Literary Criticism Books


On Suicide: Great Writers on the Ultimate Question Best Price: $18.70 This collection of essays, short stories, and poems all deal with the "Ultimate...	Travelers, Immigrants, Inmates: Essays in Estrangement Best Price: $15.00 Travelers, Immigrants, Inmates was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions uses...	Before Intimacy: Asocial Sexuality in Early Modern England Best Price: $65.97 Before the eighteenth-century rise of the ideology of intimacy, sexuality was defined not by...	Writing the Love of Boys: Origins of Bishonen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature Best Price: $24.65 Despite its centuries-long tradition of literary and artistic depictions of love between men,...	Hispanisms and Homosexualities (Series Q) Best Price: $11.97 This is a collection of academic essays on gay cultural products from Latin America, Latino...



Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Perverse Modernities) Best Price: $20.70 Time Binds is a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that...	The Moral Imagination: Essays on Literature and Ethics Best Price: $64.64	The Harris Guide 2001: The Comprehensive Guide to the GLBT Press Best Price: $29.99 I bought the book the other day and it literally paid for itself in the first day when I sold an...	In the Life: A Black Gay Anthology Best Price: $13.79 In the Life , an expression which means being gay, is also the title of this collection of...	Hold Tight Best Price: $103.50 Hold Tight confirms Christopher Bram's status as one of the outstanding gay novelists of our...



Sappho's Gymnasium Best Price: $7.09 I bought Sappho's Gymnasium by Olga Broumas and T Begley on the basis of the first-lines...	Latina Lesbian Writers and Artists Best Price: $36.64 Explore a little-known side of the lesbian artistic world! With this book, you?ll explore the...	Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love: "Live Oak, with Moss" and "Calamus" (Iowa Whitman Series) Best Price: $12.95 Betsy Erkkila's Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love can be viewed as...	Conversations with Samuel R. Delany (Literary Conversations) Best Price: $13.89 A key figure in modern science fiction and fantasy, Samuel R. Delany (b. 1942) is also one of...	Gay San Francisco: Eyewitness Drummer Vol. 1 (Issues 14-20) Best Price: $24.76 Dripping with steamy details, mingling with love of sex and art and the art that made sex, and...

Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality Nineteenth-Century Writings on Homosexuality collects together texts concerned with same-sex...	In a Queer Time and Place (Sexual Cultures) In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity , Judith Halberstam...	The Golden Age of Gay Fiction It was the first great explosion of gay writing in history. These books were about gay...	Queer Constellations: Subcultural Space In The Wake Of The City Queer Constellations investigates the dreams and catastrophes of recent urban history viewed...	Rereading Victorian Fiction Best Price: $30.48 These essays on novels and short stories from the beginning of Victoria's reign to our own...

Gay Male Fiction Since Stonewall: Ideology, Conflict, and Aesthetics (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature) Best Price: $39.31 The conflict between assimilationism and radicalism that has riven gay culture since Stonewall...	Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy In this arresting book, Wai Chee Dimock takes on the philosophical tradition from Kant to Rawls,...	Sapphism on Screen: Lesbian Desire in French and Francophone Cinema Best Price: $85.91 This book sets out to investigate and theorise mediations of lesbian desire in a substantial...	Willa Cather's Sexual Aesthetics and the Male Homosexual Literary Tradition Best Price: $17.94 In this first full-length study of male homosexuality in Cather's short stories and novels,...	Lovers and Beloveds: Sexual Otherness in Southern Fiction, 1936-1961 (Southern Literary Studies) Best Price: $37.50 A book by a man who has read a number of texts with a fine tooth comb, looking for examples of...

Stein, Bishop, and Rich: Lyrics of Love, War, and Place Best Price: $19.95 In an insightful and provocative juxtaposition, Margaret Dickie examines the poetry of three...	Homosexual Characters in YA Novels Best Price: $40.94 In this book, first published in 1987 as a doctoral dissertation, Cuseo thematically analyzes...	Lesbian Erotics (Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life & Literature) Best Price: $4.36 The question of whether lesbians have sex, how they have sex, and when they began having sex has...	About Face: Depicting the Self in the Written and Visual Arts Best Price: $59.99 How do we represent ouselves and the cultures we live in? Is it possible to trace any boundaries...	Focus on the Fabulous: Colorado Glbt Voices Best Price: $14.25 Kudos to the publishers and the editor of Focus on the Fabulous. Focus is a well crafted...

