wyszukanych pozycji: 15
Lucchesi and The Whale
ISBN: 9780822331711 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Lucchesi and The Whale is an unusual work of fiction by noted author and critic Frank Lentricchia. Its central character, Thomas Lucchesi Jr., is a college professor in the American heartland whose obsessions and compulsions include traveling to visit friends in their last moments of life because grief alone inspires him to write and searching for secret meaning in Herman Melville s Moby-Dick. Himself a writer of stories full of violence in a poetic style, Lucchesi tells his students that he teaches only because his] fiction is commercially untouchable and to never forget that....
Lucchesi and The Whale is an unusual work of fiction by noted author and critic Frank Lentricchia. Its central character, Thomas Lucchesi Jr., ...
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109,08 zł |
Introducing Don DeLillo
ISBN: 9780822311447 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. If you want to find out what a rock critic, a syndicated columnist, and scholars of American literature have to say about one of America's most important contemporary novelists, turn to "Introducing Don DeLillo. "Placing the author's work in a cultural context, this is the first book-length collection on DeLillo, adding considerably to the emerging critical discourse on his work.
Diversity is the key to this striking assemblage of cultural criticism edited by Frank Lentricchia. Special features include an expanded version of the "Rolling Stone" interview with the author ("An Outsider in... If you want to find out what a rock critic, a syndicated columnist, and scholars of American literature have to say about one of America's most import...
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152,05 zł |
Lucchesi and the Whale
ISBN: 9780822326540 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "Lucchesi and The Whale" is an unusual work of fiction by noted author and critic Frank Lentricchia. Its central character, Thomas Lucchesi Jr., is a college professor in the American heartland whose obsessions and compulsions include traveling to visit friends in their last moments of life--because grief alone inspires him to write--and searching for secret meaning in Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick. "Himself a writer of "stories full of violence in a poetic style," Lucchesi tells his students that he teaches "only because his] fiction is commercially untouchable" and to "never forget that."...
"Lucchesi and The Whale" is an unusual work of fiction by noted author and critic Frank Lentricchia. Its central character, Thomas Lucchesi Jr., is a ...
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280,63 zł |
The Gaiety of Language: An Essay on the Radical Poetics of W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens Volume 19
ISBN: 9780520361744 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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570,49 zł |
Modernist Quartet
ISBN: 9780521469753 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Modernist Quartet is a study of the four major American modernist poets--Frost, Stevens, Pound, Eliot--in various historical environments (literary, philosophical, gender relations, the business of capitalist economics) with special attention given to their central poetic texts as they simultaneously reflect and shape our understanding of those environments. Frank Lentricchia presents the poems as stories of the poets seeking to sustain a life in noncommercial writing, in a culture that is only hospitable, for the most part, to commercial art.
Modernist Quartet is a study of the four major American modernist poets--Frost, Stevens, Pound, Eliot--in various historical environments (literary, p...
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203,19 zł |
New Essays: White Noise
ISBN: 9780521392914 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the introduction to this volume, Frank Lentricchia provides an overview of the critical reception of the novel and examines in its context other works by Don DeLillo. The other essays in the volume discuss DeLillo's view of family and divorce, Hitler's role in the 20th century, technology as a mortal threat, and postmodern America. This collection offers suggestive means by which to approach DeLillo's important contemporary work.
In the introduction to this volume, Frank Lentricchia provides an overview of the critical reception of the novel and examines in its context other wo...
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178,63 zł |
Criticism and Social Change
ISBN: 9780226472003 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. ""Criticism and Social Change" speaks with special timeliness to the role of the political intellectual (here embodied in Kenneth Burke). Lentricchia's provocative analysis demands serious reflection by American radicals." Frederic Jameson
"A profound meditation on relations obtaining among writing, political consciousness, and criticism this last taken in its most general sense. It is written with passion and grace; it is shot through with learning, intimate knowledge of the critical tradition, and a deep (though by no means uncritical) understanding of the work (as well as social... ""Criticism and Social Change" speaks with special timeliness to the role of the political intellectual (here embodied in Kenneth Burke). Lentricchia'...
