On the Outside Looking Out: John Ashbery's Poetry
ISBN: 9780674636132 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of America's most important poets, John Ashbery has dazzled readers with the elusive pleasures of his work for over four decades. John Shoptaw heightens those pleasures by discovering the inner and outer workings of this incomparable poet. In readings attuned to the textual, sexual, and historical specificities of Ashbery's poetic project, from Some Trees through the vast summation of Flow Chart, Shoptaw introduces readers to the poet's processes of production. The first reader with full access to Ashbery's manuscripts and source materials, he is able to reveal the... One of America's most important poets, John Ashbery has dazzled readers with the elusive pleasures of his work for over four decades. John Shoptaw ... |
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212,26 zł |
Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets
ISBN: 9780674654761 / Angielski / Miękka / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children." View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the course. The poets nearest to us in time often seem the most remote and difficult. Helen Vendler closes the distance. She keeps the poet in view not only as thinker and artist, but as a man or woman whose humanity never disappears in her analysis. With her penetrating critical gift, Vendler assesses American poets from T. S. Eliot to Charles Wright. Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children." View her insightful and passionate analysis along wit... |
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317,42 zł |
The Passion of Emily Dickinson
ISBN: 9780674656666 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "How tame and manageable are the emotions of our bards, how placid and literary their allusions " complained essayist T. W. Higginson in the Atlantic Monthly in 1870. "The American poet of passion is yet to come." He was, of course, unaware of the great erotic love poems such as "Wild Nights--Wild Nights " and "Struck was I, nor yet by Lightning" being privately written by his reclusive friend Emily Dickinson. In a profound new analysis of Dickinson's life and work, Judith Farr explores the desire, suffering, exultation, spiritual rapture, and intense dedication to art that... "How tame and manageable are the emotions of our bards, how placid and literary their allusions " complained essayist T. W. Higginson in the Atl... |
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148,50 zł |
The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition
ISBN: 9780674676220 / Angielski / Twarda / 1680 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Emily Dickinson lived and died without fame: she saw only a few poems published. Her legacy was later rescued from her desk drawer - an astonishing body of work revealing her acute, sensitive nature reaching out boldly from self-referral to a wider, imagined world.
Emily Dickinson lived and died without fame: she saw only a few poems published. Her legacy was later rescued from her desk drawer - an astonishing bo...
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605,42 zł |
The Puritans in America: A Narrative Anthology
ISBN: 9780674740662 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The whole destiny of America is contained in the first Puritans who landed on these shores, wrote de Tocqueville. These newcomers, and the range of their intellectual achievements and failures, are vividly depicted in The Puritans in America. Exiled from England, the Puritans settled in what Cromwell called "a poor, cold, and useless" place--where they created a body of ideas and aspirations that were essential in the shaping of American religion, politics, and culture. In a felicitous blend of documents and narrative Alan Heimert and Andrew Delbanco recapture the sweep and... The whole destiny of America is contained in the first Puritans who landed on these shores, wrote de Tocqueville. These newcomers, and the range of... |
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233,51 zł |
Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire (Revised)
ISBN: 9780674945753 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this graceful book, Helen Vendler brings her remarkable skills to bear on a number of Stevens' short poems. She shows us that this most intellectual of poets is in fact the most personal of poets; that his words are not devoted to epistemological questions alone but are also "words chosen out of desire."
In this graceful book, Helen Vendler brings her remarkable skills to bear on a number of Stevens' short poems. She shows us that this most intellectua...
