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126. Cover image for 'Dripping Dry'
Literature, Politics and Water in the Desert Southwest
David N. Cassuto
Explores the convergences of U.S. water policy and the literature of the American West
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127. Cover image for 'The Cat and the Human Imagination'
Feline Images from Bast to Garfield
Katharine M. Rogers
An intelligent, amusing, and affectionate look at cats in history, literature, and art
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128. Cover image for 'U.S. Orientalisms'
Race, Nation, and Gender in Literature, 1790-1890
Malini Johar Schueller
Uncovers the roots of Americans' construction of the "Orient" by examining the work of nineteenth-century authors
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129. Cover image for 'The Gazer Within'
Larry Levis
A posthumous collection of essays, reviews, and interviews by Larry Levis
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129. Cover image for 'The Gazer Within'
Larry Levis
A posthumous collection of essays, reviews, and interviews by Larry Levis
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130. Cover image for 'Becoming a Poet'
Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell
David Kalstone
A celebrated study of Elizabeth Bishop's genius, as revealed through her literary friendships
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131. Cover image for 'Narrative Prosthesis'
Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse
David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder
Reveals how depictions of disability in fiction serve an essential narrative function
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131. Cover image for 'Narrative Prosthesis'
Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse
David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder
Reveals how depictions of disability in fiction serve an essential narrative function
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132. Cover image for 'The Ghost of Meter'
Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse
Annie Finch
A groundbreaking study of the connections among meter, the poetic unconscious, and wider literary and cultural forces
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133. Cover image for 'The Straight Line'
Writing on Poetry and Poets
Ron Padgett
A lively and diverse collection of prose by an esteemed poet-teacher
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133. Cover image for 'The Straight Line'
Writing on Poetry and Poets
Ron Padgett
A lively and diverse collection of prose by an esteemed poet-teacher
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134. Cover image for 'Tourists with Typewriters'
Critical Reflections on Contemporary Travel Writing
Patrick Holland and Graham Huggan
Looks at how contemporary travel writing reflects gender, cultural history, and social class
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135. Cover image for 'The Huron River'
Voices from the Watershed
John Knott and Keith Taylor, Editors
A collection of prose and poetry that celebrates the river and our lives
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136. Cover image for 'Conjuring the Folk'
Forms of Modernity in African America
David G. Nicholls
Provides a new way of looking at literary responses to migration and modernization
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137. Cover image for 'Merrill, Cavafy, Poems, and Dreams'
Rachel Hadas
A varied and generous sampling of more than a decade's worth of prose by an important poet
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137. Cover image for 'Merrill, Cavafy, Poems, and Dreams'
Rachel Hadas
A varied and generous sampling of more than a decade's worth of prose by an important poet
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138. Cover image for 'Points of Contact'
Disability, Art, and Culture
Susan Crutchfield and Marcy Epstein, Editors
A richly diverse collection of essays, memoir, poetry and photography on aspects of disability and its representation in art
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139. Cover image for 'The Writing Life'
The Hopwood Lectures, Fifth Series
Nicholas Delbanco
Contemporary writers address questions of craft, art, audience, and culture
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140. Cover image for 'Blue Notes'
Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries
Yusef Komunyakaa
Gathers essays, interviews, poems, and performance texts by one of America's most significant contemporary poets
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140. Cover image for 'Blue Notes'
Essays, Interviews, and Commentaries
Yusef Komunyakaa
Gathers essays, interviews, poems, and performance texts by one of America's most significant contemporary poets
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141. Cover image for 'The Perfect Murder'
A Study in Detection
David Lehman
Examines our culture's fascination with mystery novels and the authors who write them
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142. Cover image for 'Dancing at the Devil's Party'
Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Essays that explore the meaning of politics, love, and spiritual life in American poetry from Whitman to the present
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142. Cover image for 'Dancing at the Devil's Party'
Essays on Poetry, Politics, and the Erotic
Alicia Suskin Ostriker
Essays that explore the meaning of politics, love, and spiritual life in American poetry from Whitman to the present
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143. Cover image for 'Poetry at One Remove'
Essays
John Koethe
Essays by a prize-winning poet that explore the intersection of poetry and philosophy
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143. Cover image for 'Poetry at One Remove'
Essays
John Koethe
Essays by a prize-winning poet that explore the intersection of poetry and philosophy
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144. Cover image for 'Dear Munificent Friends'
Henry James's Letters to Four Women
Susan E. Gunter, Editor
Previously unpublished letters that shed light on the personal side of Henry James, and on the times in which he lived and wrote
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145. Cover image for 'The Heart as a Drum'
Continuance and Resistance in American Indian Poetry
Robin Riley Fast
An accessible introduction to a wide range of contemporary poetry by Native Americans
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146. Cover image for 'Virtual Gender'
Fantasies of Subjectivity and Embodiment
Mary Ann O'Farrell and Lynne Vallone, Editors
Explores notions of gender fantasy across time and culture, expanding the concept of virtuality to include people and events in history
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146. Cover image for 'Virtual Gender'
Fantasies of Subjectivity and Embodiment
Mary Ann O'Farrell and Lynne Vallone, Editors
Explores notions of gender fantasy across time and culture, expanding the concept of virtuality to include people and events in history
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147. Cover image for 'A Colored Man Round the World'
David F. Dorr
London, Paris, Constantinople, Athens, Cairo and Jerusalem in the 1850s—as seen through the eyes of a former slave
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147. Cover image for 'A Colored Man Round the World'
David F. Dorr
London, Paris, Constantinople, Athens, Cairo and Jerusalem in the 1850s—as seen through the eyes of a former slave
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148. Cover image for 'Catherine'
A Story
William Makepeace Thackeray
A new critical edition of Thackeray's first novel
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Hardcover 1999 $104.95 Available Add Hardcover for "Catherine" to Cart
149. Cover image for 'Responsive Reading'
Edward Hirsch
Collects prose that crosses geographic, historical, and linguistic borders, engaging literature as an international activity
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149. Cover image for 'Responsive Reading'
Edward Hirsch
Collects prose that crosses geographic, historical, and linguistic borders, engaging literature as an international activity
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150. Cover image for 'The Route as Briefed'
James Tate
Interviews, essays, short stories, memoirs--and a recipe by this contemporary poet
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150. Cover image for 'The Route as Briefed'
James Tate
Interviews, essays, short stories, memoirs--and a recipe by this contemporary poet
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