wyszukanych pozycji: 10
Writing Ann Arbor: A Literary Anthology
ISBN: 9780472068999 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan have always been natural settings for the writing life, offering perennial inspiration to the many artists, poets, locals, and students who have called the city and the classroom home. Writing Ann Arbor collects fiction, essay, poetry, memoir, and drama by Max Apple, Charles Baxter, Sven Birkerts, Donald Hall, Robert Hayden, Tom Hayden, Jane Kenyon, Thomas Lynch, Ross Macdonald, Frank O'Hara, Marge Piercy, Dudley Randall, Ruth Reichl, Elwood Reid, Bob Ufer, Wendy Wasserstein, and Nancy Willard, among many others.
The anthology is eclectic... Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan have always been natural settings for the writing life, offering perennial inspiration to the many artists, p...
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90,77 zł |
Ruins and Empire: The Evolution of a Theme in Augustan and Romantic Literature
ISBN: 9780822984610 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. One of the most common scenes in Augustan and Romantic literature is that of a writer confronting some emblem of change and loss, most often the remains of a vanished civilization or a desolate natural landscape. Ruins and Empire traces the ruin sentiment from its earliest classical and Renaissance expressions through English literature to its establishment as a dominant theme of early American art. One of the most common scenes in Augustan and Romantic literature is that of a writer confronting some emblem of change and loss, most often the re... |
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129,73 zł |
Logic: Key Concepts in Philosophy
ISBN: 9780826474094 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Key Concepts in Philosophy is a series of concise, accessible and engaging introductions to the core ideas and subjects encountered in the study of philosophy. Specially written to meet the needs of students and those with an interest in, but little prior knowledge of, philosophy, the books open up fascinating, yet sometimes difficult ideas. The series builds to give a solid grounding in philosophy and each book is also ideal as a companion to further study. An understanding of logic is fundamental to the study of philosophy. This stimulating and thorough guidebook offers clear... Key Concepts in Philosophy is a series of concise, accessible and engaging introductions to the core ideas and subjects encountered in the study of... |
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127,13 zł |
The Philosopher's Habitat: An Introduction To...
ISBN: 9781032388649 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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467,97 zł |
The Flying Machine and Modern Literature
ISBN: 9780253322180 / Angielski / Twarda / 1986 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "This is the first work to survey the myths created by the modern literary imagination about technology." --Herbert Sussman ..". succeeds admirably, fascinatingly on all counts... " --American Literature ..". a landmark in the study of literary and technological history." --NMAH ..". fascinating... a welcome addition to the growing scholarship about the impact of technology on the modern imagination." --Journal of Modern Literature Annual Review This book chronicles precisely how the flying machine helped to create two kinds of apocalyptic modes in modern... "This is the first work to survey the myths created by the modern literary imagination about technology." --Herbert Sussman ..". succeeds adm... |
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152,57 zł |
Brevity
ISBN: 9780199664986 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Brevity in conversation is a window to the workings of the mind. People use ellipsis and various kinds of pragmatic enrichment, keyed to the particular conversational setting, to express concisely what they mean. Distinguished linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists here say how.
Brevity in conversation is a window to the workings of the mind. People use ellipsis and various kinds of pragmatic enrichment, keyed to the particula...
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705,13 zł |
The American Poet at the Movies: A Critical History
ISBN: 9780472083183 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The American Poet at the Movies: A Critical History presents a series of case studies that shows how poets perceived the new technology of cinema as a rival threatening to their prestige, but also as a sister art deserving of encouragement. Each chapter places a key poem at the center and takes up the issues arising from the engagement of these two art forms, such as the poets' mixed feelings about living in a national culture dominated by visual media. Whether it is Hart Crane writing on Chaplin, Delmore Schwartz on Marilyn Monroe, Frank O'Hara on James Dean, or Louise Erdrich on John...
The American Poet at the Movies: A Critical History presents a series of case studies that shows how poets perceived the new technology of cine...
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138,97 zł |
Poetry Los Angeles: Reading the Essential Poems of the City
ISBN: 9780472072248 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Is there such a thing as Los Angeles poetry? How do we assess a poem about a city as elusive of identity as Los Angeles? What features do poems about this unique urban landscape of diverse peoples and terrains have in common? Poetry Los Angeles is the first book to gather and analyze poems about sites as different as Hollywood, Santa Monica and Venice beaches, the freeways, downtown, South Central and East L.A. Laurence Goldstein presents original commentary on six decades of poets who have contributed to the iconography and poetics of Los Angeles literature, including Elizabeth...
Is there such a thing as Los Angeles poetry? How do we assess a poem about a city as elusive of identity as Los Angeles? What features do poems about ...
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433,76 zł |
A Room in California
ISBN: 9780810151611 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Southern California is one of two significant places in Laurence Goldstein's fourth collection of poems. A native of Los Angeles, the author re-encounters the vivid ghosts of an exotic personal landscape: Criswell the TV prophet, Madame Nhu at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Mickey Cohen in a downtown deli, Bob Hope in a photo shoot with the poet's family. From the Pacific boardwalk to Death Valley, these poems enliven their borderlands with pungent language and dramatic incident. Goldstein then takes the reader to Ethiopia, the setting of a long dramatic monologue narrated by a young American...
Southern California is one of two significant places in Laurence Goldstein's fourth collection of poems. A native of Los Angeles, the author re-encoun...
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267,49 zł |
Robert Hayden: Essays on the Poetry
ISBN: 9780472112333 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This collection of essays by leading critics and poets charts Robert Hayden's growing reputation as a major writer of some of the twentieth century's most important poems on African-American themes, including the famed "Middle Passage" and "Frederick Douglass." The essays illuminate the themes and techniques that established Hayden as a modernist writer with affinities to T. S. Eliot, Federico Garcia Lorca, and W. B. Yeats, as well as to traditions of African-American writings that include such figures as Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes. Robert Hayden: Essays on the Poetry... This collection of essays by leading critics and poets charts Robert Hayden's growing reputation as a major writer of some of the twentieth century... |
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433,76 zł |