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A Burst of Light: and Other Essays

By: Audre Lorde

Price: $22.95

Publisher: Ixia Press: September 2017

Seller ID: 266046

ISBN: 0486818993

Binding: Hardcover

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A Historical Guide to Edgar Allan Poe (Historical Guides to American Authors)

By: N/A

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: January 2001

Seller ID: 131166

ISBN: 0195121503

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), son of itinerant actors, holds a secure place in the firmament of history as America's first master of suspense. Displaying scant interest in native scenes or materials, Edgar Allan Poe seems the most un-American of American writers during the era of literary nationalism; yet he was at the same time a pragmatic magazinist, fully engaged in popular culture and intensely concerned with the "republic of letters" in the United States. This Historical Guide contains an introduction that considers the tensions between Poe's "otherworldly" settings and his historically ma...
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A Reader's Guide to Ernest Hemingway

By: Arthur Waldhorn

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux: May 1972

Seller ID: 230060

ISBN: 0374510024

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A Readerâ€™s Delight

By: Noel Perrin

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Dartmouth: March 1988

Seller ID: 192024

ISBN: 0874514320

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A World Between: Poems, Short Stories, and Essays by Iranian-Americans

By: Persis Karim

Price: $5.95

Publisher: George Braziller: March 1999

Seller ID: 164309

ISBN: 0807614459

Binding: Trade Paperback

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This collection is the first published anthology of writings by Iranian immigrants and first generation Iranian Americans. Wide ranging and deeply personal, these pieces explore the Iranian community's continuing struggle to understand what it means to be Iranian in America. The selections come together to present a rich, humanizing portrait of a growing community Americans tend to view negatively. Many are intimate reflections on the pain of being alienated from the language, history, and geography of one's childhood. Others grapple with the complexities of cultural and personal identity. Ira...
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A Writer's Reader

By: N/A

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Longman Pub Group: June 1997

Seller ID: 211181

ISBN: 0673525058

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Pages unmarked, light wear to edges.
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Abbey's Road (Plume)

By: Edward Abbey

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Publisher: Plume: December 1990

Seller ID: 85420

ISBN: 0452265649

Binding: Trade Paperback

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ABC of Reading

By: EZRA POUND

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Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc: May 1960

Seller ID: 196779

ISBN: 0811201511

Binding: Trade Paperback

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This important work, first published in 1934, is a concise statement of Pound's aesthetic theory. It is a primer for the reader who wants to maintain an active, critical mind and become increasingly sensitive to the beauty and inspiration of the world's best literature. With characteristic vigor and iconoclasm, Pound illustrates his precepts with exhibits meticulously chosen from the classics, and the concluding "Treatise on Meter" provides an illuminating essay for anyone aspiring to read and write poetry. ABC of Reading displays Pound's great ability to open new avenues in literature for our...
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Against Everything: Essays

By: Mark Greif

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Publisher: Vintage: July 2017

Seller ID: 264079

ISBN: 1101971746

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All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors Musicians, and Artists

By: Terry Gross

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Publisher: Hyperion: September 2004

Seller ID: 131070

ISBN: 1401300103

Binding: Hardcover

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A fascinating collection of revealing and entertaining interviews by the award-winning host of National Public Radio's premier interview program Fresh Air. Over the last twenty years, Terry Gross has interviewed many of our most celebrated writers, actors, musicians, comics, and visual artists. Her show, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, a weekday magazine of contemporary arts and issues produced by WHYY in Philadelphia, is one of National Public Radio's most popular programs. More than four million people tune in to the show, which is broadcast on over 400 NPR stations across the country. Gross is ...
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All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers

By: Alana Massey

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Publisher: Grand Central Publishing: February 2017

Seller ID: 99384

ISBN: 1455565881

Binding: Hardcover

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American children through their books, 1700â€“1835. Foreword by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

By: Monica. Kiefer

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Publisher: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press / London: Oxford University Press, 1948.: January 1948

Seller ID: 259860

ISBN: B00DPGE9D0

Binding: Hardcover

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American Notes: A Journey

By: Charles Dickens

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Publisher: Fromm Intl: August 1985

Seller ID: 247019

ISBN: 0880640235

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American Worlds Since Emerson

By: David Marr

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Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press: January 1988

Seller ID: 134684

ISBN: 0870235885

Binding: Hardcover

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Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States (Russian Literature Series)

