Zbirka: Od 1800 do 1900
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Breaking Free from Death(2020) RYLKOVA, GALINAExamines how Russian writers respond to the burden of living with anxieties about their creative outputs, and, ultimately, about their own inevitable finitude. The book describes the lives and choices that concrete individuals and their literary characterVezava: Mehka26,68 € -
William Blake Now(2019) HIGGS, JOHN'If a thing loves, it is infinite' William BlakeA short, impassioned argument for why the visionary artist William Blake is important in the twenty-first centuryVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
William Blake vs the World(2022) HIGGS, JOHNA wild and unexpected journey through culture, science, philosophy and religion to better understand the mercurial genius William Blake in the twenty-first centuryVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
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 € -
L.E.L.(2020) MILLER, LUCASTAA famous poet, a mysterious death and a story stranger than fiction. - this is the lost life and mytserious death of the 'Female Byron' On 15 October 1838, the body of a thirty-six-year-old woman was found in Cape Coast Castle, West Africa, a bottle of prVezava: Mehka16,81 € -
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 € -
How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information(2022) HESS, JILLIAN M. (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK)This volume studies an important manuscript form of nineteenth-century England: the commonplace book and its descendent, the scrapbook. It explores the tradition of managing information in nineteenth-century England and excavates notes and drafts of the mVezava: Mehka45,61 € -
Mary Shelley(2022) GORDON, CHARLOTTE (DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AT ENDICOTT COLLEGE)Famous for her novel Frankenstein, Mary Shelley was also infamous in her own time for breaking social and literary conventions, and taking a political and philosophical stance advocating for the rights of women. Charlotte Gordon explores the context and kVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Rhetoric of the Page(2020) MAGUIRE, LAURIE (PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, OXFORD UNIVERSITY AND TUTORIAL FELLOW, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, OXFORD UNIVERSITY AND TUTORIAL FELLOW, MAGDALEN COLLEGE)A readable account of the book as an object: a history of the page as well as a history of the book. Drawing an arc from the medieval scriptorium to googlebooks, this volume shows the creative and playful opportunities blank spaces on the page afforded reVezava: Trda77,63 € -
Romantic Autopsy(2021) HEGELE, ARDEN (LECTURER, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE, LECTURER, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY)This book considers a moment at the turn of the nineteenth century, when literature and medicine seemed embattled in rivalry, to find the fields collaborating to develop interpretive analogies that saw literary texts as organic bodies and anatomical featuVezava: Trda139,43 € -
William James(2022) DAVIS, PHILIP (EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF LITERATURE AND PSYCHOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL)This volume discusses the life and work of William James (1842-1910), a founder of the study of psychology. It concerns life-writing and writing for the sake of existence and combines literature, psychology, philosophy, and biography.Vezava: Trda38,00 € -
Honore de Balzac(2022) BROOKS, PETER (STERLING PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE LITERATURE EMERITUS, YALE UNIVERSITY)A book on the experience of reading Honoré de Balzac's La Comédie humaine which recounts the process of Peter Brooks's own discovery of Balzac.Vezava: Trda38,00 €