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143,19 zł |
The Wild Card of Reading: On Paul de Man
ISBN: 9780674952966 / Angielski / Miękka / 610 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most knowledgeable and provocative explicators of Paul de Man's writings, Rodolphe GaschE, a philosopher by training, demonstrates for the first time the systematic coherence of the critic's work, insisting that de Man continues to merit close attention despite his notoriously difficult and obscure style. GaschE shows that de Man's "reading" centers on a dimension of the texts that is irreducible to any possible meaning, a dimension characterized by the "absolutely singular." Given that de Man and Derrida are both termed deconstructionists, GaschE differentiates between... One of the most knowledgeable and provocative explicators of Paul de Man's writings, Rodolphe GaschE, a philosopher by training, demonstrates for t... |
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263,56 zł |
Poetry at Stake: Lyric Aesthetics and the Challenge of Technology
ISBN: 9780691004174 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking seriously Guillaume Apollinaire's wager that twentieth-century poets would one day "mechanize" poetry as modern industry has mechanized the world, Carrie Noland explores poetic attempts to redefine the relationship between subjective expression and mechanical reproduction, high art and the world of things. Noland builds upon close readings to construct a tradition of diverse lyricists--from Arthur Rimbaud, Blaise Cendrars, and Rene Char to contemporary performance artists Laurie Anderson and Patti Smith--allied in their concern with the nature of subjectivity in an age of mechanical... Taking seriously Guillaume Apollinaire's wager that twentieth-century poets would one day "mechanize" poetry as modern industry has mechanized the ... |
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255,02 zł |
The Science of Sacrifice: American Literature and Modern Social Theory
ISBN: 9780691015064 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From ritual killings to subtle acts of self-denial, the practice and rhetoric of sacrifice has a special centrality in modern American literature. In a compelling interdisciplinary investigation, Susan Mizruchi portrays an episode in American cultural history when the literary movement of realism and the fledgling field of sociology both converged in the belief that sacrifice is basic to sociality. This is a book about the fascination that sacrifice held for writers--principally Herman Melville, Henry James, and W.E.B. Du Bois--and also for those who articulated the main tenets of modern... From ritual killings to subtle acts of self-denial, the practice and rhetoric of sacrifice has a special centrality in modern American literature. ... |
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276,28 zł |
Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism
ISBN: 9780691015446 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "English literature," Yeats once noted, "has all but completely shaped itself in the printing press." Finding this true particularly of modernist writing, Jerome McGann demonstrates the extraordinary degree to which modernist styles are related to graphic and typographic design, to printed letters--"black riders" on a blank page--that create language for the eye. He sketches the relation of modernist writing to key developments in book design, beginning with the nineteenth-century renaissance of printing, and demonstrates the continued interest of postmodern writers in the "visible... "English literature," Yeats once noted, "has all but completely shaped itself in the printing press." Finding this true particularly of modernist w... |
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212,52 zł |
The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History
ISBN: 9780691021386 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Language writing, the most controversial avant-garde movement in contemporary American poetry, appeals strongly to writers and readers interested in the politics of postmodernism and in iconoclastic poetic form. Drawing on materials from popular culture, avoiding the standard stylistic indications of poetic lyricism, and using nonsequential sentences are some of the ways in which language writers make poetry a more open and participatory process for the readers. Reading this kind of writing, however, may not come easily in a culture where poetry is treated as property of a special class.... Language writing, the most controversial avant-garde movement in contemporary American poetry, appeals strongly to writers and readers interested i... |
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201,89 zł |
Understanding Emerson: The American Scholar and His Struggle for Self-Reliance
ISBN: 9780691099828 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A seminal figure in American literature and philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson is considered the apostle of self-reliance, fully alive within his ideas and disarmingly confident about his innermost thoughts. Yet the circumstances around "The American Scholar" oration--his first great public address and the most celebrated talk in American academic history--suggest a different Emerson. In Understanding Emerson, Kenneth Sacks draws on a wealth of contemporary correspondence and diaries, much of it previously unexamined, to reveal a young intellectual struggling to define himself and his... A seminal figure in American literature and philosophy, Ralph Waldo Emerson is considered the apostle of self-reliance, fully alive within his idea... |
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308,15 zł |
Allen Tate: Orphan of the South
ISBN: 9780691115689 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite his celebrity and his fame, a series of literary feuds and the huge volume of sources have, until now, precluded a satisfying biography of Allen Tate. Anyone interested in the literature and history of the American South, or in modern letters, will be fascinated by his life. Poetry readers recognize Tate, whom T. S. Eliot once called the best poet writing in America, as the author of some of the twentieth century's most powerful modernist verse. Others know him as a founder of The Fugitive, the first significant poetry journal to emerge from the South. Tate joined William... Despite his celebrity and his fame, a series of literary feuds and the huge volume of sources have, until now, precluded a satisfying biography of ... |
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223,15 zł |
Much Ado About Nonexistence: Fiction and Reference
ISBN: 9780742548336 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fiction, Reference, and Nonexistence contains a new, contemporary theory of fiction and discusses the connection between language and reality. Martinich and Stroll, two of America's leading philosophers, explore fiction and undertake an analytic philosophical study of fiction and its reference, and its relation to truth.
