wyszukanych pozycji: 7
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A Tremendous Thing: Friendship from the Iliad to the Internet
ISBN: 9780801452840 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Why did you do all this for me?" Wilbur asked. "I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you." You have been my friend, replied Charlotte. That in itself is a tremendous thing. from Charlotte's Web by E. B. White Friendship encompasses a wide range of social bonds, from playground companionship and wartime camaraderie to modern marriages and Facebook links. For many, friendship is more meaningful than familial ties. And yet it is our least codified relationship, with no legal standing or bureaucratic definition. In A Tremendous Thing, Gregory... "Why did you do all this for me?" Wilbur asked. "I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you." You have been my friend, replied Cha... |
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131,50 zł |
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The Necessary Nation
ISBN: 9780691089027 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this controversial look at nationalism, Gregory Jusdanis offers a sweeping defense of the nation as a protector of cultural difference and a catalyst for modernization. Since the end of the Cold War, the nation-state has undergone intense scrutiny among critics in the media and the academy. Many believe that civic nationalism may be fruitful but that cultural nationalism fosters xenophobia and backward thinking. Jusdanis, however, emphasizes the positive collaboration between nation-building and culture. Through a series of critical readings of multicultural, postcolonial,... In this controversial look at nationalism, Gregory Jusdanis offers a sweeping defense of the nation as a protector of cultural difference and a cat... |
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222,26 zł |
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Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture: Inventing National Literature Volume 81
ISBN: 9780816619818 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This work considers the role literature played in the construction of a national culture - that sphere of shared sentiments, values, and beliefs that define the nation-state in Greece during the last two centuries.
This work considers the role literature played in the construction of a national culture - that sphere of shared sentiments, values, and beliefs that ...
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120,60 zł |
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Fiction Agonistes: In Defense of Literature
ISBN: 9780804768757 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this path-breaking new work, Gregory Jusdanis asks why literature matters. Why are we afraid to admit our pleasures of reading, to defend the arts to the school board, to discuss the importance of literature in life? Drawing on a wealth of references from Aristophanes to Eudora Welty, from Fernando Pessoa to Orhan Pamuk, from Cavafy to hypertext stories, Jusdanis reminds us that the arts have always been under attack. Instead of despair, however, he offers a pragmatic defense of literature, arguing that it performs a social function in dramatizing the break between illusion and reality,...
In this path-breaking new work, Gregory Jusdanis asks why literature matters. Why are we afraid to admit our pleasures of reading, to defend the arts ...
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427,33 zł |
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The Poetics of Cavafy: Textuality, Eroticism, History
ISBN: 9780691636399 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This full-length theoretical examination of Constantine Cavafy breaks the study of this great Greek poet free from the narrow context of traditional scholarship and introduces the latest critical developments into the study of Greek poetry. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and... This full-length theoretical examination of Constantine Cavafy breaks the study of this great Greek poet free from the narrow context of traditiona... |
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514,58 zł |
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Fiction Agonistes: In Defense of Literature
ISBN: 9780804768764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this path-breaking new work, Gregory Jusdanis asks why literature matters. Why are we afraid to admit our pleasures of reading, to defend the arts to the school board, to discuss the importance of literature in life? Drawing on a wealth of references from Aristophanes to Eudora Welty, from Fernando Pessoa to Orhan Pamuk, from Cavafy to hypertext stories, Jusdanis reminds us that the arts have always been under attack. Instead of despair, however, he offers a pragmatic defense of literature, arguing that it performs a social function in dramatizing the break between illusion and reality,...
In this path-breaking new work, Gregory Jusdanis asks why literature matters. Why are we afraid to admit our pleasures of reading, to defend the arts ...
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98,78 zł |
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Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture : Inventing National Literature
ISBN: 9780816619801 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This work considers the role literature played in the construction of a national culture - that sphere of shared sentiments, values, and beliefs that define the nation-state in Greece during the last two centuries.
This work considers the role literature played in the construction of a national culture - that sphere of shared sentiments, values, and beliefs that ...
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301,64 zł |