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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain, Emory ElliottISBN 0192824414 (0-19-282441-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'Book summary:A reliable edition of Twain's great novel, joined with essays that will both provide background for the book and describe the debates Twain's work has sparked. [via]
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- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0312112254 (0-312-11225-4)
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Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0312446489 (0-312-44648-9)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0195101405 (0-19-510140-5)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0192824414 (0-19-282441-4)
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- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: ISBN 0312112254 (0-312-11225-4)
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1885by Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher FishkinISBN 0195114094 (0-19-511409-4)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1885'Book summary:A seminal work of American Literature that still commands deep praise and still elicits controversy, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is essential to the understanding of the American soul. The recent discovery of the first half of Twain's manuscript, long thought lost, made front-page news. And this unprecedented edition, which contains for the first time omitted episodes and other variations present in the first half of the handwritten manuscript, as well as facsimile reproductions of thirty manuscript pages, is indispensable to a full understanding of the novel. The changes, deletions, and additions made in the first half of the manuscript indicate that Mark Twain frequently checked his impulse to write an even darker, more confrontational book than the one he finally published. [via]
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The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Termsby Ross C. Murfin, Supryia M. RayISBN 0312259107 (0-312-25910-7)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms'Book summary: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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- The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms: ISBN 0312467540 (0-312-46754-0)
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Candideby Francois M. Voltaire, Michael Wood, Theo CuffeISBN 0143039423 (0-14-303942-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and apparent folly, misery and strife are actually harbingers of a greater good we cannot perceive, is hogwash.
Telling the tale of the good-natured but star-crossed Candide (think Mr. Magoo armed with deadly force), as he travels the world struggling to be reunited with his love, Lady Cunegonde, the novel smashes such ill-conceived optimism to splinters. Candide's tutor, Dr. Pangloss, is steadfast in his philosophical good cheer, in the face of more and more fantastic misfortune; Candide's other companions always supply good sense in the nick of time. Still, as he demolishes optimism, Voltaire pays tribute to human resilience, and in doing so gives the book a pleasant indomitability common to farce. Says one character, a princess turned one-buttocked hag by unkind Fate: "I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"--Michael Gerber [via]
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Softcover, Yale Univ Pr - Candide and Other Stories: ISBN 0192817302 (0-19-281730-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Candide: ISBN 0312851901 (0-312-85190-1)
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Candideby Daniel Gordon, Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0312148542 (0-312-14854-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Candide, Voltaire's biting portrayal of eighteenth-century European society, is a central text of the Enlightenment and essential reading for history students today. Preserving the text's provocative nature, Daniel Gordon's new translation enhances Candide's read-ability and highlights the text's wit and satire for twentieth-century readers. The introduction places the work and its author in historical context, showing students how the complexities of Voltaire's life relate to the events, philosophy, and characters of Candide. A related documents section - with personal correspondence to and from Voltaire - gives students another lens through which to view this influential thinker. Helpful editorial features include explanatory notes throughout the text and a chronology of Voltaire's life. [via]
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Candideby Burton Raffel, Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0300106556 (0-300-10655-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:[via]In this new translation of Voltaires Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novels irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel casts the novel in an English idiom that--had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American--he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire the satirist a wicked pleasure for English-speaking readers.
Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cunégonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor, Pangloss. Endowed at the start with good fortune and every prospect for happiness and success, the characters nevertheless encounter every conceivable misfortune. Voltaires philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as G. W. Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years. In a general introduction to this volume, historian Johnson Kent Wright places Candide in the contexts of Voltaires life and work and the Age of Enlightenment.More editions of Candide:
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The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literatureby Gilbert HighetISBN 0195002067 (0-19-500206-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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The Classical Tradition:Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literatureby Gilbert HighetISBN 0198811411 (0-19-881141-1)
Hardcover, Oxford U.P.
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The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural Criticismby Joseph Childers, Gary HentziISBN 0231072430 (0-231-07243-0)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Companion to Chaucer Studiesby Beryl RowlandISBN 0195024893 (0-19-502489-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Dawn to the Westby Donald KeeneISBN 0231114354 (0-231-11435-4)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dawn to the West'Book summary:This is the third book in a multivolume history of modern Japanese literature by the world's authoritative translator and scholar of Japanese culture and literature. The Columbia paperback edition, with Donald Keene's new preface, includes an introduction, an appendix, glossary, index, and a selected list of translations into English.
