wyszukanych pozycji: 12
Sites: A Third Memoir
ISBN: 9780822307006 / Angielski / Twarda / 1986 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Wallace Fowlie here gives us his third book of memoirs--the best yet. Sites is thematically focused on places that marked Fowlie's life and affected his way of looking at the world. This brilliantly written book exhibits great clarity and elegant simplicity, virtues that only an experienced--and good--writer can achieve. Although Sites has a strong unfolding narrative pattern that encourages you to read it from beginning to end, it can be browsed in to good purpose, for you can read any chapter out of sequence and still relish it.
Wallace Fowlie here gives us his third book of memoirs--the best yet. Sites is thematically focused on places that marked Fowlie's life and affected h...
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202,68 zł |
Memory: A Fourth Memoir
ISBN: 9780822310457 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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98,69 zł |
French Stories/Contes Francais: A Dual-Language Book
ISBN: 9780486264431 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) "The selections are good and the translations are excellent." Germaine Bree, New York University
Drawn from two centuries of French literature, these superb selections by ten great writers span a wide variety of styles, philosophies, and literary creeds. The stories reflect not only the beliefs of various literary schools, but the preoccupations of French civilization, atthe various times of their composition, with the metaphysical and psychological problems of man. Contents include Micromegas (Voltaire), La Messe de l'Athee (Honore de Balzac), La Legende de Saint Julien l'Hospitalier... "The selections are good and the translations are excellent." Germaine Bree, New York University
Drawn from two centuries of French literature, the... |
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86,51 zł |
Aubade: A Teacher's Notebook
ISBN: 9780822305668 / Angielski / Twarda / 1983 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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384,57 zł |
Memory: A Fourth Memoir
ISBN: 9780822310037 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Wallace Fowlie is known to three generations of students at Duke University for his course in Proust. His observations on the changing interests of college students (Bob Dylan to Jim Morrison, Fellini to Pasolini) are part of this fourth memoir. In "Memory, "Fowlie brings us once more into his broad range of vision as he examines the offerings of memory, more real to him he tells us than the town in which he now lives. the reader follows his search for words, his early more mystical search for a father-son relationship, his remembering of the small acts that determine life.
Wallace Fowlie is known to three generations of students at Duke University for his course in Proust. His observations on the changing interests of co...
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384,57 zł |
French Stories / Contes Fran?ais (A Dual-Language Book) (English and French Edition)
ISBN: 9781638232353 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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130,05 zł |
Journal of Rehearsals: A Memoir by Wallace Fowlie
ISBN: 9780822319450 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Renowned writer, critic, and teacher, Wallace Fowlie has devoted his life to the study and teaching of the French language and literature. Author and translator of thirty books, Fowlie's contributions include translations of Rimbaud (the complete works), Moliere, Claudel, Baudelaire, and Cocteau, and literary studies of, among others, Rimbaud, Stendhal, Gide, and Mallarme. His widely acclaimed "Journal of Rehearsals," originally published in 1977, is the first in his series of memoirs. In this passionate book, Fowlie explores his "love affair" with the literature and culture of France, and...
Renowned writer, critic, and teacher, Wallace Fowlie has devoted his life to the study and teaching of the French language and literature. Author and ...
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103,89 zł |
French Stories / Contes Français (A Dual-Language Book) (English and French Edition)
ISBN: 9781607964216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Ten unusual stories by French literary masters from Voltaire to Camus: -Micromegas- by Voltaire; -The Atheist's Mass- by Balzac; -The Legend of St. Julian the Hospitaler- by Flaubert; -Spleen of Paris- by Baudelaire; -Minuet- by de Maupassant; -The Guest- by Camus; and more. Accurate English translations appear on facing pages.
Ten unusual stories by French literary masters from Voltaire to Camus: -Micromegas- by Voltaire; -The Atheist's Mass- by Balzac; -The Legend of St. Ju...
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86,69 zł |
Rimbaud and Jim Morrison: The Rebel as Poet
ISBN: 9780822314455 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "The poet makes himself into a visionary by a long derangement of all the senses."--Rimbaud
In 1968 Jim Morrison, founder and lead singer of the rock band the Doors, wrote to Wallace Fowlie, a scholar of French literature and a professor at Duke University. Morrison thanked Fowlie for producing an English translation of the complete poems of Rimbaud. He needed the translation, he said, because, "I don't read French that easily. . . . I am a rock singer and your book travels around with me." Fourteen years later, when Fowlie first heard the music of the Doors, he recognized the influence of... "The poet makes himself into a visionary by a long derangement of all the senses."--Rimbaud
In 1968 Jim Morrison, founder and lead singer of the roc... |
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98,69 zł |
Poem and Symbol: A Brief History of French Symbolism
ISBN: 9780271006963 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Wallace Fowlie provides an uncommonly well-written survey of French Symbolism by way of analyzing key poems in relation to the historical and literary contexts in which they were written. The literary symbol, as it has been used since Baudelaire's time, has in Fowlie's view a closer relationship with the religious spirit of humanity than with any practical or didactic use. Symbolism has been a major focus of literary study since Baudelaire's Correspondances, which can be seen as a succinct manifesto. It has provided an aesthetic basis for works that have elements of both... Wallace Fowlie provides an uncommonly well-written survey of French Symbolism by way of analyzing key poems in relation to the historical and liter... |
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224,55 zł |
A Reading of Dante's "Inferno"
ISBN: 9780226258881 / Angielski / Miękka / 1981 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This work is a guide to the reading of Dante's great poem, intended for the use of students and laymen, particularly those who are approaching the "Inferno "for the first time. While carefully pointing out the uniqueness, tone, and color of each of Dante's thirty-four cantos, Fowlie never loses sight of the continuity of the poet's discourse. Each canto is related thematically to others, and the rich web of symbols is displayed and disentangled as the poem's unity, patterns, and structures are revealed.What particularly distinguishes Wallace Fowlie's reading of the "Inferno" is his emphasis...
This work is a guide to the reading of Dante's great poem, intended for the use of students and laymen, particularly those who are approaching the "In...
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147,70 zł |
A Mauriac Reader: Including a Kiss for the Leper, Genetrix, the Desert of Love, the Knot of Vipers, and Woman of the Pharisees
ISBN: 9780374668006 / Angielski / Miękka / 1968 / 632 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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134,43 zł |