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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-393-35382-2
EAN 9780393353822
The daughter of an aristocratic family, a wife, a devoted mother and a lover of women, Sappho was one of the greatest writers of her own or any age. Although most people have heard of Sappho, the story of her lost poems and the lives of ancient women they celebrate has never been told for ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-78076-726-0
EAN 9781780767260
Dante is one of the towering figures of medieval European literature. Yet many riddles and questions about him persist. By re-reading Dante with an open mind, Barbara Reynolds made remarkable discoveries and unlocked previously hidden secrets about this greatest of Florentine poets. A fundamental enigma has tantalised readers of the 'Commedia' for seven centuries. Who ...
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ISBN 978-1-84408-518-7
EAN 9781844085187
From the moment they met at a pub in London, drink was the most conspicuous part of the lives of Caitlin and her 'genius poet', Dylan Thomas. It fuelled their sexual adventures, lessened their shyness and enriched their social life. This searing book is Caitlin's story of the passions, the rage and the tragic humour ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 350 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-00-745953-7
EAN 9780007459537
The new book of articles and opinion from Jonathan Franzen, author of 'Freedom' and 'The Corrections'. Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom' was the runaway most-discussed novel of 2010, an ambitious and searching engagement with life in America in the 21st century. Now, a new collection of Franzen's non-fiction brings fresh demonstrations of his vivid, moral intelligence, confirming ...
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ISBN 978-0-268-04030-7
EAN 9780268040307
In "Public Works: Infrastructure, Irish Modernism, and the Postcolonial," Michael Rubenstein documents the relationship between Irish modernism and a restricted segment of the material culture of the modern state known colloquially as "public utilities" or "water, gas, and electricity." The water tap, the toilet, the gas jet, and the electrical light switch: these are all ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-349-12163-5
EAN 9780349121635
From the unique perspective of David Sedaris comes a new book of essays taking his readers on a bizarre and stimulating world tour. From the perils of French dentistry to the eating habits of the Australian kookaburra, from the squat-style toilets of Beijing to the particular wilderness of a North Carolina Costco, we learn about ...
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Henry James was the final survivor of a remarkable family, and his memoir, written at the end of a long and tireless career, was prompted initially by the death of his "ideal Elder Brother," the psychologist and philosopher William James. "A Small Boy and Others" recounts the novelist's earliest years in Albany and, more importantly, ...
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After a childhood divided between America and Europe, Henry James settled with his family in New England, first in what he regarded as an outpost of Europe, Newport, and later in Cambridge. The family letters (the initial inspiration for this autobiographical enterprise), many of which recount the early career of William James at Harvard and ...
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This brilliant new study is the first comprehensive and penetrating exploration of the complex and important aesthetic and intellectual relationship between the Jameses. Hocks relates organically what William thought to how Henry thought, and his convincing argument becomes a profound examination of Henry's mind and the way in which his work dramatized a particular philosophical ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 544 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-241-95446-1
EAN 9780241954461
This, the second of three volumes of Susan Sontag's journals and notebooks, begins where the first volume left off, in the middle of the 1960s. It traces and documents Sontag's evolution from fledgling participant in the artistic and intellectual world of New York City to world-renowned critic and dominant force in the world of ideas ...
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In Hooking Up Tom Wolfe ranges from coast to coast, observing the 'lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year 2000' - everything from teenage sexual manners to how genetics and neuroscience are changing the way we regard ourselves. Also included in this collection are some of his most ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-84842-261-2
EAN 9781848422612
Nine essays and speeches--most of them published here for the first time--offer illuminating and provocative insight into a great director's relationship with our greatest playwright. Peter Brook's writing touches on the Shakespeare authorship debate, William Shakespeare's continued relevance, approaching verse, and Shakespeare in performance, and he revisits plays that he has directed with notable brilliance.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-19-969747-2
EAN 9780199697472
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"Thinking in Henry James" identifies what is genuinely strange and radical about James's concept of consciousness--first, the idea that it may not always be situated within this or that person but rather exists outside or "between," in some transpersonal place; and second, the idea that consciousness may have power over things and people outside the ...
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Toward the end of James's career, Charles Scribner's Sons offered to publish his collected work under the overall title "The New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Henry James." This book is the first comprehensive effort to apprehend the full complexity of James's self-performance there.
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"Henry James and the Abuse of the Past" explores the complex uses to which James puts his oblique experience of the American Civil War. Why does James use and abuse the past by fabricating and distorting people and events in his autobiographical work? The study integrates four elements: history, the past and problems of narration ...
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Armstrong suggests that James's perspective is essentially phenomenological--that his understanding of the process of knowing, the art of fiction, and experience as a whole coincides in important ways with the ideas of the leading phenomenologists. He examines the connections between phenomenology's theory of consciousness and existentialism's analyses of the lived world in relation to James's ...
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Leyburn shows the evolution in the early works of James's power of relating comedy and tragedy and then analyzes some of the ways in which, as a mature artist, he characteristically revealed the interconnections. In nothing is Henry James more modern than in his finding comedy and tragedy inseparable. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- ...
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