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A Homeric Dictionary For Use in Schools and Colleges
ISBN: 9781593330279 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A necessary tool for any student of classics or Homer. A novel feature of the work is the introduction into the text of nearly one hundred and fifty small wood-cut images of various topics.
A necessary tool for any student of classics or Homer. A novel feature of the work is the introduction into the text of nearly one hundred and fifty s...
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470,18 |
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A Bibliography of Pseudepigrapha Research 1850-1999
ISBN: 9781841272139 / Angielski / Twarda / 1072 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This comprehensive bibliography of research on the Pseudepigrapha and cognate literature covers the period from 1850 to the present day - thus encompassing almost all the secondary literature on this topic. A reference work designed for both institutions and individual scholars, it systematically presents a structured bibliography for each ancient text, highlighting elements such as 'Texts and Textual Issues', 'Translations', 'General Studies', and 'Specific Studies'. In addition, this book covers a host of topics related to the context and content of the classic pseudepigrapha, providing... This comprehensive bibliography of research on the Pseudepigrapha and cognate literature covers the period from 1850 to the present day - thus enco... |
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1346,88 |
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A Companion to the Middle English Lyric
ISBN: 9781843840657 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award The Middle English lyric occupies a place of considerable importance in the history of English literature. Here, for the first time in English, are found many features of formal and thematic importance: they include rhyme scheme, stanzaic form, the carol genre, love poetry in the manner of the troubadour poets, and devotional poems focusing on the love, suffering and compassion of Christ and the Virgin Mary. The essays in this volume aim to provide both background information on and new assessments of the lyric. By treating Middle English...
Winner of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award The Middle English lyric occupies a place of considerable importance in the history of English lit...
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465,29 |
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Beat Culture: Lifestyles, Icons, and Impact
ISBN: 9781851094004 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Beat Culture" captures in a single volume six decades of cultural and countercultural expression in the arts and society. It goes beyond other works, which are often limited to Beat writers like William Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, and Michael McClure, to cover a wide range of musicians, painters, dramatists, filmmakers, and dancers who found expression in the Bohemian movement known as the Beat Generation. Top scholars from the United States, England, Holland, Italy, and China analyze a vast array of topics including sexism, misogny, alcoholism, and drug abuse within Beat circles; the... "Beat Culture" captures in a single volume six decades of cultural and countercultural expression in the arts and society. It goes beyond other wor... |
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412,44 |
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Encyclopedia of the Essay
ISBN: 9781884964305 / Angielski / Twarda / 1024 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected... This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more... |
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1714,21 |
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Encyclopedia of Literary Translation Into English
ISBN: 9781884964367 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English provides the general reader, students and teachers at all levels with an historical analytical survey of the theory and practice of literary translation into English.
The Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English provides the general reader, students and teachers at all levels with an historical analytical s...
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2081,53 |
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Horror Plum'd: INTERNATIONAL STEPHEN KING BIBLIOGRAPHY & GUIDE 1960-2000 - Trade Edition
ISBN: 9781892950314 / Angielski / Miękka / 556 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Collings presents a comprehensive collection of every book, story, and ephemera published by and about Stephen King in the U.S. and internationally. Includes complete chapters on books, novels, short-fiction collections, nonfiction, and more.
Collings presents a comprehensive collection of every book, story, and ephemera published by and about Stephen King in the U.S. and internationally. I...
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163,79 |
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Horror Plum'd: International Stephen King Bibliography & Guide 1960-2000
ISBN: 9781892950451 / Angielski / Twarda / 556 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the only collection of every book, story, and ephemera published on and about Stephen King in the U.S. and internationally. Includes books, novels, short-fiction collections, non-fiction, reprints and multimedia adaptations of book titles. Over 100 cover and art reproductions.
This is the only collection of every book, story, and ephemera published on and about Stephen King in the U.S. and internationally. Includes books, no...
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323,69 |
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The Hungarian Revolt: October 23 - November 4, 1956
ISBN: 9781931313797 / Angielski / Miękka / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An anthology of the 'seven days that shook the Kremlin, the 1956 revolution in Hungary.
An anthology of the 'seven days that shook the Kremlin, the 1956 revolution in Hungary.
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105,00 |
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Novel / Fiction Awards 1917-1994
ISBN: 9783598301803 / Angielski / Twarda / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The School of Journalism at Columbia University has awarded the Pulitzer Prize since 1917. Nowadays there are prizes in 21 categories from the fields of journalism, literature and music. The Pulitzer Prize Archive presentsthe history of this award from its beginnings to the present: In parts A toE the awarding oftheprize in each category is documented, commented and arranged chronologically. Part F covers the history of the prize biographically and bibliographically. Part G provides the background to thedecisions. The School of Journalism at Columbia University has awarded the Pulitzer Prize since 1917. Nowadays there are prizes in 21 categories from the fiel... |
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637,19 |
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Nobel Lectures in Literature, Vol 2 (1968-1980)
ISBN: 9789810211752 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Equally important to our understanding of history and humanity are the great works of literature. The Nobel Prize for literature recognises modern classics and the efforts of authors to bridge gaps between different cultures, time-periods and styles; the prizewinners between 1968 and 1995 are from four continents.
These volumes are collections of the Nobel lectures delivered by the prizewinners, together with their biographies, portraits and presentation speeches for the period 1968 - 1995. Each Nobel lecture is based on the work that won the laureate his prize. New biographical data of the... Equally important to our understanding of history and humanity are the great works of literature. The Nobel Prize for literature recognises modern cla...
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122,44 |
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Nobel Lectures in Literature, Vol 3 (1981-1990)
ISBN: 9789810211776 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Equally important to our understanding of history and humanity are the great works of literature. The Nobel Prize for literature recognises modern classics and the efforts of authors to bridge gaps between different cultures, time-periods and styles; the prizewinners between 1968 and 1995 are from four continents.