By: N/A

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press: May 2004

Seller ID: 199640

ISBN: 1564783561

Binding: Trade Paperback

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This collection of beautifully written and entertaining literary essays by a wide range of Russian writers--young and old, funny and somber, angry and celebratory, many being translated for the first time--offers U.S. readers a unique chance to "see ourselves as others see us," to perhaps question how the American dream stands up to the American reality, and to experience the wit and generosity of today's Russian writers.
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An Artificial Wilderness: Essays on 20th Century Literature (A Nonpareil Book, #59) (A Nonpareil Book, #59)

By: Sven Birkerts

Price: $6.95

Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher: April 1990

Seller ID: 191333

ISBN: 0879238070

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Anais Nin and the Remaking of Self: Gender, Modernism, and Narrative Identity

By: Diane Richard-Allerdyce

Price: $15.95

Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press: October 1997

Seller ID: 131169

ISBN: 087580232X

Binding: Hardcover

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Pages unmarked, light shelf wear.
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Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays

By: Northrop Frye

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Publisher: Princeton University Press: February 1971

Seller ID: 248945

ISBN: 0691012989

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Another ego : the changing view of self and society in the work of D. H. Lawrence

By: Baruch Hochman

Price: $39.95

Publisher: University of South Carolina Press: January 1970

Seller ID: 43827

ISBN: B007EJL6AS

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

dust jacket shows light wear...
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Another republic: 17 European and South American writers : [poems]

By: Charles and Mark Strand editors Simic

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Ecco Press: January 1976

Seller ID: 241561

ISBN: 0912946288

Binding: Hardcover

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Anthology: Selected Essays From the First 30 years of The New York Review of Books 1963/93 [30th Anniversary Anthology]

By: Nyrb

Price: $5.95

Publisher: NYRB: January 2001

Seller ID: 191324

ISBN: B001U943QM

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Pages unmarked, light wear.
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Aphra Behn (New Casebooks)

By: N/A

Price: $19.98

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan: May 1999

Seller ID: 270450

ISBN: 0312218583

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Aphra Behn's literary reputation was only really secured in the closing decade of this century, especially by new historicist and feminist critics. The essays collected here present the best of a range of contemporary critical views, discussing both Behn's drama and her prose writings. Janet Todd, a leading Behn scholar, situates the works of the critics included in a broad literary context.
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Aristotle : Fundamentals of the History of His Development - Second Edition (PHILOSOPHY, HISTORY)

By: R Jaeger

Price: $64.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press: January 1962

Seller ID: 262028

ISBN: B000H4DQ7I

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Pages unmarked, light wear.
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Arnold: Selected Prose (Penguin English library EL58)

By: Matthew Arnold

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: May 1971

Seller ID: 257887

ISBN: 014043058X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

By: Jeanette Winterson

Price: $10.98

Publisher: Vintage: February 1997

Seller ID: 65573

ISBN: 0679768203

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

In these ten intertwined essays, one of our most provocative young novelists proves that she is just as stylish and outrageous an art critic. For when Jeanette Winterson looks at works as diverse as the "Mona Lisa" and Virginia Woolf's "The Waves," she frees them from layers of preconception and restores their power to exalt and unnerve, shock and transform us. "Art Objects is a book to be admired for its effort to speak exorbitantly, urgently and sometimes beautifully about art and about our individual and collective need for serious art."--"Los Angeles Times"
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Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery

By: Jeanette Winterson

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Publisher: Vintage: February 1997

Seller ID: 262102

ISBN: 0679768203

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Assembling California

By: John McPhee

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: January 1994

Seller ID: 110336

ISBN: 0374523932

Binding: Trade Paperback

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At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country of the Coast Ranges, the rock of San Francisco, and the San Andreas family of faults. The two disparate time scales occasionally intersect--in the gold disruptions of the nineteenth ce...
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Assorted Prose

By: John Updike

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Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks: September 2012

Seller ID: 65574

ISBN: 0812983777

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

John Updike's first collection of nonfiction pieces, published in 1965 when the author was thirty-three, is a diverting and illuminating gambol through midcentury America and the writer's youth. It opens with a choice selection of parodies, casuals, and "Talk of the Town" reports, the fruits of Updike's boyish ambition to follow in the footsteps of Thurber and White. These "jeux d'esprit "are followed by "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," an immortal account of Ted Williams's last at-bat in Fenway Park; "The Dogwood Tree," a Wordsworthian evocation of one Pennsylvania childhood; and five autobiographic...
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Authoring a Life : A Womans Survival in and Through Literay Studies

