wyszukanych pozycji: 7
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Welty: A Life in Literature
ISBN: 9781604730203 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Marking the fiftieth anniversary of Eudora Welty's first important publication, this special collection of critical essays celebrates her achievement as an incomparable literary artist.
Since 1936, when -Death of a Traveling Salesman- was published, the excellence of her stories, novels, essays and collections has been giving unceasing acclaim, and she has become one of the most honored and most esteemed of American writers. The essays in this collection convey the scholarly pleasure one finds in studying the works of Eudora Welty. Although they employ varying critical methodologies,... Marking the fiftieth anniversary of Eudora Welty's first important publication, this special collection of critical essays celebrates her achievement ...
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92,63 |
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The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan
ISBN: 9781101911396 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This fully annotated selection of Elia Kazan s letters reveals all the passion, vitality, and raw honesty that made him such a towering figure in American theater and film. This fully annotated selection of Elia Kazan s letters reveals all the passion, vitality, and raw honesty that made him such a towering figure in A... |
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Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs (Loa #284): The Omni-Americans / South to a Very Old Place / The Hero and the Blues / Stomping the Blues / T
ISBN: 9781598535037 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 1072 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In his 1970 classic The Omni-Americans, Albert Murray (1916-2013) took aim at protest writers and social scientists who accentuated the "pathology" of race in American life. Against narratives of marginalization and victimhood, Murray argued that black art and culture, particularly jazz and blues, stand at the very headwaters of the American mainstream, and that much of what is best in American art embodies the "blues-hero tradition"-- a heritage of grace, wit, and inspired improvisation in the face of adversity. Murray went on to refine these ideas in The Blue Devils of Nada...
In his 1970 classic The Omni-Americans, Albert Murray (1916-2013) took aim at protest writers and social scientists who accentuated the "pathol...
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Conversations with Tennessee Williams
ISBN: 9780878052639 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Collections of interviews with notable modern writers
Collections of interviews with notable modern writers
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Welty: A Life in Literature
ISBN: 9780878053155 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Marking the fiftieth anniversary of Eudora Welty's first important publication, this special collection of critical essays celebrates her achievement as an incomparable literary artist.
Since 1936, when -Death of a Traveling Salesman- was published, the excellence of her stories, novels, essays and collections has been giving unceasing acclaim, and she has become one of the most honored and most esteemed of American writers. The essays in this collection convey the scholarly pleasure one finds in studying the works of Eudora Welty. Although they employ varying critical methodologies,... Marking the fiftieth anniversary of Eudora Welty's first important publication, this special collection of critical essays celebrates her achievement ...
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195,11 |
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Murray Talks Music: Albert Murray on Jazz and Blues
ISBN: 9780816699551 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The year 2016 will mark the centennial of the birth of Albert Murray (1916 2013), who in thirteen books was by turns a lyrical novelist, a keen and iconoclastic social critic, and a formidable interpreter of jazz and blues. Not only did his prizewinning study "Stomping the Blues" (1976) influence musicians far and wide, it was also a foundational text for Jazz at Lincoln Center, which he cofounded with Wynton Marsalis and others in 1987. "Murray Talks Music" brings together, for the first time, many of Murray s finest interviews and essays on music most never before published as well as... The year 2016 will mark the centennial of the birth of Albert Murray (1916 2013), who in thirteen books was by turns a lyrical novelist, a keen and... |
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Magical Muse: Millennial Essays on Tennessee Williams
ISBN: 9780817358419 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this unique and engaging collection, twelve essays celebrate the legacy of one of America's most important playwrights and investigate Williams's enduring effect on America's cultural, theatrical, and literary heritage.
Like Faulkner before him, Tennessee Williams gave universal appeal to southern characters and settings. His major plays, from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Glass Menagerie to A Streetcar Named Desire and Night of the Iguana, continue to capture America's popular imagination, a significant legacy. Though he died in 1983, only recently... In this unique and engaging collection, twelve essays celebrate the legacy of one of America's most important playwrights and investigate Williams's e...
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92,63 |