wyszukanych pozycji: 21
The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel
ISBN: 9780804780513 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Brevity may be the soul of wit, but it is also much more. In this exploration of the shortest literary works--wise sayings, proverbs, witticisms, sardonic observations about human nature, pithy evocations of mystery, terse statements regarding ultimate questions--Gary Saul Morson argues passionately for the importance of these short genres not only to scholars but also to general readers. We are fascinated by how brief works evoke a powerful sense of life in a few words, which is why we browse quotation anthologies and love to repeat our favorites. Arguing that all short genres are... Brevity may be the soul of wit, but it is also much more. In this exploration of the shortest literary works--wise sayings, proverbs, witticisms, s... |
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492,08 zł |
The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel
ISBN: 9780804781695 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Brevity may be the soul of wit, but it is also much more. In this exploration of the shortest literary works--wise sayings, proverbs, witticisms, sardonic observations about human nature, pithy evocations of mystery, terse statements regarding ultimate questions--Gary Saul Morson argues passionately for the importance of these short genres not only to scholars but also to general readers. We are fascinated by how brief works evoke a powerful sense of life in a few words, which is why we browse quotation anthologies and love to repeat our favorites. Arguing that all short genres are short in...
Brevity may be the soul of wit, but it is also much more. In this exploration of the shortest literary works--wise sayings, proverbs, witticisms, sard...
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113,19 zł |
Minds Wide Shut: How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us
ISBN: 9780691214924 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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102,69 zł |
Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture
ISBN: 9780300167474 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this lively gambol through the history of quotations and quotation books, Gary Saul Morson traces our enduring fascination with the words of others. Ranging from the remote past to the present, he explores the formation, development, and significance of quotations, while exploring the "verbal museums" in which they have been collected and displayed--commonplace books, treasuries, and anthologies. In his trademark clear, witty, and provocative style, Morson invites readers to share his delight in the shortest literary genre. The author defines what makes a quote quotable, as well... In this lively gambol through the history of quotations and quotation books, Gary Saul Morson traces our enduring fascination with the words of oth... |
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481,70 zł |
Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter
ISBN: 9780674971806 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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153,42 zł |
Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time
ISBN: 9780300068757 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this important and controversial book, one of our leading literary theorists presents a major philosophical statement about the meaning of literature and the shape of literary texts. Drawing on works by the Russian writers Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov, by other writers as diverse as Sophocles, Cervantes, and George Eliot, by thinkers as varied as William James, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Stephen Jay Gould, and from philosophy, the Bible, television, and much more, Gary Saul Morson examines the relation of time to narrative form and to an ethical dimension of the literary experience....
In this important and controversial book, one of our leading literary theorists presents a major philosophical statement about the meaning of literatu...
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255,32 zł |
Hidden in Plain View: Narrative and Creative Potentials in Awar and Peacea
ISBN: 9780804717182 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. For decades, the formal peculiarities of War and Peace disturbed Russian and Western critics, who attributed both the anomalous structure and the literary power of the book to Tolstoy's "primitive," unruly genius. Using that critical history as a starting point, this volume recaptures the overwhelming sense of strangeness felt by the work's first readers and thereby illuminates Tolstoy's theoretical and narratological concerns. The author demonstrates that the formal peculiarities of War and Peace were deliberate, designed to elude what Tolstoy regarded as the falsifying...
For decades, the formal peculiarities of War and Peace disturbed Russian and Western critics, who attributed both the anomalous structure and t...
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154,07 zł |
Prosaics and Other Provocations: Empathy, Open Time, and the Novel
ISBN: 9781618118097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Develops the concept of ""prosaics"", which stresses the importance of ordinary events and the novel's unique ability to portray them. Arguing that time is open and contingency real, Morson develops a ""prosaics of process"" showing how some masterpieces have found an alternative to structure.
Develops the concept of ""prosaics"", which stresses the importance of ordinary events and the novel's unique ability to portray them. Arguing that ti...
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135,14 zł |
Prosaics and Other Provocations: Empathy, Open Time, and the Novel
ISBN: 9781618111616 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This far-ranging study develops Morson's concept of "prosaics," which stresses the importance of ordinary events and the novel's unique ability to portray them. Arguing that time is open and contingency real, Morson develops a "prosaics of process" showing how some masterpieces have found an alternative to structure. His well-known pseudonym Alicia Chudo, the inventor of "misanthropology," explores the disturbing philosophical content of laughter, disgust, and even empathy. Northwestern University's most popular professor, Morson attributes declining student interest in literature to current...
This far-ranging study develops Morson's concept of "prosaics," which stresses the importance of ordinary events and the novel's unique ability to por...
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497,44 zł |
Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics
ISBN: 9780804718226 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Books about thinkers require a kind of unity that their thought may not possess. This cautionary statement is especially applicable to Mikhail Bakhtin, whose intellectual development displays a diversity of insights that cannot be easily integrated or accurately described in terms of a single overriding concern. Indeed, in a career spanning some sixty years, he experienced both dramatic and gradual changes in his thinking, returned to abandoned insights that he then developed in unexpected ways, and worked through new ideas only loosely related to his earlier concerns Small wonder, then, that...
Books about thinkers require a kind of unity that their thought may not possess. This cautionary statement is especially applicable to Mikhail Bakhtin...
