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Correlates the personality and works of Keats, analyzing the inner division between psyche and rationale that erupted into his interpretations of Romanticism
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9780226147956 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 1, 1971, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Correlates the personality and works of Keats, analyzing the inner division between psyche and rationale that erupted into his interpretations of Romanticism
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9780195073997 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 8, 1992, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Provides a historical look at the role of the critic in American and English literature, from Matthew Arnold to more recent examples
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9780195111378 | Reissue edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, September 5, 1996), cover price $67.00
Product Description: Although long considered the most distinctive American contribution to philosophy, pragmatismâwith its problem-solving emphasis and its contingent view of truthâlost popularity in mid-century after the advent of World War II, the horror of the Holocaust, and the dawning of the Cold War...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780822322283 | Duke Univ Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: Although long considered the most distinctive American contribution to philosophy, pragmatismâwith its problem-solving emphasis and its contingent view of truthâlost popularity in mid-century after the advent of World War II, the horror of the Holocaust, and the dawning of the Cold War.
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9780822322450 | Duke Univ Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Although long considered the most distinctive American contribution to philosophy, pragmatismâwith its problem-solving emphasis and its contingent view of truthâlost popularity in mid-century after the advent of World War II, the horror of the Holocaust, and the dawning of the Cold War.
Product Description: The twenty-five years after the Second World War were a lively and fertile period for the American novel and an era of momentous transformation in American society. Taking his title from the Kafka parable about the leopards who kept racing into the courtyard of the temple, disrupting the sacrifice, until they were made part of the ritual, Morris Dickstein shows how a daring band of outsiders reshaped the American novel and went on to dominate American fiction for the rest of the century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780674006041 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 30, 2002, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: The twenty-five years after the Second World War were a lively and fertile period for the American novel and an era of momentous transformation in American society.
Reinterprets Stendhal's metaphor and tracks the different worlds of an array of twentieth-century writers ranging from realists to wildly inventive postwar writers. This book puts forward an argument that fiction yields rich insight into its subject, and that literature can also be a form of historical understanding.
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9780691119960 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 18, 2005, cover price $46.00 | About this edition: In a famous passage in The Red and the Black, the French writer Stendhal described the novel as a mirror being carried along a roadway.
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9780691130330 | New edition (Princeton Univ Pr, February 5, 2007), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Reinterprets Stendhal's metaphor and tracks the different worlds of an array of twentieth-century writers ranging from realists to wildly inventive postwar writers.
Product Description: The Rise of Silas Lapham, by William Dean Howells, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras...read more
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9781593082871 | Barnes & Noble, March 1, 2007, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: The Rise of Silas Lapham, by William Dean Howells, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras.
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9781587656088 | Salem Pr Inc, September 15, 2009, cover price $95.00
Product Description: This title presents in-depth critical discussions of his life and works. Widely celebrated during his lifetime as the greatest living American poet, Robert Frost remains one of the few poets whose work is enjoyed by scholars and general readers alike...read more
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9781587656361 | 1 har/psc edition (Salem Pr Inc, October 15, 2009), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: This title presents in-depth critical discussions of his life and works.
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9780393072259 | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 14, 2009, cover price $29.95
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9781441762535 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 6, 2010), cover price $44.95
9781441762528 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, September 6, 2010), cover price $39.95
Product Description: A series of introductory essays acquaints readers with the key themes and contexts of Baldwin's work, the culture and politics of his time. Classic and contemporary pieces discuss Baldwin's essays and their cultural and political context...read more
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9781587657016 | Har/psc edition (Salem Pr Inc, October 15, 2010), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: A series of introductory essays acquaints readers with the key themes and contexts of Baldwin's work, the culture and politics of his time.
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9780300203660 | Yale Univ Pr, October 28, 2014, cover price $40.00
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9780871404312 | Liveright Pub Corp, February 9, 2015, cover price $27.95
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9780465026319 | Basic Books, February 1, 1977, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Recreates and reassesses the key events, developments, cultural and political dilemmas, and various movements and achievements of a turbulent decade
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9780871404329 | Reissue edition (Liveright Pub Corp, February 23, 2015), cover price $16.95
9780373122097, titled "A Convenient Husband" | Harlequin Books, October 1, 2001, cover price $3.99 | also contains A Convenient Husband
9780674341555 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 1, 1997, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: During the sixties, says Morris Dickstein, America seemed to be at the gates of Eden--verging on a new way of experiencing life, art, and culture.
9780140116175 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, January 1, 1989), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Recreates and reassesses the key events, developments, cultural and political dilemmas, and various movements and achievements of a turbulent decade
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