Zbirka: Književnost: zgodovina in kritika
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Political Affairs of the Heart(2022) VAN NETTEN BLIMKE, LINDARichly researched and engagingly written, Political Affairs of the Heart traces the emergence of female sentimental travel writing in late eighteenth-century Britain, and posits its centrality to women’s engagement with national and gender politics.Vezava: Mehka56,55 € -
Analysis of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract(2017) HILL, JAMESFew people can claim to have had minds as fertile and creative as the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. One of the most influential political theorists of the modern age, he was also a composer, writer of opera, a novelist, and a memoirist.Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Jane Austen's Universal Truths(2021) HART-BYERS, SUSANThe enduring appeal of Jane Austen’s fiction is captured in this pocket-sized collection of quotations taken from her celebrated works.Vezava: Trda14,01 € -
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Of Solids and Surds(2021) DELANY, SAMUEL RIn the fourth volume in the Why I Write series, the iconic Samuel Delany remembers fifty years of writing and shaping the world of speculative fictionVezava: Trda26,60 € -
On Not Being Someone Else(2022) MILLER, ANDREW H.The alternate self is a persistent theme of modern culture. From Robert Frost to Sharon Olds, Virginia Woolf to Ian McEwan, poets and novelists—and readers—are fascinated by paths not taken. In an elegant and provocative rumination, Andrew H. Miller lingeVezava: Mehka26,99 € -
Two Gentlemen of Verona(2011) RASMUSSEN, PROF. ERIC (UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA, RENO, USA),BATE, JONATHAN (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, OXFORD)From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's exuberant early comedy.Vezava: Mehka17,81 € -
Senegal Abroad(2019) SMITH, MAYA ANGELAExplores the fascinating role of language in national, transnational, postcolonial, racial, and migrant identities. Capturing the experiences of Senegalese in Paris, Rome, and New York, this book depicts how they make sense of who they are - and how theyVezava: Trda105,00 € -
Moderate Imagination(2020) FROMER, YOAVTaps archival materials and unread works from John Updike’s college years to offer a clearer view of his acute political thought and ideas. Updike's prescient literary imagination, Fromer shows, sensed the disappointments and alienation of rural white worVezava: Trda88,59 € -
Medieval Literature(2015) TREHARNE, ELAINE (PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, STANFORD UNIVERSITY)Looking at literature from Medieval Britain and Ireland, including Anglo-Latin and Anglo-Norman poetry, prose and drama, this Very Short Introduction covers the earliest beginnings of print culture, and considers major themes of these works, such as sin aVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Drama of Celebrity(2019) MARCUS, SHARONA bold new account of how celebrity worksWhy do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the privileges and pleasures of fandom? Do celebrities ever deserve the outsized attention they receive?In this fascVezava: Trda40,39 € -
Turkey, Egypt, and Syria(2020) NUMANI, SHIBLIVividly captures the experiences of prominent Indian intellectual and scholar Shibli¯ Nu‘ma¯ni¯ (1857-1914) as he journeyed across the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in 1892. A professor of Arabic and Persian, Nu‘ma¯ni¯ took a six-month leave from teaching to tVezava: Trda98,44 € -
Jane Austen(2020) KEYMER, TOM (, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO)Jane Austen is one of the most widely-read novelists in the English language, and one of very few pre-Victorian writers to have a large popular following. This book situates Austen in the literary and historical context of her time, and combines criticalVezava: Trda19,62 € -
Poststructuralism(2022) BELSEY, CATHERINEThis book traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language and culture. It draws on examples from across our culture to explain how poststructuralism explores the relationship between human beings, thVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Rumi: Hidden Music(2020) MAFI, MARYAM,KOLIN, AZIMA MELITAA breathtaking new collection of translations of poems by Rumi, one of the world’s most loved mystical teachers and bestselling poets. Beautifully packaged and illustrated with paintings and Persian calligraphy, this is an ideal gift.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
These Fevered Days(2021) ACKMANN, MARTHAAn engaging, intimate portrait of Emily Dickinson that sheds new light on her ground-breaking poetry.Vezava: Mehka21,61 € -
Antigone and other Tragedies(2021) SOPHOCLESThese original and distinctive verse translations convey the vitality of Sophocles' poetry and the vigour of the plays in performance, doing justice to both the sound of the poetry and the theatricality of the tragedies.Vezava: Mehka7,00 € -
Classic Fairy Tales(2016)Fairy tales shape our cultures and enrich our imaginations; their narrative stability and cultural durability are incontestable.Vezava: Mehka38,02 €