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131,29 zł |
The Gaiety of Language: An Essay on the Radical Poetics of W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens Volume 19
ISBN: 9780520315624 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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243,56 zł |
Close Reading: The Reader
ISBN: 9780822330394 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. An anthology of readings by some of the 20th century's foremost literary critics, Close Reading presents a wide range of responses to the question at the heart of literary criticism: how best to read a text to understand its meaning. The lively introduction and the selected essays provide an overview of close reading from New Criticism through poststructuralism, including works of feminist criticism, postcolonial theory, queer theory, new historicism, and more.
An anthology of readings by some of the 20th century's foremost literary critics, Close Reading presents a wide range of responses to the question at ...
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142,18 zł |
Dissent from the Homeland: Essays After September 11
ISBN: 9780822332213 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Dissent from the Homeland is a book about patriotism, justice, revenge, American history and symbology, art and terror, and pacifism. In this deliberately and urgently provocative collection, noted writers, philosophers, literary critics, and theologians speak out against the war on terrorism and the government of George W. Bush as a response to the events of September 11, 2001. Critiquing government policy, citizen apathy, and societal justifications following the attacks, these writers present a wide range of opinions on such issues as contemporary American foreign policy and...
Dissent from the Homeland is a book about patriotism, justice, revenge, American history and symbology, art and terror, and pacifism. In this d...
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119,48 zł |
Modernist Quartet
ISBN: 9780521470049 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Modernist Quartet is a study of the four major American modernist poets--Frost, Stevens, Pound, Eliot--in various historical environments (literary, philosophical, gender relations, the business of capitalist economics) with special attention given to their central poetic texts as they simultaneously reflect and shape our understanding of those environments. Frank Lentricchia presents the poems as stories of the poets seeking to sustain a life in noncommercial writing, in a culture that is only hospitable, for the most part, to commercial art.
Modernist Quartet is a study of the four major American modernist poets--Frost, Stevens, Pound, Eliot--in various historical environments (literary, p...
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449,41 zł |
After the New Criticism
ISBN: 9780226471983 / Angielski / Twarda / 1981 / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This work is the first history and evaluation of contemporary American critical theory within its European philosophical contexts. In the first part, Frank Lentricchia analyzes the impact on our critical thought of Frye, Stevens, Kermode, Sartre, Poulet, Heidegger, Sussure, Barthes, Levi-Strauss, Derrida, and Foucault, among other, less central figures. In a second part, Lentricchia turns to four exemplary theorists on the American scene--Murray Krieger, E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Paul de Man, and Harold Bloom--and an analysis of their careers within the lineage established in part one....
This work is the first history and evaluation of contemporary American critical theory within its European philosophical contexts. In the first part, ...
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164,12 zł |
The Portable Lentricchia
ISBN: 9781599540405 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Fiction. THE PORTABLE LENTRICCHIA is an ideal entrance into the fictional world of the novelist described as "the greatest unknown writer in America." This thrilling selection of Frank Lentricchia's fiction from his debut Johnny Critelli to the forthcoming The Accidental Pallbearer showcases much of his best work, underlining the themes that have preoccupied him and offering readers an astonishing range of set pieces filled with surging lyricism, abrupt violence, and outrageous humor."
Fiction. THE PORTABLE LENTRICCHIA is an ideal entrance into the fictional world of the novelist described as "the greatest unknown writer in America."...
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67,87 zł |
New Essays on White Noise
ISBN: 9780521398930 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The American Novel series provides students of American literature with introductory critical guides to the great works of American fiction. Each volume begins with a substantial introduction by a distinguished authority on the text, giving details of the novel's composition, publication history, and contemporary reception, as well as a survey of major critical trends and readings from first publication to the present. This overview is followed by a group of new essays, each specially commissioned from a leading scholar in the field, which together constitute a forum of interpretative methods...
The American Novel series provides students of American literature with introductory critical guides to the great works of American fiction. Each volu...
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124,41 zł |
Critical Terms for Literary Study, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780226472034 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Since its publication in 1990, Critical Terms for Literary Study has become a landmark introduction to the work of literary theory--giving tens of thousands of students an unparalleled encounter with what it means to do theory and criticism. Significantly expanded, this new edition features six new chapters that confront, in different ways, the growing understanding of literary works as cultural practices. These six new chapters are "Popular Culture," "Diversity," "Imperialism/Nationalism," "Desire," "Ethics," and "Class," by John Fiske, Louis Menand, Seamus Deane, Judith Butler,...
Since its publication in 1990, Critical Terms for Literary Study has become a landmark introduction to the work of literary theory--giving tens...
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142,23 zł |