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Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era Poetry, Drama, Criticismby Donald KeeneISBN 0231114397 (0-231-11439-7)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Dreaming by the Bookby Elaine ScarryISBN 0374143986 (0-374-14398-6)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticismby M. H. AbramsISBN 0195019466 (0-19-501946-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism'Book summary:This highly acclaimed volume contains thirty essays by such leading literary critics as A.O. Lovejoy, Lionel Trilling, C.S. Lewis, F.R. Leavis, Northrop Frye, Harold Bloom, Geoffrey Hartman, Jonathan Wordsworth, and Jack Stillinger. Covering the major poems by each of the important Romantic poets, the contributors present many significant perspectives in modern criticism--old and new, discursive and explicative, mimetic and rhetorical, literal and mythical, archetypal and phenomenological, pro and con. [via]
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Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 to 2001by Seamus HeaneyISBN 0374154961 (0-374-15496-1)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Flaubert's Parrotby Julian BarnesISBN 0224022229 (0-224-02222-9)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Flaubert's Parrot'Book summary:Just what sort of book is Flaubert's Parrot, anyway? A literary biography of 19th-century French novelist, radical, and intellectual impresario Gustave Flaubert? A meditation on the uses and misuses of language? A novel of obsession, denial, irritation, and underhanded connivery? A thriller complete with disguises, sleuthing, mysterious meetings, and unknowing targets? An extended essay on the nature of fiction itself?
On the surface, at first, Julian Barnes's book is the tale of an elderly English doctor's search for some intriguing details of Flaubert's life. Geoffrey Braithwaite seems to be involved in an attempt to establish whether a particularly fine, lovely, and ancient stuffed parrot is in fact one originally "borrowed by G. Flaubert from the Museum of Rouen and placed on his worktable during the writing of Un coeur simple, where it is called Loulou, the parrot of Felicité, the principal character of the tale."
What begins as a droll and intriguing excursion into the minutiae of Flaubert's life and intellect, along with an attempt to solve the small puzzle of the parrot--or rather parrots, for there are two competing for the title of Gustave's avian confrere--soon devolves into something obscure and worrisome, the exploration of an arcane Braithwaite obsession that is perhaps even pathological. The first hint we have that all is not as it seems comes almost halfway into the book, when after a humorously cantankerous account of the inadequacies of literary critics, Braithwaite closes a chapter by saying, "Now do you understand why I hate critics? I could try and describe to you the expression in my eyes at this moment; but they are far too discoloured with rage." And from that point, things just get more and more curious, until they end in the most unexpected bang.
One passage perhaps best describes the overall effect of this extraordinary story: "You can define a net in one of two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally, you would say that it is a meshed instrument designed to catch fish. But you could, with no great injury to logic, reverse the image and define the net as a jocular lexicographer once did: he called it a collection of holes tied together with string." Julian Barnes demonstrates that it is possible to catch quite an interesting fish no matter how you define the net. --Andrew Himes [via]
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Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornographyby Roger ShattuckISBN 0156005514 (0-15-600551-4)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forbidden Knowledge: From Prometheus to Pornography'Book summary:An intellectual tour-de-force, Forbidden Knowledge is a study of the ethics of literary and scientific inquiry. Shattuck first approaches his subject indirectly, conducting an engaging tour of Western literature: Adam and Eve, Prometheus, Milton's Paradise Lost, Goethe's Faust, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. He then uses these tales to address the moral questions raised by mankind's tendency to search for dangerous knowledge. He contrasts J. Robert Oppenheimer's acceptance of guilt for the atomic bombings with Edward Teller's dismissal of the same. In his own field of literary criticism he argues against the neutral analysis of immoral works as "pure literature," illustrating his point with a critique of the Marquis de Sade. Forbidden Knowledge is a stimulating and forceful intellectual argument against moral relativism, as well as a practical approach to difficult ethical problems, from genetic engineering to pornography. [via]
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Good Fiction Guideby Hermione Lee, Mike Harris, Douglas Houston, Daniel Hahn, Jane RogersISBN 0192806475 (0-19-280647-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Grammars of Creationby George SteinerISBN 0300097298 (0-300-09729-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Grammars of Creation: Originating in the Gifford Lectures of 1990by George SteinerISBN 0300088639 (0-300-08863-9)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Granite and Rainbowby Virginia WoolfISBN 0156364751 (0-15-636475-1)
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Hamlet's Mother and Other Womenby Carolyn G. HeilbrunISBN 0231071779 (0-231-07177-9)
