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Novel Theory and Technology in Modernist Britain(2018) FIELDING, HEATHER (PURDUE UNIVERSITY NORTHWEST, INDIANA)Novel Theory offers a new history of how modernists renovated the theory of the novel, and reveals that technology played a key role in their thinking. It will find interest amongst graduates and scholars working on modernism, the novel generally, and theVezava: Trda152,40 €
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Wilkie Collins(2013) ACKROYD, PETERAs well as his enduring masterpieces, The Moonstone – often called the first true detective novel – and the sensational The Woman in White, he produced an intriguing array of lesser-known works.Vezava: Mehka14,01 €
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Lives of the Great Languages(2021) MALLETTE, KARLAThe story of how Latin and Arabic spread across the Mediterranean to create a cosmopolitan world of letters.Vezava: Mehka58,93 €
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Writing Home(2014) BENNETT, ALANAlready a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings. as part of the 1960s revue 'Beyond the Fringe' Bennett helped to kick-start the English satire revolution, and has since remained one of our leading dramVezava: Mehka23,82 €
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Kafka(2013) STACH, REINERTranslation of: Kafka, die Jahre der Entscheidungen.Vezava: Mehka35,55 €
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Poets of Rapallo(2021) ARRINGTON, LAUREN (PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY)Explores W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound's relationship as played out against the backdrop of Mussolini's Italy in the 1920s and 1930s and shows how Yeats, Pound, and others in their Italian network developed a late modernist style aimed at effecting world chanVezava: Trda61,76 €
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Graphic Novel(2014) BAETENS, JAN,FREY, HUGOThrough their analysis of the works of many well-known graphic novelists - including Bechdel, Clowes, Spiegelman and Ware - Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey discuss all the visual and literary features that make the graphic novel so noteworthy. They also pay speVezava: Mehka42,76 €
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Homer(2016) GRAZIOSI, BARBARA (PROFESSOR OF CLASSICS, DURHAM UNIVERSITY)The Iliad and the Odyssey are the cornerstones of Western literature. Over the years they have inspired artists, writers, philosophers, musicians, playwrights, and film-makers. Barbara Graziosi introduces Homer's key works and discusses the main literary,Vezava: Trda18,91 €
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Odyssey(2018) HOMERThe Odyssey tells the story of the Greek hero Odysseus' epic ten year journey home after the end of the Trojan War of the Iliad. Its epic sweep has gripped generations of readers.Vezava: Mehka12,61 €
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Confessions, Volume I(2014) AUGUSTINEConfessions is a spiritual autobiography of Augustine's early life, family, associations, and explorations of alternative religious and theological viewpoints as he moved toward his conversion. Cast as a prayer addressed to God, it offers a gripping persoVezava: Trda44,47 €
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Athenaze, Book I(2016) BALME, MAURICE,LAWALL, GILBERT,MORWOOD, THE LATE JAMESVezava: Mehka132,99 €
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P.G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters(2013) WODEHOUSE, P.G.'Wodehouse said letters make "a wonderful oblique form for an autobiography," and Sophie Ratcliffe's expertly edited collection amply proves the point.'SpectatorOne of the funniest and most admired writers of the twentieth century, P.Vezava: Mehka28,04 €
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Bestiary of Monsters in Greek Mythology(2018) SYROPOULOS, SPYROSThe aim of this book is to explore the realm of the imaginary world of Greek mythology and present the reader with a categorization of monstrosity, referring to some of the most noted examples in each category.Vezava: Mehka38,00 €
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Five Elizabethan Progress Entertainments(2021) SCRAGG, LEAHA fully annotated, modern-spelling edition of entertainments performed for the monarch during her summer progress, the collection affords an insight into a neglected area of Elizabethan cultural activity. -- .Vezava: Mehka28,50 €
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Myth-Building in Modern Media(2020) BLACK, A.J.What is the "Mytharc", how did it arise, and how does it inform modern long-form storytelling? How does the classical hero's journey intersect with modern myth and narrative? And where might the storytelling of tomorrow take readers and viewers as we imagVezava: Mehka43,27 €
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Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon Books I–II(2020)The first modern commentary in English on this most sophisticated and brilliant of ancient Greek novels. With its freewheeling plotline, its setting on the edge of the Greek world, its ironic play with the reader's expectations and its sallies into obscenVezava: Mehka53,22 €