wyszukanych pozycji: 10
Montaigne: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780190848774 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The French author Michel de Montaigne is widely regarded as the founder and greatest practitioner of the personal essay. His extraordinary curiosity and discernment, combined with his ability to mix thoughtful judgment with revealing anecdote, make him one of the most readable of all writers. In 1580 and then again in 1588 he published his Essays, a vast collection of meditations on topics ranging from love and sexuality to freedom, learning, doubt,self-scrutiny, and peace of mind. One of the most original books ever to emerge from Europe, Montaigne's masterpiece has been enormously...
The French author Michel de Montaigne is widely regarded as the founder and greatest practitioner of the personal essay. His extraordinary curiosity a...
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46,63 zł |
Montaigne's English Journey: Reading the Essays in Shakespeare's Day
ISBN: 9780199684113 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Montaigne's English Journey examines the genesis, early readership, and multifaceted impact of John Florio's exuberant translation of Michel de Montaigne's Essays. Published in London in 1603, this book was widely read in seventeenth-century England: Shakespeare borrowed from it as he drafted King Lear and The Tempest, and many hundreds of English men and women first encountered Montaigne's tolerant outlook and disarming candour in its densely-printed pages. Literary historians have long been fascinated by the influence of Florio's translation, analysing its contributions to the development...
Montaigne's English Journey examines the genesis, early readership, and multifaceted impact of John Florio's exuberant translation of Michel de Montai...
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615,22 zł |
Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare's England
ISBN: 9781403945983 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Hamlin's study provides the first full-scale account of the reception and literary appropriation of ancient skepticism in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Offering abundant archival evidence as well as fresh treatments of Florio's Montaigne and Bacon's career-long struggle with the challenges of epistemological doubt, Hamlin's book explores the deep connections between skepticism and tragedy in plays ranging from Doctor Faustus and Troilus and Cressida to The Tragedy of Mariam, The Duchess of Malfi, and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.
Hamlin's study provides the first full-scale account of the reception and literary appropriation of ancient skepticism in Elizabethan and Jacobean Eng...
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195,87 zł |
Sensei Says Safety Proofing: Lesson Two
ISBN: 9781539140504 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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40,14 zł |
No Alternative
ISBN: 9780985188672 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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50,99 zł |
Shakespeare and Montaigne
ISBN: 9781474458238 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Shakespeare and Montaigne share a grounded, genial sense of the lived reality of human experience, as well as a surprising depth of engagement with history, literature and philosophy. With celebrated subtlety and incisive humour, both authors investigate abiding questions of epistemology, psychology, theology, ethics, politics and aesthetics. In this collection, distinguished contributors consider these influential, much-beloved figures in light of each other. The English playwright and the French essayist, each in his own fashion, reflect on and evaluate the Renaissance, the Reformation and...
Shakespeare and Montaigne share a grounded, genial sense of the lived reality of human experience, as well as a surprising depth of engagement with hi...
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498,46 zł |
Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare's England
ISBN: 9781349523344 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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Main-Travelled Roads
ISBN: 9780803270589 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Main-Travelled Roads contains eleven stories in this expanded and revised 1922 edition of an undisputed American classic. "Under the Lion's Paw" shows an honest, hard-working farmer victimized by a greedy landlord. Equally powerful is the semi-autobiographical "Up the Coolly," concerning a successful son who returns from the East to find his mother and brother trapped on a poor farm, defeated in spite of their best efforts. "Mrs. Ripley's Trip" is a tender story of an elderly couple settled in their frugal country ways, with the wife determined to realize her dream of revisiting...
Main-Travelled Roads contains eleven stories in this expanded and revised 1922 edition of an undisputed American classic. "Under the Lion's Paw...
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84,84 zł |
Mississippi: The Long, Hot Summer
ISBN: 9781496809353 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1964, sociologist William McCord, long interested in movements for social change in the United States, began a study of Mississippi's Freedom Summer. Stanford University, where McCord taught, had been the site of recruiting efforts for student volunteers for the Freedom Summer project by such activists as Robert Moses and Allard Lowenstein. Described by his wife as -an old-fashioned liberal, - McCord believed that he should both examine and participate in events in Mississippi. He accompanied student workers and black Mississippians to courthouses and Freedom Houses, and he attracted... In 1964, sociologist William McCord, long interested in movements for social change in the United States, began a study of Mississippi's Freedom Su... |
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661,19 zł |
Mississippi: The Long, Hot Summer
ISBN: 9781496809360 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In 1964, sociologist William McCord, long interested in movements for social change in the United States, began a study of Mississippi's Freedom Summer. Stanford University, where McCord taught, had been the site of recruiting efforts for student volunteers for the Freedom Summer project by such activists as Robert Moses and Allard Lowenstein. Described by his wife as -an old-fashioned liberal, - McCord believed that he should both examine and participate in events in Mississippi. He accompanied student workers and black Mississippians to courthouses and Freedom Houses, and he attracted... In 1964, sociologist William McCord, long interested in movements for social change in the United States, began a study of Mississippi's Freedom Su... |
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214,67 zł |