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Henry V, War Criminal? and Other Shakespeare Puzzlesby Cedric Watts, John Sutherland, Stephen OrgelISBN 0192838792 (0-19-283879-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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How to Be Alone: Essaysby Jonathan FranzenISBN 0312422164 (0-312-42216-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Be Alone: Essays'Book summary:Jonathan Franzen is smart and brash, the kind of person you want as your social critic but not as a brother-in-law. Many of the 14 essays in How to Be Alone, by the author of the critically acclaimed novel The Corrections, first appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, and elsewhere. A long, much-discussed rumination on the American novel, (newly) titled "Why Bother?," is included, as well as essays on privacy obsession, the U.S. post office, New York City, big tobacco, and new prisons. At his best, as in "My Father's Brain," a piece on his father's struggle with Alzheimer's, Franzen can make the ordinary world utterly riveting. But at times, it can be difficult to discern where Franzen stands on any particular subject, as he often takes both sides of an argument. Valid attempts to reflect ambiguity s! ometimes lead to obfuscation, especially in his essays on privacy and tobacco, although his belief that small-town America of years gone by offered the individual little privacy certainly rings true. Franzen can write with panache, as in this comment after he watched, without headphones, a TV show during a flight: "(It) became an exposé of the hydraulics of insincere smiles." A few of the shorter pieces appear to be filler. Franzen shines brightest when he gets edgy and a little angry, as in "The Reader in Exile": "Instead of Manassas battlefield, a historical theme park. Instead of organizing narratives, a map of the world as complex as the world itself. Instead of a soul, membership in a crowd. Instead of wisdom, data." --Mark Frutkin, Amazon.ca [via]
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The Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice Among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939by John CareyISBN 0312098332 (0-312-09833-2)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Into the Looking-Glass Wood: Essays on Books, Reading, and the Worldby Alberto ManguelISBN 0156012650 (0-15-601265-0)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Into the Looking-Glass Wood: Essays on Books, Reading, and the World'Book summary:Alberto Manguel has enchanted hundreds of thousands of readers with his bestselling books, including The Dictionary of Imaginary Places. Now he has assembled a personal collection of his own essays that will enchant anyone interested in reading, writing, or the world. Through personal stories and literary reflections, in a style rich in humor and gentle scholarship, Manguel leads his readers to reflect on the links that bind the physical world to our language that describes it. The span of his attention in these twenty-three essays is enthralling: from "Who Am I?," in which he recounts the first adventures of childhood reading, to "Borges in Love," a memoir of the great blind writer's passions; from his first encounters with the evils of prejudice to a meditation on the death of Che Guevara; from a tour of his library to evocations of such of his favorite writers as Cortázar and Chesterton. A voyage deep into the subversive heart of words, Into the Looking-Glass Wood is fired by the author's humanity, insatiable curiosity, and steadfast belief in the essential power, mystery, and delight of the written word.[via]More editions of Into the Looking-Glass Wood: Essays on Books, Reading, and the World:
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James Joyce A to Z: The Essential Reference to the Life and Workby A. Nicholas Fargnoli, Michael Patrick GillespieISBN 0195110293 (0-19-511029-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'James Joyce A to Z: The Essential Reference to the Life and Work'Book summary:(series copy) These encyclopedic companions are browsable, invaluable individual guides to authors and their works. Useful for students, but written with the general reader in mind, they are clear, concise, accessible, and supply the basic cultural, historical, biographical and critical information so crucial to an appreciation and enjoyment of the primary works. Each is arranged in an A-Z fashion and presents and explains the terms, people, places, and concepts encountered in the literary worlds of James Joyce, Mark Twain, and Virginia Woolf. As a keen explorer of the mundane material of everyday life, James Joyce ranks high in the canon of modernist writers. He is arguably the most influential writer of the twentieth-century, and may be the most read, studied, and taught of all modern writers. The James Joyce A-Z is the ideal companion to Joyce's life and work. Over 800 concise entries relating to all aspects of Joyce are gathered here in one easy-to-use volume of impressive scope. [via]
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Jane Austen: Real and Imagined Worldsby Oliver MacDonaghISBN 0300054491 (0-300-05449-1)
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Less Than One: Selected Essaysby Joseph BrodskyISBN 0374185034 (0-374-18503-4)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Marginalia: Readers Writing in Booksby H. J. JacksonISBN 0300097204 (0-300-09720-4)
