wyszukanych pozycji: 60
Against Interpretation: And Other Essays
ISBN: 9780312280864 / Angielski / Inna / 2001 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gone out of print and has influenced generations of readers all over the world. It includes the famous essays "Notes on Camp" and "Against Interpretation," as well as her impassioned discussions of Sartre, Camus, Simone Weil, Godard, Beckett, Levi-Strauss, sceince-fiction movies, psychoanalysis, and contemporary religious thought. This edition has a new afterword, "Thirty Years Later," in which Sontag restates the terms of her battle against... Against Interpretation was Susan Sontag's first collection of essays and is a modern classic. Originally published in 1966, it has never gon... |
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83,58 zł |
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
ISBN: 9780141187129 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. As a cancer patient in the 1970s, Susan Sontag wrote 'Illness as a Metaphor' to show how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the suffering of the patients. The second essay extends the argument to the AIDS pandemic.
As a cancer patient in the 1970s, Susan Sontag wrote 'Illness as a Metaphor' to show how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especi...
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66,14 zł |
On Photography
ISBN: 9780140053975 / Angielski / Miękka / 1979 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A study of the force of photographic images which are continually inserted between experience and reality. It develops the concept of 'transparency'. It features six essays including In Plato's Cave, which explores how the image has affected society.
A study of the force of photographic images which are continually inserted between experience and reality. It develops the concept of 'transparency'. ...
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55,97 zł |
A Susan Sontag Reader
ISBN: 9780374535476 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Susan Sontag occupies a special place in Modern American letters. She has become our most important critic, while her brilliant novels and short fiction are, at long last, getting the recognition they deserve. Sontag is above all a writer, which is only to say that, though the form may differ, there is an essential unity in all her work. The truth of this is perhaps more evident in A Susan Sontag Reader than in any of Sontag's individual books. The writer selected a sampling of her work, meaning the choice both to reflect accurately a career and also to guide the reader toward those... Susan Sontag occupies a special place in Modern American letters. She has become our most important critic, while her brilliant novels and short fi... |
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91,94 zł |
Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays
ISBN: 9780312420086 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This third essay collection by America's leading essayist brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980, in which she explores some of the most influential artists and thinkers of our time. This third essay collection by America's leading essayist brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980, in which she explo... |
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83,58 zł |
Against Interpretation and Other Essays
ISBN: 9780141190068 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. This is a selection from Sontag's early writings about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay, 'On Style and Notes on Camp', the book includes discussion of such figures as Sartre, Simone Weil and Genet.
This is a selection from Sontag's early writings about the arts and contemporary culture. As well as the title essay, 'On Style and Notes on Camp', th...
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61,10 zł |
At the Same Time
ISBN: 9780141031682 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Contains sixteen essays. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post 9/11 America and political activism, this title includes these essays that encompass the themes that dominated the author's life and work, revealing why she remains one of the twentieth century's pre-eminent writers and thinkers.
Contains sixteen essays. Reflecting on literature, photography and art, post 9/11 America and political activism, this title includes these essays tha...
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66,14 zł |
Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
ISBN: 9780312428501 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself." "In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself." |
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104,48 zł |
A Barthes Reader
ISBN: 9780374521448 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 495 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A Barthes Reader gives one the image of Barthes as one of the great public teachers of our time, someone who thought out, argued for, and made available several steps in a penetrating reflection on language sign systems, texts- and what they have to tell us about the concept of being human. Susan Sontag's prefatory essay is one of her finest acts of criticism, informed by intellectual sympathy and a sure sense of the contours of the mind she is describing. A Barthes Reader gives one the image of Barthes as one of the great public teachers of our time, someone who thought out, argued for, and ma... |
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167,16 zł |
Der Liebhaber des Vulkans : Roman
ISBN: 9783596106684 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2015 / 548 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Im Italien des 18. Jahrhunderts, genauer gesagt, am Fue des feuerspeienden Vesuvs, spielt Susan Sontags neuer Roman. Geschildert wird eine skandallse Affaire, die die Beteiligten vergeblich geheimzuhalten versuchen. Da sind Sir William Hamilton, der britische Gesandte in Neapel, seine Gattin Emma, eine Frau aus dem Volk, und ihr Liebhaber, der berhmte Seeheld Lord Nelson.
Im Italien des 18. Jahrhunderts, genauer gesagt, am Fue des feuerspeienden Vesuvs, spielt Susan Sontags neuer Roman. Geschildert wird eine skandallse ...
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113,14 zł |
Krankheit als Metapher. Aids und seine Metaphern
ISBN: 9783596162437 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2012 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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67,88 zł |
Conversations with Susan Sontag
ISBN: 9780878058341 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here is a collection of interviews that cover the period from 1967 through 1993. Many are translations of interviews that originally appeared in French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, or Swedish periodicals. Several are published here for the first time in any language. Giving attention to Sontag's education and the development of her aesthetic and moral temperament, they cover Sontag's rich career as a distinguished writer, filmmaker, dramatist, and cultural critic.
