Signs & Wonders. Essays on Literature and Culture, Paperback - Marina Warner

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...

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

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

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...

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

Reducere. DescriptionBlack, White, and in Color offers a long-awaited collection of major essays by Hortense Spillers, one of the most influential and inspir...

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 book examines the intersections among literary works by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Shelley and Wilkie Collins, journalism, parliamentary...

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...

In early 1994 Marina Warner delivered the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC.Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Marina WarnerNumber of pag...

Publisher: RidinghouseAuthor(s): Marina WarnerIllustration(s): 32 colour illustrationsNumber of pages: 56Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 241 x 22...

A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile.'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memo...

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 ...

Zara Dinnen analyzes a range of contemporary novels, films, and artworks to contend that we live in the condition of the "digital banal, " not noti...

Publisher: Guernica Editions, CanadaAuthor(s): Ewan WhyteNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 127 x 203 x 15Cover type: Paperback ...

Using analytical tools from a wide spectrum of disciplines, this edited collection analyzes the role of the body in contemporary Japanese society, ...

Reducere. Award NameIndieFab awardsAward categoryTravel EssaysRichard Tillinghast, a celebrated American poet and critic, lived for a year in Ireland in the ...

Publisher: Afterall PublishingAuthor(s): Marina WarnerIllustration(s): 32 colour platesNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 210 x 1...

Reducere. Although the Enlightenment is often associated with the emergence of human rights and humanitarian sensibility, humanity is an elusive category in ...

John Brooks examines a range of abstractionist, experimental, and genre-defying works by Black writers and artists that challenge how audiences per...

A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of mem...

In order to integrate early medieval Britain into the wider scholarly research into the history of emotions, this volume brings together establishe...

Reducere. In Another Way of Seeing, Peter Gabel argues that our most fundamental spiritual need as human beings is the desire for authentic mutual recognitio...

Reducere. Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytales, and folktales explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly, objects speak, dreams rev...

Reducere. American mom and Baptist church lady Becky Ramsey moves to France knowing her family's life will change, but her faith? Why would it? Then a quirky...

Reducere. Christians of all sorts have wondered about the matter of signs and wonders. What is their purpose? Are they for all times or only for some special...

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 ...

Last season, Seagull Books published the first three volumes in a new series collecting essays and interviews by the late French thinker Roland Bar...

DescriptionWhen the early Christian author Tertullian asked what Jerusalem has to do with Athens, he could not have anticipated the intellectual, c...

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

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

The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twe...

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

Reducere. African Americans have made substantial contributions to the sporting world, and vice versa. This wide-ranging collection of new essays explore the...

Reducere. During the early colonial encounter, children's books were among the first kinds of literature produced by US writers introducing the new colony, i...

DescriptionThis book is a multi-faceted exploration and critique of the human condition as it is presently manifested. It addresses science and phi...

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ruth Ward HeflinGod has never stopped performing signs and wonders for those who believe, and He never will. What we are se...

Ogres, giants and bogeymen embody some of our deepest fears, dominating popular storytelling in various media, from classic fairy tales such as 'Pu...

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. John White has extensively interviewed many people, including those from John Wimber's Vineyard Christian Fellowship. His years of work as a psychi...

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...

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...

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