wyszukanych pozycji: 60
The Country and the City
ISBN: 9781784870829 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A groundbreaking work of social, literary and intellectual history by the godfather of the 'New Left.'
Our collective notion of the city and country is irresistibly powerful. The city as the seat of enlightenment, sophistication, power and greed is in profound contrast with an innocent, peaceful, backward countryside. By examining literature since the sixteenth century, Williams traces the development of our conceptions of these two traditional poles of life. His groundbreaking study casts the country and city as central symbols for conceptualizing the social and economic changes... A groundbreaking work of social, literary and intellectual history by the godfather of the 'New Left.'
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67,53 zł |
Television: Technology and Cultural Form
ISBN: 9780415314565 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: 16-18 dni roboczych Television: Technology and Cultural Form was first published in 1974, long before the dawn of multi-channel TV, or the reality and celebrity shows that now pack the schedules. Yet Williams' analysis of television's history, its institutions, programmes and practices, and its future prospects, remains remarkably prescient. Williams stresses the importance of technology in shaping the cultural form of television, while always resisting the determinism of McLuhan's dictum that 'the medium is the message'. If the medium really is the message, Williams asks, what is left for us to do...
Television: Technology and Cultural Form was first published in 1974, long before the dawn of multi-channel TV, or the reality and celebrity ...
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71,15 zł |
A History of Colombian Literature
ISBN: 9781107081352 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 567 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A History of Colombian Literature explores the genealogy of Colombian literature from the colonial period to the present day.
A History of Colombian Literature explores the genealogy of Colombian literature from the colonial period to the present day.
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467,65 zł |
Culture and Society: 1780–1950
ISBN: 9781784870812 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Acknowledged as a masterpiece of materialist criticism in the English language, this collection cover topics from British literary history to George Eliot and George Orwell to enquire about the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination.
Acknowledged as a masterpiece of materialist criticism in the English language, this collection cover topics from British literary history to George E...
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67,53 zł |
The San Carador Caper
ISBN: 9781499094152 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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74,07 zł |
Raymond Williams on Television (Routledge Revivals): Selected Writings
ISBN: 9780415509299 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First Published in 1989, this work is based around a monthly TV column which Raymond Williams wrote for The Listener between 1968 and 1972. Those were the years of the Prague Spring, of anti-Vietnam war demonstrations, of fighting in Cambodia and Northern Ireland, of hope for McGovern in the United States and attacks on the Wilson Labour Government in Britain. In The Listener articles Williams comments on all of these events, providing a rare glimpse not only into the events of his daily life but also into the continuing development of a personal sociology of culture. The articles also...
First Published in 1989, this work is based around a monthly TV column which Raymond Williams wrote for The Listener between 1968 and 1972. Those were...
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193,71 zł |
Raymond Williams on Television : Selected Writings
ISBN: 9780415509206 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First Published in 1989, this work is based around a monthly TV column which Raymond Williams wrote for The Listener between 1968 and 1972. Those were the years of the Prague Spring, of anti-Vietnam war demonstrations, of fighting in Cambodia and Northern Ireland, of hope for McGovern in the United States and attacks on the Wilson Labour Government in Britain. In The Listener articles Williams comments on all of these events, providing a rare glimpse not only into the events of his daily life but also into the continuing development of a personal sociology of culture. The articles also...
First Published in 1989, this work is based around a monthly TV column which Raymond Williams wrote for The Listener between 1968 and 1972. Those were...
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759,35 zł |
The Destiny of Two Souls: Semi-Samurai Girl
ISBN: 9798698371786 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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66,77 zł |
The Long Revolution
ISBN: 9781551114026 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 399 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Originally published by Chatto & Windus, The Long Revolution is now available only in this Broadview Encore Edition.
Originally published by Chatto & Windus, The Long Revolution is now available only in this Broadview Encore Edition.
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167,32 zł |
An Introduction to Swaminarayan Hinduism
ISBN: 9781108431514 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Includes up-to-date information about growth, geographic expansion, leadership transitions, and impact of Swaminarayan institutions in India and abroad.
Includes up-to-date information about growth, geographic expansion, leadership transitions, and impact of Swaminarayan institutions in India and abroa...
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140,21 zł |
Border Country
ISBN: 9781902638812 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. When railway signalman Harry Price suddenly suffers a stroke, his son Matthew, a lecturer in London, makes a return to the border village of Glynmawr. As Matthew and Harry struggle with their memories of personal and social change, a beautiful and moving portrait of the love between a father and son emerges.
When railway signalman Harry Price suddenly suffers a stroke, his son Matthew, a lecturer in London, makes a return to the border village of Glynmawr....
