Zbirka: Od 1500 do 1800
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E. T. A. Hoffmann(2021)The essays in this volume address a very broad range of E. T. A. Hoffmann’s most significant works, examining them through the lens of “transgression.” His writings, perhaps more than those of any other German Romantic, portrayed the “dark side” of existeVezava: Mehka77,65 € -
Macbeth(2009) RASMUSSEN, PROF. ERIC (USA),BATE, JONATHAN (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, OXFORD)From the Royal Shakespeare Company – a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare’s great drama of ambition, desire and guilt.Vezava: Mehka16,62 € -
User's Guide to Melancholy(2021) LUND, MARY ANN (UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER)A User's Guide to Melancholy takes Robert Burton's encyclopaedic masterpiece The Anatomy of Melancholy as a guide to melancholy, from cause to cure. Through case studies, it explores a Renaissance disease of the mind that inclined its sufferers towards saVezava: Trda47,52 € -
Voltaire(2017) CRONK, NICHOLAS (PROFESSOR OF FRENCH LITERATURE IN OXFORD, A FELLOW OF ST EDMUND HALL, AND DIRECTOR OF THE VOLTAIRE FOUNDATION)This Very Short Introduction examines Voltaire's (1694-1778) remarkable life and career. Exploring his most important writings, the impact his work had on our understanding of the European Enlightenment, and his status as a literary celebrity at the time,Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Goethe(2016) ROBERTSON, RITCHIE (TAYLOR PROFESSOR OF GERMAN, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lived to the age of 82 and wrote prodigiously in every genre: drama, poetry, fiction, autobiography, travel narrative, translation from French and Italian, and critical essays on art and literature, besides copious letters and dVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Life of Samuel Johnson(2008) BOSWELL, JAMESA biography of Samuel Johnson, one of the towering figures of English literature.Vezava: Mehka35,05 € -
Nun(2008) DIDEROT, DENISDiderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into theVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Rhetoric of Exemplarity in Early Modern England(2022) ULLYOT, MICHAEL (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY)This book investigates the role of exemplarity as a rhetorical device in late Elizabethan and Jacobean literature and culture. Ullyot argues that exemplarity is driven by both reader and author, and that positive moral examples were presented as aspiratioVezava: Trda153,22 € -
Radical Botany(2019) MEEKER, NATANIA,SZABARI, ANTONIARadical Botany uncovers a speculative tradition that conjures new languages to grasp the life of plants in all its specificity and vigor. Plants complement and challenge notions of human life. The book traces the implications of the speculative mobilizatiVezava: Mehka49,88 € -
William Shakespeare(2015) WELLS, STANLEY (HONORARY PRESIDENT, THE SHAKESPEARE BIRTHPLACE TRUST)In this new offering from Stanley Wells comes an exploration of one of the world's greatest dramatists: William Shakespeare. Written with enthusiasm and flair, Wells looks at both the world Shakespeare lived in and all of his major works, to show how andVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems(2017) POST, JONATHAN F. S. (DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, UCLA)Jonathan Post introduces all of Shakespeare's poetry, including the sonnets and his great narrative poems, and explores themes of love and lust in these works. He also considers the debates surrounding their disputed authorship, and the impact these poemsVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Gothic Novel in Ireland, c. 1760–1829(2018) MORIN, CHRISTINAA compelling account of the development of gothic literature in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Ireland. -- .Vezava: Trda77,52 € -
Black and Blur(2017) MOTEN, FREDIn Black and Blur-the first volume in his consent not to be a single being trilogy-Fred Moten engages in a capacious consideration of the place and force of blackness in African diaspora arts, politics, and life, exploring a wide range of thinkers, musiciVezava: Mehka39,90 € -
Jane Austen's Cousin(2021) WALTON, GERIProvides new insight into the real side of a vivacious socialite who inspired several fictional characters in her cousin Jane Austen's highly acclaimed books.Vezava: Trda28,03 € -
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 € -
Washington Irving and the Fantasy of Masculinity(2022) TSCHACHLER, HEINZSitting at the intersection of literary studies and masculinity studies, this reading reconstructs Washington Irving’s life-long struggle to somehow win a place among other men. The book is the first of its kind to encompass and examine Irving’s writings.Vezava: Mehka26,77 € -
Taming of the Shrew York Notes A-level English Literature - for 2026, 2027 exams(2015) SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM,WARREN, REBECCA,GRAY, FRANCESThis updated edition is ideal to support students when studying and revising for the new A level English Literature exams.Vezava: Mehka13,13 €
