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Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9780226781716 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In Jennifer Summit s account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey s famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, "Memory s Library "revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Summit argues that the medieval sources that survive in English collections are the product of a... In Jennifer Summit s account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the mean... |
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437,64 zł |
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Lost Property: The Woman Writer and English Literary History, 1380-1589
ISBN: 9780226780139 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The English literary canon is haunted by the figure of the lost woman writer. In our own age, she has been a powerful stimulus for the rediscovery of works written by women. But as Jennifer Summit argues, "the lost woman writer" also served as an evocative symbol during the very formation of an English literary tradition from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries.
"Lost Property" traces the representation of women writers from Margery Kempe and Christine de Pizan to Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots, exploring how the woman writer became a focal point for emerging theories of... The English literary canon is haunted by the figure of the lost woman writer. In our own age, she has been a powerful stimulus for the rediscovery of ...
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164,12 zł |
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Memory's Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9780226781709 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In Jennifer Summit's account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the meanings and uses of books, reading, and the past. Considering the two-hundred-year period between 1431, which saw the foundation of Duke Humfrey's famous library, and 1631, when the great antiquarian Sir Robert Cotton died, Memory's Library revises the history of the modern library by focusing on its origins in medieval and early modern England. Summit argues that the medieval sources that survive in English collections are the... In Jennifer Summit's account, libraries are more than inert storehouses of written tradition; they are volatile spaces that actively shape the mean... |
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164,12 zł |
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Action Versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters
ISBN: 9780226706634 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone," Blaise Pascal wrote in 1654. But then there's Walt Whitman, in 1856: "Whoever you are, come forth! Or man or woman come forth! / You must not stay sleeping and dallying there in the house." It is truly an ancient debate: Is it better to be active or contemplative? To do or to think? To make an impact, or to understand the world more deeply? Aristotle argued for contemplation as the highest state of human flourishing. But it was through action that his student Alexander the Great conquered the known world....
"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone," Blaise Pascal wrote in 1654. But then there's Walt Whitman, in ...
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98,47 zł |
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Action Versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters
ISBN: 9780226032238 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. It is truly an ancient debate: Is it better to be active or contemplative? With Action vs. Contemplation, Jennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule address the question in a refreshingly unexpected way: by refusing to take sides.
It is truly an ancient debate: Is it better to be active or contemplative? With Action vs. Contemplation, Jennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule address ...
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109,41 zł |
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