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Product Description: This provocative collection of international essays deals chiefly with mythical, archetypal, and esoteric symbolism in world literature: the mythical heritage in poetry, the relations between archetype and metaphor, poetic symbolism which derives from alchemistic, gnostic, or hermetic tradition, and the relations between mythos and logos...read more

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9780271731377 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, June 1, 1972, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: This provocative collection of international essays deals chiefly with mythical, archetypal, and esoteric symbolism in world literature: the mythical heritage in poetry, the relations between archetype and metaphor, poetic symbolism which derives from alchemistic, gnostic, or hermetic tradition, and the relations between mythos and logos.

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Explores the possible existence of sea monsters through a study of historical and contemporary sightings and accounts of unusual creatures that have been discovered

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9780517177860 | Outlet, November 1, 1972, cover price $5.99 | also contains Aesthetik Des Geschlechts: Prousts À La Rechreche Du Temps Perdu Zwischen Genealogie Und Anti-genealogie | About this edition: Explores the possible existence of sea monsters through a study of historical and contemporary sightings and accounts of unusual creatures that have been discovered

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Product Description: The essays in this volume represent a cross-section of the most important sociological considerations in literary criticism, literary theory, and literary history. Included are studies in the dialects of the literary imagination, literature and its reading public, technology and literature, morals and society, sociological aspects in literary evaluations, the possibilities of relating sociological literary theory with phenomenological literary theory and comprehensive critical surveys of recent accomplishments of literary criticism in the treatment of literary-sociological problems...read more

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9780271011523 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, June 1, 1973, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: The essays in this volume represent a cross-section of the most important sociological considerations in literary criticism, literary theory, and literary history.

Product Description: At present there do not seem to be any fashions in literary criticism-- an impression that this book reinforces. Each individual in this gathering of critics was invited to practice his trade in whatever fashion he liked, and the results show that criticism of literature is going off in as many directions as literature itself...read more

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9780271011165 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, June 1, 1973, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: At present there do not seem to be any fashions in literary criticism-- an impression that this book reinforces.

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Product Description: Book by Haggblade, Berll

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9780538181105 | South-Western Pub, June 1, 1974, cover price $28.95 | also contains Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form | About this edition: Book by Haggblade, Berll

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Product Description: Can one speak of Kafka's heroes as 'characters'? If so, why is it so hard to define their characteristics? If not, how is the reader persuaded to accompany them on their existential journeys, accepting their behaviour as falling within the realm of human logic? This study argues that Kafka's fiction has two conflicting premises: the subjective impossibility of human existence, foreclosing all hope of 'meaning' in individual actions; and the ordered structure of human thoughts which assign meaning to the smallest event and analyse endlessly the behaviour of other people...read more

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9780271011219 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, June 1, 1974, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Can one speak of Kafka's heroes as 'characters'?

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9788424906573, titled "Semiologia de la obra literaria / Semiology of the Literary Work: Golsematica Y Teoria De La Literatura" | Gredos Editorial S.A., December 1, 1975, cover price $50.95

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A critical study of twenty-one novels published between 1923 and 1933, focusing on interracial issues of self-definition, class, caste, and color in the works of twelve black writers of the Harlem Renaissance

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9780023064418, titled "Handbook of Livestock Management Techniques" | Macmillan Pub Co, cover price $84.00 | also contains Handbook of Livestock Management Techniques | About this edition: Recommends methods for providing health care, restraining, handling, and managing cattle, sheep, swine, horses, poultry, and other farm animals

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9780271012087 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, January 1, 1976, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: A critical study of twenty-one novels published between 1923 and 1933, focusing on interracial issues of self-definition, class, caste, and color in the works of twelve black writers of the Harlem Renaissance

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By Gunter Zweig (editor)

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9780127843117 | Academic Pr, December 1, 1980, cover price $139.00 | also contains The Pillars of the Earth
9780127843100 | Academic Pr, August 1, 1978, cover price $156.00 | also contains Jean Toomer: Selected Essays and Literary Criticism, Jean Toomer: Selected Essays and Literary Criticism
9780127843087 | Academic Pr, May 1, 1976, cover price $182.00 | also contains Lightwave V9 Lighting

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Product Description: The publication of this book in 1968 marked the first comprehensive examination of the history and culture of native Americans. Today this work continues to stand as one of the major summaries of the indigenous societies of North America with its explication of such universal subjects as monotheism, war, capitalism, and sex...read more

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9780380014095, titled "Man's Rise to Civilization, As Shown by the Indians of North America from Primeval Times to the Coming of the Industrial State" | Avon Books, June 1, 1976, cover price $1.95 | also contains Computer Games and Technical Communication: Critical Methods & Applications at the Intersection | About this edition: The publication of this book in 1968 marked the first comprehensive examination of the history and culture of native Americans.

