The Space of Literature: A Translation of "l'espace Litt raire, Paperback - Maurice Blanchot

Maurice Blanchot, the eminent literary and cultural critic, has had a vast influence on contemporary French writers--among them Jean Paul Sartre an...

Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the century--world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust--grief, anger, terror, and...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Maurice BlanchotTranslator: Charlotte MandellMaurice Blanchot is arguably the key figure after Sartre in exploring the rela...

Reducere. This book is a translation of Maurice Blanchot's work that is of major importance to late 20th-century literature and philosophy studies. Using the...

Reducere. Maurice Blanchot has been for a half century one of France's leading authors of fiction and theory. Two of his most ambitious nonfiction works, The...

Reducere. Jacques Derrida writes (in Deconstruction and Criticism)of The Madness of the Day that it is a story whose title runs wild and drives the reader ma...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Maurice BlanchotAuthor: Jacques DerridaTranslator: Elizabeth RottenbergThis volume records a remarkable encounter in critic...

Reducere. "Blanchot describes a world where the Absolute has finally overcome all other rivals to its authority. The State is unified, universal, and homogen...

Reducere. THE UNAVOWABLE COMMUNITY is an inquiry into the nature and possibility of community, asking whether there can be a community of individuals that is...

Ion Creanga. Spatiul memoriei / Ion Creanga. The Space of Recollections

„Comunitate, comunicare, comuniune, comunism: termeni plini, abuzati, umpluti pana la refuz tocmai pentru a ajunge sa-si refuze continutul, sa-l „v...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcAuthor(s): Dr. Aaron (Independent Scholar, USA) HillyerNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 15...

One of the world's preeminent Abstract Expressionists, California-born painter Sam Francis (1923-1994) first traveled to Japan in 1957, quickly est...

Publisher: Henry Moore InstituteAuthor(s): Eyal WeizmanIllustration(s): b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 48Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 97 x ...

Known in Chinese as Hua-yen and in Japanese as Kegon-kyo, the Avatamsaka Sutra, or Flower Ornament Scripture, is held in the highest regard and stu...

The image of a tortured genius working in near isolation has long dominated our conceptions of the artist's studio. Examples abound: think Jackson ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe figure of the mammy occupies a central place in the lore of the Old South and has long been used to ullustrate distinct social pheno...

Reducere. Discourse on Thinking questions that must occur to us the moment we manage to see a familiar situation in unfamiliar light.

Renowned scholar Burton Watson's translation exactingly depicts the life and teachings of the great ninth-century Chinese Zen master Lin-chi, one o...

Reducere. Over the course of centuries, Islam has undergone a process of sub-categorization into numerous denominations. As such, nearly all translators have...

Reducere. This book is one of the more widely distributed works of Ibn 'Ata'illah and serves as an ethical guide to those seeking God. It is a collection of ...

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 ...

Reducere. This book examines Muslim women's creative strategies of deploying religious concepts such as ummah, or community, to solve problems of domestic an...

Reducere. Rabbi Abraham Ibn Ezra is one of the most important Jewish personalities of all time. Aside from being a Bible commentator of great consequence, hi...

Reducere. The Epistle on Legal Theory is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. Its...

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Reducere. Over a thousand years ago, the Persian physician and chemist Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi presented his students with a book of alchemy i...

A revolutionary archaeological discovery-considered by some to be as momentous as the revelation of the Dead Sea Scrolls-sheds fascinating new ligh...

Reducere. Few figures from antiquity are as well known to us as Augustine of Hippo. Thanks to his Confessions, we know a great deal about Augustine's life pr...

Reducere. This book comprises a series of Christian Teachings, given over a period of sixteen years, exploring in depth the meanings behind those quotations ...

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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 Apocryphal New Testament includes new translations of the most significant and famous of the non-canonical Christian works. These apocryphal te...

Publisher: University of California PressIllustration(s): 2 b-w illustrationsTranslator: David ShulmanNumber of pages: 284Publication date: 2022Dim...