wyszukanych pozycji: 13
Literature, Science, Psychoanalysis, 1830-1970: Essays in Honour of Gillian Beer
ISBN: 9780199266678 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book presents fourteen new essays by leading British and American writers on literature, science, and psychoanalysis. Written in honour of Gillian Beer, the collection pays homage to her major contribution to the theory and practice of interdisciplinary studies, with particular emphasis on the evolutionary sciences in nineteenth-century Britain, on psychoanalysis from Freud through to the late 1930s, and on the cultural contexts of science in the first half of the twentieth century.
This book presents fourteen new essays by leading British and American writers on literature, science, and psychoanalysis. Written in honour of Gillia...
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851,32 zł |
The Public Intellectual
ISBN: 9780631231981 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. New essays by prestigious thinkers such as Edward Said, Bruce Robbins, Jacqueline Rose, and Stefan Collini on the public role of writers and intellectuals.
New essays by prestigious thinkers such as Edward Said, Bruce Robbins, Jacqueline Rose, and Stefan Collini on the public role of writers and intellect...
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231,69 zł |
The Long Life
ISBN: 9780199229932 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear through works by Thomas Mann, Balzac, Dickens, Beckett, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, to more recent writing by Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and J. M. Coetzee.
Helen Small argues that if we want to understand old age, we have to think more fundamentally about what it means to be a person, to have a life, to have (or lead) a good life, to be part of a just society. What did Plato mean when he suggested... The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, an...
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374,14 zł |
The Value of the Humanities
ISBN: 9780199683864 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Value of the Humanities provides a critical account of the principal arguments used to defend the value of the Humanities. The claims considered are: that the Humanities study the meaning-making practices of culture, and bring to their work a distinctive understanding of what constitutes knowledge and understanding; that, though useful to society in many ways, they remain laudably at odds with, or at a remove from, instrumental use value; that they contribute to human happiness; that they are a force for democracy; and that they are a good in themselves, to be valued "for their own sake."...
The Value of the Humanities provides a critical account of the principal arguments used to defend the value of the Humanities. The claims considered a...
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202,60 zł |
Love's Madness: Medicine, the Novel, and Female Insanity, 1800-1865
ISBN: 9780198184911 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Love's Madness is an important new contribution to the interdisciplinary study of insanity. Focusing on the figure of the love-mad woman, it presents a significant reassessment of the ways in which British medical writers and novelists of the nineteenth century thought about madness, femininity, and narrative convention. The book centers around studies of novels by Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins, and Charles Dickens, as well as of previously neglected writings by Charles Maturin, Lady Caroline Lamb, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton, among others.
" Love's Madness is an important new contribution to the interdisciplinary study of insanity. Focusing on the figure of the love-mad woman, it presents ...
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274,72 zł |
The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time
ISBN: 9780198861935 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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197,62 zł |
The Long Life
ISBN: 9780199592562 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear through works by Thomas Mann, Balzac, Dickens, Beckett, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, to more recent writing by Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and J. M. Coetzee.
Helen Small argues that if we want to understand old age, we have to think more fundamentally about what it means to be a person, to have a life, to have (or lead) a good life, to be part of a just society. What did Plato mean when he suggested... The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, an...
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192,65 zł |
The Value of the Humanities
ISBN: 9780198728054 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Value of the Humanities provides a critical account of the principal arguments used to defend the value of the Humanities. The claims considered are: that the Humanities study the meaning-making practices of culture, and bring to their work a distinctive understanding of what constitutes knowledge and understanding; that, though useful to society in many ways, they remain laudably at odds with, or at a remove from, instrumental use value; that they contribute to human happiness; that they are a force for democracy; and that they are a good in themselves, to be valued "for their own sake."...
The Value of the Humanities provides a critical account of the principal arguments used to defend the value of the Humanities. The claims considered a...
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128,04 zł |
Vanity Fair
ISBN: 9780198727712 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 976 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) 'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.'
Becky Sharp is sharp, calculating, and determined to succeed. Craving wealth and a position in society, she charms, hoodwinks, manipulates everyone she meets, rising in the world as she attaches herself to a succession of rich men. Becky's fortunes are contrasted with those of her best friend Amelia, who has none of Becky's wit and vitality but whose gentle-heartedness attracts the devotion of the loyal Dobbin. Set during the Napoleonic wars, Vanity Fair follows Becky as she cuts a swathe... 'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.'
Becky Sharp is sharp, calculating, and determined to succeed. Cr... |
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41,25 zł |
Little Dorrit
ISBN: 9780141439969 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 985 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs over all aspects of Victorian society When Arthur Clennam returns to England after many years abroad, he takes a kindly interest in Amy Dorrit, his mother's seamstress, and in the affairs of Amy's father, William Dorrit, a man of shabby grandeur, long imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea prison. As Arthur soon discovers, the dark shadow of the prison stretches far beyond its walls to affect the lives of many, from the kindly Mr Panks, the reluctant rent-collector of Bleeding Heart Yard,...
A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs over all aspects of Victorian society When...
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51,58 zł |
Life Is Perfect
ISBN: 9780979586149 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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60,86 zł |
The Practice and Representation of Reading in England
ISBN: 9780521023238 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) How did people read in the past? Where, when, and why did they read? And what did they think readers and reading were for? Drawing on fields as diverse as medieval pedagogy, textual bibliography, history of science, social and literary history, this collection of essays highlights the cultural conventions involved in reading, and explores personal reading experiences. The Practice and Representation of Reading in England constitutes a major addition to our understanding of the history of readers and reading.
How did people read in the past? Where, when, and why did they read? And what did they think readers and reading were for? Drawing on fields as divers...
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279,29 zł |
The Practice and Representation of Reading in England
ISBN: 9780521480932 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. How did people read in the past? Where, when, and why did they read? And what did they think readers and reading were for? Drawing on fields as diverse as medieval pedagogy, textual bibliography, history of science, social and literary history, this collection of essays highlights the cultural conventions involved in reading, and explores personal reading experiences. The Practice and Representation of Reading in England constitutes a major addition to our understanding of the history of readers and reading.
How did people read in the past? Where, when, and why did they read? And what did they think readers and reading were for? Drawing on fields as divers...
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453,66 zł |