration between six new editors and six seasoned ones. Under the direction of Stephen Greenblatt, General Editor, the editors have reconsidered all aspects of the anthology to make it an even better teaching tool.
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Once upon a Time
by Max Luthi

ISBN 0253202035 (0-253-20203-5)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr

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A Passion for Books
by Dale Salwak

ISBN 0312218842 (0-312-21884-2)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan

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Nineteen original essays make up this indispensable guide for anyone who is interested in the past and future of books and the publishing industry. This book is intended as both a celebration of the value and importance of reading and a spirited defense against the many gloomy voices in our so-called electronic age that say the book will soon be obsolete. The essays explore how books shape and nourish our lives; why readers turn to books in the era of cyberspace; whether the book has a future; and the many issues that concern academic publishers who are trying to preserve the book.
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Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
by Edmund Wilson

ISBN 0393312569 (0-393-31256-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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The Pleasure of the Text
by Roland Barthes

ISBN 0374521603 (0-374-52160-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthess answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism . . . not only a poetics of reading . . . but a much more difficult achievement, an erotics of reading . . . . Like filings which gather to form a figure in a magnetic field, the parts and pieces here do come together, determined to affirm the pleasure we must take in our reading as against the indifference of (mere) knowledge." --Richard Howard
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The Poetry of Sylvia Plath
by Claire Brennan

ISBN 0231124260 (0-231-12426-0)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr

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The Poetry of Sylvia Plath
by Nicolas Tredell, Claire Brennan

ISBN 0231124279 (0-231-12427-9)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr

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Rabelais and His World
by Mikhail Bakhtin

ISBN 0253203414 (0-253-20341-4)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr

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This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (18951975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation.
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A Reader's Guide to James Joyce
by William York Tindall

ISBN 0374501122 (0-374-50112-2)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction
by Baird Searles, Michael Franklin, Beth Meacham, Martin Last

ISBN 0380461285 (0-380-46128-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces, 1955-1982
by Philip Larkin

ISBN 0374518408 (0-374-51840-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts
by Umberto Eco

ISBN 025320318X (0-253-20318-X)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr

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"... not merely interesting and novel, but also exceedingly provocative and heuristically fertile." The Review of Metaphysics
"... essential reading for anyone interesting in... the new reader-centered forms of criticism." Library Journal
In this erudite and imaginative book, Umberto Eco sets forth a dialectic between open and closed texts.
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Romanticism and Consciousness: Essays in Criticism
by Harold Bloom

ISBN 0393099547 (0-393-09954-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc

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Romanticism and Consciousness is a comprehensive collection of essays on Romanticism - its intellectual and political backgrounds, its place in literary history, its continued relevance to the present age, its relation to psychoanalysis and other modern trends of thought - and on the major English Romantic poets. The topics covered include the relations between nature and consciousness, nature and revolution, and nature and literary form; the principal poets studied are Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Some of the essays have been especially revised by their disinguished authors for this volume; some others appear here for the first time. The scholars and critics represented are Samual H. Monk, Owen Barfield, Geoffrey H. Hartman, J.H. Van den Berg, Paul de Man, W.K. Wimsatt, Jr., M.H. Abrams, Northrop Frye, Alfred Cobban, Walter Jackson Bate, Josephine Miles, John Hollander, Martin Price, Frederick A. Pottle, Humphry House, Alvin B. Kernan, and Harold Bloom. [via]
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Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature
by Elizabeth Hardwick

ISBN 0297768573 (0-297-76857-3)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson

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The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America's most brilliant writers, and Seduction and Betrayal, in which she considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger question of the presence of women in literature, is her most passionate and concentrated work of criticism. A gallery of unforgettable portraits--of Virginia Woolf and Zelda Fitzgerald, Dorothy Wordsworth and Jane Carlyle--as well as a provocative reading of such works as Wuthering Heights, Hedda Gabler, and the poems of Sylvia Plath, Seduction and Betrayal is a virtuoso performance, a major writer's reckoning with the relations between men and women, women and writing, writing and life. [via]
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Sexual Politics
by Kate Millett

ISBN 0252068890 (0-252-06889-0)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr

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"Praised and denounced when it was first published in 1970, "Sexual Politics" not only explored history but also became part of it. Kate Millett's groundbreaking book fueled feminism's second wave, giving voice to the anger of a generation while documenting the inequities - neatly packaged in revered works of literature and art - of a complacent and unrepentant society. "Sexual Politics" laid the foundation for subsequent feminist scholarship by showing how cultural discourse reflects a systematized subjugation and exploitation of women. Identifying patriarchy as a socially conditioned belief system masquerading as nature, Millett demonstrates in detail how its attitudes and systems penetrate literature, philosophy, psychology, and politics. Her incendiary work rocked the foundations of the literary canon by castigating time-honored classics - from D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's "Lover" to Norman Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead" - for their use of sex to degrade and undermine women. A new introduction to this edition draws attention to some of the forms patriarchy has taken recently in consolidating its oppressive and dangerous control." [via]
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The Shakespeare Wars: The Battle to Explain the Bard
by Ron Rosenbaum

