Harold Bloom

Ex-library copy with the usual markings. Modern Critical Views Series.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

New Jersey

Gathers critical essays representing literary discussions about Alice Walker and her work, including essays on some of her specific works, Walker's relationship to other authors, and her treatment of gender and race themes.

Alice Walker

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Darrell L. Bock

New York

Answers to the Questions Everyone's Asking

A critique of the bestselling novel "The da Vinci Code" examines various elements of the story to separate fictitious literary creations from historical facts of Christianity.

Breaking the Da Vinci Code

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Bloom's notes test prep

-- Presents concise, easy-to-understand biographical, critical, and bibliographical information on a specific literary work -- Provides multiple sources for book reports and term papers with a wealth of information on literary works, authors, and major characters -- Digests of critical extracts prefaced by headnotes -- The perfect resource for introducing readers to the analytical techniques of literary criticism

Vergil's Aeneid

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Roy Blount Jr.

CD audio book; 4 discs free on scratches and smudges. Abridged.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Maryland

The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; with Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory

Alphabet Juice - Audio Book on CD

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Ander Monson

An Essay Daily Reader - Ex-library copy with typical markings. Some water damage - crinkly pages, staining.

An Essay Daily Reader

The best of Essay Daily--each a writer in conversation with and about an essay, whatever its variety, contemporary and classic.

How We Speak to One Another

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Carrie Mullins

How Literature Can Help Us Reinvent Modern Motherhood

This treasure trove for book lovers explores fifteen classic novels with memorable maternal figures, and examines how our cultural notions of motherhood have been shaped by literature. Sweet, supportive, dependable, selfless. Long before she had children of her own, journalist Carrie Mullins knew how mothers should behave. But how? Where did these expectations come from—and, more importantly, are they serving the mothers whose lives they shape? Carrie's suspicion, later crystallized while raising two small children, was that our culture’s idealization of motherhood was not only painfully limiting but harmful, leaving women to cope with impossible standards––standards rarely created by mothers themselves. To discover how we might talk about motherhood in a more realistic, nuanced, and inclusive way, Carrie turned to literature with memorable maternal figures for answers. Moving through the literary canon––from Pride and Prejudice and Little Women to The Great Gatsby, Beloved, Heartburn, and The Joy Luck Club—Carrie traces the origins of our modern mothering experience. By interrogating the influences of politics, economics, feminism, pop culture, and family life in each text, she identifies the factors that have shaped our prevailing views of motherhood, and puts these classics into conversation with the most urgent issues of the day. Who were these literary mothers, beyond their domestic responsibilities and familial demands? And what lessons do they have for us today—if we choose to listen?

The Book of Mothers

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Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays

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, into six of Shakespeare's greatest plays--A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, and The Tempest.

In his brilliant commentary, McGinn explores Shakespeare's philosophy of life and illustrates how he was influenced, for example, by the essays of Montaigne that were translated into English while Shakespeare was writing. In addition to chapters on the great plays, there are also essays on Shakespeare and gender and his plays from the aspects of psychology, ethics, and tragedy.

As McGinn says about Shakespeare, "There is not a sentimental bone in his body. He has the curiosity of a scientist, the judgement of a philosopher, and the soul of a poet." McGinn relates the ideas in the plays to the later philosophers such as David Hume and the modern commentaries of critics such as Harold Bloom. The book is an exhilarating reading experience, especially at a time when a new audience has opened up for the greatest writer in English.

Shakespeare's Philosophy

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R. Barbara Gitenstein

Indiana

Focusing on the rich context of esoteric Jerish literature, this collection presents in-depth analyses of Jewish-American poetry. Gitenstein defines Jewish messianism and the literary genre of the apocalyptic, describes historical movements and kabbalistic theories, and analyzes their influence as part of the post-Holocaust consciousness. Represented are works by such poets as Irving Feldman, Jack Hirschman, John Hollander, David Meltzer, and Jerome Rothenberg. Gitenstein recounts the lives of such spectacular eccentrics and holy men as the Abraham Abulafia (thirteenth century), Isaac Luria (sixteenth century), Shabbatai Zevi (seventeenth century), and Jacob Frank (eighteenth century) and identifies their theories as part of the history of the literary apocalyptic genre--the literature of exile, the literature of catastrophe.