By: BRENDA O. DALY

Price: $16.95

Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr: April 1998

Seller ID: 131048

ISBN: 0791436802

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Axel's Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930

By: Wilson, Edmund

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Collier Books: August 1991

Seller ID: 271253

ISBN: 0020128711

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Beat Writers at Work (Modern Library (Paperback))

By: Paris Review,Rick Moody

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Modern Library: February 1999

Seller ID: 218559

ISBN: 0375752153

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg; On the Road, Naked Lunch, Howl: The names and titles continue to reverberate as the Beats remain a vital source of inspiration to successive generations of readers and writers. In their Writers at Work series, The Paris Review has interviewed all the key Beats and their cousins, the Black Mountain School of experimental poets. In this new collection, they describe their art and lives, creating a unique and fascinating record of the writers and their inspirations.Allen Ginsberg interviews Andrei Voznesensky and Amiri Baraka and is interviewed himself, alongside ...
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Bert and I: The Book

By: Robert Bryan, Marshall Dodge

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Islandport Press: June 2011

Seller ID: 182461

ISBN: 1934031372

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew

Collects many of the classic Down East stories told by "Bert and I," as performed by Marshall Dodge and Robert Bryan, in print. Dodge recorded five humor albums as "Bert and I" or as himself and starred in a regional television show that aired on public television in the early 1970s.
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Between the Sign & the Gaze

By: Herman Rapaport

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Cornell University Press: May 1994

Seller ID: 15900

ISBN: 0801481333

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

A woman turns into a piece of furniture (Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest); a writer of children's books takes photos of naked little girls (Lewis Carroll); Mont Blanc becomes the maternal breast (Shelley); Hamlet mistakes Ophelia for a phallus (Lacan's Hamlet seminar); and mom turns out to have thermonuclear arms (Laurie Anderson's United States). Reviewing the ways in which women have been fantasized in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Western culture, Herman Rapaport offers a series of brilliant insights into the concept of the fantasm in modern art.
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Beyond East and West: Memoirs, portraits, and essays

By: Bernard Leach

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications: January 1978

Seller ID: 262786

ISBN: 0823004856

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside

By: Edward Abbey

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Holt Paperbacks: April 1984

Seller ID: 85433

ISBN: 0805008209

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In this wise and lyrical book about landscapes of the desert and the mind, Edward Abbey guides us beyond the wall of the city and asphalt belting of superhighways to special pockets of wilderness that stretch from the interior of Alaska to the dry lands of Mexico.
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Blue Lyra Review Volume 2: an anthology of diverse voices

By: Blue Lyra Review

Price: $6.98

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform: February 2015

Seller ID: 152096

ISBN: 1503166287

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Blue Lyra Review Volume I: an anthology of diverse voices

By: Blue Lyra Review

Price: $6.98

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform: January 2014

Seller ID: 152104

ISBN: 1495346528

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality

By: Thomas Lynch

Price: $8.98

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: June 2001

Seller ID: 241088

ISBN: 0393321649

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Thomas Lynch, poet, funeral director, and author of the highly praised The Undertaking, winner of an American Book Award and finalist for the National Book Award, continues to examine the relations between the "literary and mortuary arts." "Lynch engages the reader with a mixture of poetic and funerary elements....his voice is rich and generous." Richard Bernstein, New York Times " W]hat makes him such a fine essayist is that it's just the business of everyday life and death to him." Los Angeles Times Book Review "Few readers will walk away from this volume less than stunned and grateful." Jay...
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Body Language in Literature (Theory / Culture)

By: Barbara Korte

Price: $16.95

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division: December 1997

Seller ID: 131147

ISBN: 0802076564

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The tilt of a head, the quirk of an eyebrow, or a shift in position can eloquently portray a wide range of emotions without a single word being spoken. Body language is a critical component of everyday communication, yet the importance of body language, or non-verbal communication, in such a verbal medium as literature has not been fully studied.In "Body Language in Literature," Barbara Korte has produced an important interdisciplinary study, by establishing a general theory that accounts for the varieties of body language encountered in literary narrative, based on a general history of ...
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Books & Life

By: Jan Clausen

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Ohio State Univ Pr (Trd): March 1989

Seller ID: 131052

ISBN: 0814204708

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood