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A History of American Literature
1950 to the Present
- John Wiley, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 39,70 €
ISBN 978-1-119-06252-3
EAN 9781119062523
The History of American Literature from 1950 to the Present offers a comprehensive analysis of the wide range of literary works that extends into the 21st centuryCovers drama, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, science fiction, and detective novelsFeatures discussion of American works within the context of such 21st-century issues as globalization, medicine, gender, education, and other ...
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- Princeton, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
PVP: 48,55 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16578-3
EAN 9780691165783
This is a bold and original original history of the novel from ancient Greece to the vibrant world of contemporary fiction. In this wide-ranging survey, Thomas Pavel argues that the driving force behind the novel's evolution has been a rivalry between stories that idealize human behavior and those that ridicule and condemn it. Impelled by ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-19-965878-7
EAN 9780199658787
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- Routledge, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 340 páginas
PVP: 47,65 €
ISBN 978-1-138-79777-2
EAN 9781138797772
It is often assumed that picturebooks are for very young readers because of their emphasis on the illustrations and their scarcity of text; however, there are increasing numbers of picturebooks where the age of the implied reader is questionable. These are picturebooks whose controversial subject matter and unconventional, often unsettling style of illustration challenge the ...
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- John Wiley, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-1-118-84319-2
EAN 9781118843192
Brimming with the fascinating eccentricities of a complex and confusing movement whose influences continue to resonate deeply, 30 Great Myths About the Romantics adds great clarity to what we know or think we know about one of the most important periods in literary history.Explores the various misconceptions commonly associated with Romanticism, offering provocative insights that ...
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- Random House USA, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-345-80319-1
EAN 9780345803191
The dramatic, never-before-told story--drawing on newly declassified files--of how a forbidden book became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West. In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout went to a village outside Moscow to visit Russia's greatest living poet, Boris Pasternak. He left carrying the manuscript of Pasternak's only novel, ...
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- Little&Brown, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 80 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4087-0678-7
EAN 9781408706787
In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, Very Good Lives offers J.K.Rowling's words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in life, asking the profound and provocative questions: How can we embrace failure? And how can we use our ...
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- Harper Collins, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-00-725576-4
EAN 9780007255764
A working father whose life no longer feels like his own discovers the transforming powers of great (and downright terrible) literature in this laugh-out-loud memoir. Andy Miller had a job he quite liked, a family he loved and no time at all for reading. Or so he kept telling himself.But, no matter how busy or ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-5962-9
EAN 9781408859629
In this delightful collection forty acclaimed writers explain what first made them interested in literature, what inspired them to read and what makes them continue to do so. First published in 1992 in hardback only, original contributors include Margaret Atwood, J. G. Ballard, Melvyn Bragg, A. S. Byatt, Catherine Cookson, Carol Ann Duffy, Germaine Greer, ...
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- Overlook, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 15,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4683-1024-5
EAN 9781468310245
In this remarkable short book, the foremost intellectual of our age brings a lifetime of erudition to bear on a subject that he has grappled with for decades, and whose future is profoundly uncertain."The Idea of Europe "finds George Steiner reckoning with Europe from a number of different angles. "Europe," he writes, "is the place ...
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- Verso Books, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 22,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78168-817-5
EAN 9781781688175
The Antinomies of Realism is a history of the nineteenth-century realist novel and its legacy told without a glimmer of nostalgia for artistic achievements that the movement of history makes it impossible to recreate. The works of Zola, Tolstoy, Pérez Galdós, and George Eliot are in the most profound sense inimitable, yet continue to dominate ...
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The Mighty Dead
Why Homer Matters
- Harper Collins, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-0-00-733553-4
EAN 9780007335534
Where does Homer come from? And why does Homer matter? His epic poems of war and suffering can still speak to us of the role of destiny in life, of cruelty, of humanity and its frailty, but why they do is a mystery. How can we be so intimate with something so distant? 'The Mighty ...
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In these brilliant, wide-ranging essays, published over the last eight years in the New Republic, The New Yorker, and elsewhere, Kirsch shows how literature can illuminate questions of meaning, ethics, and politics, and how those questions shape the way we take pleasure in art. In Rocket and Lightship he examines the work and life of ...
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- Unicorn, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-1-910065-30-3
EAN 9781910065303
In 1862 Sonya Tolstoy married the greatest author the world has ever known. For forty-eight years they shared their lives in an enmeshed union that was both passionate and combative. Sixteen years younger than her husband, Sonya bore him thirteen children and worked for years as his copyist, rewriting countless drafts of his timeless novels.Both ...
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Life Sentences
Literary Judgements and Accounts
- Dalkey Archive, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 19,30 €
ISBN 978-1-56478-917-4
EAN 9781564789174
A dazzling new collection of essays'on reading, writing, form, and thought'from one of Americas master writers. Beginning with personal, both past and present, it emphasizes William H. Gasss lifelong attachment to books and then moves on to ponder the work of some of his favorite writers (among them Kafka, Nietzsche, Henry James, Gertrude Stein, and ...
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- Routledge, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 25,80 €
ISBN 978-1-40-825401-1
EAN 9781408254011
Relating literature to topics such as dreams, politics, life, death, the ordinary and the uncanny, this beautifully written book establishes a sense of why and how literature is an exciting and rewarding subject to study. Bennett and Royle delicately weave an essential love of literature into an account of what literary texts do, how they ...
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- Imperfect Publishing, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 29,20 €
ISBN 978-0-9814846-5-5
EAN 9780981484655
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American Pulp
How Paperbacks brought Modernism to Main Street
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 408 páginas
PVP: 34,65 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15060-4
EAN 9780691150604
There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of cigarettes. a civic leader quoted in a New American Library ad (1951)American Pulp tells the story of the midcentury golden age of pulp paperbacks and how they brought modernism to Main Street, democratized ...
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The Consolations of Writing
Literary Strategies of Resistance from Boethius to Primo Levi
- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 37,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16180-8
EAN 9780691161808
Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy as a prisoner condemned to death for treason, circumstances that are reflected in the themes and concerns of its evocative poetry and dialogue between the prisoner and his mentor, Lady Philosophy. This classic philosophical statement of late antiquity has had an enduring influence on Western thought. It is also ...
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- Princeton, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 31,70 €
ISBN 978-0-691-13863-3
EAN 9780691138633
Coward. It's a grave insult, likely to provoke anger, shame, even violence. But what exactly is cowardice? When terrorists are called cowards, does it mean the same as when the term is applied to soldiers? And what, if anything, does cowardice have to do with the rest of us? Bringing together sources from court-martial cases ...
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