Born in New York City, reared in Arizona and California, educated at Berkeley, Chicago, Harvard, Oxford, the Sorbonne,... Here is a collection of interviews that cover the period from 1967 through 1993. Many are translations of interviews that originally appeared in Frenc...
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181,82 zł |
Epitaph of a Small Winner
ISBN: 9780374531232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In these memoirs, Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian, examines (from beyond the grave) his rather undistinguished life in 160 short chapters that are filled with philosophical digressions and exuberant insights. A clear forerunner of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Jorge Luis Borges, Epitaph for a Small Winner, first published in 1880, is one of the wittiest self-portraits in literary history as well as "one of the masterpieces of Brazilian literature" (Salman Rushdie). In these memoirs, Braz Cubas, a wealthy nineteenth-century Brazilian, examines (from beyond the grave) his rather undistinguished life in 160 short... |
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71,04 zł |
Summer in Baden-Baden: A Novel
ISBN: 9780811215480 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Summer in Baden-Baden was acclaimed by The New York Review of Books as "a short poetic masterpiece" and by Donald Fanger in The Los Angeles Times as "gripping, mysterious and profoundly moving." A complex, highly original novel, Summer in Baden-Baden has a double narrative. It is wintertime, late December: a species of "now." A narrator Tsypkinis on a train going to Leningrad. And it is also mid-April 1867. The newly married Dostoyevskys, Fyodor, and his wife, Anna Grigor'yevna, are on their way to Germany, for a four-year trip. This is not, like J. M....
Summer in Baden-Baden was acclaimed by The New York Review of Books as "a short poetic masterpiece" and by Donald Fanger in The ...
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63,58 zł |
Summer in Baden-Baden: A Novel
ISBN: 9780811214841 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Summer in Baden-Baden was acclaimed by The New York Review of Books as "a short poetic masterpiece" and by Donald Fanger in The Los Angeles Times as "gripping, mysterious and profoundly moving." A complex, highly original novel, Summer in Baden-Baden has a double narrative. It is wintertime, late December: a species of "now." A narrator Tsypkinis on a train going to Leningrad. And it is also mid-April 1867. The newly married Dostoyevskys, Fyodor, and his wife, Anna Grigor'yevna, are on their way to Germany, for a four-year trip. This is not, like J. M....
Summer in Baden-Baden was acclaimed by The New York Review of Books as "a short poetic masterpiece" and by Donald Fanger in The ...
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100,70 zł |
One-Way Street: And Other Writings
ISBN: 9781839761652 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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66,14 zł |
Don McCullin
ISBN: 9781597113427 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. First published in 2001, this retrospective survey offers both an examination of Don McCullin's photographic career as well as a record of half a century of international conflict. Coinciding with the photographer's eightieth birthday, this expanded edition of Don McCullin serves as fitting homage to a photographer who dedicated his life to the front line in order to deliver compassionate visual testament to human suffering. With texts by Mark Holborn, Harold Evans and Susan Sontag, and photographs taken by McCullin in England, Cyprus, Vietnam, the Congo, Biafra, Northern Ireland,...
First published in 2001, this retrospective survey offers both an examination of Don McCullin's photographic career as well as a record of half a cent...
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313,43 zł |
At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches
ISBN: 9780312426712 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and the writer's responsibility to bear witness have secured her place as one of the most important thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. At the Same Time gathers sixteen essays and speeches written in the last years of Sontag's life, when her work was being honored on the international stage. She writes of the freedom of literature, about courage and resistance, and fearlessly addresses the dilemmas of post-9/11 America, from the degradation of our political rhetoric to the... Sontag's incisive intelligence, expressive brilliance, and deep curiosity about art, politics, and the writer's responsibility to bear witness have... |
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79,40 zł |
On Women
ISBN: 9781250876850 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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71,04 zł |
Refusenik! : Israel's Soldiers of Conscience
ISBN: 9781842774519 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This moving book is a first-time look at Israeli soldiers who have refused orders on moral grounds, earning the name of "Refusenik" along with a prison sentence. These are the stories of people who believe in their country, but not in its actions beyond its borders. Peretz Kidron, a long-time Israeli citizen, retells the stories of these "refuseniks" from the 1982 invasion of Lebanon up to the current situation with Palestine. The stories, experiences, viewpoints, and even poetry from a great spectrum of Israelis are presented--officers, ordinary foot-soldiers, men and women, from various...
This moving book is a first-time look at Israeli soldiers who have refused orders on moral grounds, earning the name of "Refusenik" along with a priso...
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176,25 zł |