Apocalyptic Messianism and Contemporary Jewish-American Poetry

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Illinois

Allen Tate and the Augustan Imagination

John McPhee

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

The Patch is the seventh collection of essays by the nonfiction master, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It is divided into two parts. Part 1, “The Sporting Scene,” consists of pieces on fishing, football, golf, and lacrosse—from fly casting for chain pickerel in fall in New Hampshire to walking the linksland of St. Andrews at an Open Championship. Part 2, called “An Album Quilt,” is a montage of fragments of varying length from pieces done across the years that have never appeared in book form—occasional pieces, memorial pieces, reflections, reminiscences, and short items in various magazines including The New Yorker. They range from a visit to the Hershey chocolate factory to encounters with Oscar Hammerstein, Joan Baez, and Mount Denali. Emphatically, the author’s purpose was not merely to preserve things but to choose passages that might entertain contemporary readers. Starting with 250,000 words, he gradually threw out 75 percent of them, and randomly assembled the remaining fragments into “an album quilt.” Among other things, The Patch is a covert memoir.

The Patch

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Philosophy

This sweeping survey of ancient Greek culture covers the greatest works of Greek poets, dramatists, philosophers, writers, and historians. These writings are the foundation of the way we think and act and are important to the student of the human condition.

CliffsNotes Greek Classics

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Thomas C. Foster

Connecticut

A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form

Of all the literary forms, the novel is arguably the most discussed . . . and fretted over. From Miguel de Cervantes's Don Quixote to the works of Jane Austen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and today's masters, the novel has grown with and adapted to changing societies and technologies, mixing tradition and innovation in every age throughout history. Thomas C. Foster—the sage and scholar who ingeniously led readers through the fascinating symbolic codes of great literature in his first book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor—now examines the grammar of the popular novel. Exploring how authors' choices about structure—point of view, narrative voice, first page, chapter construction, character emblems, and narrative (dis)continuity—create meaning and a special literary language, How to Read Novels Like a Professor shares the keys to this language with readers who want to get more insight, more understanding, and more pleasure from their reading.

How to Read Novels Like a Professor

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Raymond Adolph Prier

Hardcover, no dust jacket, both in excellent condition. Price in pencil on front end paper. 

On the Primacy of Texts in Literary Criticism

In their readings of texts, the authors address the topics of theory, narrative, aesthetics, the idea of the text, and of specific moments in cultural history. The chapters cover a range of authors: Plato, Ovid, Dante, Petrarch, Chariteo, Ariosto, Tasso, Cervantes, Kleist, Gode, Edith Wharton, Pirandello, Kafka, Sartre, Saint-John Perse, Paz, Roubaud, Sanguineti, and Tomlinson. They also deal with philosophers: Peirce, Nietzsche, Saussure, Husserl, Marc Bloch, Lucien Febvre, Heidegger, Jakobson, Sartre, Lévi-Strauss, Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, Lacan, Lyotard, and Deleuze. The book opens up our relationships to the past and the usefulness or otherwise of the metaphors we use in our attempt to understand and participate in it. Although Countercurrents deals diversely with literary periods, authors, and critics, it speaks within the civilized and civilizing universe of our language and the texts we create. Running beneath the antihumanistic flotilla that skims the surface of texts for theory, the authors plumb for treasures from the ocean's floor.

Countercurrents

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James S. Hans

Hardcover without dust jacket in excellent condition. Price in pencil on front end paper 

This book explores the relationship between authority and context and attempts to establish the ways in which authority is a function of a particular agent or set of agents, and the degree to which it is a product of a context rather than an agent. The work is not a sociological or psychological study but rather a literary/philosophical speculation into the roots of our conceptions of authority. It declares all authority to be aesthetic in nature and is based on an analysis of several key texts from various different cultural backgrounds: Foucault, Weber, Nietzsche, Confucius, and Homer.

