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T. S. Eliot and Christian Tradition
ISBN: 9781611477139 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. T. S. Eliot was raised in the Unitarian faith of his family in St. Louis but drifted away from their beliefs while studying philosophy, mysticism, and anthropology at Harvard. During a year in Paris (1910-1911), he became involved with a group of Catholic writers there and subsequently went through a gradual conversion to Catholic Christianity. He surprised his brother during a visit to Rome in 1926, when he fell to his knees at St. Peter's, and he surprised his Bloomsbury friends a year later when he was received into the Church of England, becoming an adherent of the traditionalist...
T. S. Eliot was raised in the Unitarian faith of his family in St. Louis but drifted away from their beliefs while studying philosophy, mysticism, and...
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332,24 |
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Critical Storytelling During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Berea College Students Share their Experiences
ISBN: 9781648025501 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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333,06 |
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An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith the Colored Evangelist
ISBN: 9780195052619 / Angielski / Twarda / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Amanda Berry Smith was a trail-blazing black woman evangelist of the nineteenth century. She became a member of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal congregeation in Philadelphia in 1865, a time when women were denied positions of authority in the denomination. By the time of her death in 1915 the church had conceded to women the positions of congregational stewardess, conference evangelist, and denominational deaconess. Her autobiography, first published in 1893, not only captures the spirit of the woman who became a celebrity of Christian evangelism around the world; it also tells us much...
Amanda Berry Smith was a trail-blazing black woman evangelist of the nineteenth century. She became a member of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal con...
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333,72 |
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Collected Black Women's Poetry: Volume 3
ISBN: 9780195052558 / Angielski / Twarda / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These volumes present the works of eleven poets writing in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Volume 1 contains work by Mary E. Tucker Lambert and the notorious Adah Isaacs Menken. The other three volumes contain works by nine other poets. Surprisingly, only one of them (Lizelia Moorer) protests at the treatment of her race during this period of social upheaval and injustice. The other poets treat the traditional themes - love, nature, death, Christian idealism and morality, family - in conventional forms and language. As interesting for the themes that they address as for those that they...
These volumes present the works of eleven poets writing in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Volume 1 contains work by Mary E. Tucker Lambert and the...
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333,72 |
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Theodore Roosevelt on Books and Reading
ISBN: 9781538175460 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. President Theodore Roosevelt had a passion for reading books, and he did not keep this passion to himself. He often wrote about his experiences as a reader and collector of books. He wrote scholarly essays about literature and literary history. He often wrote book reviews for such publications as The Atlantic Monthly, The Bookman, The Outlook, and The New York Times Review of Books. Roosevelt’s writings about books are worth reading for their own sake, for in these pieces he provided critical insights into influential books. His writings about books, however, are also important because they...
President Theodore Roosevelt had a passion for reading books, and he did not keep this passion to himself. He often wrote about his experiences as a r...
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335,87 |
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American Georgics: Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land
ISBN: 9780300188042 / Angielski / Miękka / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Thomas Jefferson's Monticello to Michelle Obama's White House organic garden, the image of America as a nation of farmers has persisted from the beginnings of the American experiment. In this rich and evocative collection of agrarian writing from the past two centuries, writers from Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur to Wendell Berry reveal not only the great reach and durability of the American agrarian ideal, but also the ways in which society has contested and confronted its relationship to agriculture over the course of generations. Drawing inspiration from Virgil's agrarian epic... From Thomas Jefferson's Monticello to Michelle Obama's White House organic garden, the image of America as a nation of farmers has persisted from t... |
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338,05 |
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Transcendentalism: A Reader
ISBN: 9780195122138 / Angielski / Miękka / 752 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The transcendentalist movement is generally recognized to be the first major watershed in American literary and intellectual history. Pioneered by Emerson, Thoreau, Orestes Brownson, Margaret Fuller, and Bronson Alcott (among others), Transcendentalism provided a springboard for the first distinctly American forays into intellectual culture: religion and religious reform, philosophy, literature, ecology, and spiritualism. This new collection, edited by eminent American literature scholar Joel Myerson, is the first anthology of the period to appear in over fifty years. Transcendentalism: A...
The transcendentalist movement is generally recognized to be the first major watershed in American literary and intellectual history. Pioneered by Eme...
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338,33 |
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Clothed-in-Fur and Other Tales: An Introduction to an Ojibwa World View
ISBN: 9780819123657 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A selection of twenty-two narratives reprinted from William Jones' Ojibwa Texts.
