Category - Language Arts & Disciplines
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Comforts of the Abyss: The Art of Persona Writing
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Throughout his growth as a writer, acclaimed poet Philip Schultz has battled with the dark voice in his head--the "shitbird," as his late friend th...
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Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In this spiritual sequel to his influential Reading for the Plot, Peter Brooks examines the dangerously alluring power of storytelling. "There's no...
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Writing Poetry in the Dark
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Writing Poetry in the Dark brings together some of the most successful contemporary genre poets to discuss topics related to creating dark and fant...
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Making Myths and Magic: A Field Guide to Writing Sci-Fi and Fantasy Novels
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Do you daydream about dragons, robots, and time-traveling shenanigans? It's time to get that fantastic world that's been stuck in your head onto p...
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A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /First ever critical study of Tolkien's little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to...
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Reaching Inside: 50 Acclaimed Authors on 100 Unforgettable Short Stories
HardcoverOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A moving and inspiring anthology of masterful essays on stories that touch the hearts and minds of readers. "A writer," Nobel Prize winner Saul Be...
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Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"How lovely to discover a book on the craft of writing that is also fun to read . . . Alison asserts that the best stories follow patterns in natur...
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Robert Frost: Sixteen Poems to Learn by Heart
HardcoverOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /Celebrate Robert Frost's 150th birthday with a deluxe keepsake edition featuring 16 of his greatest poems—with brilliant essays highlighting his ...
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The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
HardcoverOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they sa...
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The Life of Crime: Detecting the History of Mysteries and Their Creators
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Winner of four major prizes for the best critical/biographical book related to crime fiction: the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and H.R.F. Keating Awar...
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A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on wha...
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Reading Between the Lines: Parish Libraries and Their Readers in Early Modern England, 1558-1709
HardcoverOriginal price $167.00 - Original price $167.00Original price $167.00$181.99$181.99 - $181.99Current price $181.99| /This book provides an overview of the establishment and use of parish libraries in early modern England and includes a thematic analysis of survivi...
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A Robin's Egg Renaissance: Chicago Modernism & the Great War
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The history of modernism in Chicago, as told by the writers who were there. London, Paris, and New York all have their chroniclers, and now Chicag...
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Becoming Kerouac: A Writer in His Time
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Jack Kerouac was one of America's great writers of the latter half of the 20th century, yet he endured a life characterized by persistent hardship ...
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The Sound of Writing
PaperbackOriginal price $54.95 - Original price $54.95Original price $54.95$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /An interdisciplinary exploration of how writers have conveyed sound through text.Edited by Christopher Cannon and Steven Justice, The Sound of Writ...
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Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages
HardcoverOriginal price $79.95 - Original price $79.95Original price $79.95$82.99$82.99 - $82.99Current price $82.99| /Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë and first published in 1847, has been translated more than five hundred times into over sixty languages. Pr...
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Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages
PaperbackOriginal price $76.95 - Original price $76.95Original price $76.95$79.99$79.99 - $79.99Current price $79.99| /Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë and first published in 1847, has been translated more than five hundred times into over sixty languages. Pr...
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Trim Reckonings
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /In this stunning new collection, DeWitt Henry reckons with a past that is personal, familial, and cultural as well as the present dysfunction of Am...
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Trim Reckonings
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /In this stunning new collection, DeWitt Henry reckons with a past that is personal, familial, and cultural as well as the present dysfunction of Am...
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Becoming Poetry: Poets and Their Methods
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Winner of the Lewis P. Simpson AwardIn Becoming Poetry, Jay Rogoff closely inspects the work of two dozen poets, his forebears and his contempora...
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Becoming Poetry: Poets and Their Methods
HardcoverOriginal price $60.00 - Original price $60.00Original price $60.00$71.99$71.99 - $71.99Current price $71.99| /Winner of the Lewis P. Simpson AwardIn Becoming Poetry, Jay Rogoff closely inspects the work of two dozen poets, his forebears and his contempora...
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Sound-Blind: American Literature and the Politics of Transcription
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /In the 1880s, a new medical term flashed briefly into public awareness in the United States. Children who had trouble distinguishing between simi...
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Sound-Blind: American Literature and the Politics of Transcription
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /In the 1880s, a new medical term flashed briefly into public awareness in the United States. Children who had trouble distinguishing between simi...
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Silenced in the Library: Banned Books in America
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Censorship has been an ongoing phenomenon even in "the land of the free." This examination of banned books across U.S. history examines the motiv...
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