wyszukanych pozycji: 14
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Understanding Cormac McCarthy
ISBN: 9781611170184 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Steven Frye offers a comprehensive treatment of Cormac McCarthy's fiction to date, dealing with the author's aesthetic and thematic concerns, his philosophical and religious influences, and his participation in Western literary traditions. Frye provides extensive readings of each novel, charting the trajectory of McCarthy's development as a writer who invigorates literary culture both past and present through a blend of participation, influence, and aesthetic transformation. He explores the early works of the Tennessee period in the context of the romance genre, the southern gothic, and the...
Steven Frye offers a comprehensive treatment of Cormac McCarthy's fiction to date, dealing with the author's aesthetic and thematic concerns, his phil...
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96,90 |
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Unguessed Kinships: Naturalism and the Geography of Hope in Cormac McCarthy
ISBN: 9780817321536 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The values of literary naturalism at play in one of America’s most visionary novelistsIt took six novels and nearly thirty years for Cormac McCarthy to find commercial success with the National Book Award–winning All the Pretty Horses, followed by major prizes, more best sellers, and Hollywood adaptations of his work. Those successes, though, have obscured McCarthy’s commitment to an older form of literary expression: naturalism. It is hardly a secret that McCarthy’s work tends to darker themes: violence, brutality, the cruel indifference of nature, themes which would not be out of...
The values of literary naturalism at play in one of America’s most visionary novelistsIt took six novels and nearly thirty years for Cormac McCarthy...
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441,16 |
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Dogwood Crossing
ISBN: 9780578598222 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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99,82 |
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Unguessed Kinships: Naturalism and the Geography of Hope in Cormac McCarthy
ISBN: 9780817361099 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The values of literary naturalism at play in one of America’s most visionary novelistsIt took six novels and nearly thirty years for Cormac McCarthy to find commercial success with the National Book Award–winning All the Pretty Horses, followed by major prizes, more best sellers, and Hollywood adaptations of his work. Those successes, though, have obscured McCarthy’s commitment to an older form of literary expression: naturalism. It is hardly a secret that McCarthy’s work tends to darker themes: violence, brutality, the cruel indifference of nature, themes which would not be out of...
The values of literary naturalism at play in one of America’s most visionary novelistsIt took six novels and nearly thirty years for Cormac McCarthy...
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116,30 |
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Understanding Larry McMurtry
ISBN: 9781611177626 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove and his Academy Award-winning screenplay for Brokeback Mountain, Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, three memoirs, two collections of essays, and more than thirty screenplays. In Understanding Larry McMurtry, Steven Frye considers a broad range of McMurtry's most important novels and offers detailed textual analyses of works such as Horseman, Pass By, The Last Picture Show, Moving On, and Lonesome Dove to reveal the manner in which McMurtry engages the human condition.
Characters are at the heart of McMurtry's... Best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove and his Academy Award-winning screenplay for Brokeback Mountain, Larry McMurtry is the a...
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101,76 |
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Critical Insights: The Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe: Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access [With Free Web Access]
ISBN: 9781587657054 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This volume of the Critical Insights series opens with a reflection of Poe's aesthetics, and offers a consideration of Poe's distinctive contribution to American poetry. Other essays contextualize Poe's invocation of the exotic in poems such as "Tamerlane," "Al Aaraaf" "Ulalume," and "The Raven" against nineteenth-century travel narratives, analyze Poe's poetics of memory and grief and discuss Poe's influence on other major poets such as Baudelaire, Frances Osgood, and Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
This volume of the Critical Insights series opens with a reflection of Poe's aesthetics, and offers a consideration of Poe's distinctive contribution ...
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421,76 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy
ISBN: 9781107644809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Cormac McCarthy both embodies and redefines the notion of the artist as outsider. His fiction draws on recognizable American themes and employs dense philosophical and theological subtexts, challenging readers by depicting the familiar as inscrutably foreign. The essays in this Companion offer a sophisticated yet concise introduction to McCarthy's difficult and provocative work. The contributors, an international team of McCarthy scholars, analyze some of the most well-known and commonly taught novels Outer Dark, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, and The Road while providing detailed...
Cormac McCarthy both embodies and redefines the notion of the artist as outsider. His fiction draws on recognizable American themes and employs dense ...
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116,53 |
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The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American West
ISBN: 9781107095373 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature of the American West, one of the most vibrant and diverse literary traditions.
This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature of the American West, one of the most vibrant and diverse literary traditions.
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364,53 |
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Critical Insights: The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe: Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access
ISBN: 9781587656163 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A collection of essays examining the short stories and life of the 19th century American writer Edgar Allan Poe. Presenting some of the best of a broad range of critical perspectives from the psychoanalytical to the postcolonial, it offers an introduction to Poe's tales and the critical conversation surrounding them.
A collection of essays examining the short stories and life of the 19th century American writer Edgar Allan Poe. Presenting some of the best of a broa...
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421,76 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Cormac McCarthy
ISBN: 9781107018150 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Cormac McCarthy both embodies and redefines the notion of the artist as outsider. His fiction draws on recognizable American themes and employs dense philosophical and theological subtexts, challenging readers by depicting the familiar as inscrutably foreign. The essays in this Companion offer a sophisticated yet concise introduction to McCarthy's difficult and provocative work. The contributors, an international team of McCarthy scholars, analyze some of the most well-known and commonly taught novels Outer Dark, Blood Meridian, All the Pretty Horses, and The Road while providing detailed...
Cormac McCarthy both embodies and redefines the notion of the artist as outsider. His fiction draws on recognizable American themes and employs dense ...
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cena:
364,53 |
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The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the American West
ISBN: 9781107479272 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature of the American West, one of the most vibrant and diverse literary traditions.
This Companion provides a comprehensive introduction to the literature of the American West, one of the most vibrant and diverse literary traditions.
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116,53 |
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Cormac McCarthy in Context
ISBN: 9781108488839 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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534,46 |
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Rhetoric and Democracy in a Post-Truth Era
ISBN: 9781666902808 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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446,00 |
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Yosemite Meditations
ISBN: 9781930238503 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This delightful little book provides the ideal pause for contemplating the special qualities and values of Yosemite National Park, as well as other parks and wilderness. Each dazzling full-color photograph, many of them new for this tenth anniversary edition, is paired with an original quote or newly selected classic quote about nature, the environment, or America's national parks. Includes a new foreword by former Yosemite National Park superintendent Mike Tollefson and the insights of writers, scientists, poets, and leaders such as:
David Brower Gary Snyder Rachel... This delightful little book provides the ideal pause for contemplating the special qualities and values of Yosemite National Park, as well as other pa...
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41,88 |