wyszukanych pozycji: 32
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby: Essays, Articles, Reviews
ISBN: 9780231115353 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. More critical writing exists on The Great Gatsby than on any other work of American fiction. This Columbia Critical Guide introduces and contextualizes the key critical debates surrounding Fitzgerald's novel. The extracts and essays included here reflect The Great Gatsby's place as one of the first American novels to make significant use of modernist techniques and explore the influence of this "Lost Generation" work on later American writings. In considering secondary sources from the twenties to the present, this smart and sophisticated study guide offers readers an...
More critical writing exists on The Great Gatsby than on any other work of American fiction. This Columbia Critical Guide introduces and...
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166,06 zł |
William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury and as I Lay Dying: Essays, Articles, Reviews
ISBN: 9780231121897 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Explores the critical material generated by The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying. This guide follows the growth of interest in Faulkner's work across six decades. It discusses writings shaped by various critical theories, offering the reader a view of the place given to one of America's innovative and influential novelists.
Explores the critical material generated by The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying. This guide follows the growth of interest in Faulkner's work ac...
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107,88 zł |
Charles Dickens: David Copperfield/ Great Expectations
ISBN: 9781137283245 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. David Copperfield and Great Expectations are among Charles Dickens's most famous novels. In both books, the hero tells the vivid and absorbing tale of his education by life, presents a rich range of characters and scenes, and tackles profound moral, social and psychological themes.
Part I of this essential study: provides lucid and penetrating analyses of key passages discusses the crucial topics of patriarchy, class, obsession, eccentricity, death, breakdown and recovery summarizes the methods of analysis and offers suggestions for further work. Part II... David Copperfield and Great Expectations are among Charles Dickens's most famous novels. In both books, the hero tells the vivid and abs...
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410,97 zł |
Macbeth
ISBN: 9781403999245 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This Guide provides a survey of the wide range of responses to Macbeth, as well as the key debates and developments from the seventeenth century to the present day. Chronologically structured, the Guide summarizes and assesses key interpretations, sets them in context and supplies extracts from criticism which exemplify critical positions.
This Guide provides a survey of the wide range of responses to Macbeth, as well as the key debates and developments from the seventeenth cent...
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385,29 zł |
Shakespeare: The Tragedies
ISBN: 9781137404893 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Shakespeare's tragedies are among the greatest works of tragic art and have attracted a rich range of commentary and interpretation from leading creative and critical minds. This Reader's Guide offers a comprehensive survey of the key criticism on the tragedies, from the seventeenth century through to the present day. In this book, Nicolas Tredell:
- introduces essential concepts, themes and debates - relates Shakespeare's tragedies to fi elds of study including psychoanalysis, gender, race, ecology and philosophy - summarises major critical texts from Dryden and Dr Johnson to... Shakespeare's tragedies are among the greatest works of tragic art and have attracted a rich range of commentary and interpretation from leading creat...
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436,65 zł |
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby/Tender is the Night
ISBN: 9780230292222 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This stimulating study takes a fresh look at two of Fitzgerald's major texts. Part I uses carefully selected short extracts for close textual analysis, while Part II examines the historical and literary contexts and key criticism. The volume is an ideal introductory guide for those who are studying Fitzgerald's work for the first time.
This stimulating study takes a fresh look at two of Fitzgerald's major texts. Part I uses carefully selected short extracts for close textual analysis...
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128,37 zł |
William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury and as I Lay Dying: Essays, Articles, Reviews
ISBN: 9780231121880 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Explores the critical material generated by The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying. This guide follows the growth of interest in Faulkner's work across six decades. It discusses writings shaped by various critical theories, offering the reader a view of the place given to one of America's innovative and influential novelists.
Explores the critical material generated by The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying. This guide follows the growth of interest in Faulkner's work ac...
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362,03 zł |
Conversations with Critics
ISBN: 9789810967642 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 554 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Veteran critic Nicolas Tredell has been conversing with fellow critics for over three decades. This revised and expanded volume contains twenty interviews with Britain's leading intellectuals, academics, and exploratory novelists and poets, covering the period between 1990-2004. From conversations ranging from the seismic shift in teaching attitudes in the universities from the sixties to the nineties, to the impact of French theorists and the Tel Quel set on literary theory, to the influence of the Catholic Church in relation to literature and culture, to the collapse of... Veteran critic Nicolas Tredell has been conversing with fellow critics for over three decades. This revised and expanded volume contains twenty int... |
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134,20 zł |
Charles Dickens: David Copperfield/ Great Expectations
ISBN: 9781137283238 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. David Copperfield and Great Expectations are among Charles Dickens's most famous novels. In both books, the hero tells the vivid and absorbing tale of his education by life, presents a rich range of characters and scenes, and tackles profound moral, social and psychological themes.
Part I of this essential study: provides lucid and penetrating analyses of key passages discusses the crucial topics of patriarchy, class, obsession, eccentricity, death, breakdown and recovery summarizes the methods of analysis and offers suggestions for further work. Part II... David Copperfield and Great Expectations are among Charles Dickens's most famous novels. In both books, the hero tells the vivid and abs...
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128,37 zł |
Shakespeare: The Tragedies
ISBN: 9781137404886 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Shakespeare's tragedies are among the greatest works of tragic art and have attracted a rich range of commentary and interpretation from leading creative and critical minds. This Reader's Guide offers a comprehensive survey of the key criticism on the tragedies, from the seventeenth century through to the present day. In this book, Nicolas Tredell:
- introduces essential concepts, themes and debates - relates Shakespeare's tragedies to fi elds of study including psychoanalysis, gender, race, ecology and philosophy - summarises major critical texts from Dryden and Dr Johnson to... Shakespeare's tragedies are among the greatest works of tragic art and have attracted a rich range of commentary and interpretation from leading creat...
