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 | TEACHING A STONE TO TALK: EXPEDITIONS AND ENCOUNTERSHere, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings.On Sale |
 | The Way of the StorytellerFirst published in 1942, this classic work is unique in its blend of literary history, criticism, analysis, personal anecdote, and how-to instructions. International story collector Ruth Sawyer (1880-1970) traces the art of storytelling from its earliest...On Sale |
 | Scratching the Beat Surface: Essays on New Vision from Blake to KerouacThis insider's view of the Beat scene of the fifties and early sixties vividly marks the advancement of a new perception of art as 'a living bio-alchemical organism' through essays by a poet and playwright who helped shape the movement.On Sale |
 | An Experiment in CriticismC.S. Lewis's classic 'Experiment in Criticism' springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He argues that 'good reading', like moral action or religious...On Sale |
 | Political Unconscious : Narrative As a Socially Symbolic ActPolitical Unconscious : Narrative As a Socially Symbolic ActOn Sale |
 | Laocoon : An Essay on the Limits of Painting and PoetryLaocoon : An Essay on the Limits of Painting and PoetryOn Sale |
 | Reading Vergil's Aeneid: An Interpretive GuideVergil's Aeneid has been considered a classic, if not the classic, of Western literature for two thousand years. In recent decades this famous poem has become the subject of fresh and searching controversy. What is the poem's fundamental meaning? Does...On Sale |
 | Winter Notes on Summer ImpressionsIn June 1862 Fyodor Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, Dostoevsky also wished to see firsthand the source of the Western ideas he believed...On Sale |
 | The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida and Psychoanalytic ReadingThe Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida and Psychoanalytic ReadingOn Sale |
 | Witches and Historians : Interpretations of SalemWitches and Historians : Interpretations of SalemOn Sale |
| Moving the Centre : The Struggle for Cultural FreedomMoving the Centre : The Struggle for Cultural FreedomOn Sale |
| TEACHING A STONE TO TALK: EXPEDITIONS AND ENCOUNTERSHere, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings.On Sale |
| The Way of the StorytellerFirst published in 1942, this classic work is unique in its blend of literary history, criticism, analysis, personal anecdote, and how-to instructions. International story collector Ruth Sawyer (1880-1970) traces the art of storytelling from its earliest...On Sale |
| An Experiment in CriticismC.S. Lewis's classic 'Experiment in Criticism' springs from the conviction that literature exists for the joy of the reader and that books should be judged by the kind of reading they invite. He argues that 'good reading', like moral action or religious...On Sale |
| Political Unconscious : Narrative As a Socially Symbolic ActPolitical Unconscious : Narrative As a Socially Symbolic ActOn Sale |
| Laocoon : An Essay on the Limits of Painting and PoetryLaocoon : An Essay on the Limits of Painting and PoetryOn Sale |
| Reading Vergil's Aeneid: An Interpretive GuideVergil's Aeneid has been considered a classic, if not the classic, of Western literature for two thousand years. In recent decades this famous poem has become the subject of fresh and searching controversy. What is the poem's fundamental meaning? Does...On Sale |
| Winter Notes on Summer ImpressionsIn June 1862 Fyodor Dostoevsky left Petersburg on his first excursion to Western Europe. Ostensibly making the trip to consult Western specialists about his epilepsy, Dostoevsky also wished to see firsthand the source of the Western ideas he believed...On Sale |
| The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida and Psychoanalytic ReadingThe Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida and Psychoanalytic ReadingOn Sale |
| Moving the Centre : The Struggle for Cultural FreedomMoving the Centre : The Struggle for Cultural FreedomOn Sale |
