wyszukanych pozycji: 7
The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism
ISBN: 9780822344308 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Speed, the sensation one gets when driving fast, was described by Aldous Huxley as the single new pleasure invented by modernity. The Speed Handbook is a virtuoso exploration of Huxley s claim. Enda Duffy shows how the experience of speed has always been political and how it has affected nearly all aspects of modern culture. Primarily a result of the mass-produced automobile, the experience of speed became the quintessential way for individuals to experience modernity, to feel modernity in their bones.
Duffy plunges full-throttle into speed s adrenaline aesthetics, offering deft... Speed, the sensation one gets when driving fast, was described by Aldous Huxley as the single new pleasure invented by modernity. The Speed Handboo...
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462,54 zł |
The Speed Handbook: Velocity, Pleasure, Modernism
ISBN: 9780822344421 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Speed, the sensation one gets when driving fast, was described by Aldous Huxley as the single new pleasure invented by modernity. The Speed Handbook is a virtuoso exploration of Huxley s claim. Enda Duffy shows how the experience of speed has always been political and how it has affected nearly all aspects of modern culture. Primarily a result of the mass-produced automobile, the experience of speed became the quintessential way for individuals to experience modernity, to feel modernity in their bones.
Duffy plunges full-throttle into speed s adrenaline aesthetics, offering deft... Speed, the sensation one gets when driving fast, was described by Aldous Huxley as the single new pleasure invented by modernity. The Speed Handboo...
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119,48 zł |
The Subaltern Ulysses
ISBN: 9780816623297 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Subaltern Ulysses was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. How might an IRA bomb and James Joyce's Ulysses have anything in common? Could this masterpiece of modernism, written at the violent moment of Ireland's national emergence, actually be the first postcolonial novel? Exploring the relation of Ulysses to the colony in which it is set, and to the nation being born as the book... The Subaltern Ulysses was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once a... |
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202,68 zł |
Ulysses
ISBN: 9780486474700 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 752 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Originally reviled as obscure and obscene, Joyce's masterpiece now stands as one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century. Loosely based on Homer's Odyssey, the novel traces the paths of Leopold Bloom and other Dubliners through an ordinary summer day and night in 1904 -- a typical day, transformed by Joyce's narrative powers into an epic celebration of life.
First editions of Ulysses rank among the modern rare book trade's most valuable finds. This reprint of the original edition is not only the least expensive version available but also the truest to the... Originally reviled as obscure and obscene, Joyce's masterpiece now stands as one of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century. Loosely ...
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130,50 zł |
Katherine Mansfield and Bliss and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781474477307 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book celebrates the centennial of Bliss's publication by offering new readings of some of Mansfield's most well-known stories.
This book celebrates the centennial of Bliss's publication by offering new readings of some of Mansfield's most well-known stories.
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467,73 zł |
Katherine Mansfield and Bliss and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781474477314 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book celebrates the centennial of Bliss's publication by offering new readings of some of Mansfield's most well-known stories, revealing not only the depth and innovation of her work but also the extent to which she was instrumental in revisioning the potential of the short story form. It includes the publication of a newly discovered short story potentially by Mansfield, with an explanatory essay. It also presents a selection of new poetry and a new short story by acclaimed New Zealand author Paula Morris, all inspired by Mansfield.
This book celebrates the centennial of Bliss's publication by offering new readings of some of Mansfield's most well-known stories, revealing not only...
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109,08 zł |
Joyce, Benjamin and Magical Urbanism
ISBN: 9789042034259 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Joyce, Benjamin and Magical Urbanism offers for the first time a sustained exploration of parallels between the fiction of James Joyce and the cultural criticism of Walter Benjamin. Benjamin is perhaps modernism's most eloquent theorist, Joyce its finest writer of fiction; both haunted the same Paris streets at the height of the modernist moment, and both developed accounts of the flaneur's encounter with the city, with commodity culture and with others, that were revolutionary in their day and continue to set the agendas for culture and cultural critique. To place some of the work of each...
Joyce, Benjamin and Magical Urbanism offers for the first time a sustained exploration of parallels between the fiction of James Joyce and the cultura...
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318,89 zł |