Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay, Paperback - Anne Carson

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Reducere. "To be unable to speak, to be shy, to be quiet, to be reticent, is not to be silent, or silenced--not if one listens carefully to the state of recl...

Reducere. A loving, far-ranging, meditation on the meaning of summer.What is summer made of? The smell of cut grass behind the gasoline of a lawnmower. Ponds...

Reducere. In An Oresteia, the classicist Anne Carson combines three different versions of the tragedy of the house of Atreus -- A iskhylos' Agamemnon, Sophok...

Thinking is much broader than what our science-obsessed, utilitarian culture often takes it to be. More than mere problem solving or the methodical...

A fresh, contemporary adaptation of Sophokles' tragedy from T.S. Eliot Prize-winning poet Anne Carson. When her dead brother is decreed a traitor, ...

Trade paperback. Mixing poetry, drama and narrative, this is a follow-up to }Autobiography Of Red{.

Reducere. **New York Magazine's Top 10 Books of 2013****GoodReads Reader s Choice Award Winner** Some years ago I wrote a book about a boy named Geryon who w...

The poetry and prose collected in Plainwater are a testament to the extraordinary imagination of Anne Carson, a writer described by Michael Ondaatj...

Anne Carson' s first full-length publication in Britain, Glass and God introduces an assured and challenging new voice: vivid, laconic, precise. Bl...

This new comic-book version of Euripides' classic The Trojan Women follows the fates of Hekabe, Andromache and Kassandra after Troy has been sacked...

Reducere. The award-winning poet reinvents a genre in a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek...

Reducere. Poetry. Deluxe redesign of the two-time Griffin Award winner's first poetry collection. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Brick Book...

Reducere. Sim nides de Ceos fue el primer poeta en aceptar dinero por su trabajo po tico. Con base en este hecho Anne Carson elabora su genial exploraci n so...

Reducere. The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting...

DescriptionAn essential anthology that puts contemporary geniuses Eileen Myles and Margaret Atwood in conversation with literary classics Charles B...

DescriptionLearn and Practice Proven multiple choice strategies for reading comprehension and listening comprehension Plus how to take an oral exam...

Reducere. Rachel Carson's published books boosted the environmental movement in politics.Women in Science series takes a highly visual approach to telling th...

Reducere. "A stunning, new translation by the poet and classicist Anne Carson, first performed in 2015 at the Almeida Theatre in London. Anne Carson writes, ...

Reducere. The decade of the 1960s encompassed a "New Wave" of films whose makers were rebels, challenging cinematic traditions and the culture at large. The ...

An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (Complete): (An Essay Concerning Human Understanding) In Four Books - Vol. I & II This book is a result of...

Reducere. The Purpose of Life is an essay emphasizing spiritual enlightenment as the ultimate purpose of our existence. Although attracted by the paranormal ...

God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay 'On the Trinity' - Sarah Coakley

Reducere. H of H Playbook is an explosion of thought, in drawings and language, about a Greek tragedy called Herakles by the 5th-century BC poet Euripides. I...

In myth Herakles is an embodiment of manly violence who returns home after years of making war on enemies and monsters (his famous "Labours of Hera...

Malthus's Essay looks at the perennial tendency of humans to outstrip their resources: reproduction always exceeds food production. Today Malthus r...

Reducere. An essay in poems, The Donkey Elegies closely examines an animal's history, tracing how one species hauled the stones that built our civilizations,...

Reducere. Alexander Pope was a gifted poet, literary critic and translator of the Augustan Age, whose powerful poetic satire and perfection of the English he...

Reducere. Claude Lefort, one of the most prominent political philosophers of the twentieth century, reads Dante's Monarchia and demonstrates the surprising r...

DescriptionAs the world's population continues to grow at a frighteningly rapid rate, Malthus's classic warning against overpopulation gains increa...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcAuthor(s): Professor Eckart (University of Tubingen, Germany) GoebelTranslator: James C. WagnerNumber of pages:...

Reducere. Written in the course of his conversion to Catholicism, Newman's "Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine" ranks among the most decisive bre...

* Catherine Malabou is a rising star of French philosophy and has a high reputation in the English speaking world. This is the second of several bo...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation is a nonfiction book, first published in 1917, by the American novelist and muck-rakin...

Reducere. At once poem, essay, memoir fragment, and art object, The Book of Fools is a sweeping elegy for our earth-and our plastic-choked ocean. Faced with ...

An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry was first published in 1897 and marks Bertrand Russell's first foray into analytic philosophy, a movement i...