Of Mutability
ISBN: 9780571254712 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 'Of Mutability', Shapcott is found writing at her most memorable and bold. In a series of poems that explore the nature of change - in the body and the natural world, and in the shifting relationships between people - these poems look freshly but squarely at mortality.
In 'Of Mutability', Shapcott is found writing at her most memorable and bold. In a series of poems that explore the nature of change - in the body and...
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51,35 zł |
Nikolai Gogol
ISBN: 9781846143304 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature, with a command of the irrational unmatched by any writer before or since. His strange tales, though often read as forceful demands for social change, were displays of the fantasies of the human spirit. In this ideal marriage of subject and critic, Nabokov analyses his endlessly inventive compatriot, focusing on the masterpieces Dead Souls, The Overcoat and The Government Inspector. Misunderstood by his contemporaries, mishandled by theatre directors and ending his life mistreated by doctors - with medicinal...
Nikolai Gogol was one of the great geniuses of nineteenth century Russian literature, with a command of the irrational unmatched by any writer before ...
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53,08 zł |
Enda Walsh Plays: One
ISBN: 9781848421394 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of cutting-edge plays from award-winning Irish playwright Enda Walsh, author of Penelope, The New Electric Ballroom and The Walworth Farce.
A collection of cutting-edge plays from award-winning Irish playwright Enda Walsh, author of Penelope, The New Electric Ballroom and The Walworth Farc...
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100,89 zł |
Humorists PB
ISBN: 9780061825927 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "It is Johnson's gift that he can make his subjects human and fallible enough that we would...recognize them instantly, while also illuminating what made them heroes." --Washington Post Book World on Heroes "Johnson is a clear, intelligent, forceful writer, and nothing if not thorough." --Wall Street Journal Paul Johnson, the acclaimed author of Creators, Heroes, and the New York Times bestseller Intellectuals, returns with a captivating collection of biographical portraits of the Western world's greatest wits and... "It is Johnson's gift that he can make his subjects human and fallible enough that we would...recognize them instantly, while also illuminating wha... |
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Poetry and Autobiography
ISBN: 9780415617550 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection makes a critical and creative intervention into ongoing debates about the relationship between poetry and autobiography. Drawing on recent theories of life writing, the essays in the first part of this volume provide new analyses of works by a range of poets, dating from the early modern period to the present day. Exploring the autobiographical resonances of poems by Martha Moulsworth, Mina Loy, Anne Sexton, Joe Brainard, Edward Kamau Braithwaite, and Gwyneth Lewis, the authors here examine the extent to which discourses of truth and authenticity have been implicated in...
This collection makes a critical and creative intervention into ongoing debates about the relationship between poetry and autobiography. Drawing on re...
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656,16 zł |
Satire
ISBN: 9780415480826 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is satire? How can we define it? Is it a comic tool or a political weapon? Is Satire funny or cruel? Does it always need a target or victim? Combining thematic, theoretical and historical approaches, John Gilmore introduces and investigates the tradition of satire from classical models through to the present day. In a lucid and engaging style, Gilmore explores: the moral politics of satire whether satire is universal, historically or geographically limited how satire translates across genres and media the boundaries of free speech and legitimacy. Using examples including the literature...
What is satire? How can we define it? Is it a comic tool or a political weapon? Is Satire funny or cruel? Does it always need a target or victim? Comb...
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126,14 zł |
The Major Victorian Poets: Reconsiderations
ISBN: 9780415667937 / Angielski / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1969, this collection brings together a series of essays offering a re-evaluation of Victorian poetry in the light of early 20th century criticism. The essays concentrate upon the poets whose reputations suffered from the great redirection of energy in English criticism initiated by Eliot, Richards and Leavis.
First published in 1969, this collection brings together a series of essays offering a re-evaluation of Victorian poetry in the light of early 20th ce...
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Old Man's Gold and Other Short Stories
ISBN: 9780807897515 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The four novels of Pierce, published between 1953 and 1974, all won national attention and critical acclaim, and many critics believe that the importance of this writer will continue to grow. This collection of stories, written in the 1940s, show how quickly a gifted author learns and develops his craft. The collection, taken as a whole, reveals a remarkable portrait of a time and place.
Originally published in 1976. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist... The four novels of Pierce, published between 1953 and 1974, all won national attention and critical acclaim, and many critics believe that the importa...
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188,46 zł |
Conor McPherson Plays: One
ISBN: 9781848422216 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Features four plays - three monologues and a three-hander.
Features four plays - three monologues and a three-hander.
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100,89 zł |
The Difference Satire Makes: Rhetoric and Reading from Jonson to Byron
ISBN: 9780801477850 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offering both the first major revision of satiric rhetoric in decades and a critical account of the modern history of satire criticism, Fredric V. Bogel maintains that the central structure of the satiric mode has been misunderstood. Devoting attention to Augustan satiric texts and other examples of satire from writings by Ben Jonson and Lord Byron to recent performance art Bogel finds a complicated interaction between identification and distance, intimacy and repudiation.Drawing on anthropological insights and the writings of Kenneth Burke, Bogel articulates a rigorous, richly developed...
