wyszukanych pozycji: 18
In the Zone: The Twilight World of Rod Serling
ISBN: 9780879727307 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The classic television show The Twilight Zone explored the possibilities inhering in the ordinary. A Twilight Zone episode moved us by being poignant and intimate, rambunctious or thought provoking. But whether it takes place on an asteroid, in a city pool room, or in the backwoods, it will usually convey both a folklorist's eye for detail and the born raconteur's sense of pace. Rod Serling, the show's originator, main scriptwriter, and artistic director, knew how much burden he could place on his rhetorical and dramatic gifts. Deservedly celebrated as a pioneer fiction writer...
The classic television show The Twilight Zone explored the possibilities inhering in the ordinary. A Twilight Zone episode moved us by b...
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76,34 zł |
Simon Gray Unbound: The Journey of a Dramatist
ISBN: 9780786462995 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The work of British playwright Simon Gray (1936-2008) has always discouraged labels. His inventive plays never lodged easily within the confines of ideologies and, as a consequence, have failed to garner the critical scholarship afforded his peers. This book examines Gray's legacy, from his early plays which hack away at the formalism and humanism of traditional English Satire, to his later work, in which he explores English professionals and their problems connecting with each other. If he remains the least known major English dramatist of his day, he's also one of the boldest and best.
The work of British playwright Simon Gray (1936-2008) has always discouraged labels. His inventive plays never lodged easily within the confines of id...
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244,15 zł |
In the Zone: The Twilight World of Rod Serling
ISBN: 9780879727291 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The classic television show The Twilight Zone explored the possibilities inhering in the ordinary. A Twilight Zone episode moved us by being poignant and intimate, rambunctious or thought provoking. But whether it takes place on an asteroid, in a city pool room, or in the backwoods, it will usually convey both a folklorist s eye for detail and the born raconteur s sense of pace. Rod Serling, the show s originator, main scriptwriter, and artistic director, knew how much burden he could place on his rhetorical and dramatic gifts. Deservedly celebrated as a pioneer fiction writer...
The classic television show The Twilight Zone explored the possibilities inhering in the ordinary. A Twilight Zone episode moved us by b...
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244,15 zł |
Like Hot Knives to the Brain: James Ellroy's Search for Himself
ISBN: 9780739120026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Often more disturbing than entertaining, James Ellroy is an author who never shies away from the ugly or repellent. Eminent crime fiction scholar Peter Wolfe examines how Ellroy transcends the genres of pulp and neo-noir fiction to write stories that are both psychologically haunting and culturally relevant. Wolfe skillfully combines biography--including the unsolved murder of Ellroy's mother--with literary analysis to provide a fascinating and readable study of this popular author. The first in-depth companion to the work of James Ellroy, Like Hot Knives to the Brain will interest students...
Often more disturbing than entertaining, James Ellroy is an author who never shies away from the ugly or repellent. Eminent crime fiction scholar Pete...
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231,97 zł |
Laden Choirs: The Fiction of Patrick White
ISBN: 9780813155494 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1973 the Australian novelist Patrick White won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the year that his great novel of family ties and change, The Eye of the Storm, was published and became a bestseller in America and Europe. Yet White is still not widely known or read, and few writers of today have provoked so many contradictory judgments. Now Peter Wolfe has written the first book-length study of the work of this brilliant and haunting novelist. The study offers a subtle, penetrating examination of White's style, his skill in building narrative tension, and also the depth and... In 1973 the Australian novelist Patrick White won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the year that his great novel of family ties and change, The E... |
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113,12 zł |
Something More than Night: The Case of Raymond Chandler
ISBN: 9780879722944 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Raymond Chandler's eminence as a mystery writer is unchallenged. Somerset Maugham and George Grella both rate him above Dashiell Hammett; Eric Partridge deems him a serious artist and a very considerable novelist, while praising him as one of the finest novelists of his time. Peter Wolfe examines the many sides of Chandler and his work--his apparent will to self-destruct, his obsession with beautiful women, and his apparent brush with homosexuality--and casts much new and needed light on this major American author.
Raymond Chandler's eminence as a mystery writer is unchallenged. Somerset Maugham and George Grella both rate him above Dashiell Hammett; Eric Partrid...
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76,34 zł |
Terence Rattigan: The Playwright as Battlefield
ISBN: 9781498598736 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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469,46 zł |
Understanding Alan Bennett
ISBN: 9781570032806 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Understanding Alan Bennett, Peter Wolfe conveys Bennett's originality, complexities of thought, and creative vigor while examining Bennett in his various roles as actor, director, playwright, and lyricist. As Wolfe illustrates, Bennett's success in his many spheres was no fluke. Bennett's theatrical eminence has been accompanied by awards and professional recognition. His play Single Spies won the Oliver Award as England's best comedy for 1989. The casts of his plays, starting with Forty Years On in 1968, have included such luminaries as Sir John Gielgud, Sir Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright,...
In Understanding Alan Bennett, Peter Wolfe conveys Bennett's originality, complexities of thought, and creative vigor while examining Bennett in his v...
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237,49 zł |
Something More Than Night: The Case of Raymond Chandler
ISBN: 9780879722937 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Raymond Chandler's eminence as a mystery writer is unchallenged. Somerset Maugham and George Grella both rate him above Dashiell Hammett; Eric Partridge deems him "a serious artist and a very considerable novelist," while praising him as "one of the finest novelists of his time." Peter Wolfe examines the many sides of Chandler and his work--his apparent will to self-destruct, his obsession with beautiful women, and his apparent brush with homosexuality--and casts much new and needed light on this major American author.
