wyszukanych pozycji: 22
The Healing Magic of Music
ISBN: 9781410773043 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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124,49 zł |
The Healing Magic of Music
ISBN: 9781410773050 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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75,37 zł |
Mark Twain's Audience: A Critical Analysis of Reader Responses to the Writings of Mark Twain
ISBN: 9780739190517 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Mark Twain has been one of the most popular American writers since 1868. This book shifts the focus of Twain studies from the writer to the reader. This study of Twain's readership and lecture audiences makes use of statistics, literary biography, twentieth-century newspapers, memoirs, diaries, travel journals, letters, literature, interviews, and reading circle reports. The book allows the audience of Mark Twain to speak for themselves in defining their relationship to his work. Twain collected letters from his readers but there are also many other sources of which critics should be aware....
Mark Twain has been one of the most popular American writers since 1868. This book shifts the focus of Twain studies from the writer to the reader. Th...
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560,13 zł |
The People We Meet in Stories: Literary Characters That Defined the 1950s
ISBN: 9781538130353 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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192,20 zł |
Myth and Magic in Heavy Metal Music
ISBN: 9781476673356 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Heavy metal is a mythical genre of heroes, outlaws, ominous gods, grotesques, and monsters. It is a proud world of intense battles with chaos and confrontation with modern alienation. Its visual elements draw upon the horror story or film, suggesting chaos and disruption. This study of myth and metal is an attempt to approach heavy metal primarily from a mythological and literary perspective.
Heavy metal is a mythical genre of heroes, outlaws, ominous gods, grotesques, and monsters. It is a proud world of intense battles with chaos and conf...
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189,45 zł |
Mark Twain's Audience: A Critical Analysis of Reader Responses to the Writings of Mark Twain
ISBN: 9781498504287 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The unique contribution of this book is the focus upon the testimony of Twain's audience as a unique "reading community"-how his fiction intersected with their real lives, how he impacted American publishing, literacy, and educational reform, and how Americans loved the theatricality and humor that Twain brought to their lives.
The unique contribution of this book is the focus upon the testimony of Twain's audience as a unique "reading community"-how his fiction intersected w...
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252,61 zł |
Charles Dickens's American Audience
ISBN: 9780739118573 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From 1837 to 1912, Charles Dickens was by far the most popular writer for American readers. Through several sources including statistics, literary biography, newspapers, memoirs, diaries, letters, and interviews, Robert McParland examines a historical time and an emerging national consciousness that defined the American identity before and after the Civil War. American voices present their views, tastes, emotional reactions and identifications, and deep attachment and love for Dickens's characters, stories, themes, and sensibilities as well as for the man himself. Bringing together...
From 1837 to 1912, Charles Dickens was by far the most popular writer for American readers. Through several sources including statistics, literary bio...
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538,17 zł |
Singer-Songwriters of the 1970s: 150+ Profiles
ISBN: 9781476686615 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 149 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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250,60 zł |
Bestseller: A Century of America's Favorite Books
ISBN: 9781538109991 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book looks at the bestselling titles since the early 20th century. The author considers how the popular circulation of these books reflected America's consciousness and tastes at different junctures in the country's history.
This book looks at the bestselling titles since the early 20th century. The author considers how the popular circulation of these books reflected Amer...
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192,20 zł |
From Native Son to King's Men: The Literary Landscape of 1940s America
ISBN: 9781538105535 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book looks at authors and their works during one of the most tumultuous decades of the twentieth century, focusing on works that resonated with readers. A sweeping social, literary, and cultural history, this book explores the courage and hopes of the "greatest generation" through its imaginative literature.
This book looks at authors and their works during one of the most tumultuous decades of the twentieth century, focusing on works that resonated with r...
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214,17 zł |
The Rock Music Imagination
ISBN: 9781498588522 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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494,24 zł |
Beyond Gatsby: How Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Writers of the 1920s Shaped American Culture
ISBN: 9780810895003 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book demonstrates how the explosion of distinctly American fiction in the 1920s-including work by authors such as Hemingway, Cather, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, Faulker, and others-contributed to shaping the national imagination.