Softcover, Yale University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marginalia : Readers Writing in Books'Book summary: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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The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Otherby Walker PercyISBN 0312254016 (0-312-25401-6)
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Middlemarchby George Eliot, David CarrollISBN 0192834029 (0-19-283402-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middlemarch'Book summary:This panoramic work--considered the finest novel in English by many critics--offers a complex look at English provincial life at a crucial historical moment, and, at the same time, dramatizes and explores some of the most potent myths of Victorian literature. The text of this edition comes from the Clarendon Middlemarch, the first critical edition of the novel. [via]
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Middlemarchby A. S. Byatt, George EliotISBN 0192100297 (0-19-210029-7)
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Middlemarchby David Carroll, George Eliot, Felicia BonaparteISBN 0192825070 (0-19-282507-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middlemarch'Book summary:Writing at the very moment when the foundations of Western thought were being challenged and undermined, George Eliot fashions in Middlemarch (1871-2), the quintessential Victorian novel, a concept of life and society free of the dogma of the past yet able to confront the scepticism that was taking over the age. The text of this edition comes from the original Clarendon edition, the first critical edition of the novel. Felicia Bonaparte has provided a new Introduction for this updated edition, which roots the characters and action in the conceptual concerns that that inspired the novel. [via]
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Middlemarch a Study of Provincial Lifeby George EliotISBN 0192504975 (0-19-250497-5)
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Novels of the 1840'sby Kathleen TillotsonISBN 0198711093 (0-19-871109-3)
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On Grief and Reason: Essaysby Joseph BrodskyISBN 0374234159 (0-374-23415-9)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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On Narrativeby W. J. Thomas MitchellISBN 0226532178 (0-226-53217-8)
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On Stories: And Other Essays on Literatureby C. S. LewisISBN 0156027682 (0-15-602768-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature'Book summary:The theme of this collection is the excellence of the Story, especially the kind of story dear to Lewis-fantasy and science fiction, which he fostered in an age dominated by realistic fiction. On Stories is a companion volume to Lewiss collected shorter fiction, The Dark Tower and Other Stories. Edited and with a Preface by Walter Hooper.[via]More editions of On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature:
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Oroonokoby Aphra Behn, Catherine Gallagher, Simon SternISBN 0312108133 (0-312-10813-3)
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Our Vampires, Ourselvesby Nina AuerbachISBN 0226032027 (0-226-03202-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Our Vampires, Ourselves'Book summary:"My central idea: that vampirism springs not only from paranoia, xenophobia, or immortal longings, but from generosity and shared enthusiasm. This strange taste cannot be separated from the expansive impulses that make us human." Our Vampires, Ourselves is not your ordinary work of literary criticism, but rather an entertaining, thought-provoking tour of the history of vampires in Western civilization. The vampires and works discussed include Lord Ruthven, Varney, Carmilla, Dracula, Fritz Leiber's "The Girl," famous film Draculas, Fred Saberhagen's Dracula, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Saint-Germain, Anne Rice's Louis and Lestat, Stephen King's Barlow, films such as The Lost Boys and Near Dark, and countless books. As the New York Times writes, "Ms. Auerbach presents her arguments with wit and clarity ... Ms. Auerbach implicitly rejects the Freudian and Jungian interpretations of these figures as either psychosexual metaphors or archetypes, preferring to see them in sociopolitical terms. But such interpretations need not be mutually exclusive. There is, after all, more in vampire metaphors than meets any one mind's eye." [via]
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Practicing New Historicismby Catherine Gallagher, Stephen GreenblattISBN 0226279359 (0-226-27935-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Practicing New Historicism'Book summary:For almost twenty years, new historicism has been a highly controversial and influential force in literary and cultural studies. In Practicing the New Historicism, two of its most distinguished practitioners reflect on its surprisingly disparate sources and far-reaching effects.[via]
In lucid and jargon-free prose, Catherine Gallagher and Stephen Greenblatt focus on five central aspects of new historicism: recurrent use of anecdotes, preoccupation with the nature of representations, fascination with the history of the body, sharp focus on neglected details, and skeptical analysis of ideology. Arguing that new historicism has always been more a passionately engaged practice of questioning and analysis than an abstract theory, Gallagher and Greenblatt demonstrate this practice in a series of characteristically dazzling readings of works ranging from paintings by Joos van Gent and Paolo Uccello to Hamlet and Great Expectations.
