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Renaissance Self-Fashioning(2005) GREENBLATT, STEPHEN (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)A study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned an era of scholarly inquiry. The author examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance and finds that in the early modern period new questiVezava: Mehka45,62 €
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Place in the Country(2014) SEBALD, W. G.When the author travelled to Manchester in 1966, he packed in his bags certain literary favourites which would remain central to him throughout the rest of his life and during his years in England. In this book, he reflects on six of the figures who shapeVezava: Mehka15,41 €
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On Writers and Writing(2015) ATWOOD, MARGARETWhat is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, the author examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry havVezava: Mehka15,41 €
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Biographia Borealis(2018) COLERIDGE, HARTLEYIn the introduction to this 1833 work on the 'lives of distinguished northerns' - including Andrew Marvell, Anne Clifford, Richard Arkwright, and James Cook - Hartley Coleridge makes a distinction between biography as part of public history and as personaVezava: Mehka89,24 €
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12 Books That Changed The World(2007) BRAGG, MELVYNMelvyn Bragg explores a fascinating selection of British books and their huge impact on historyVezava: Mehka18,21 €
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Doing English(2017) EAGLESTONE, ROBERT (ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, UK)Doing English presents the ideas and debates that shape how we ‘do’ English today, explaining arguments about the value of literature, the canon, Shakespeare, theory, politics, and the subject itself. This immensely readable book is the ideal introductionVezava: Mehka39,71 €
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Staunton Shakespeare(2009) SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAMThis is the second of three volumes of Shakespeare's plays compiled and edited by Howard Staunton, originally published in 1859 and acclaimed for their combination of meticulous research and common sense. The text is embellished by numerous black-and-whitVezava: Mehka87,38 €
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Imitating Authors(2023) BURROW, PROF COLIN (SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW, ALL SOULS COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)People learn by imitating other people. Authors do the same. This book explains how authors from the earliest stages of Western literature to the present day have imitated each other.Vezava: Mehka49,41 €
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Mimesis(2013) AUERBACH, ERICH,SAID, EDWARD W.Shows how from antiquity to the twentieth century literature progressed toward ever more naturalistic and democratic forms of representation. This title offers the optimistic view of European history now appears as a defensive - and impassioned - responseVezava: Mehka35,55 €
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Pocket Instructor: Literature(2015)This is the first comprehensive collection of hands-on, active learning exercises for the college literature classroom, offering ideas and inspiration for new and veteran teachers alike. These 101 surefire lesson plans present creative and interactive actVezava: Mehka35,55 €
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Kleist: Selected Writings(2004) VON KLEIST, HEINRICHA reprint of the J M Dent edition of 1997. Heinrich von Kleist was born and grew up in the Enlightenment and died in a suicide pact in 1811, aged only thirty-four. He left behind him literary works which are among the most disturbing and amusing of any prVezava: Mehka31,59 €
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Spaces of Bookselling(2023) HIGHLAND, KRISTEN DOYLE (AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES)The spaces of bookselling have as many stories to tell as do the books for sale. This Element focuses primarily on bookselling in the United States from the 19th through the 21st centuries and examines three key bookselling spaces-the store, the street, aVezava: Mehka26,61 €