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A Mother's Tale
ISBN: 9780814213315 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1984, Phillip Lopate sat down with his mother, Frances, to listen to her life story. A strong, resilient, indomitable woman who lived through the major events of the twentieth century, she was orphaned in childhood, ran away and married young, and then reinvented herself as a mother, war factory worker, candy store owner, community organizer, clerk, actress, and singer. But paired with exciting anecdotes are the criticisms of the husband who couldn't satisfy her, the details of numerous affairs and sexual encounters, and, though she succeeded at many of her roles, accounts of how she... In 1984, Phillip Lopate sat down with his mother, Frances, to listen to her life story. A strong, resilient, indomitable woman who lived through th... |
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121,79 zł |
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Against Joie de Vivre: Personal Essays
ISBN: 9780803222731 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "Over the years I have developed a distaste for the spectacle of joie de vivre, the knack of knowing how to live," begins the title essay by Phillip Lopate. This rejoinder to the cult of hedonism and forced conviviality moves from a critique of the false sentimentalization of children and the elderly to a sardonic look at the social rite of the dinner party, on to a moving personal testament to the "hungry soul." Lopate's special gift is his ability to give us not only sophisticated cultural commentary in a dazzling collection of essays but also to bring to his subjects an engaging honesty...
"Over the years I have developed a distaste for the spectacle of joie de vivre, the knack of knowing how to live," begins the title essay by Phillip L...
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82,94 zł |
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The Anchor Essay Annual
ISBN: 9780385484138 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This fall, Anchor Books proudly launches an annual essay series. Acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate has selected the most surprising, important, and exquisite pieces published during the last twelve months. Bringing together material from both periodicals and books, The Anchor Essay Annual 1997 also includes essays never before published, as well as translations from abroad. The result is as rich and unique as it is cosmopolitan.
In her brilliantly frank "Revelation," Mary Gaitskill recounts the religious epiphany that changed her life. Hilton Als explores the "Negressity" of his soul in "My... This fall, Anchor Books proudly launches an annual essay series. Acclaimed essayist Phillip Lopate has selected the most surprising, important, and ex...
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100,22 zł |
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The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present
ISBN: 9780525436270 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 928 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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86,51 zł |
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Totally, Tenderly, Tragically
ISBN: 9780385492508 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Phillip Lopate has been obsessed with movies from the start. As an undergraduate at Columbia, he organized the school's first film society. Later, he even tried his own hand at filmmaking. But it was not until his ascent as a major essayist that Lopate found his truest and most lasting contribution to the medium. And, over the past twenty-five years, tackling subjects ranging from Visconti to Jerry Lewis, from the first New York Film Festival to the thirty-second, Phillip Lopate has made film his most cherished subject. Here, in one place, are the very best of these essays, a joy for anyone...
Phillip Lopate has been obsessed with movies from the start. As an undergraduate at Columbia, he organized the school's first film society. Later, he ...
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73,86 zł |
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My Affair with Art House Cinema: Essays and Reviews
ISBN: 9780231216395 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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120,12 zł |
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Portrait Inside My Head
ISBN: 9781907903960 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Reader, you have in your hands a motley collection of essays, personal and critical. The advantage of the heterogeneous essay collection by a single author is that it shows you how a particular mind moves through the world. If you are attracted to an essayist's mentality and way of speaking, ideally you can surrender happily to his or her take on various subject matters, the more diverse the better. Let us see how our author will tackle this particular memory, neurotic tic, political or social problem, book, movie, play, comic strip, rock band, without requiring an over-arching theme. If...
Reader, you have in your hands a motley collection of essays, personal and critical. The advantage of the heterogeneous essay collection by a single a...
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76,32 zł |
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Portrait of My Body
ISBN: 9780385483773 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Phillip Lopate's richest and most ambitious book yet--the final volume of a trilogy that began with Bachelorhood and Against Joie de Vivre--Portrait of My Body is a powerful memoir in the form of interconnected personal essays. One of America's foremost essayists, who helped focus attention on the form in his acclaimed anthology The Art of the Personal Essay, Lopate demonstrates here just how far a writer can go in the direction of honesty and risk taking.
In thirteen essays, Lopate explores the resources and limits of the self, its many disguises, excuses,... Phillip Lopate's richest and most ambitious book yet--the final volume of a trilogy that began with Bachelorhood and Against Joie de Vivre
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82,79 zł |
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The Contemporary American Essay
ISBN: 9780525567325 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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78,44 zł |
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My Affair with Art House Cinema: Essays and Reviews
ISBN: 9780231216401 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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546,00 zł |
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The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present
ISBN: 9780385423397 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 832 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For more than four hundred years, the personalessay has been one of the richest and most vibrantof all literary forms. Distinguished from thedetached formal essay by its friendly, conversationaltone, its loose structure, and its drive towardcandor and self-disclosure, the personal essayseizes on the minutiae of daily life-vanities, fashions, foibles, oddballs, seasonal rituals, love anddisappointment, the pleasures of solitude, reading, taking a walk -- to offer insight into thehuman condition and the great social and politicalissues of the day. The Art of the Personal Essay isthe...
