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Patience & Fortitude: Wherein a Colorful Cast of Determined Book Collectors, Dealers, and Librarians Go about the Quixotic Task of Preservin
ISBN: 9780060514464 / Angielski / Miękka / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In his national bestseller, A Gentle Madness, Nicholas Basbanes explored the sweet obsession people feel to possess books. Now, Basbanes continues his adventures among the -gently mad- on an irresistible journey to the great libraries of the past -- from Alexandria to Glastonbury -- and to contemporary collections at the Vatican, Wolfenbuttel, and erudite universities. Along the way, he drops in on eccentric book dealers and regales us with stories about unforgettable collectors, such as the gentleman who bought a rare book in 1939 -by selling bottles of his own... In his national bestseller, A Gentle Madness, Nicholas Basbanes explored the sweet obsession people feel to possess books. Now, Basbanes c... |
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80,60 zł |
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Every Book Its Reader : The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World
ISBN: 9780060593247 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Inspired by a landmark exhibition mounted by the British Museum in 1963 to celebrate five eventful centuries of the printed word, Nicholas A. Basbanes offers a lively consideration of writings that have -made things happen- in the world, works that have both nudged the course of history and fired the imagination of countless influential people. In his fifth work to examine a specific aspect of book culture, Basbanes also asks what we can know about such figures as John Milton, Edward Gibbon, John Locke, Isaac Newton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Adams, Frederick Douglass,... Inspired by a landmark exhibition mounted by the British Museum in 1963 to celebrate five eventful centuries of the printed word, Nicholas... |
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64,52 zł |
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Bizarre Books: A Compendium of Classic Oddities
ISBN: 9780061346651 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. They say you can't judge a book by its cover--but its title can tell you more than you ever needed to know Amazing, illuminating, and gut-bustingly funny, Bizarre Books is the wonderfully twisted product of more than two decades of determined searching in forgotten corners of out-of-the-way libraries and through the literary detritus of eclectic private collections. It is certain to delight every true fan of trivia and the patently absurd. They say you can't judge a book by its cover--but its title can tell you more than you ever needed to know Amazing, illuminating, and gut-bu... |
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60,70 zł |
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A Fictive People : Antebellum Economic Development and the American Reading Public
ISBN: 9780195075823 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book explores an important boundary between history and literature: the antebellum reading public for books written by Americans. Zboray describes how fiction took root in the United States and what literature contributed to the readers' sense of themselves. He traces the rise of fiction as a social history centered on the book trade and chronicles the large societal changes shaping, circumscribing, and sometimes defining the limits of the antebellum reading public. A Fictive People explodes two notions that are commonplace in cultural histories of the nineteenth century: first,...
This book explores an important boundary between history and literature: the antebellum reading public for books written by Americans. Zboray describe...
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926,61 zł |
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Cervantes' Don Quixote : A Casebook
ISBN: 9780195169379 / Angielski / Twarda / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This casebook gathers a collection of ambitious essays about both parts of the novel (1605 and 1615) and also provides a general introduction and a bibliography. The essays range from Ramon Menendez Pidal's seminal study of how Cervantes dealt with chivalric literature to Erich Auerbachs polemical study of Don Quixote as essentially a comic book by studying its mixture of styles, and include Leo Spitzer's masterful probe into the essential ambiguity of the novel through minute linguistic analysis of Cervantes prose. The book includes pieces by other major Cervantes scholars, such as Manuel...
This casebook gathers a collection of ambitious essays about both parts of the novel (1605 and 1615) and also provides a general introduction and a bi...
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815,19 zł |
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Cervantes' Don Quixote : A Casebook
ISBN: 9780195169386 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This casebook gathers a collection of ambitious essays about both parts of the novel (1605 and 1615) and also provides a general introduction and a bibliography. The essays range from Ramon Menendez Pidal's seminal study of how Cervantes dealt with chivalric literature to Erich Auerbachs polemical study of Don Quixote as essentially a comic book by studying its mixture of styles, and include Leo Spitzer's masterful probe into the essential ambiguity of the novel through minute linguistic analysis of Cervantes' prose. The book includes pieces by other major Cervantes scholars, such as...
This casebook gathers a collection of ambitious essays about both parts of the novel (1605 and 1615) and also provides a general introduction and a bi...
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246,63 zł |
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D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers : A Casebook
ISBN: 9780195170412 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This casebook on D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers is the first to address itself to the full text of the novel, first published in 1992. The introduction discusses the novel's composition and the range of approaches adopted by critics since its original publication in 1913. The nine essays that follow demonstrate the full extent of the contemporary critical response, from studies of narrative technique to psychoanalytic and gender-based analysis, and set the critical agenda for its study in the twenty-first century. This collection also reproduces excerpts from Lawrence's letters...
