Foreigners
 Stories of Black and White: Three historical figures, black or mixed-race, living at very different times in England, are the subject of Caryl Phillips's latest book. Two of them had come at a young age from the West Indies and West Africa respectively, [... more]
CDN$32.00
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The Country Life
Wierd, wierd, wierd: ...Did I miss something in the novel? I am not an English major, but certainly not uneducated either, and found The Country Life a most difficult and disturbing read. This is English humor? Gees...I used to love Benny Hill, but this [... more]
CDN$13.99
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Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide
The book made my class a joy.: Lois Tyson's Critical Theory Today transformed the 200-level Intro to Literary Studies class that I teach at Aquinas College. Other texts have frustrated and silenced students, but Tyson's book has made my class come alive. [... more]
CDN$36.07
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Not the common definition of "confession"....: When I first heard of this book, I thought that it was a work of fiction. Given my basic knowledge of the Victorian era, I didn't think anyone, much less a writer, would stand up and talk about [... more]
CDN$2.25
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Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics
Intense Revelations: Bakhtin's critique of Dostoevsky's work has revealed so much more to me about the form of this great author's novels than I would have ever been able to understand for myself. What makes Bakhtin such a masterful theorist is his [... more]
CDN$20.84
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Hits
Cutting: I must admit that even though I've known of Nick Cave's music for quite some time through film soundtracks and duets with Shane McGowan and Kylie Minogue, this is actually the first Cave featured album I've managed to acquire. Even though they [... more]
CDN$13.99
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Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms
From Amazon.com: The Bedford Glossary includes lengthy (and easy-to-follow) discussions of ideas including such biggies as cultural studies, deconstruction, feminist criticism, gender criticism, irony, Marxist criticism, the new historicism, [... more]
CDN$34.06
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The Castle of the Carpathians
Carpathian Castle available again after 100 years: This book is apparently a lasergraphic reproduction of the edition published in 1900 by the Saalfield Publishing Company of New York and Chicago. The text reproduces fairly well as it is digitally [... more]
CDN$23.03
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The French-Indian War 1754-1760
Unreliable: This disappointing book comes from the usually reliable Osprey, but the editors and fact-checkers must have on holiday when this came through. The illustrations are muddy, and many are printed backwards! The real howler is that the author [... more]
CDN$21.00
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Hobbit (Graphic Novel)
The Hobbit: Better than Lord of the Rings!: The Hobbit is a good book! The writing style was excellent, and there was enough going for it to keep any reader interested. On a personal note, I found The Hobbit to be better than any of the Lord Of The Rings [... more]
CDN$29.95
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A Grammar of Motives
Kenenth Burke lays out the Dramatistic Pentad: "A Grammar of Motives" was published in 1945 as the first volume in a proposed trilogy "On Human Relations" that was never completed; the second volume "A Rhetoric of Motives" [... more]
CDN$27.04
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Critical Theory Today: A User-Friendly Guide, Second Edition
The book made my class a joy.: Lois Tyson's Critical Theory Today transformed the 200-level Intro to Literary Studies class that I teach at Aquinas College. Other texts have frustrated and silenced students, but Tyson's book has made my class come alive. [... more]
CDN$37.45
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