For more than four hundred years, the personalessay has been one of the richest and most vibrantof all literary forms. Distinguished from thedetached ...
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108,94 zł |
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The Ordering Mirror: Readers and Contexts
ISBN: 9780823215157 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 1977, Bennington College alumna Edith Barbour Andrews established the Ben Belitt Lectureships in gratitude to her teacher Ben Belitt and dedicated the publication of the lectures (in the form of chapbooks) to the memory of William Troy, another of her beloved teachers. The collection, published here in one volume, comprises lectures by some of the most inspiring writers and keenest critics of our time. In his introduciton to The Ordering Mirror, Phillip Lopate contrasts the anticipations and the audience/lecturer dynamic inherent in attending yearly lecture, with the experience of reading...
In 1977, Bennington College alumna Edith Barbour Andrews established the Ben Belitt Lectureships in gratitude to her teacher Ben Belitt and dedicated ...
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233,42 zł |
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To Show and to Tell: The Craft of Literary Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781451696325 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A long-awaited new book on personal writing from Phillip Lopate--celebrated essayist, the director of Columbia University's nonfiction program, and editor of The Art of the Personal Essay. Distinguished author Phillip Lopate, editor of the celebrated anthology The Art of the Personal Essay, is universally acclaimed as "one of our best personal essayists" (Dallas Morning News). Here, combining more than forty years of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, he brings us this highly anticipated nuts-and-bolts guide to writing literary...
A long-awaited new book on personal writing from Phillip Lopate--celebrated essayist, the director of Columbia University's nonfiction program, and...
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78,39 zł |
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Waterfront: A Walk Around Manhattan
ISBN: 9780385497145 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 421 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. East Side, West Side, from the Little Red Lighthouse to Battery Park City, the wonders of Manhattan s waterfront are both celebrated and secret hidden in plain sight. In his brilliant exploration of this defining yet neglected shoreline, personal essayist Philip Lopate also recovers a part of the city s soul.
A native New Yorker, Lopate has embraced Manhattan by walking every inch of its perimeter, telling stories on the way of pirates (Captain Kidd) and power brokers (Robert Moses), the lowly shipworm and Typhoid Mary, public housing in Harlem and the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. He... East Side, West Side, from the Little Red Lighthouse to Battery Park City, the wonders of Manhattan s waterfront are both celebrated and secret hidden...
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91,51 zł |
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Getting Personal: Selected Essays
ISBN: 9780465041749 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the man whose name is synonymous with the contemporary personal essay, Getting Personal is a rich and ambitious collection that spans Phillip Lopate's career as an essayist, teacher, film critic, father, son, and husband. Witty, insightful, deeply meditative, and self-revelatory, with his characteristic candor and curmudgeonly charm, he explores himself, his life, his family, his religion, and his friends.
From the man whose name is synonymous with the contemporary personal essay, Getting Personal is a rich and ambitious collection that spans Phil...
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137,20 zł |
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A Hazard of New Fortunes
ISBN: 9780140439236 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Set against a vividly depicted background of fin de siecle New York, this novel centers on the conflict between a self-made millionaire and a fervent social revolutionary-a conflict in which a man of goodwill futilely attempts to act as a mediator, only to be forced himself into a crisis of conscience. Here we see William Dean Howells's grasp of the realities of the American experience in an age of emerging social struggle. His absolute determination to fairly represent every point of view is evident throughout this multifaceted work. Both a memorable portrait of an era and a profoundly...
Set against a vividly depicted background of fin de siecle New York, this novel centers on the conflict between a self-made millionaire and a fervent ...
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91,51 zł |
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The Art of the Essay, 1999
ISBN: 9780385484152 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Now in its third year, this annual collection presents the most notable, influential, and surprising essays published in the last twelve months in either books or periodicals throughout the English-speaking world. Selected with consummate taste and a catholic openness to style and subject matter by famed essayist, critic, and editor, Phillip Lopate, the 1999 edition demonstrates that the form continues its renaissance as an unrivaled vehicle of intelligence and sensibility.
For this edition, Lopate has paired his tewnty-eight selections by topic, which offers suprising parallels and... Now in its third year, this annual collection presents the most notable, influential, and surprising essays published in the last twelve months in eit...
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100,22 zł |
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Writers and Their Notebooks
ISBN: 9781570038662 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This collection of essays by well-established professional writers explores how their notebooks serve as their studios and workshopsA[a
This collection of essays by well-established professional writers explores how their notebooks serve as their studios and workshopsA[a
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108,90 zł |
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