Customer Review: I don't need to tell you what this book is about: everyone is familiar with it. I started reading it for the first time at age 25, fully expecting it to be the greatest novel I've ever read. I was not disappointed. I've never laughed so much with one book. The dialects, the events, the people:... more info
Customer Review: I wish I had this title just before starting college--my reading and writing skills would have been more engaging and fulfilling. After reading "They Say I say" I now understand the real benefit to having a conversation with a text. The authors thought me that all text is a conversation already in... more info
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Customer Review: Title: The Tempest by William Shakespeare Pages: 187 (including commentary and notes). Time spent on the "to read" shelf: 2-3 years. Days spent reading it: 1 evening. Why I read it: I was reading some sci-fi books (Illium and Olympos by Dan Simmons) that used characters and plot... more info
Customer Review: I tried. Believe me, for 108 pages I tried to read this book and enjoy it, but I finally gave up because the premise fell under the weight of the author's own anger and prejudices. There ARE racial tensions in America and racism does exist among ALL races, but Mr. Shields was dead-set on... more info
Customer Review: Gerald Graff says the great crime of modern academe is not that we deal with tough subjects in dense prose. Our crime is that we withhold the keys to our subjects and prose from students who so desperately want in on what we offer. Reading this book offers new insights into teaching, and reminds me... more info
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Customer Review: This is Derrida's critique of speech-act theory. The importance of Speech-act theory for linguistics is that it seems to advance beyond referential theories of language by focusing on what language actually does in specific pragmatic contexts. LIMITED INC serves as one of the most concise and clear... more info
Customer Review: In his early books, Literature Against Itself: Literary Ideas in Modern Society (1979) and Professing Literature: An Institutional History, Twentieth Anniversary Edition (1987), Graff took as his main subjects literary theory and the institutional history of departments of English and literature,... more info
