wyszukanych pozycji: 11
The Art of Eloquence: Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce
ISBN: 9780199593224 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'In the course of these fifty years we have become a nation of public speakers. Everyone speaks now. We are now more than ever a debating, that is, a Parliamentary people' (The Times, 1873).
The Art of Eloquence considers how Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, and Joyce responded to this 'Parliamentary people', and examines the ways in which they and their publics conceived the relations between political speech and literary endeavour. Drawing on a wide range of sources - classical rhetoric, Hansard, newspaper reports, elocutionary manuals, treatises on crowd theory - this book argues that... 'In the course of these fifty years we have become a nation of public speakers. Everyone speaks now. We are now more than ever a debating, that is, a ...
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266,24 zł |
Life Lessons from Byron
ISBN: 9781447245742 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Essential life lessons from Byron, one of life's Great Thinkers
Essential life lessons from Byron, one of life's Great Thinkers
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The Art of Eloquence: Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce
ISBN: 9780199253999 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'In the course of these fifty years we have become a nation of public speakers. Everyone speaks now. We are now more than ever a debating, that is, a Parliamentary people' (The Times, 1873).
The Art of Eloquence considers how Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, and Joyce responded to this 'Parliamentary people', and examines the ways in which they and their publics conceived the relations between political speech and literary endeavour. Drawing on a wide range of sources - classical rhetoric, Hansard, newspaper reports, elocutionary manuals, treatises on crowd theory - this book argues that... 'In the course of these fifty years we have become a nation of public speakers. Everyone speaks now. We are now more than ever a debating, that is, a ...
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109,24 zł |
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry
ISBN: 9780198713715 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 912 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'I am inclined to think that we want new forms . . . as well as thoughts', confessed Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning in 1845. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry provides a closely-read appreciation of the vibrancy and variety of Victorian poetic forms, and attends to poems as both shaped and shaping forces. The volume is divided into four main sections. The first section on 'Form' looks at a few central innovations and engagements--'Rhythm', 'Beat', 'Address', 'Rhyme', 'Diction', 'Syntax', and 'Story'. The second section, 'Literary Landscapes', examines the traditions and...
'I am inclined to think that we want new forms . . . as well as thoughts', confessed Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning in 1845. The Oxford Hand...
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177,91 zł |
The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry
ISBN: 9780199576463 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 912 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. 'I am inclined to think that we want new forms . . . as well as thoughts', confessed Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning in 1845. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry provides a closely-read appreciation of the vibrancy and variety of Victorian poetic forms, and attends to poems as both shaped and shaping forces. The volume is divided into four main sections. The first section on 'Form' looks at a few central innovations and engagements--'Rhythm', 'Beat', 'Address', 'Rhyme', 'Diction', 'Syntax', and 'Story'. The second section, 'Literary Landscapes', examines the traditions and writers...
'I am inclined to think that we want new forms . . . as well as thoughts', confessed Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning in 1845. The Oxford Handbook...
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Wordsworth's Fun
ISBN: 9780226652191 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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Byron
ISBN: 9781605988085 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 125 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Born in 1788, Lord Byron was an English poet and a leading figure of the Romantic movement. A prodigious poetic gift and a scandalous private life made him famous throughout Europe, and his masterpiece, Don Juan, became the bestselling work of the period. He remains one of the most storied and fascinating figures in world literature, and Matthew Bevis takes this great thinker and highlights the ideas most relevant to us today. The Great Thinkers on Modern Life Series, part of The School of Life, shows how thse wise voices from the past have urgently important and inspiring things to tell us.
Born in 1788, Lord Byron was an English poet and a leading figure of the Romantic movement. A prodigious poetic gift and a scandalous private life mad...
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Some Versions of Empson
ISBN: 9780199286362 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. William Empson was one the most important poet-critics of the twentieth century, and his work continues to influence and inspire writers from many divergent critical traditions. Following on recent scholarly developments, this timely collection of essays provides a fully-rounded examination of Empson's life, work, inheritance, and influence.
This is the first volume of critical essays on Empson to be published in over a decade, and the first to consider the full range of his work, studying his poetry alongside his criticism in order to reassess the scale of his achievement. It also... William Empson was one the most important poet-critics of the twentieth century, and his work continues to influence and inspire writers from many div...
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692,94 zł |
Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry
ISBN: 9780198833796 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Edward Lear and the Play of Poetry
ISBN: 9780198708568 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Of all the Victorian poets, Edward Lear has a good claim to the widest audience: admired and championed by critics and poets from John Ruskin to John Ashbery, he has also been read, heard, and loved by generations of children. As a central figure in the literature of nonsense, Lear has also shaped the evolution of modern literature and his work continues to influence and inspire writers and readers today. This collection of essays, the first ever devoted solely to Lear, builds on a recent resurgence of critical interest and asks how it is that the play of Lear's poetry continues to delight,...
Of all the Victorian poets, Edward Lear has a good claim to the widest audience: admired and championed by critics and poets from John Ruskin to John ...
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558,06 zł |
Comedy: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780199601714 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that writers and speakers enjoy - and risk - when they tell a joke, indulge in bathos, talk nonsense, or encourage irony?
This Very Short Introduction explores comedy both as a literary genre, and as a range of non-literary phenomena, experiences and events. Matthew Bevis studies the classics of comic drama, prose fiction and poetry, alongside forms of pantomime, comic opera, silent cinema, popular... To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abuse...
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50,39 zł |