A selection of twenty-two narratives reprinted from William Jones' Ojibwa Texts.
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341,87 |
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The Works of Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Volume 2
ISBN: 9780195052510 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spanning the gamut of literary genres, from autobiographical short stories to poetry, journalism, and novelettes, this is a comprehensive collection of one of America's most seminal women writers.
Spanning the gamut of literary genres, from autobiographical short stories to poetry, journalism, and novelettes, this is a comprehensive collection o...
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342,95 |
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Allegorical Moments: Call to the Everyday
ISBN: 9780819580849 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Considers allegory as a catalyst of transformative thinking Allegorical Moments is a set of essays dedicated to rethinking allegory and arguing for its significance as a creative and critical response to sociopolitical, environmental, and existential turmoil affecting the contemporary world. Traditionally, allegorical interpretation was intended to express an orthodoxy and support an ideology. Hejinian attempts to liberate allegory from its dogmatic usages. Presenting modern and contemporary materials ranging from the novel to poetry to painting and cinema to activist poetry of the Occupy...
Considers allegory as a catalyst of transformative thinking Allegorical Moments is a set of essays dedicated to rethinking allegory and arguing for i...
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343,18 |
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Daybooks and Notebooks: Volumes I-III
ISBN: 9780814794340 / Angielski / Miękka / 995 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. General Series Editors: Gay Wilson Allen and Sculley Bradley Originally published between 1961 and 1984, and now available in paperback for the first time, the critically acclaimed Collected Writings of Walt Whitman captures every facet of one of America's most important poets. Daybooks and Notebooks is an invaluable source for reference on Whitman's daily activities. This sixteen-year record supplements the biographical information provided in the six volumes of Whitman s Correspondence, functioning as an account book, diary, journal, commonplace book, and notebook all in one. When... General Series Editors: Gay Wilson Allen and Sculley Bradley Originally published between 1961 and 1984, and now available in paperback for the f... |
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345,62 |
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Dreiser-Mencken Letters, Volume 2: The Correspondence of Theodore Dreiser and H. L. Mencken, 197-1945
ISBN: 9780812280432 / Angielski / Twarda / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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345,62 |
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Detective Dupin Reads William Faulkner: Solutions to Six Yoknapatawpha Mysteries
ISBN: 9781573091657 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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348,43 |
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American Notes for General Circulation
ISBN: 9781988963655 / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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351,02 |
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Seeming Human: Artificial Intelligence and Victorian Realist Character
ISBN: 9780814213759 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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353,84 |
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Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present
ISBN: 9781940771342 / Angielski / Miękka / 776 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since America's founding, the diversity of American writers has shaped its literature. Authors and poets of the past have created a colorful collection of works that are still studied today alongside contemporary works. Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present, is designed to continue the preservation of famous American literary works in the minds of college students. Readers will encounter a comprehensive collection of over seventy-five short stories, poems, and novel selections that encompass the distinct writing styles of the writers and eras.... Since America's founding, the diversity of American writers has shaped its literature. Authors and poets of the past have created a colorful collec... |
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355,25 |
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The American Civil War: A Literary and Historical Anthology
ISBN: 9780415537070 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The American Civil War: A Literary and Historical Anthology brings together a wide variety of important writings from the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, including short fiction, poetry, public addresses, memoirs, and essays, accompanied by detailed annotations and concise introductions. Now in a thoroughly revised second edition, this slimmer volume has been revamped to: * Emphasize a diversity of perspectives on the war * Showcase more women writers * Expand the number of Southern voices * Feature more soldiers' testimony * Provide greater historical context. With selections from Louisa...
The American Civil War: A Literary and Historical Anthology brings together a wide variety of important writings from the Civil War and Reconstruction...
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355,30 |
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American Film Noir Genres, Characters, and Settings
ISBN: 9781666916515 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, Harold Hellwig analyzes film noir, outlining the major genres which it includes: the city and the detective; science fiction, the Western; and comedy. Elements of American film noir and its contexts are evaluated within different adaptations in film and television.
In this book, Harold Hellwig analyzes film noir, outlining the major genres which it includes: the city and the detective; science fiction, the Wester...
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355,35 |
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Animal Texts
ISBN: 9781666937763 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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355,35 |
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Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution--Selected Letters and Papers, 1776-1790: April 10, 1778-March 20, 1780
ISBN: 9780801412462 / Angielski / Twarda / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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355,35 |
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