This casebook on D. H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers is the first to address itself to the full text of the novel, first published in 1992. The ...
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324,91 zł |
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The Metaphysics of Dante's Comedy
ISBN: 9780195174618 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The recovery of Dante's metaphysics - which are very different from our own - is essential, argues Christian Moevs, if we are to resolve what has been called "the central problem in the interpretation of the Comedy." That problem is what to make of the Comedy's claim to the status of revelation, vision, or experiential record - as something more than imaginative literature. In this book Moevs offers the first sustained treatment of the metaphysical picture that grounds and motivates the Comedy, and the relation between those metaphysics and Dante's poetics. Moevs...
The recovery of Dante's metaphysics - which are very different from our own - is essential, argues Christian Moevs, if we are to resolve what has been...
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564,48 zł |
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Radical Satire and Print Culture 1790-1822
ISBN: 9780198112785 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Radical Satire and Print Culture 1790-1822 focuses on the work produced collaboratively between 1816 and 1822 by the poet and radical journalist William Hone and the brilliant young graphic satirist George Cruikshank. Wood provides a much needed analytical framework for Regency radical satire uncovering a set of new sources and previously unknown cultural contexts for Hone and Cruikshank's work, which is shown to combine modernity and tradition in thrilling ways. Entertaining and original, this is an important contribution to the study of radical satire, which sheds new light on the relations...
Radical Satire and Print Culture 1790-1822 focuses on the work produced collaboratively between 1816 and 1822 by the poet and radical journalist Willi...
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1010,18 zł |
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Conditions for Criticism : Authority, Knowledge, and Literature in the Late Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780198122418 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book studies changes in the practice of literary criticism in nineteenth-century Britain and locates those changes within wider movements in intellectual culture. The growth of knowledge and its subsequent institutionalization in universities produced new forms of intellectual authority. Small examines these processes in a wide variety of disciplines, including economics, historiography, sociology, psychology, and philosophical aesthetics, and explores their impact upon literary criticism.
This book studies changes in the practice of literary criticism in nineteenth-century Britain and locates those changes within wider movements in inte...
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843,05 zł |
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Flaubert: Writing the Masculine
ISBN: 9780198159698 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This study offers a new approach to Flaubert's fiction and to the field of gender studies. Close readings of his six major works show a Flaubert aware of the logic and contradictions of male power.
This study offers a new approach to Flaubert's fiction and to the field of gender studies. Close readings of his six major works show a Flaubert aware...
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1038,04 zł |
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A Commentary on Herodotus: Volume II: Books V-IX
ISBN: 9780198721390 / Angielski / Miękka / 458 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Herodotus, referred to by Cicero and others as "the father of history," was the first to make the events of the past the subject of research and verification, and to relate their consequences to the present. In this commentary on Histories, an account of the struggle between Persia and Greece from the time of Croesus to that of Xerxes, How and Wells show that there are frequent digressions that give a wealth of information about the customs and cultures of peoples foreign to the Greeks. Providing a standard commentary of the Histories, this two-volume work will interest scholars as well as...
Herodotus, referred to by Cicero and others as "the father of history," was the first to make the events of the past the subject of research and verif...
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464,19 zł |
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The Anatomy of National Fantasy : Hawthorne, Utopia, and Everyday Life
ISBN: 9780226043777 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Examining the complex relationships between the political, popular, sexual, and textual interests of Nathaniel Hawthorne's work, Lauren Berlant argues that Hawthorne mounted a sophisticated challenge to America's collective fantasy of national unity. She shows how Hawthorne's idea of citizenship emerged from an attempt to adjudicate among the official and the popular, the national and the local, the collective and the individual, utopia and history.
At the core of Berlant's work is a three-part study of The Scarlet Letter, analyzing the modes and effects of national identity that... Examining the complex relationships between the political, popular, sexual, and textual interests of Nathaniel Hawthorne's work, Lauren Berlant argues...
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137,84 zł |
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The Art of Criticism : Henry James on the Theory and the Practice of Fiction
ISBN: 9780226391977 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. In "The Art of Criticism," William Veeder and Susan M. Griffin have brought together for the first time the best of the Master's critical work: the most important of his Prefaces, which R. P. Blackmur has called "the most sustained and I think the most eloquent and original piece of literary criticism in existence"; his studies of Hawthorne, George Eliot, Balzac, Zola, de Maupassant, Turgenev, Sante-Beuve, and Arnold; and his essays on the function of criticism and the future of the novel.
