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Understanding the Catcher in the Rye: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
ISBN: 9780313302008 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This rich source of social, cultural, and historical documents and commentary will illuminate the reading of The Catcher in the Rye, a novel that has become an important rite of passage for many young adults. In addition to a literary analysis, this casebook acquaints students with the larger world in which Holden Caulfield moves: Hollywood films, Broadway plays, and jazz musicians. It also presents a detailed account of the censorship challenges to the novel, and provides primary documents on child development and psychology that illuminate Holden's contradictory... This rich source of social, cultural, and historical documents and commentary will illuminate the reading of The Catcher in the Rye, a novel... |
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382,29 zł |
The Schlemiel as Metaphor, Revised and Enlarged Edition: Studies in Yiddish and American Jewish Fiction
ISBN: 9780809315819 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The certainty that deep down we are all "schlemiels "is perhaps what makes America love an inept ball team or a Woody Allen who unburdens his neurotic heart in public. In this unique, revised history of the "schlemiel, "Sanford Pinsker uses psychological, linguistic, and anecdotal approaches, as well as his considerable skills as a spritely storyteller, to trace the "schlemiel "from his beginnings in the Old Testament through his appearance in the nineteenth-century literature of Mendele Mocher Seforim and Sholom Aleichem to his final development as the beautiful loser in the works of... The certainty that deep down we are all "schlemiels "is perhaps what makes America love an inept ball team or a Woody Allen who unburdens his neuro... |
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221,43 zł |
Understanding Joseph Heller
ISBN: 9781570038402 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. To add a significant phrase to our language is no easy feat, but that is precisely what Joseph Heller (1923-1999) did with "catch-22," the principle of absurdist logic and bureaucratic foul-up that energized his debut novel, Catch-22, in 1961. In this revised edition of Understanding Joseph Heller, Sanford Pinsker explores the idiosyncratic vision that permeates Heller's complete body of work, as he maps the dark terrain Heller carved out, novel by novel, with considerable verbal dazzle and the uncompromising outrage of the classical satirist. This updated edition includes new chapters on...
To add a significant phrase to our language is no easy feat, but that is precisely what Joseph Heller (1923-1999) did with "catch-22," the principle o...
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153,03 zł |