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Poets' Meeting : George Herbert, R.S. Thomas, and the Argument with God
William J. McGill
Paperback - $86.95
George Herbert (1593-1633) & R.S. Thomas (1913-2000) each a major English poet and an Anglican priest, lived in very different times, one before the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, and industrialization, and one following. Yet the two men a ...
The Inner Vision : Liberty and Literature
Edward B. McLean
Paperback - $29.95
The concepts of liberty and responsibility have been dealt with extensively from the perspectives of economics, political theory, philosophy, and religion. But a special kind of insight into man's exercise of liberty and acceptance of responsibility ...
Deconstruction Reading Politics
Martin McQuillan
Hardcover - $148.95
This book is a collection of important new essays by some of Jacques Derrida's most significant readers, which thinks through deconstruction's relation to politics.
The Realist Short Story of the Powerful Glimpse : Chekhov to Carver
Kerry McSweeney
Hardcover - $65.95
An aesthetic perspective on the short fiction of Chekhov, Joyce, Hemingway, OConnor, and Carver
A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture
Rory McTurk
Hardcover - $392.95
This major survey of Old Norse-Icelandic literature and culture demonstrates the remarkable continuity of Icelandic language and culture from medieval to modern times.
Comprises 29 chapters written by leading scholars in the field
Reflects cu ...
The Things That Matter : What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say about the Stages of Life
Edward Mendelson
Hardcover - $36.95
For Edward Mendelson--"Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University--"these seven classic novels tell life stories that are valuable to readers thinking about the course of their own lives. Looking beyond theories to the ind ...
Converging Stories : Race, Ecology, and Environmental Justice in American Literature
Jeffrey Myers
Hardcover - $90.95
The Secret Life of Puppets
Victoria Nelson
Paperback - $37.95
In a rare book that allows us to see the world not as we've never seen it before, but as we see it daily without knowing, Victoria Nelson illuminates the deep but hidden attraction the supernatural still holds for a secular mainstream culture that fo ...
Theorists of the Modernist Novel : James Joyce, Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf
Debora Parsons
Paperback - $49.95
In the early twentieth century the Modernist novel tested literary conventions and expectations, challenging representations of reality, consciousness and identity. These novels were not simply creative masterpieces, however, but also crucial articul ...