Offering both the first major revision of satiric rhetoric in decades and a critical account of the modern history of satire criticism, Fredric V. Bog...
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201,89 zł |
Richard II : New Critical Essays
ISBN: 9780415569965 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard II is a compelling political drama whose themes still resonate today. Politically engaged and controversial, it raises crucial debates about the relationship between early modern art, audience response and state power. This collection provides a comprehensive survey of the critical and theatrical history of the play.
Richard II is a compelling political drama whose themes still resonate today. Politically engaged and controversial, it raises crucial debates about t...
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How to Tell a Story and Other Essays
ISBN: 9781907960031 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (1897) is one of Mark Twain's most popular collections of essays. Containing advice on how to tell a story, with examples, criticism of a popular biography and some poorly written fiction, personal experience of the attempted reformation of public rights, the history and several versions of a story about a jumping frog, instances of telepathy, and more literary criticism, Twain's keen wit, caustic humor and incisive satire are never more strongly displayed. The contents of this English Rose edition are from the original edition: How to Tell a Story, In...
How to Tell a Story and Other Essays (1897) is one of Mark Twain's most popular collections of essays. Containing advice on how to tell a story, with ...
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52,41 zł |
Entropy Slices
ISBN: 9780985246136 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Humor: A long narrative collaged poem from instructions about life from Adam and Eve, health insurance forms, your remote control from your television set, Nixon's instructions on why his daughters should not campaign at a museum, nuclear remote handling manual, instructions for events on a cruise ship and other texts. Runner up in many recognized poetry contests. The entire text was performed at the Lakeside Theatre, University of Essex in 2011.
Humor: A long narrative collaged poem from instructions about life from Adam and Eve, health insurance forms, your remote control from your television...
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35,90 zł |
Gnit
ISBN: 9781783190294 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A willfully American misreading of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt, by Pulitzer-nominated playwright Will Eno.
A willfully American misreading of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt, by Pulitzer-nominated playwright Will Eno.
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60,52 zł |
Southern Frontier Humor: New Approaches
ISBN: 9781617037689 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since its inception in the early 1830s, southern frontier humor (also known as the humor of the Old Southwest) has had enduring appeal. The onset of the new millennium precipitated an impressive rejuvenation of scholarly interest. Southern Frontier Humor: New Approaches represents the next step in this revival, providing a series of essays with fresh perspectives and contexts. First, the book shows the importance of Henry Junius Nott, a virtually unknown and forgotten writer who mined many of the principal subjects, themes, tropes, and character types associated with southern... Since its inception in the early 1830s, southern frontier humor (also known as the humor of the Old Southwest) has had enduring appeal. The onset o... |
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365,27 zł |
FILMPOCALYPSE! 52 Cinematic Visions Of The End
ISBN: 9781481158480 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In glorious celebration of our inevitable demise, Brock Wilbur reviews a different end-of-the-world film for each week of 2012, counting down cinema's history of humanity's finale. Welcome to FILMPOCALYPSE 52 Cinematic Visions Of The End. Be it genius or abysmal, Wilbur explores each environmental catastrophe, plague-like infection, zombie outbreak, alien invasion, biblical prophecy, impending asteroid, and a fair share of "other" cataclysms. Spanning 96 years and a dozen countries, our cultural fears, motivations, and values are never more obvious than in the visual representation of our...
In glorious celebration of our inevitable demise, Brock Wilbur reviews a different end-of-the-world film for each week of 2012, counting down cinema's...
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112,18 zł |
A Curious Invitation
ISBN: 9780062271839 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Forty of the greatest fictional festivities as seen through the eyes of the world's greatest writers. People love to party. And writers love to attend and document these occasions. The party is a useful literary device, not only for social commentary and satire but also as an occasion where characters can meet, fall in and out of love, or even get murdered. A Curious Invitation is a humorous and informative guide to literature's most memorable parties. Some of these parties are depictions of real events, like the Duchess of Richmond's ball on the eve of battle with... Forty of the greatest fictional festivities as seen through the eyes of the world's greatest writers. People love to party. And writers love ... |
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76,88 zł |
The Holy Buy Bull
ISBN: 9781482057287 / Angielski / Miękka / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A lightly comedic offering that sprinkles serious questions throughout, The Holy Buy Bull throws and lands several well-deserved jabs on the jaw of the most widely-distributed and widely-read book of all time. If you are willing to suspend your lifelong system of biblical beliefs during this read, you just might catch yourself smiling and even laughing out loud as you consider The Old Testament from an entertainingly different perspective. More than anything else, this literary offering was written to make you think above and beyond the religious dogma that has been dogging your consciousness...
A lightly comedic offering that sprinkles serious questions throughout, The Holy Buy Bull throws and lands several well-deserved jabs on the jaw of th...
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80,55 zł |