Raymond Chandler's eminence as a mystery writer is unchallenged. Somerset Maugham and George Grella both rate him above Dashiell Hammett; Eric Partrid...
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169,89 zł |
Havoc in the Hub: A Reading of George V. Higgins
ISBN: 9780739121511 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Havoc in the Hub examines the long-neglected work of George V. Higgins, bringing to light the wealth of intellectual, social, literary, and religious thought that underlie his 25 novels and numerous other writings.
Havoc in the Hub examines the long-neglected work of George V. Higgins, bringing to light the wealth of intellectual, social, literary, and religious ...
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231,97 zł |
Henry Green: Havoc in the House of Fiction
ISBN: 9781476671116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Praised in his lifetime as England's top fiction author, Henry Green (1905-1973), is largely overlooked today. Through his use of paradoxical and ambiguous language, his novels bring texture to the flatness of life, making the world seem bigger and closer. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of his work for a new generation of readers"--
"Praised in his lifetime as England's top fiction author, Henry Green (1905-1973), is largely overlooked today. Through his use of paradoxical and amb...
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303,68 zł |
Corridors of Deceit: The World of John le Carré
ISBN: 9780879723828 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. John le Carre is viewed by many critics as one of the best spy and espionage novel writers. His most famous works are The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; and The Little Drummer Girl. Peter Wolfe has produced an informative study of le Carre's works, showing how le Carre's five years in the Service (British Intelligence) helped him become a keen observer, social historian, and expert in bureaucratic politics. He has supplanted the technological flair marking much of today's spy fiction with moral complexity and psychological depth. He shows us what spies are like,...
John le Carre is viewed by many critics as one of the best spy and espionage novel writers. His most famous works are The Spy Who Came in from the Col...
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72,08 zł |
Havoc in the Hub: A Reading of George V. Higgins
ISBN: 9780739121504 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Havoc in the Hub brings to light the long-neglected work of George V. Higgins, revealing the wealth of intellectual, social, literary, and religious thought that underlies his 25 novels and numerous other works. Higgins's writing, fed by equal parts wit and sorrow, touches our senses, emotions, and minds. Peter Wolfe makes a resounding contribution to the study of this writer. Wolfe places Higgins's work in its geographical context and outlines the many sources from which Higgins drew during his highly productive career. The first in-depth examination of George V. Higgins, Havoc in the Hub...
Havoc in the Hub brings to light the long-neglected work of George V. Higgins, revealing the wealth of intellectual, social, literary, and religious t...
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480,50 zł |
Alarms & Epitaphs: The Art of Eric Ambler
ISBN: 9780879726034 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Eric Ambler's novelistic career falls into two halves. In the first half belong the works he published between 1935 1940. These include the highly acclaimed Epitaph for a Spy (1938) and The Mask of Dimitrios (1939), both of which were made into successful films in 1944. The intrigue books of this period unfold in interwar Europe, a bitten-up, anxious place reeling between the extremes of fascism and Soviet communism. To reflect changes in the postwar world, Ambler set his later books in third-world countries where first-world financing collides with unstable, often...
Eric Ambler's novelistic career falls into two halves. In the first half belong the works he published between 1935 1940. These include the highly acc...
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67,83 zł |
Governing Food : Science, Safety and Trade
ISBN: 9780889118973 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Governing food creates friction in transatlantic relations, complicates Britain's relations with its EU partners, and poses challenges to Canada's relations with the United States. The essays in Governing Food, written by distinguished public officials, academics, and industry and civil society commentators, examine the three pillars of food safety - science, regulation, and industry - to highlight the pressures on government. Contributors include Charles Cockbill, chairman of the European Food Law Association of the UK; Neville Craddock, group regulatory affairs manager, Nestle UK; Lorne...
Governing food creates friction in transatlantic relations, complicates Britain's relations with its EU partners, and poses challenges to Canada's rel...
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157,35 zł |
Adolescent Risk Behaviors: Why Teens Experiment and Strategies to Keep Them Safe
ISBN: 9780300110807 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the crucial role that relationships play in the lives of teenagers. The authors particularly examine the ways that healthy relationships can help teens avoid such common risk behaviors as substance abuse, dating violence, sexual assault, and unsafe sexual practices. Addressing the current lack of effective prevention programs for teens, they present new strategies for encouraging healthy choices.
The book first traces differences between the -rules of relating- for boys and girls and discusses typical and atypical patterns of experimentation in teens. The authors... This book focuses on the crucial role that relationships play in the lives of teenagers. The authors particularly examine the ways that healthy relati...
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506,39 zł |
Children of Battered Women
ISBN: 9780803933842 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Considers the devastating impact of family violence on children, examines children's views of violence, and proposes strategies for intervention and prevention. The authors provide case studies and empirical research to portray the scope of the problem.
Considers the devastating impact of family violence on children, examines children's views of violence, and proposes strategies for intervention and p...
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571,90 zł |
Transitions and Borders between Animals, Humans and Machines 1600-1800
ISBN: 9789004191815 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The search for a new foundation of the order of things, that characterizes the period between Descartes and Kant, is closely related to three questions: What is an animal? What is a human? What is a machine? The various answers that have been given to the questions occur in a field of dynamic interactions between theories of knowledge and of matter, experiments, observations, moral, theological and scientific claims, analogies, metaphors, imitations, and specific objects or artifacts. The main objective of this book is to retrace these interactions within different disciplinary,...
The search for a new foundation of the order of things, that characterizes the period between Descartes and Kant, is closely related to three question...
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573,66 zł |