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153,62 zł |
Bakhtin: Essays and Dialogues on His Work
ISBN: 9780226541334 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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78,41 zł |
Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities
ISBN: 9780691176680 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. A provocative and inspiring case for a more humanistic economics Economists often act as if their methods explain all human behavior. But in Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities, especially the study of literature, offer economists ways to make their models more realistic, their predictions more accurate, and their policies more effective and just. Gary Saul Morson and Morton Schapiro trace the connection between Adam Smith's great classic, The Wealth of Nations, and his less celebrated... A provocative and inspiring case for a more humanistic economics Economists often act as if their methods explain all human behavior. ... |
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189,26 zł |
Minds Wide Shut: How the New Fundamentalisms Divide Us
ISBN: 9780691214917 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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142,56 zł |
Anna Karenina
ISBN: 9780300216820 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 792 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Publication of this exacting new translation of Tolstoy's great Anna signifies a literary event of the first magnitude
Tolstoy produced many drafts of Anna Karenina. Crafting and recrafting each sentence with careful intent, he was anything but casual in his use of language. His project, translator Marian Schwartz observes, "was to bend language to his will, as an instrument of his aesthetic and moral convictions." In her magnificent new translation, Schwartz embraces Tolstoy's unusual style--she is the first English language translator ever to do so. Previous... Publication of this exacting new translation of Tolstoy's great Anna signifies a literary event of the first magnitude
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88,94 zł |
A Writer's Diary
ISBN: 9780810125216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 648 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The essential entries from Dostoevsky's complete "Diary," called his boldest experiment in literary form, are now available in this abridged edition; it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional and nonfictional genres. "A Writer's Diary" began as a column in a literary journal, but by 1876 Dostoevsky was able to bring it out as a complete monthly publication with himself as an editor, publisher, and sole contributor, suspending work on "The Brothers Karamazov" to do so.The "Diary"'s radical format was matched by the extreme range of its contents. In a single frame it incorporated an...
The essential entries from Dostoevsky's complete "Diary," called his boldest experiment in literary form, are now available in this abridged edition; ...
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216,03 zł |
The Gambler
ISBN: 9780812966930 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this dark and compelling short novel, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperious Russian general. Alexey tries to break through the wall of the established order in Russia, but instead becomes mired in the endless downward spiral of betting and loss. His intense and inescapable addiction is accentuated by his affair with the General s cruel yet seductive niece, Polina. In "The Gambler," Dostoevsky reaches the heights of drama with this stunning psychological portrait."
In this dark and compelling short novel, Fyodor Dostoevsky tells the story of Alexey Ivanovitch, a young tutor working in the household of an imperiou...
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84,89 zł |
Rethinking Bakhtin: Extensions and Challenges
ISBN: 9780810108103 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The essays in "Rethinking Bakhtin: Extensions and Challenges" extend Bakhtin's concepts in important new directions and challenge Bakhtin's own use of his most cherished ideas. Four sets of paired essays explore the theory of parody, the relation of de Man's poetics to Bakhtin's dialogics, Bakhtin's approach to Tolstoy and ideological literature generally, and the dangers of dialogue, not only in practice but also as an ideal.
The essays in "Rethinking Bakhtin: Extensions and Challenges" extend Bakhtin's concepts in important new directions and challenge Bakhtin's own use of...
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134,91 zł |
Vasily Zhukovsky's Romanticism and the Emotional History of Russia
ISBN: 9780810130982 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The first major study in English of Vasily Zhukovsky (1783 1852) poet, translator of German romantic verse, and mentor of Pushkin this book brings overdue attention to an important figure in Russian literary and cultural history. Vinitsky s psychological biography argues that Zhukovsky very consciously set out to create for himself an emotional life reflecting his unique brand of romanticism, different from what we associate with Pushkin or poets such as Byron or Wordsworth. For Zhukovsky, ideal love was harmonious, built on a mystical foundation of spiritual kinship. Vinitsky shows how... The first major study in English of Vasily Zhukovsky (1783 1852) poet, translator of German romantic verse, and mentor of Pushkin this book brings ... |
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643,49 zł |
Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities
ISBN: 9780691183220 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities-especially the study of literature-offer economists ways to make their models more realistic, their predictions more accurate, and their policies more effective and just. Arguing that Adam Smith's heirs include Austen, Chekhov, and Tolstoy
In Cents and Sensibility, an eminent literary critic and a leading economist make the case that the humanities-especially the study of literature-offe...
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97,28 zł |
Voiceless Vanguard: The Infantilist Aesthetic of the Russian Avant-Garde
ISBN: 9780810129849 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Winner, 2015 International Research Society in Children's Literature (IRSCL) Book Award Voiceless Vanguard: The Infantilist Aesthetic of the Russian Avant-Garde offers a new approach to the Russian avant-garde. It argues that central writers, artists, and theorists of the avant-garde self-consciously used an infantile aesthetic, as inspired by children's art, language, perspective, and logic, to accomplish the artistic renewal they were seeking in literature, theory, and art. It treats the influence of children's drawings on the Neo-Primitivist art of Mikhail Larionov, the role of...
Winner, 2015 International Research Society in Children's Literature (IRSCL) Book Award Voiceless Vanguard: The Infantilist Aesthetic of the Ru...
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243,06 zł |