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By R. W. Stallman (editor)

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9780837193243 | Reprint edition (Praeger Pub Text, February 1, 1977), cover price $84.00

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A detailed discussion of the evolution of Derrida's ideas concerning language prefaces the complete text of his first major work which questions Saussurian structural linguistics and the metaphysics of presence

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9788120811874 | Motilal Banarsidass Pub, December 1, 1994, cover price $29.75
9780801818417 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, February 1, 1977, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A detailed discussion of the evolution of Derrida's ideas concerning language prefaces the complete text of his first major work which questions Saussurian structural linguistics and the metaphysics of presence

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9781421419954 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, January 4, 2016, cover price $34.95
9780801858307 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, January 8, 1998), cover price $29.95
9780801818790 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A detailed discussion of the evolution of Derrida's ideas concerning language prefaces the complete text of his first major work which questions Saussurian structural linguistics and the metaphysics of presence

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Product Description: In this imaginative and provocative book, Purdy draws upon the work of a such writers as Kurt Vonnegut, Vladimir Nabokov, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Günter Grass, Samuel Becket, and Eugene Ionesco to suggest ways in which novelists explore the unknown...read more

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9780822984597 | Univ of Pittsburgh Pr, March 15, 1977, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: In this imaginative and provocative book, Purdy draws upon the work of a such writers as Kurt Vonnegut, Vladimir Nabokov, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Günter Grass, Samuel Becket, and Eugene Ionesco to suggest ways in which novelists explore the unknown.

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Product Description: In his critically acclaimed introduction to the work of Saussure, the founder of modern linguistics, Jonathan Culler offers a lucid and concise exposition of Saussure's theory of language and an assessment of its place in modern thought...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780801419171 | Rev sub edition (Cornell Univ Pr, September 1, 1986), cover price $37.50

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9780801493898 | Revised edition (Cornell Univ Pr, September 1, 1986), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In his critically acclaimed introduction to the work of Saussure, the founder of modern linguistics, Jonathan Culler offers a lucid and concise exposition of Saussure's theory of language and an assessment of its place in modern thought.
9780140043693 | Viking Pr, June 1, 1977, cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Examines the works, methods, and widespread influences of the father of modern linguistics, whom the author ranks with Durkheim and Freud

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9780405098666 | Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1977, cover price $29.95 | also contains The Sign in Music and Literature

On a fishing trip, one friend catches fish, the other, a cold. There is an advantage for each--and then the tables turn again.

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9780027425703 | Atheneum, March 1, 1978, cover price $6.95 | also contains Conversations With Joyce Carol Oates
9780027425703 | Atheneum, March 1, 1978, cover price $6.95 | also contains Conversations With Joyce Carol Oates

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9780590075190 | Atheneum, February 1, 1978, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: On a fishing trip, one friend catches fish, the other, a cold.

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Product Description: György Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of Plato, Kierkegaard, Novalis, Sterne, and others...read more

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9780231149808, titled "Soul & Form" | Columbia Univ Pr, January 1, 2010, cover price $90.00 | also contains Soul and Form | About this edition: György Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought.

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9781590172360 | New York Review of Books, April 15, 2008, cover price $16.95
9780940322905 | Reprint edition (New York Review of Books, January 1, 2002), cover price $14.95
9780262620345 | Mit Pr, March 15, 1978, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: This collection of literary essays, which first appeared in Hungarian in 1910 when the author was only twenty-five, and in German the following year, was Georg Lukács' first published book.

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9780024281906 | 7 edition (Macmillan Pub Co, April 1, 1978), cover price $90.90 | also contains Conversations With Erskine Caldwell
9780024281906 | 7 edition (Macmillan Pub Co, April 1, 1978), cover price $90.90 | also contains Conversations With Erskine Caldwell

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Birdsong, Robert E.

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9780029167502 | Free Pr, January 1, 1979, cover price $19.95 | also contains Conversations With Saul Bellow

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9780917108242 | Sirius Books, June 1, 1978, cover price $4.75 | About this edition: Birdsong, Robert E.

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Product Description: Russian Formalism and Marxist criticism had a seismic impact on twentieth-cetury literary theory and the shockwaves are still felt today. First published in 1979, Tony Bennett's Formalism and Marxism created its own reverberations by offering a ground-breaking new interpretation of the Formalists' achievements and demanding a new way forward in Marxist criticism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780415321501 | 2 edition (Routledge, October 1, 2003), cover price $200.00

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9780415321518 | 2 edition (Routledge, November 1, 2003), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Russian Formalism and Marxist criticism had a seismic impact on twentieth-cetury literary theory and the shockwaves are still felt today.
9780416708806 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, August 1, 1979, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Russian Formalism and Marxist criticism had a seismic impact on twentieth-cetury literary theory and the shockwaves are still felt today.
9780415050869 | 1 edition (Routledge, May 17, 1979), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Formalism and Marxism examines the relationship between the work of the Russian Formalists and that of such contemporary Marxist critics as Macherey, Eagleton and René Balibar.

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9780203977903 | Routledge, May 17, 1979, cover price $27.95

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Product Description: Shuichi Kato's two-volume history of Japanese literature is impressive for its critical and comparative grasp as well as for its historical scholarship. It is also a unique contribution to the subject insofar as it incorporates the vast spread of kambun (classic Chinese) literature written by Japanese authors...read more

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9780333198827 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 17, 1979, cover price $219.00 | About this edition: Shuichi Kato's two-volume history of Japanese literature is impressive for its critical and comparative grasp as well as for its historical scholarship.

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9781349030842 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 14, 2014, cover price $209.00 | About this edition: Shuichi Kato's two-volume history of Japanese literature is impressive for its critical and comparative grasp as well as for its historical scholarship.

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