Fiction, Reference, and Nonexistence contains a new, contemporary theory of fiction and discusses the connection between language and reality. Martini...
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467,54 zł |
Much Ado About Nonexistence: Fiction and Reference
ISBN: 9780742548343 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fiction, Reference, and Nonexistence contains a new, contemporary theory of fiction and discusses the connection between language and reality. Martinich and Stroll, two of America's leading philosophers, explore fiction and undertake an analytic philosophical study of fiction and its reference, and its relation to truth.
Fiction, Reference, and Nonexistence contains a new, contemporary theory of fiction and discusses the connection between language and reality. Martini...
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Feminist Theory and Literary Practice
ISBN: 9780745316017 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers an exploration of women's writing that focuses on the close links between literary texts and the theories that construct those texts as 'women's writing'. Each chapter deals with one of the issues or concepts that have engaged both authors and theorists - rhetoric, work, consciousness, nature, class and race. A detailed analysis shows how each concept has been used by feminists to construct a specific text in such a way that it is received as a work of 'women's writing', particularly in American literature.Using canonical texts, from Charlotte Perkins Gilman through Kate...
This book offers an exploration of women's writing that focuses on the close links between literary texts and the theories that construct those texts ...
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191,46 zł |
Philanthropy in British and American Fiction: Dickens, Hawthorne, Eliot and Howells
ISBN: 9780748625086 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the 19th century the U.S. and Britain came to share an economic profile unparalleled in their respective histories. This book suggests that this early high capitalism came to serve as the ground for a new kind of cosmopolitanism in the age of literary realism, and argues for the necessity of a transnational analysis based upon economic relationships of which people on both sides of the Atlantic were increasingly conscious. The nexus of this exploration of economics, aesthetics and moral philosophy is philanthropy.
Pushing beyond reductive debates over the benevolent or mercenary... During the 19th century the U.S. and Britain came to share an economic profile unparalleled in their respective histories. This book suggests that thi...
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504,74 zł |
Local Planning in Practice
ISBN: 9780748703739 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a comprehensive review of the actuality of planning in the past few years; as such it is suitable for students of town planning, as well as surveyors, engineers, architects and developers.
This is a comprehensive review of the actuality of planning in the past few years; as such it is suitable for students of town planning, as well as su...
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237,17 zł |
The Span of Mainstream and Science Fiction: A Critical Study of a New Literary Genre
ISBN: 9780786413041 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the 1960s (when the advent of what many call the postmodern style made establishing genres more difficult) to the present day, writers have been incorporating science - not only the commonly thought of science and technology but also the soft sciences such as psychology and sociology - into what was previously considered mainstream fiction. This book examines works by Thomas Pynchon, Doris Lessing, and others that incorporate science and fiction and exemplify the movement of mainstream fiction writers toward a new genre termed span. It also examines works by some science fiction writers...
From the 1960s (when the advent of what many call the postmodern style made establishing genres more difficult) to the present day, writers have been ...
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245,32 zł |
Dalton Trumbo, Hollywood Rebel: A Critical Survey and Filmography
ISBN: 9780786432462 / Angielski / Miękka / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new critical survey--the first book-length work on Trumbos screenwriting--examines the scores of films on which Trumbo worked and explores the techniques that made him, at the time he was blacklisted in 1947, Hollywoods highest-paid writer. Hanson reveals how Trumbo dealt with major themes including rebellion, radical politics, and individualism.
This new critical survey--the first book-length work on Trumbos screenwriting--examines the scores of films on which Trumbo worked and explores the te...
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245,32 zł |