The editors have provided what James himself emphasized in his literary criticism-the text's... In "The Art of Criticism," William Veeder and Susan M. Griffin have brought together for the first time the best of the Master's critical work: the mo...
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226,34 zł |
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The Nature of the Book : Print and Knowledge in the Making
ISBN: 9780226401218 / Angielski / Twarda / 754 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. In The Nature of the Book, a tour de force of cultural history, Adrian Johns constructs an entirely original and vivid picture of print culture and its many arenas--commercial, intellectual, political, and individual. "A compelling exposition of how authors, printers, booksellers and readers competed for power over the printed page. . . . The richness of Mr. Johns's book lies in the splendid detail he has collected to describe the world of books in the first two centuries after the printing press arrived in England."--Alberto Manguel, Washington Times " A] mammoth and...
In The Nature of the Book, a tour de force of cultural history, Adrian Johns constructs an entirely original and vivid picture of print culture...
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206,25 zł |
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The Nature of the Book : Print and Knowledge in the Making
ISBN: 9780226401225 / Angielski / Twarda / 767 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. In The Nature of the Book, a tour de force of cultural history, Adrian Johns constructs an entirely original and vivid picture of print culture and its many arenas commercial, intellectual, political, and individual.
"A compelling exposition of how authors, printers, booksellers and readers competed for power over the printed page. . . . The richness of Mr. Johns's book lies in the splendid detail he has collected to describe the world of books in the first two centuries after the printing press arrived in England." Alberto Manguel, Washington Times " A] mammoth and... In The Nature of the Book, a tour de force of cultural history, Adrian Johns constructs an entirely original and vivid picture of print culture...
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159,83 zł |
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The Realistic Imagination : English Fiction from Frankenstein to Lady Chatterly
ISBN: 9780226475516 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. In The Realistic Imagination, George Levine argues that the Victorian realists and the later modernists were in fact doing similar things in their fiction: they were trying to use language to get beyond language. Levine sees the history of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novel as a continuing process in which each generation of writers struggled to escape the grip of convention and attempted to create new language to express their particular sense of reality. As these attempts hardened into new conventions, they generated new attempts to break free.
In The Realistic Imagination, George Levine argues that the Victorian realists and the later modernists were in fact doing similar things in th...
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169,61 zł |
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Listening to the Page : Adventures in Reading and Writing
ISBN: 9780231122702 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. When he sold his first short story to The New Yorker in 1979, Alan Cheuse was hardly new to the literary world. He had studied at Rutgers under John Ciardi, worked at the Breadloaf Writing Workshops with Robert Frost and Ralph Ellison, written hundreds of reviews for Kirkus Reviews, and taught alongside John Gardner and Bernard Malamud at Bennington College for nearly a decade. Soon after the New Yorker story appeared, Cheuse wrote a freelance magazine piece about a new publicly funded broadcast network called National Public Radio, and a relationship of reviewer and radio was born.
When he sold his first short story to The New Yorker in 1979, Alan Cheuse was hardly new to the literary world. He had studied at Rutgers under John C...
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286,86 zł |
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Listening to the Page : Adventures in Reading and Writing
ISBN: 9780231122719 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. When he sold his first short story to The New Yorker in 1979, Alan Cheuse was hardly new to the literary world. He had studied at Rutgers under John Ciardi, worked at the Breadloaf Writing Workshops with Robert Frost and Ralph Ellison, written hundreds of reviews for Kirkus Reviews, and taught alongside John Gardner and Bernard Malamud at Bennington College for nearly a decade. Soon after the New Yorker story appeared, Cheuse wrote a freelance magazine piece about a new, publicly funded broadcast network called National Public Radio, and a relationship of reviewer and...
When he sold his first short story to The New Yorker in 1979, Alan Cheuse was hardly new to the literary world. He had studied at Rutgers under...
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137,84 zł |
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Books of Secrets: Natural Philosophy in England, 1550-1600
ISBN: 9780252032097 / Angielski / Twarda / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. How cultural categories shaped--and were shaped by--new ideas about controlling nature
Ranging from alchemy to necromancy, "books of secrets" offered medieval readers an affordable and accessible collection of knowledge about the natural world. Allison Kavey's study traces the cultural relevance of these books and also charts their influence on the people who read them. Citing the importance of printers in choosing the books' contents, she points out how these books legitimized manipulating nature, thereby expanding cultural categories, such as masculinity, femininity, gentleman, lady, and... How cultural categories shaped--and were shaped by--new ideas about controlling nature
Ranging from alchemy to necromancy, "books of secrets" offere... |
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196,48 zł |
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