ISBN 0375503390 (0-375-50339-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc

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[Ron Rosenbaum] is one of the most original journalists and writers of our time.
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In The Shakespeare Wars, Ron Rosenbaum gives readers an unforgettable way of rethinking the greatest works of the human imagination. As he did in his groundbreaking Explaining Hitler, he shakes up much that we thought we understood about a vital subject and renews our sense of excitement and urgency. He gives us a Shakespeare book like no other. Rather than raking over worn-out fragments of biography, Rosenbaum focuses on cutting-edge controversies about the true source of Shakespeares enchantment and illuminationthe astonishing language itself. How best to unlock the secrets of its spell?

With quicksilver wit and provocative insight, Rosenbaum takes readers into the midst of fierce battles among the most brilliant Shakespearean scholars and directors over just how to delve deeper into the Shakespearean experiencedeeper into the mind of Shakespeare.

Was Shakespeare the one-draft wonder of Shakespeare in Love? Or was he ratheras an embattled faction of textual scholars now arguesa different kind of writer entirely: a conscientious reviser of his greatest plays? Must we then revise our way of reading, staging, and interpreting such works as Hamlet and King Lear?

Rosenbaum pursues key partisans in these debates from the high tables of Oxford to a Krispy Kreme doughnut shop in a strip mall in the Deep South. He makes ostensibly arcane textual scholarship intensely seductiveand sometimes even explicitly sexual. At an academic Pleasure Seminar in Bermuda, for instance, he examines one scholars quest to find an orgasm in Romeo and Juliet. Rosenbaum shows us great directors as Shakespearean scholars in their own right: We hear Peter Brookperhaps the most influential Shakespearean director of the past centurydisclose his quest for a secret play hidden within the Bards comedies and dramas. We listen to Sir Peter Hall, founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company, as he launches into an impassioned, table-pounding fury while discussing how the means of unleashing the full intensity of Shakespeares language has been lostand how to restore it. Rosenbaums hilarious inside account of the Great Shakespeare Funeral Elegy Fiasco, a man-versus-computer clash, illustrates the iconic struggle to define what is and isnt Shakespearean. And he demonstrates the way Shakespearean scholars such as Harold Bloom can become great Shakespearean characters in their own right.

The Shakespeare Wars offers a thrilling opportunity to engage with Shakespeares work at its deepest levels. Like Explaining Hitler, this book is destined to revolutionize the way we think about one of the overwhelming obsessions of our time. [via]
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Shakespeare's Language
by Frank Kermode

ISBN 0374527741 (0-374-52774-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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Among our greatest contemporary critics, Sir Frank Kermode is the author of such classics as The Sense of an Ending, and his recent memoir, Not Entitled, vividly captured a life in letters. It's no surprise, then, that Shakespeare's Language is a deeply significant publication. Reflecting many decades of writing and thinking about the Bard, it meets and often exceeds the reader's expectations.
The author begins by lamenting the fact that general readers have not "been well served by modern critics, who on the whole seem to have little time for [Shakespeare's] language." However, rather than launching into a diatribe against current literary fashions, he proceeds to offer an elegant and detailed account of how his subject transformed him into "a different kind of poet." For Kermode, the rich complexities of Hamlet or "The Phoenix and the Turtle" (an allegorical poem in which Shakespeare juggles love and Thomistic jargon like rhetorical ninepins) mark a whole new level of accomplishment. How to define the change? Kermode notes "the pace of the speech, its sudden turns, its backtrackings, its metaphors flashing before us and disappearing before we can consider them. This is new: the representation of excited, anxious thought; the weighing of confused possibilities and dubious motives."
This before-and-after scenario breaks the book into two parts. In the first, Kermode deals with the plays up to 1600, controversially putting the kibosh on such warhorses as As You Like It. The second part offers 15 detailed chapters on the tragedies, problem plays, and romances. This is classic criticism, written in the mold of Johnson and Colderidge. And while Kermode never pays short shrift to the difficulties of Shakespeare's language, he's even more attuned to its prodigal, inexhaustible pleasures. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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Theory of the Novel
by Georg Lukacs

