wyszukanych pozycji: 36
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Sanctuary
ISBN: 9780008347543 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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110,96 |
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Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary
ISBN: 9780394711553 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Shows how the figure of Mary has shaped and been shaped by changing social and historical circumstances and why for all their beauty and power,the legends of Mary have condemned real women to perpetual inferiority.
Shows how the figure of Mary has shaped and been shaped by changing social and historical circumstances and why for all their beauty and power,the leg...
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84,08 |
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Alone of All Her Sex
ISBN: 9780198718789 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This unique study of the cult of the Virgin Mary offers a way of thinking about the interrelations of Catholicism and ideas of ideal femininity over the longue duree."
This unique study of the cult of the Virgin Mary offers a way of thinking about the interrelations of Catholicism and ideas of ideal femininity over t...
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119,24 |
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Managing Monsters
ISBN: 9780099433613 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Marina Warner's 1994 Reith Lectures, in which she offered a definition of myth and its many contemporary faces, exploring the monster, children, mothers, strangers, and the idea of home.
Marina Warner's 1994 Reith Lectures, in which she offered a definition of myth and its many contemporary faces, exploring the monster, children, mothe...
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66,56 |
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Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir
ISBN: 9780008347581 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
cena:
85,71 |
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Signs & Wonders : Essays on Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9780099437727 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Since the early 1970s, when Marina Warner reported from Vietnam and America, in startling essays, she has been one of the most challenging and profound commentators on the culture. This collection draws together essays, offering a retrospective of her changing ideas on literature and culture - on fiction, drama, religion, language and fairy tale.
Since the early 1970s, when Marina Warner reported from Vietnam and America, in startling essays, she has been one of the most challenging and profoun...
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87,06 |
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Temporale: The Cahiers Series
ISBN: 9781909631434 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
cena:
70,61 |
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L'Atalante
ISBN: 9781844578887 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The last film in Vigo's tragically short career, L'Atalante has achieved legendary status over the past eighty years. A study of romantic love, it is told in a style influenced by surrealism, but still Vigo's own. This reissued edition features original cover artwork and a substantial new prologue that revisits the film and recent readings of it. The last film in Vigo's tragically short career, L'Atalante has achieved legendary status over the past eighty years. A study of romantic love, it ... |
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63,23 |
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The Dragon Empress : Life and Times of Tz'u-hsi 1835-1908 Empress Dowager of China
ISBN: 9780099165910 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) From 1861 to 1908 a woman - the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi, born the daughter of a minor mandarin - held the supreme power in China. Opportunist, ruthless, malicious, she ruled over 400 million people. This biography explores her complex personality - her extreme conventionalism, her hatred of foreigners, her passion for power and intrigue, her vanity and her delight in ritual, her extravagance and corruption, and her love of gardens, painting and the theatre. The book also portrays a China in rapid decline, as poverty, civil war and foreign exploitation and invasion brought about the fall of...
From 1861 to 1908 a woman - the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi, born the daughter of a minor mandarin - held the supreme power in China. Opportunist, ruthle...
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81,93 |
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Murderers I Have Known
ISBN: 9780099428374 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Includes stories that conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural, between openness and fear. This title includes images of saints and sinners, bats and nightingales, pink flesh and putrefaction in an electrifying collection.
Includes stories that conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural...
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66,56 |
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Wonder Tales : Six Stories of Enchantment
ISBN: 9780099552048 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Warner has gathered a magical collection of extraordinary, and occasionally proto-feminist, fairy tales by the great women storytellers of the 17th and 18th century who ingeniously used the genre to comment on their own times and experiences.
Warner has gathered a magical collection of extraordinary, and occasionally proto-feminist, fairy tales by the great women storytellers of the 17th an...
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81,93 |
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Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art & Artists
ISBN: 9780500295960 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
cena:
100,88 |
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The Leto Bundle
ISBN: 9780099284659 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A story full of myth, mystery and great imaginative power about a young woman who, searching for her lost baby son like Mother Courage, appears in different guises across different centuries and cultures. She is the eternal refugee but ultimately, the survivor.
A story full of myth, mystery and great imaginative power about a young woman who, searching for her lost baby son like Mother Courage, appears in dif...
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87,06 |
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Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism
ISBN: 9780520224643 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Joan has a unique role in Western imagination--she is one of the few true female heroes. Marina Warner uses her superb historical and literary skills to move beyond conventional biography and to capture the essence of Joan of Arc, both as she lived in her own time and as she has "grown" in the human imagination over the five centuries since her death. She has examined the court documents from Joan of Arc's 1431 Inquisition trial for heresy and woven the facts together with an analysis of the histories, biographies, plays, and paintings and sculptures that have appeared over time to honor this...
Joan has a unique role in Western imagination--she is one of the few true female heroes. Marina Warner uses her superb historical and literary skills ...
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161,21 |
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Joan of Arc
ISBN: 9780198718796 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A fascinating study of the symbolism of Joan of Arc in her own time and ever since in literature, politics, on the stage, and on screen.
A fascinating study of the symbolism of Joan of Arc in her own time and ever since in literature, politics, on the stage, and on screen.
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114,63 |
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Indigo Or Mapping The Waters
ISBN: 9780099154518 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Inspired by The Tempest, the novelist rewrites the drama of Ariel, Caliban and Sycorax in a Caribbean setting, exploring the colonial conflicts of an imaginary island and one family. The author's previous novel The Lost Father was Regional Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
Inspired by The Tempest, the novelist rewrites the drama of Ariel, Caliban and Sycorax in a Caribbean setting, exploring the colonial conflicts of an ...
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87,06 |
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The Lost Father
ISBN: 9780099767411 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The imaginary story of an Italian family from 1909 to the 1930s, with a framework in the present day. The narrator finds herself drawn into the passion and prejudice of her own invention, and we see how family memory, like folk memory, distorts and mythologises.
The imaginary story of an Italian family from 1909 to the 1930s, with a framework in the present day. The narrator finds herself drawn into the passio...
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81,93 |
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Inventory of a Life Mislaid
ISBN: 9780008347598 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
cena:
75,62 |
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Six Myths of Our Time: Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More
ISBN: 9780679759249 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Is Jurassic Park a work of covert misogynist propaganda? Does romanticizing childhood lead to abusing children? What secret correspondence links Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to video games and Shakespeare's Caliban to Hannibal Lecter? in what ways do our culture's most hallowed legends inform the current debates over single mothers, the men's movement, and animal rights?
In these six dazzlingly intelligent and provocative essays, the distinguished English novelist and critic Marina Warner weaves classical mythology, pop culture, and today's headlines into a potent work of cultural... Is Jurassic Park a work of covert misogynist propaganda? Does romanticizing childhood lead to abusing children? What secret correspondence links Mary ...
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64,97 |
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No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock
ISBN: 9780099739814 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Travelling from ogres to cradle songs, from bananas to cannibals, Warner traces the roots of our commonest anxieties, unravelling the myths and fears which define human sensibilities. She looks at the creatures which dominate popular fiction, and at films such as The Silence of the Lambs.
Travelling from ogres to cradle songs, from bananas to cannibals, Warner traces the roots of our commonest anxieties, unravelling the myths and fears ...
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102,48 |