On Literature

Cand locuitorii Peninsulei Monterey descopera pe marginea autostrazii o serie de cruci memoriale pe care data inscrisa este una din viitor, iar con...

Reducere. Cristian, protagonistul romanului, are mustrari de conștiința in urma unei aventuri cu o necunoscuta intr-o padure și incearca sa-și salveze casnic...

Remarkably accessible and unfailingly stimulating, this collection of essays exhibits the diversity of interests and the depth of knowledge that ma...

Reducere. In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks "to understand the chemistry of h...

Reducere. This is the first volume in any language that collects Hannah Arendt's remarkable series of essays and notes on literary figures and cultural quest...

Reducere. These essays cover a range of topics, including art and architecture, religion, and literature in a collage of ideas, commentary, and criticism fro...

This book brings together previously unpublishedtranscripts of oral presentations in which Michel Foucault speaks at lengthabout literature and its...

Reducere. As an essayist, Adam Phillips combines the best of two worlds: the mastery of psychotherapy as a practitioner and a theorist-and a reputation as on...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressAuthor(s): James R RussoNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 177 x 369 x 19Cover type: Paperback /...

Since the early 1970s, Marina Warner has been one of the most challenging, subtle and profound commentators on the culture of past and present, unr...

Written more than half a century before Sir Philip Sidney's well-known Apology for Poetry, Erasmus' Ratio or 'System' is an almost lost masterpiece...

DescriptionThis book offers a comprehensive reassessment of ekphrasis: the verbal representation of visual art. Ekphrasis has been traditionally re...

Epistemic Justice and Creative Agency aims to open a productive new field of study, at a time when understanding the workings of injustice and poss...

Winner of the 2006 Andr s Bello Award for Memory and Ibero-American ThoughtIn this evocatively written book, Germ n Pati o Ossa presents the cultur...

Publisher: Thimble PressAuthor(s): Aidan ChambersNumber of pages: 184Publication date: 1995Dimensions: 216 x 133 x 15Cover type: Paperback / softba...

Reducere. Sixty-five of the world's leading writers open up about the books and authors that have meant the most to themEvery Sunday, readers of The New York...

Reducere. Mimesis and Theory brings together twenty of Ren Girard's uncollected essays on literature and literary theory, which, along with his classic, Dece...

This collection centres on the remarkable life and career of the writer and actor Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821), active in Great Britain in the la...

Cicero: On the Commonwealth and On the Laws - James E. G. Zetzel, Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Reducere. Cristian, protagonistul romanului, are mustrări de conștiință în urma unei aventuri cu o necunoscută într-o pădure și încearcă să-și salveze căsnic...

Moartea vine on-line - Jeffery Deaver

On Growth and Form - D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Level 6: Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson

Level 4. Strangers on a Train - Patricia Highsmith

The Pictures are Better on the Radio. One Fan's Love Affair with Sport on the Wireless - Adam Carroll-Smith

I put a spell on you... - Allex Trusca

Reducere. In What Is a World? Pheng Cheah, a leading theorist of cosmopolitanism, offers the first critical consideration of world literature's cosmopolitan ...

Reducere. Cristian, protagonistul romanului, are mustrari de constiinta in urma unei aventuri cu o necunoscuta intr-o padure si incearca sa-si salveze casnic...

Reducere. Din cuprins: Dramatic Elements and Literary MeditationEmerson and KantInward versus Outward ExpansionDissenting Voices of ConsentThe Narrator as Au...

This book explores Korean literature from a broadly global perspective from the mid-9th century to the present, with special emphasis on how it has...

Reducere. It takes a whole team, and several years, to translate work by the Syrian native Iamblichus (250-330), because his writing is neither eloquent nor ...

Reducere. Essays foreshadowing the great themes of Remembrance of Things Past Beginning with the remarkable essay "Contre Saint-Beuve, " this surprising and ...

Discusses works by great painters such as Delacroix and Ingres. This title features writings on Poe, Flaubert and Gautier.

Literatura adaptata pentru copii Fleecy Sheep goes on holiday cu digibook app. - Jenny Dooley

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Studying English Literature and Language is unique in offering both an introduction and a companion for students taking English Literature and Lang...

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Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch has also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetics. Collect...

DescriptionCan computer games be great literature? Do the rapidly evolving and culturally expanding genres of digital literature mean that the narr...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Alexandra (Appalachian State University, USA) Sterling-HellenbrandIllustration(s): 15 bw illusNumber...

Reducere. From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin's groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty ye...

Reducere. From Goethe to Gundolf: Essays on German Literature and Culture is a collection of Roger Paulin's groundbreaking essays, spanning the last forty ye...

Reducere. An unprecedented treasury of Yiddish children's stories and poems enhanced with original illustrations While there has been a recent boom in Jewish...

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Suitable for a course in literary criticism, the title is concerned with the attempt to define and track down the implications of the term "symboli...

Reducere. 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 ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): William SimmsNumber of pages: 170Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 234 x 15Cover type: Paperback / ...

The Field of Cultural Production brings together Bourdieua s most important writings on art, literature and aesthetics.Publisher: Polity PressAutho...

Reducere. Covering a timespan from the 17th century until the late 1920s, this work contains an unprecedented amount of Portuguese Cyprian-related material. ...

Rich with meaningful quotes, heartfelt humor and witty one-liners, The Book Lover's Treasury of Quotations brings together the best and brightest t...

Reducere. The Johannine Gospel in Gnostic Exegesis: Heracleon's Commentary on John, Paperback

The Fiction of Narrative traces the arc and evolution of White's field-defining thought and will become standard reading for students and scholars ...

Greta, Bailey, Pietro and Rocky the dog are on a mission to save planet Earth and teach you how to be an Eco-Warrior. So take the Planet Promise an...

A celebratory volume that gathers distinguished eighteenth-century studies scholars to honor the achievements, professional generosity, and sociabi...

An ascent of Mont Blanc with his uncle leaves young Pierre further convinced he wants to be a mountaineer. But his family have other ideas. Then tr...

DescriptionThis collection brings together interviews with a compelling range of musicians, artists, and activists from around the globe. What does...

Reducere. Art is all around you. Yet few of us can effectively explain why certain movies, books, plays, and songs resonate so profoundly within us, and more...

One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's self For nearly fifty years, Vivian Gornick's essays, written...

Reducere. "A deeply meaningful collection that navigates important nuances of identity."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review Nepantla Familias brings together Me...

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Hayden WhiteNumber of pages: 282Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 21Cover type: Paperback...

DescriptionLenora Warren tells a new story about the troubled history of abolition and slave violence by examining representations of shipboard mut...

C. S. Lewis' Little Book of Wisdom offers more than 300 bite-size nuggets of inspiration and wisdom from the much-loved author, philosopher, and Ch...

Reducere. Food Studies in Latin American Literature presents a timely collection of essays analyzing a wide array of Latin American narratives through the le...

One of our most vital and incisive writers on literature, feminism, and knowing one's selfPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Vivian GornickNumber of ...

This volume deals with the exegesis of the Hebrew Bible. Articles are arranged according to Book, chapter, and verse in ninety-six sections with in...

What are the various atmospheres or moods that the reading of literary works can trigger? Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht has long argued that the function o...

Reducere. On Creativity and the Unconscious brings together Freud's important essays on the many expressions of creativity--including art, literature, love, ...

DescriptionA classic work on radical aesthetics by one of the great philosophers of the early twentieth century No work of philosopher and essayist...

Charts a modern history of form as emergent from force. Offering a provocative alternative to the imagery of crisis and estrangement that has preoc...