By juxtaposing analyses of Renaissance and nineteenth-century topics, the authors uncover a number of unexpected contrasts and connections between the two periods. Are aspects of the dispute over the Roman Catholic doctrine of the Eucharist detectable in British political economists' hostility to the potato? How does Pip's isolation in Great Expectations shed light on Hamlet's doubt?
Offering not only an insider's view of new historicism, but also a lively dialogue between a Renaissance scholar and a Victorianist, Practicing the New Historicism is an illuminating and unpredictable performance by two of America's most respected literary scholars.
"Gallagher and Greenblatt offer a brilliant introduction to new historicism. In their hands, difficult ideas become coherent and accessible."Choice
"A tour de force of new literary criticism. . . . Gallagher and Greenblatt's virtuoso readings of paintings, potatoes (yes, spuds), religious ritual, and novelsall 'texts'as well as essays on criticism and the significance of anecdotes, are likely to take their place as model examples of the qualities of the new critical school that they lead. . . . A zesty work for those already initiated into the incestuous world of contemporary literary criticism-and for those who might like to see what all the fuss is about."Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewMore editions of Practicing New Historicism:
The Prelude: A Parallel Textby William Wordsworth, J.C. MaxwellISBN 0300027567 (0-300-02756-7)
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The Prelude: Or, Growth of a Poet's Mindby William Wordsworth, Ernest De SelincourtISBN 019281074X (0-19-281074-X)
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The Proper Lady And The Woman Writer: Ideology As Style In The Works Of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, And Jane Austenby Mary PooveyISBN 0226675289 (0-226-67528-9)
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Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-american Woman Novelistby Hazel V. CarbyISBN 0195060717 (0-19-506071-7)
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Resisting Reader: A Feminist Approach to American Fictionby Judith FetterleyISBN 0253202477 (0-253-20247-7)
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A Second Flowering: Works and Days of the Lost Generationby Malcolm CowleyISBN 0233964770 (0-233-96477-0)
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Sensational Designs: The Cultural Work of American Fiction, 1790-1860by Jane TompkinsISBN 0195041194 (0-19-504119-4)
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Sexual Politicsby Kate MillettISBN 0252068890 (0-252-06889-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sexual Politics'Book summary:"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 Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticismby Henry Louis GatesISBN 019506075X (0-19-506075-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism'Book summary:Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s original, groundbreaking study explores the relationship between the African and African-American vernacular traditions and black literature, elaborating a new critical approach located within this tradition that allows the black voice to speak for itself.
Examining the ancient poetry and myths found in African, Latin American, and Caribbean culture, and particularly the Yoruba trickster figure of Esu-Elegbara and the Signifying Monkey whose myths help articulate the black tradition's theory of its literature, Gates uncovers a unique system for interpretation and a powerful vernacular tradition that black slaves brought with them to the New World. His critical approach relies heavily on the Signifying Monkey--perhaps the most popular figure in African-American folklore--and signification and Signifyin(g).
Exploring signification in black American life and literature by analyzing the transmission and revision of various signifying figures, Gates provides an extended analysis of what he calls the "Talking Book," a central trope in early slave narratives that virtually defines the tradition of black American letters. Gates uses this critical framework to examine several major works of African-American literature--including Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, and Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo--revealing how these works signify on the black tradition and on each other.