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51,93 zł |
Culture and Society, 1780-1950
ISBN: 9780231057011 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 363 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Acknowledged as perhaps the masterpiece of materialist criticism in the English language, this omnibus ranges over British literary history from George Eliot to George Orwell to inquire about the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination.
Acknowledged as perhaps the masterpiece of materialist criticism in the English language, this omnibus ranges over British literary history fro...
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255,73 zł |
Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
ISBN: 9780199393213 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1976, Raymond Williams' highly acclaimed Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a collection of lively essays on words that are critical to understanding the modern world. In these essays, Williams, a renowned cultural critic, demonstrates how these key words take on new meanings and how these changes reflect the political bent and values of our past and current society. He chose words both essential and intangible--words like nature, underprivileged, industry, liberal, violence, to name a few--and, by tracing their etymology and evolution,...
First published in 1976, Raymond Williams' highly acclaimed Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a collection of lively essays on...
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148,43 zł |
Politics and Letters: Interviews with New Left Review
ISBN: 9781784780159 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Raymond Williams made a central contribution to the intellectual culture of the Left in the English-speaking world. He was also one of the key figures in the foundation of cultural studies in Britain, which turned critical skills honed on textual analysis to the examination of structures and forms of resistance apparent in everyday life. Politics and Letters is a volume of interviews with Williams, conducted by New Left Review, designed to bring into clear focus the major theoretical and political issues posed by his work. Introduced by writer Geoff Dyer, Politics and...
Raymond Williams made a central contribution to the intellectual culture of the Left in the English-speaking world. He was also one of the key figures...
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190,68 zł |
The Country and the City
ISBN: 9780195198102 / Angielski / Miękka / 1975 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. As a brilliant survey of English literature in terms of changing attitudes towards country and city, Williams' highly-acclaimed study reveals the shifting images and associations between these two traditional poles of life throughout the major developmental periods of English culture.
As a brilliant survey of English literature in terms of changing attitudes towards country and city, Williams' highly-acclaimed study reveals the shif...
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146,63 zł |
Writing in Modern Classic Society
ISBN: 9780860917724 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Raymond Williams's work was always concerned with the relation between culture and society. This book focuses on specific texts and authors, exploring the historical and cultural sources of their particular forms of writing. In it, Williams examines dramatic form and language in Racine and Shakespeare; the politics of fiction in the English Jacobin novel; David Hume and Charles Dickens and the changing characteristics of English prose; Robert Tressell, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists, and the role of region and class in the English novel. Also included are Williams's reflections on the...
Raymond Williams's work was always concerned with the relation between culture and society. This book focuses on specific texts and authors, exploring...
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105,84 zł |
Television: Technology and Cultural Form
ISBN: 9781138170759 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: 16-18 dni roboczych Television: Technology and Cultural Form was first published in 1974, long before the dawn of multi-channel TV, or the reality and celebrity shows that now pack the schedules. Yet Williams' analysis of television's history, its institutions, programmes and practices, and its future prospects, remains remarkably prescient.
Williams stresses the importance of technology in shaping the cultural form of television, while always resisting the determinism of McLuhan's dictum that 'the medium is the message'. If the medium really is the message, Williams asks, what is left for us to... Television: Technology and Cultural Form was first published in 1974, long before the dawn of multi-channel TV, or the reality and celebrity ...
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446,04 zł |
The Postmodern Novel in Latin America: Politics, Culture, and the Crisis of Truth
ISBN: 9780312120818 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Recent Latin American cultural and political magazines have noted the trend of postmodernity in the literature of the region, with a range of responses. Some critics consider it a foreign importation and sign of cultural imperialism. Others feel that postmodernism reflects a culture of mass media manipulated by the dominating classes. But the debate has been particularly headed by a new group of young writers who consider themselves postmodern and politically progressive: Severo Sarduy of Cuba, Diamela Eltit of Chile, and R.H. Moreno-Duran of Colombia, among others. By examining a group of...
Recent Latin American cultural and political magazines have noted the trend of postmodernity in the literature of the region, with a range of response...
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392,66 zł |
The Sociology of Culture
ISBN: 9780226899213 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Raymond Williams helped to establish the field of cultural sociology with "Marxism and Literature" and "Culture and Society." Continuing the work of those studies, "The Sociology of Culture" offers debate on the origin and evolution of culture. It defines sociology of culture as a convergence of various fields and explores ways in which culture is socially mediated.
"A historical analysis of the social organization of culture in terms of its institutions and formations. Insisting that the term sociology of culture implies a convergence of interests and methods, Williams draws from a broad... Raymond Williams helped to establish the field of cultural sociology with "Marxism and Literature" and "Culture and Society." Continuing the work of t...
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148,84 zł |