This book demonstrates how the explosion of distinctly American fiction in the 1920s-including work by authors such as Hemingway, Cather, Dos Passos, ...
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164,75 zł |
Beyond Gatsby: How Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Writers of the 1920s Shaped American Culture
ISBN: 9781442247086 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Many of the heralded writers of the 20th century including Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner first made their mark in the 1920s, while established authors like Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis produced some of their most important works during this period. Classic novels such as The Sun Also Rises, The Great Gatsby, Elmer Gantry, and The Sound and the Fury not only mark prodigious advances in American fiction, they show us the wonder, the struggle, and the promise of the American dream. In Beyond Gatsby: How Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Writers of the...
Many of the heralded writers of the 20th century including Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and William Faulkner first made the...
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225,15 zł |
Cultural Memory, Consciousness, and the Modernist Novel
ISBN: 9781680538830 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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813,04 zł |
Citizen Steinbeck: Giving Voice to the People
ISBN: 9781442268302 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. John Steinbeck is one of the most popular and important writers in American literature. Novels such as The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, and East of Eden and the journal Travels with Charley convey the core of Steinbeck's work--fiction that is reflective and compassionate. The Nobel prize winner cared deeply about people, and his writing captured the spirit, determination, and willingness of individuals to fight for their rights and the rights of others. His art of caring is critical for today's readers and as a touchstone for our collective future. In Citizen Steinbeck: Giving Voice to...
John Steinbeck is one of the most popular and important writers in American literature. Novels such as The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, and East ...
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236,13 zł |
Charles Dickens's American Audience
ISBN: 9780739118580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From 1837 to 1912, Charles Dickens was by far the most popular writer for American readers. Through several sources including statistics, literary biography, newspapers, memoirs, diaries, letters, and interviews, Robert McParland examines a historical time and an emerging national consciousness that defined the American identity before and after the Civil War. American voices present their views, tastes, emotional reactions and identifications, and deep attachment and love for Dickens's characters, stories, themes, and sensibilities as well as for the man himself. Bringing together...
From 1837 to 1912, Charles Dickens was by far the most popular writer for American readers. Through several sources including statistics, literary bio...
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241,63 zł |
The Rock Music Imagination
ISBN: 9781498588546 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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192,20 zł |
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's 50-Year Quest: Music to Change the World
ISBN: 9781476674896 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book examines the songs and themes, which continue to resonate with contemporary listeners, and argues that Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young reflect part of the broader story of American culture.
This book examines the songs and themes, which continue to resonate with contemporary listeners, and argues that Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young refle...
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189,45 zł |
Science Fiction in Classic Rock: Musical Explorations of Space, Technology and the Imagination, 1967-1982
ISBN: 9781476664705 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This is the first book to bring together the imagination and energy of rock music with its sources in mythology and science fiction. The mythological roots of classic rock music artists from David Bowie, the Jefferson Airplane, and Pink Floyd, to Rush, Blue Oyster Cult, and Iron Maiden are explored, along with the stories they tell and the critiques of contemporary society that their songs carry.
This is the first book to bring together the imagination and energy of rock music with its sources in mythology and science fiction. The mythological ...
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189,45 zł |
Film and Literary Modernism
ISBN: 9781443844505 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In Film and Literary Modernism, the connections between film, modernist literature, and the arts are explored by an international group of scholars. The impact of cinema upon our ways of seeing the world is highlighted in essays on city symphony films, avant-garde cinema, European filmmaking and key directors and personalities from Charlie Chaplin, Sergei Eisenstein and Alain Renais to Alfred Hitchcock and Mae West. Contributors investigate the impact of film upon T. S. Eliot, time and stream of consciousness in Virginia Woolf and Henri Bergson, the racial undercurrents in the film...
In Film and Literary Modernism, the connections between film, modernist literature, and the arts are explored by an international group of scholars. T...
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234,71 zł |