Zbirka: Literarne študije
2153 rezultatov
-
Nemean Odes. Isthmian Odes. Fragments(1997) PINDARPindar (ca. 518–438 BC), esteemed lyric poet, commemorates in complex verse the achievements of athletes and powerful rulers at the four great Panhellenic festivals—the Olympic, Pythian, Nemean, and Isthmian games—against a backdrop of divine favor, huVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Existential Drinker(2018) EARNSHAW, STEVENLooks at the nineteenth-century convergence of a new kind of excessive, habitual drinking, and a new way of thinking about the self, which we came to label ‘existential’. -- .Vezava: Trda77,52 € -
-
Circus of Dreams(2022) WALSH, JOHNAn elegy to a golden age of literature, Circus of Dreams divulges how the British literary scene underwent an unrecognisable transformation in the 1980s, almost eclipsing writers of the previous generation.Vezava: Trda35,05 € -
Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading(2020) BRAND, DIONNEHow Black life is made and unmade by and in literature; arguing for new vocabularies.Vezava: Mehka16,62 € -
Letters from Tove(2019) JANSSON, TOVEA revelation and a gift for all Tove Jansson (and Moomin) fans.Vezava: Trda28,51 € -
Poetry in Sagas of Icelanders(2022) CLUNIES ROSS, MARGARETFirst full analysis of the skaldic verse appearing in the family sagas of Icelanders, considering why and how it is deployed.Vezava: Trda134,77 € -
Enclosed Garden and the Medieval Religious Imaginary(2021) MCAVOY, LIZ HERBERTDuring the Middle Ages, the arresting motif of the walled garden - especially in its manifestation as a sacred or love-inflected hortus conclusus - was a common literary device.Vezava: Trda198,11 € -
Hidden Hands(2022) WELLESLEY, MARYWith an insistent emphasis on the early role of women as authors and artists and illustrated with over fifty colour plates, Hidden Hands is an important contribution to our understanding of literature and history.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Vida Y Hechos Del Famoso Caballero Don Catrin De La Fachenda(2021) LIZARDI, JOSE JOAQUIN FERNANDEZ DEDon Catrín de la Fachenda, here translated into English for the first time, is a picaresque novel by the Mexican writer José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827), best known as the author of El periquillo sarniento (The Itching Parrot), often called tVezava: Mehka39,90 € -
Paperbacks from Hell(2017) HENDRIX, GRADYFrom the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires comes a nostalgic and unflinchingly funny celebration of the horror fiction boom of the 1970s and ’80s.Vezava: Mehka35,05 € -
Importance of Being Poirot(2021) BLACK, JEREMYJeremy Black examines Agatha Christie's literary craft as it develops alongside global military engagement. Christie, largely with her character Hercule Poirot, heralds the Golden Age of the detective novel and carves out a genre and chapter of European hVezava: Mehka28,51 € -
Toni Morrison(2022) WAGNER-MARTIN, LINDAA reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrison—fiction, non-fiction, and other—drawing extensively from her many interviews as well as her primary texts, Toni Morrison: A Literary Life, second edition provides an overview of Morrison’s intellectual growth as anVezava: Mehka38,24 € -
Miscellanies(2020) POLIZIANO, ANGELOIn the Miscellanies, the great Italian Renaissance scholar-poet Angelo Poliziano penned two sets of mini-essays focused on lexical or textual problems. He solves these with his characteristic deep learning and brash criticism. The two volumes presented heVezava: Trda47,68 €
