Zbirka: Od 1500 do 1800
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Aphra Behn: A Secret Life(2017) TODD, JANETAn exploration of the life, work, and historical background of Aphra Behn: seventeenth-century dramatist, poet, novelist, political propagandist, bisexual and spy.Vezava: Mehka23,15 € -
Shakespeare's ‘Lady Editors'(2021) YARN, MOLLY G.From novelists and professors to suffragists and Irish revolutionaries, Shakespeare's women editors lived extraordinary lives and produced editions that, throughout England and America, were read and used by people of all ages. This compelling book drawsVezava: Trda68,43 € -
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: Mehka65,53 € -
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: Mehka15,17 € -
On Exile(2013) FILELFO, FRANCESCOFrancesco Filelfo’s On Exile depicts noblemen and humanists, driven from Florence by Cosimo de’ Medici, discussing the sufferings of exile—poverty and loss of reputation—and the best way to endure and profit from them. This volume contains the first complVezava: Trda47,68 € -
History of Chilean Literature(2021)This book covers the heterogeneity of Chilean literary production from the times of the Spanish conquest to the present. It shifts critical focus from national identity and issues to a more multifaceted transnational, hemispheric, and global approach. ItsVezava: Trda160,21 € -
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: Trda44,55 € -
Printing and the Printers of The Book of Common Prayer, 1549–1561(2022) BLAYNEY, PETER W. M.This major, revisionist study upends our thinking about the ancestry and origins of the Elizabethan Book of Common Prayer, revealing it to have necessitated unprecedented levels of shared printing. In its close analysis of Anglican liturgy it will have coVezava: Trda68,43 € -
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 € -
Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature(2021) QUAYSON, ATO (STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA)This book focuses on a comparative reading of tragedy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to postcolonial examples from Africa, India, Ireland, and the African-American tradition. It will appeal to a wide range of both specialists and non-specialists alikVezava: Trda68,43 €
