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Jonathan Swift: The Irish Identity
ISBN: 9780300188394 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Jonathan Swift was internationally acclaimed in his own time for Gulliver's Travels and other brilliant satires in verse and prose. In his native Ireland, however, he was most fervently admired as a patriot. Advocating economic self-sufficiency for Ireland and resistance to the high-handedness of the British government, Swift represented an articulate challenge to British rule. Although his reputation as an Irish patriot declined after his death, the twentieth century has come to recognize him as a founding father of Irish nationalism.
This book traces Swift's fluctuating reception... Jonathan Swift was internationally acclaimed in his own time for Gulliver's Travels and other brilliant satires in verse and prose. In his nati...
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Ethos and Education in Ireland
ISBN: 9780820457284 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Following an outline of the origins of the concept of ethos as it is found in the writings of Aristotle and Plato, James Norman examines the Catholic Church s understanding of ethos in post-Vatican II educational documents and compares this understanding with the Irish Catholic Church s approach to school ethos. Based on his own experience and research, Norman suggests new possibilities for the development of ethos in Catholic schools."
Following an outline of the origins of the concept of ethos as it is found in the writings of Aristotle and Plato, James Norman examines the Catholic ...
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178,71 |
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The Annotated Letters of Christopher Smart
ISBN: 9780809316090 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The only collection of all known letters of Christopher Smart provides the best psychological explanation to date of that complex and elusive eighteenth-century poet. The significant characteristics that distinguish Smart s prose letters from his poetry, Betty Rizzo and Robert Mahony note, are that his letters were requests for assistance while his verses were bequests, gifts in which he set great store. Indeed, it was Smart s lifelong conviction that he was a poet of major importance. As Smart biographer Karina Williamson notes, "The splendidly informative and vivaciously written... The only collection of all known letters of Christopher Smart provides the best psychological explanation to date of that complex and elusive eight... |
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116,78 |