The second volume in an enterprising trilogy on African-American literature, The Signifying Monkey--which expands the arguments of Figures in Black--makes an important contribution to literary theory, African-American literature, folklore, and literary history. [via]More editions of The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism:
Sincerity and Authenticityby Lionel TrillingISBN 0151826455 (0-15-182645-5)
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Time and Narrativeby Kathleen Blamey, Paul Ricoeur, David PellauerISBN 0226713342 (0-226-71334-2)
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Time and Narrativeby Paul RicoeurISBN 0226713334 (0-226-71333-4)
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Tolkien and the Critics; Essays on J. R. R. Tolkien's the Lord of the Rings,by Neil David IsaacsISBN 0268002797 (0-268-00279-7)
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Ulysses on the Liffey.by Richard EllmannISBN 0195016637 (0-19-501663-7)
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United States Essays 1952-1992by Gore VidalISBN 0349105243 (0-349-10524-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'United States Essays 1952-1992'Book summary:Gore Vidal's reputation as America's finest essayist is an enduring one. This collection, chosen by the author from 40 years of work, contains about two-thirds of what he published in various magazines and journals. He has divided the essays into three categories, or states. State of the art covers literature, including novelists and critics, bestsellers, pieces on Henry James, Oscar Wilde, Suetonius, Nabakov and Montaigne (a previosly uncollected essay from 1992). State of the union deals with politics and public life: sex, drugs, money, Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, The Holy Family (his essay on the Kennedys), Nixon, and finally Monotheism and its Discontents , a scathing critique of Christianity, Judaism and Islam. In state of being, we are given personal responses to people and events: recollections of his childhood, E. Nesbit, Tarzan, Tennessee Williams and Anais Nin. [via]
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The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry: The Clark Lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1926, and the Turnbull Lectures at the Johns Hopkins Universby T. S. Eliot, Ronald SchuchardISBN 0151000964 (0-15-100096-4)
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The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry: The Clark Lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1926, and the Turnbull Lectures at the Johns Hopkins University, 1933by T. S. Eliot, Ronald SchuchardISBN 0156002566 (0-15-600256-6)
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Virginia Woolf A to Z: A Comprehensive Reference for Students, Teachers and Common Readers to Her Life, Works and Critical Receptionby Mark HusseyISBN 0195110277 (0-19-511027-7)
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The Waste Land and Other Poemsby T. S. EliotISBN 015694877X (0-15-694877-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Waste Land and Other Poems'Book summary:After sitting through T.S. Eliot's reading of "The Waste Land," listeners may be inclined to hang up the earphones for a spell. There are no flaws to Eliot's steady-toned interpretation; in fact, his delivery is quite remarkable in its ability to match the poem's constant, somber mood. It's just that 25-plus minutes of Eliot's desolate landscapes--rendered even more real by the author's incessant tones--can wear on the emotions.
In addition to the full-length version of "The Waste Land," this recording includes Eliot's stirring narration of "The Hollow Men," "Sweeney Among the Nightingales," and "Macavity the Mystery Cat." Listen to Eliot read from "The Waste Land." Visit our audio help page for more information. (Running time: 47 minutes, 1 cassette) --Rob McDonald [via]
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The Weird Taleby S. T. JoshiISBN 0292790570 (0-292-79057-0)
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Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennetby John SutherlandISBN 0192838849 (0-19-283884-9)
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Winesburg, Ohioby Sherwood AndersonISBN 0192839772 (0-19-283977-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Winesburg, Ohio'Book summary:Library Journal praised this edition of Sherwood Anderson's famed short stories as "the finest edition of this seminal work available." Reconstructed to be as close to the original text as possible, Winesburg, Ohio depicts the strange, secret lives of the inhabitants of a small town. In "Hands," Wing Biddlebaum tries to hide the tale of his banishment from a Pennsylvania town, a tale represented by his hands. In "Adventure," lonely Alice Hindman impulsively walks naked into the night rain. Threaded through the stories is the viewpoint of George Willard, the young newspaper reporter who, like his creator, stands witness to the dark and despairing dealings of a community of isolated people. [via]
The Wound and the Bow: Seven Studies in Literatureby Edmund WilsonISBN 0374514801 (0-374-51480-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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