ISBN 0262620278 (0-262-62027-8)
Softcover, Mit Pr

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Georg Lukács wrote The Theory of the Novel in 1914-1915, a period that also saw the conception of Rosa Luxemburg's Spartacus Letters, Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, Spengler's Decline of the West, and Ernst Bloch's Spirit of Utopia. Like many of Lukács's early essays, it is a radical critique of bourgeois culture and stems from a specific Central European philosophy of life and tradition of dialectical idealism whose originators include Kant, Hegel, Novalis, Marx, Kierkegaard, Simmel, Weber, and Husserl.The Theory of the Novel marks the transition of the Hungarian philosopher from Kant to Hegel and was Lukács's last great work before he turned to Marxism-Leninism.
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The Theory of the Novel: A Historico-Philosophical Essay on the Forms of Great Epic Literature
by Gyorgy Lukacs

ISBN 0262120488 (0-262-12048-8)
Hardcover, M.I.T. Press

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Tolkein Reader
by J. R. R. Tolkein

ISBN 0345298810 (0-345-29881-0)
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Stories, poems, and commentaries by the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

FARMER GILES OF HAM
An imaginative history of the distant and marvelous past that introduces the rather unheroic Farmer Giles, whose efforts to capture a somewhat untrustworthy dragon will delight readers everywhere.

THE ADVENTURES OF TOM BOMBADIL
A collection of verse in praise of Tom Bombadil, that staunch friend of the Hobbits in The Lord of the Rings.

TREE AND LEAF
Contains On Fairy-stories, Professor Tolkiens now-famous essay on the form of the fairy story and the treatment of fantasy.

. . . and other dazzling works, including an introduction by Peter S. Beagle
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The Tolkien Reader
by J. R. R. Tolkien

ISBN 0345345061 (0-345-34506-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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Under Review: Further Writings on Writers, 1946-1990
by Anthony Powell

ISBN 0226677125 (0-226-67712-5)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr

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The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews 1971-2000
by Martin Amis

ISBN 0375727167 (0-375-72716-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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In Martin Amis's War Against Cliché, a selection of critical essays and reviews published between 1971 and 2000, he establishes himself as one of the fiercest critics and commentators on the literature and culture of the late 20th century. (He has already established himself as one of the most controversial and original novelists writing in English with novels such as Money and Time's Arrow.) In his foreword to the book Amis ruefully admits that his earlier reviews reveal a rather humorless attitude towards the "Literature and Society" debate of the time. Yet this only adds to the fascination of the collection, as Amis gradually finds his critical voice in the 1980s, confirming his passionate belief that "all writing is a campaign against cliché."
In the subsequent sections of the book, this war leads to some wonderfully cutting and amusing responses to whatever crosses his path, from books on chess and nuclear proliferation to Cervantes' Don Quixote and the novels of his hero Vladimir Nabokov. Praise for his literary heroes is often fulsome: J.G. Ballard's High-Rise "is an intense and vivid bestiary, which lingers in the mind and chronically disquiets it." But his literary wrath is also devastating in its incisiveness: Thomas Harris's Hannibal is dismissed as "a novel of such profound and virtuoso vulgarity," while John Fowles is attacked because "he sweetens the pill: but the pill was saccharine all along." Often frank in its reappraisals (Amis concedes to being too hard on Ballard's Crash when reviewing the film many years later), some of the best writing is reserved for his journalism on sex manuals, chess, and his beloved football. The War Against Cliché will provoke strong reactions, but that only seems to confirm, rather than deny, the value of Amis's writing. --Jerry Brotton, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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What Became of Jane Austen: And Other Questions
by Kingsley Amis

ISBN 0224619500 (0-224-61950-0)
Hardcover, Cape

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Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940
by Shari Benstock

ISBN 0292790406 (0-292-79040-6)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr

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Writing a Woman's Life
by Carolyn G. Heilbrun

ISBN 034536256X (0-345-36256-X)
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With subtlety and great eloquence, Carolyn Heilbrun shows how, throughout the centuries, those who write about women's lives--biographers andautobiographers--have suppressed the truth of the female experience, in order to make the "written life" conform to the expectations of what that life should be. Heilbrun also examines literature's silence on such vital topics as friendship between women, the female physical experience, and the richness that often imbues a women's later years. Recommended reading for everyone, especially women and writers. [via]
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Writing Degree Zero
by Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, Annette Lavers

ISBN 0374521395 (0-374-52139-5)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux

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In his first book, French critic Roland Barthes defines the complex nature of writing, as well as the social, historical, political, and personal forces responsible for the formal changes in writing from the classical period to recent times.
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Writing Degree Zero, and Elements of Semiology
by Roland Barthes

ISBN 0224022679 (0-224-02267-9)
Hardcover, J. Cape

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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte, Linda H. Peterson

ISBN 0312256868 (0-312-25686-8)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

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