Shot in the dark - textbooks?

[tzikeh]

Anyone have any of these textbooks you might be interested in loaning / renting / selling to me?

Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed by Mary Klages (ISBN: 0826490727)

Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture (5th edition) by Stanley Baran (ISBN: 0073511919)

Literature for Today's Young Adults (8th edition) by Alleen Pace Nilsen and Kenneth L. Donelson (ISBN: 0205593232)

The Heath Anthology of American Literature: Colonial Period to 1800 (Volume A) (ISBN: 0618532978)

The Heath Anthology of American Literature: Early 19th Century: 1800-1865 (Volume B) (ISBN: 0618532986)

Huzzah for ridiculous textbook prices!

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[aadikah.livejournal.com]

Have you tried searching for any of those on eBay? Just now, I was able to find copies of Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed and Literature for Today's Young Adults (8th edition) for prices far lower than what Amazon is asking. Just a suggestion.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I have looked at eBay, and various used textbook sites, and I'm comparing prices, but like the subject line says - shot in the dark. I figured that if anyone had them, I could stop my searching and just pay for shipping or whatever.

[rike-tikki-tavi.livejournal.com]

Literary Theory: A Guide for the Perplexed

Can't help you with the books but I love that title. Yay for textbook authors with a sense of humor.

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

We have textbooks on a shelf in our dept. It's possible we have the Baran book but I can't look until next Tues.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

I have tons of Nortons but the only Heath's an older and concise one. Otoh, especially with the anthologies, they tend to not differ all that much or change much. If you have the syllabus and a friendly fellow student, you may just use any American Lit and copy the few pieces not covered (and page numbers tend to not be too much of an issue unless a lot of long prose works are covered).

Wish I had any of the others...I'm trying to clean out and would love to have any of my textbooks find a good home (though at the rate at which they create new editions all of mine are probably obsolete...)

[storyjunkie.livejournal.com]

None of these books for rent, alas. And you don't know me, so this is going to read weird. Um, hi. I like your talk of Dr. Who.

I just have to say how weird it is seeing someone need a textbook that Prof. Klages wrote. I took her theory class - and I hope the book helps with the perplexed-ness more than that.


PM me with an acceptable price (Amazon says over $100, CU bookstore says $15, I can't even guess what you've been seeing in your search) and I'll see if I can't get it from her home school for reasonable?

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Hello! No worries about not knowing someone who comments--after all, that's how we go about meeting one another anyway, on lj.

Was the prof's class good? I don't know what the CU bookstore is, but my main concern (and the reason for the shot in the dark) is that classes start Monday, so I'd have to have it here in Chicago before Wednesday morning at the latest. I thank you for your offer though!

[bentleywg.livejournal.com]

I looked for the Klages book on Alibris. When I searched by ISBN, I got only 1 hardcover copy at $100+. But when I searched by

title: Literary Theory
author: Klages

I found a few paperback copies (http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=9680693&matches=18&author=Klages%2C+Mary&browse=1&cm_sp=works*listing*title) for less than $20 and another few for $30-40.

I didn't look for the other books.

[bluerosefairy.livejournal.com]

Alas, I only have Volumes C, D, and E of the Heath Anthologies. My profs used Norton for AmLit I. You're welcome to them if you happen to need them next semester.

[storyjunkie.livejournal.com]

The class was a good lesson in how all the schools of theory don't exist independently of each other, but wandered perilously close to "I am teaching you all of these other theories so that you will recognize feminist theory as the pinnacle of human thought" sometimes. Looking back, it was just a matter of what she was intellectually into, but at the time it made it difficult to figure out what Derrida and Foucault were talking about on their own terms (which is hard enough as it is), because we kept talking about how they compared to the feminist literary lens. She had this amusing (and sometimes useful) thing with giant Tinker Toys for structuralism though.

CU bookstore is the University of Colorado bookstore. I have the book, in paperback, thanks to a membership discount - email me, if you're still looking for it? I don't mind at all having it for my own collection.

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