wyszukanych pozycji: 38
Alone of All Her Sex
ISBN: 9780198718789 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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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121,73 zł |
Indigo Or Mapping The Waters
ISBN: 9780099154518 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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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92,77 zł |
Inventory of a Life Mislaid
ISBN: 9780008347598 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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75,98 zł |
Wonder Tales : Six Stories of Enchantment
ISBN: 9780099552048 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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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87,31 zł |
Managing Monsters
ISBN: 9780099433613 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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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70,93 zł |
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism
ISBN: 9780520224643 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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182,06 zł |
Murderers I Have Known
ISBN: 9780099428374 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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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70,93 zł |
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir
ISBN: 9780008347581 / Twarda / 2021 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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86,11 zł |
Joan of Arc
ISBN: 9780198718796 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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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116,81 zł |
Signs & Wonders : Essays on Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9780099437727 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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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92,77 zł |
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. 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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87,31 zł |
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. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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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95,40 zł |
Fairy Tale: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780199532155 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Marina Warner guides us through the rich world of fairy tale, from Cinderella and Hansel and Gretel to Snow White and Pan's Labyrinth. Exploring pervasive themes of folklore, myth, the supernatural, imagination, and fantasy, Warner highlights the impact of the genre on human understanding, history, and culture.
Marina Warner guides us through the rich world of fairy tale, from Cinderella and Hansel and Gretel to Snow White and Pan's Labyrinth. Exploring perva...
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49,09 zł |
L'Atalante
ISBN: 9781844578887 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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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67,38 zł |
Monuments And Maidens : The Allegory of the Female Form
ISBN: 9780099588818 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This work examines three very different allegorical uses of the female form: New York's statue of Liberty; the public sculptures of central Paris; and the images of Mrs Thatcher favoured by Fleet Street.
This work examines three very different allegorical uses of the female form: New York's statue of Liberty; the public sculptures of central Paris; and...
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81,85 zł |
Monuments & Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form
ISBN: 9780520227330 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Marina Warner explores the tradition of personifying liberty, justice, wisdom, charity, and other ideals and desiderata in the female form, and examines the tension between women's historic and symbolic roles. Drawing on the evidence of public art, especially sculpture, and painting, poetry, and classical mythology, she ranges over the allegorical presence of the woman in the Western tradition with a sharply observant eye and a piquant and engaging style.
Marina Warner explores the tradition of personifying liberty, justice, wisdom, charity, and other ideals and desiderata in the female form, and examin...
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212,42 zł |
No Go the Bogeyman : Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock
ISBN: 9780099739814 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 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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109,20 zł |