Circa 2000: Lesbian Fiction at the Millennium Best Price: $3.80 An excerpt by Emma Donoghue The Fox on the Line Any other June, we would be in Hengwrt by...	Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Teen Literature: A Guide to Reading Interests (Genreflecting Advisory Series) Best Price: $44.99 Aimed at librarians and readers' advisors who serve teens, this is a guide to outstanding...	Sex, Nation and Dissent in Irish Writing (Literary criticism) Best Price: $32.45 This pioneering collection of essays sets out to examine the relationship between nationalism...	Intimacies Two gifted and highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, here present a...	Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality We believe we know our bodies intimately& mdash;that their material reality is certain and...

Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship (Between Men~Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies) Winner of a Ruth Benedict Prize in Anthropology This classic text, originally published in 1991...	What Literature Teaches Us about Emotion (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction) Literature provides us with otherwise unavailable insights into the ways emotions are produced,...	Complete Poems (Vintage) A literary event--published together in one paperback volume for the first time: the brilliant,...	Is the Rectum a Grave?: and Other Essays Best Price: $70.64 Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in...	Pornography, the Theory: What Utilitarianism Did to Action Best Price: $21.43 Pornography first developed in western Europe during the late eighteenth century in tandem with...

Identities (A Critical Inquiry Book) Best Price: $37.50 The study of identity crosses all disciplinary borders to address such issues as the multiple...	The Apparitional Lesbian Best Price: $12.95 This is a fabulous book full of sharp observations, mordant wit, and a crisp, almost epigramatic...	De Los Otros: Intimacy and Homosexuality among Mexican Men Best Price: $18.09 Dr. Carrier is a phenomenal ethnographer and writer. He's done a magnificent job in...	An Evening at the Garden of Allah. A Gay Cabaret Best Price: $45.00 What an amazing find this book was! The authors artfully unveil the little-known world of drag...	Experiencing HIV Best Price: $2.25 -- Gary Kinsman, author of The Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero Sexualities

Poems Between Women Best Price: $3.99 this book is fabulous! Emma Donoghue's introduction provides fascinating contextual...	T. S. Eliot's Personal Waste Land: Exorcism of the Demons Best Price: $24.95 A major reinterpretation, T.S. Eliot's Personal Waste Land: Exorcism of the Demons takes...	The Wounded Heart: Writing on Cherríe Moraga (Chicana Matters Series, Deena J. González and Antonia Castañeda, editors) Best Price: $19.99 In her work as poet, essayist, editor, dramatist, and public intellectual, Chicana lesbian...	Courtly Desire and Medieval Homophobia: The Legitimation of Sexual Pleasure in `Cleanness` and Its Contexts Best Price: $17.41 In the first comprehensive study of Cleanness and its medieval contexts, Elizabeth B. Keiser...	Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States : Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States: Volume 1

The Pursuit of Happiness Best Price: $44.06 Peter Quennell has been fascinated by the subject of happiness since early childhood, when he...	Outside the Lines: Talking with Contemporary Gay Poets Best Price: $59.54 I don't think it's fair of Publishers Weekly to compare Christopher Hennessy, the brainy...	Reading Psychosis: Readers, Texts and Psychoanalysis Best Price: $33.52 Evelyne Keitel suggests that certain contemporary novels can alternately create states of acute...	On Brokeback Mountain: Meditations about Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the Film Best Price: $89.34 Every once in a while a film comes along that changes your life forever. From box-office...	On Brokeback Mountain: Meditations about Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the Film Best Price: $34.83 I get emotional about BBM. 1st, I LOVE the film. Oh, I like Ms. Proulx's story too, but I...

Masculinities without Men?: Female Masculinity in Twentieth-Century Fictions (Sexuality Studies Series) Best Price: $30.93 Conventional ideas about gender and sexuality dictate that people born with male bodies...	Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond (Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts) The pioneering work of Johann Winckelmann (1717-1768) identified a homoerotic appreciation of...	Schooling Sex: Libertine Literature and Erotic Education in Italy, France, and England 1534-1685 Best Price: $159.77 Schooling Sex is the first full history of early modern libertine literature and its reception,...	Homosexual Desire in Shakespeare's England: A Cultural Poetics Best Price: $34.99 In the most comprehensive study yet of homosexuality in the English Renaissance, Bruce R. Smith...	Strangers to Ourselves Best Price: $34.99 The most interesting sections of this work are the earliest chapters; Kristeva seems to run out...

The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature Best Price: $19.00 No matter what your lifestyle or who in the past had one that was the same, all the authors in...	The Columbia Reader on Lesbians & Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics Best Price: $29.95 I need the book for a human diversity class and i was very pleased with the book. it came in...	Sappho Goes to Law School Best Price: $8.90 Robson is an openly lesbian, politically progressive law professor. (In later articles, she has...	Noel Coward & Radclyffe Hall: Kindred Spirits A literary exploration of the friendship between Noël Coward and Radclyffe Hall, this book...	Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Experiences Best Price: $120.00 Designed for both the undergraduate and graduate classroom, this selection of important articles...