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138,65 zł |
Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream
ISBN: 9780230238794 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A stimulating and comprehensive critical survey of the responses to A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as the key debates and developments, from the seventeenth century to the present day. Leading the reader through material chronologically, the Guide explores the main themes and interpretations and draws on a rich range of critical writings.
A stimulating and comprehensive critical survey of the responses to A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as the key debates and developments, f...
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123,24 zł |
Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby: A Reader's Guide
ISBN: 9780826490117 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Reader's Guides provide a comprehensive starting point for any advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and influence of key works. Each guide also offers students fresh critical insights and provides a practical introduction to close reading and to analysing literary language and form. They provide up-to-date, authoritative but accessible guides to the most commonly studied classic texts.
The Great Gatsby (1925) is a classic of modern American literature and is often seen as the quintessential novel of 'the jazz age'. This is the ideal guide to the... Reader's Guides provide a comprehensive starting point for any advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and influence of key wor...
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112,97 zł |
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations: Essays, Articles, Reviews
ISBN: 9780231119252 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Surveying the key debates about a novel which has provoked an immensely rich critical response, the extracts and essays included here examine Great Expectations in structural, symbolic, social, political, psychological, and sexual terms, relating the novel to its own time and to a range of twentieth-century theoretical perspectives. Exploring secondary sources, from initial reviews in the 1860s to the most up-to-date critiques of the 1990s, the Guide is an essential resource for the study of one of Dickens's most complex works.
Surveying the key debates about a novel which has provoked an immensely rich critical response, the extracts and essays included here examine Great...
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107,88 zł |
Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby: A Reader's Guide
ISBN: 9780826490100 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Reader's Guides provide a comprehensive starting point for any advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and influence of key works. Each guide also offers students fresh critical insights and provides a practical introduction to close reading and to analysing literary language and form. They provide up-to-date, authoritative but accessible guides to the most commonly studied classic texts. The Great Gatsby (1925) is a classic of modern American literature and is often seen as the quintessential novel of 'the jazz age'. This is the ideal guide to the text,... Reader's Guides provide a comprehensive starting point for any advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and influence of key ... |
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667,83 zł |
Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream
ISBN: 9780230238787 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A stimulating and comprehensive critical survey of the responses to A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as the key debates and developments, from the seventeenth century to the present day. Leading the reader through material chronologically, the Guide explores the main themes and interpretations and draws on a rich range of critical writings.
A stimulating and comprehensive critical survey of the responses to A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as the key debates and developments, f...
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385,29 zł |
Shakespeare: Macbeth
ISBN: 9781403999252 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This Guide provides a critical survey of the rich range of responses to Macbeth, as well as the key debates and developments from the seventeenth century to the present day. Leading the reader through material chronologically, the Guide summarizes, explains and assesses key interpretations, sets them in their intellectual and historical contexts, and supplies extracts from criticism which exemplify crucial critical positions.
This Guide provides a critical survey of the rich range of responses to Macbeth, as well as the key debates and developments from the seventeenth cent...
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123,24 zł |
The World of Violence
ISBN: 9781939140265 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 'One of the more earnest and interesting writers of his generation.' - "The Guardian"
'Readable to an almost hypnotic degree . . . absorbing and exciting.' - "Sphere" 'Some really good narrative . . . impressive.' - "New Statesman" As a child, the brilliant mathematical prodigy Hugh Greene's two major influences were his eccentric old uncles, Nick and Sam. From Uncle Nick, Hugh learned a love of mathematics, which came to represent clarity and order, and from Uncle Sam he acquired an overwhelming fear of violence. Now seventeen and unsure of what to do with his life and whether... 'One of the more earnest and interesting writers of his generation.' - "The Guardian"
'Readable to an almost hypnotic degree . . . absorbing and ... |
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116,69 zł |
Xorandor/Verbivore
ISBN: 9789810935924 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The centrepiece of Brooke-Roses Intercom Quartet, Xorandor and Verbivore explore the shifting language of technologies and their catastrophic potential. In Xorandor we meet Jip and Zab, two precocious teens who chance upon a stone claiming to have fallen from Mars, whose skill for absorbing language from multiple frequencies leads him to Shakespeares Lady Macbeth with potentially apocalyptic consequences. Verbivore meets Jip and Zab again as adults, taking on a new crisis: the worlds mega-computers, facing an overflow of information, rebel by eating up words and causing havoc among...
The centrepiece of Brooke-Roses Intercom Quartet, Xorandor and Verbivore explore the shifting language of technologies and their catastrophic potentia...
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116,69 zł |
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness: Essays, Articles, Reviews
ISBN: 9780231119238 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Spanning an impressive range of interpretations, the critical works in this collection analyze the complex narrative technique of Heart Of Darkness while exploring its evocation of myth, philosophy, and politics, its attitudes to empire, its images of Africa, and its representations of women. Examining secondary sources from the 1900s to the 1990s, this Guide is an indispensable resource for the study of one of Conrad's most potent works.
Spanning an impressive range of interpretations, the critical works in this collection analyze the complex narrative technique of Heart Of Darkness...
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107,88 zł |
Bram Stoker - Dracula
ISBN: 9781403987785 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This comprehensive survey of the critical response to Draculaprovides an overview of the trends and development of work surrounding the novel. The critics and approachesdiscussed range from the earliest studies to the present day, with particular emphasis on biography, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, Irish studies and gender."
This comprehensive survey of the critical response to Draculaprovides an overview of the trends and development of work surrounding the novel...
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385,29 zł |