These volumes are collections of the Nobel lectures delivered by the prizewinners, together with their biographies, portraits and presentation speeches for the period 1968 - 1995. Each Nobel lecture is based on the work that won the laureate his prize. New biographical data of the... Equally important to our understanding of history and humanity are the great works of literature. The Nobel Prize for literature recognises modern cla...
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American English 1781 - 1921
ISBN: 9780415279642 / Angielski / Twarda / 4056 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This set reprints a wide range of source texts invaluable to the study of American English. Volume I contains a selection of articles chronicling the debate over Americanisms in both the American and popular British press. Additional volumes comprise several glossaries of American English that illustrate the growing creativity, autonomy and specialization of the language, as well as the linguistic debates of the era.
The collection will be of key importance in the study of the first 'world English' to stake its claim outside the British Isles. The issues that arose in the development of... This set reprints a wide range of source texts invaluable to the study of American English. Volume I contains a selection of articles chronicling the ...
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Hamlin Garland: A Life
ISBN: 9780803233478 / Angielski / Twarda / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recognition of his achievements in literature, Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) received four honorary doctorates and a Pulitzer Prize. Keith Newlin traces the rise of this prairie farm boy with a half-formed ambition to write who then skyrocketed into international prominence before he was forty. His life is a story of ironic contradictions: the radical whose early achievement thrust him to the forefront of literary innovation but whose evolutionary aesthetic principles could not themselves adapt to changing conditions; the self-styled "veritist" whose credo demanded that he verify every fact...
In recognition of his achievements in literature, Hamlin Garland (1860-1940) received four honorary doctorates and a Pulitzer Prize. Keith Newlin trac...
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The Robert J. Wickenheiser Collection of John Milton at the University of South Carolina: A Descriptive Account with Illustrations
ISBN: 9781570037238 / Angielski / Twarda / 839 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a descriptive catalog of one of the world's largest collections of Milton and Miltoniana.Housed at USC's Thomas Cooper Library, the Wickenheiser Collection contains more than six thousand volumes, including more than sixty seventeenth-century editions of Milton's writings and significant holdings of seventeenth-century Miltoniana. The special focus on illustrated editions makes this perhaps the most comprehensive collection of Milton illustration in existence - from the first illustrated edition of "Paradise Lost" (1688) through all the major illustrators that follow, particularly...
This is a descriptive catalog of one of the world's largest collections of Milton and Miltoniana.Housed at USC's Thomas Cooper Library, the Wickenheis...
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406,51 |
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Pynchon Character Names: A Dictionary
ISBN: 9780786434589 / Angielski / Miękka / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The dictionary lists each character from Pynchons fiction up through his most recent novel, including the most likely etymology of each name. In addition, the lengthy introduction examines his character names as a part of his greater literary strategy, establishing a set of categories through which most of the names may be understood.
The dictionary lists each character from Pynchons fiction up through his most recent novel, including the most likely etymology of each name. In addit...
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221,82 |
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Critical Companion to Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work
ISBN: 9780816068852 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Critical Companion to Zora Neale Hurston is a reliable and up-to-date resource for high school and college-level students, providing reliable information on Hurston's life and work. This new volume covers all her writings, including Their Eyes Were Watching God; her landmark works of folklore and anthropology, such as Mules and Men; and shorter works, such as her story "The Gilded Six-Bits." Detailed entries on her life and related people, places, and topics round out this comprehensive and in-depth guide.
Critical Companion to Zora Neale Hurston is a reliable and up-to-date resource for high school and college-level students, providing reliable informat...
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A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson: Treating His Published Works from the Beginning to 1984, Volume 1: 1731-1759
ISBN: 9780198122692 / Angielski / Twarda / 1048 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This bibliography by the distinguished Johnson scholar, the late J. D. Fleeman, records Johnson's literary output in chronological order and traces the development of his career and reputation as a professional writer. Detailed analysis of the works illustrates the practices of the 18th-century book trade, and identifies valuable and unjustly neglected editions. The bibliography also charts the course of Johnson's posthumous literary reputation with lists of new editions up to 1984, the bicentenary of his death.
This bibliography by the distinguished Johnson scholar, the late J. D. Fleeman, records Johnson's literary output in chronological order and traces th...
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222: Aphorisms & Reflections, Volume 1
ISBN: 9780761840503 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 222: Aphorisms & Reflections is an attempt to breathe new life into the art of the aphorism and the brief reflection (or meditation), brought to near-perfection in Western culture over the last five centuries by Pascal, La Rochefoucauld, Lichtenberg, Nietzsche, Kafka, E.M. Cioran, Karl Kraus, Fernando Pessoa, and many others. About four in ten of the entries in 222 consist of "conversations" between Steven Carter and aphorists of the past, including many of the above. In publishing this initial volume of a projected multi-volume work, Carter hopes to join the ranks of current aphorists and...
222: Aphorisms & Reflections is an attempt to breathe new life into the art of the aphorism and the brief reflection (or meditation), brought to near-...
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186,11 |
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Children's Literature
ISBN: 9780631211419 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This practical guide provides a comprehensive and inviting introduction to English-language children's literature from the eighteenth-century to 2000. The book opens with a discussion of the often controversial theory and history of this influential and entertaining subject, and explores the ways in which it can be approached. The Guide includes: * Detailed critical surveys of the work of forty major authors, from Mrs Sherwood to J. K. Rowling, Louisa May Alcott to Dr Seuss, Mary Grant Bruce to Margaret Mahy, and Quentin Blake to Ted Hughes. This practical guide provides a comprehensive and inviting introduction to English-language children's literature from the eighteenth-century to 2000....
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