Contextual Authority and Aesthetic Truth

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Annie Sarac

A must-have for any book-loving child or family! This beautifully illustrated collection offers quotes from both historical and modern classics for today's kids. Centered around relevant themes, such as being different, friendship, and taking risks, these inspirational words from some of the most creative minds in children's literature remind readers of timeless wisdom that sparks imagination and joy. Over 170 beloved children's books are found in this treasury, including: A Single Shard Because of Winn-Dixie Charlotte's Web Corduroy El Deafo Harriet the Spy Little Women Look Both Ways Redwall: The Legend of Luke The Borrowers The Crossover The Hobbit The Mysterious Benedict Society The Runaway Bunny The Wind in the Willows Touching Spirit Bear We Are Water Protectors Where the Mountain Meets the Moon Winnie-the-Pooh "Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny." - The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis "Home is wherever you are with the people you love. And that is always the best place to be!" - The Tía Lola Stories: How Tía Lola Came to (Visit) Stay, Julia Alvarez "You're mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are." - Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll "We must ask ourselves these questions as often as we dare. How will the world change if we do not question it?" - The Magician's Elephant, Kate DiCamillo

Inspiring Quotes from Children's Classics

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Ian Robinson

Peter Robinson

1972 Cambridge U Press. The book is in great shape. One name-plate sticker inside the front cover from the previous owner. No annotations. The jacket has some minor rips and wear. It’s also clipped. 

New Mexico

Chaucer and the English Tradition

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

California

A reprint of the J. Howell edition entitled Sketches of the sixties . . . (1926) which was a collection of Twain and Harte pieces from The California, 1964-67. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

California Sketches

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Four in the Morning: Essays

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Published 1965, 1st Edition/Dust Jacket; ex-library copy with many of the usual borrower stamps/markings to internal text. 20th Century Views Series. ISBN: 0134488296 / 9780134488295

Ibsen: A Collection of Critical Essays

Geoff Dyer

Alaska

Selected Essays and Reviews

*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism*
*ANew York TimesBook Review Editors' Choice*
*ANew York Times Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year, as selected by Dwight Garner*

Geoff Dyer has earned the devotion of passionate fans on both sides of the Atlantic through his wildly inventive, romantic novels as well as several brilliant, uncategorizable works of nonfiction. All the while he has been writing some of the wittiest, most incisive criticism we have on an astonishing array of subjects--music, literature, photography, and travel journalism--that, in Dyer's expert hands, becomes a kind of irresistible self-reportage.

Otherwise Known as the Human Conditioncollects twenty-five years of essays, reviews, and misadventures. Here he is pursuing the shadow of Camus in Algeria and remembering life on the dole in Brixton in the 1980s; reflecting on Richard Avedon and Ruth Orkin, on the status of jazz and the wonderous Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, on the sculptor ZadKine and the saxophonist David Murray (in the same essay), on his heroes Rebecca West and Ryszard Kapus´cin´ski, on haute couture and sex in hotels. Whatever he writes about, his responses never fail to surprise. For Dyer there is no division between the reflective work of the critic and the novelist's commitment to lived experience: they are mutually illuminating ways to sharpen our perceptions. His is the rare body of work that manages to both frame our world and enlarge it.

Otherwise Known as the Human Condition

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Louisiana

Postmodern Pooh

The Poetry of Engagement 

Marianne Moore

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Alan C. Purves

This book redefines the nature of textual difficulty in literature and shows the implications of the new definition for teachers at all levels of education. Contrary to the traditional use of grade levels or readability formulae, the authors redefine difficulty in terms of readers and the texts they meet. They base their arguments on contemporary linguistic theory, on historical and comparative studies of criticism, on literary theory about readers and texts, on post-Freudian psychology, on empirical research concerning the nature of reading literature, and on studies of classrooms, curricula, and testing. What emerges is a coherent work that builds a case for seeing difficulty in literature as a human phenomenon more than a textual one.

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Contextual Authority and Aesthetic Truth

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Ibsen: A Collection of Critical Essays

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Otherwise Known as the Human Condition

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Alan C. Purves

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Darrell L. Bock

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