Between a Man and a Woman?: Why Conservatives Oppose Same-Sex Marriage (Gender, Theory, and Religion) Best Price: $18.99 Through a probing investigation of conservative Christianity and its response to an issue that,...	Complete Poems (Vintage) A literary event--published together in one paperback volume for the first time: the brilliant,...	Is the Rectum a Grave?: and Other Essays Best Price: $70.64 Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in...	Pornography, the Theory: What Utilitarianism Did to Action Best Price: $21.43 Pornography first developed in western Europe during the late eighteenth century in tandem with...	Identities (A Critical Inquiry Book) Best Price: $37.50 The study of identity crosses all disciplinary borders to address such issues as the multiple...

The Apparitional Lesbian Best Price: $12.95 This is a fabulous book full of sharp observations, mordant wit, and a crisp, almost epigramatic...	De Los Otros: Intimacy and Homosexuality among Mexican Men Best Price: $18.09 Dr. Carrier is a phenomenal ethnographer and writer. He's done a magnificent job in...	An Evening at the Garden of Allah. A Gay Cabaret Best Price: $45.00 What an amazing find this book was! The authors artfully unveil the little-known world of drag...	Experiencing HIV Best Price: $2.25 -- Gary Kinsman, author of The Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero Sexualities	Poems Between Women Best Price: $3.99 this book is fabulous! Emma Donoghue's introduction provides fascinating contextual...

Aberrations In Black: Toward A Queer Of Color Critique (Critical American Studies) Best Price: $75.41 The sociology of race relations in America typically describes an intersection of poverty, race,...	After Sex?: On Writing since Queer Theory (Series Q) Best Price: $21.12 Since queer theory originated in the early 1990s, its insights and modes of analysis have been...	"Swords in Myrtle Dress'D": Towards a Rhetoric of Sodom : Gay Readings of Homosexual Politics and Poetics in the Eighteenth Century Best Price: $37.95	Homo Americanus: Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, and Queer Masculinities Though separated by only eleven years in age, Hemingway and Williams seem literary generations...	Emotion As Meaning: The Literary Case for How We Imagine Best Price: $41.00 Emotion As Meaning: The Literary Case for How We Imagine by Keith M. Opdahl (Bucknell University...

The Book of Sodom Best Price: $15.50 This is an absorbing, well-written book that should appeal to anyone who wants a full...	Beyond Definition: New Writing from Gay and Lebian San Francisco Best Price: $6.25 intro by Susie Bright/the quintessence of queer SF	Sex Variant Women in Literature Best Price: $5.99 Book arrived before stated time and in very good condition. Packaged well. Found it to be good...	Blood Moon's Guide to Gay and Lesbian Film (Second Edition): Smashing Barriers, the Superhero As Gay Icon (Annual Film Guides) Best Price: $21.95 Here, assembled into one comprehensive volume, is a rundown of the year's most intriguing...	Out in Paperback: A Visual History of Gay Pulps Out in Paperback is a wonderfully entertaining look at gay mass-market paperback cover art that...

Marked Men Best Price: $21.68 White men still hold most of the political and economic cards in the United States; yet stories...	Willa Cather: Queering America Best Price: $16.45 Lindemann's deft analysis of Cather and her "queer" sensibilities is a...	Palatable Poison: Critical Perspectives on the Well of Loneliness Best Price: $32.50 The Well of Loneliness -- the Radclyffe Hall novel at times referred to as "the bible of...	Sexual Orientation and Psychoanalysis Best Price: $68.75 I read this book with some anxiety being a college junior and not a psychologist or...	Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Experiences Best Price: $41.27 I enjoyed the introspective approach the author's took in describing the social-political...

With Her Machete in Her Hand: Reading Chicana Lesbians (Chicana Matters) With the 1981 publication of the groundbreaking anthology "This Bridge Called My Back:...	Pilgrimage Of Dorothy Richardson Best Price: $37.50 Pilgrimage, Dorothy Richardson's thirteen-volume opus of autobiographical fiction, follows...	Svengali's Web: The Alien Enchanter in Modern Culture Best Price: $2.95 Decades ago while earning a graduate degree in comparative literature, I happened to come upon a...	Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature Best Price: $5.30 Emma Donoghue has collected six themes which have formed the plot templates for lesbian fiction...	Men & Feminism in Modern Literature Best Price: $240.15

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