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  • Bruttezza

    par Moshtari Hilal ...
    In questo saggio dirompente e suggestivo, l'artista tedesca di origine afghana Moshtari Hilal prosegue in forma scritta – ma anche attraverso disegni, fotografie e stranianti autoritratti – la sua indagine sugli aspetti sociali e politici delle categorie estetiche. Secondo Hilal, infatti, la "bruttezza" è un fatto sociale, politico, persino economico, indissolubilmente legato alla razzializzazione ... En savoir plus

    CHF 14.00 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Paul de Man

    Collection series Routledge Critical Thinkers
    Paul de Man's work is key to the American deconstruction movement and to the so-called political turn in critical theory. Seventeen years after his death, his works continue to arouse violent reactions among critics. This book explains why de Man is such an important voice, detailing his critical position, exploring his intellectual and historical contexts, tracing the influence of his work and ... En savoir plus

    CHF 27.05

  • Reading for the Plot

    Design and Intention in Narrative

    par Peter Brooks ...
    A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider how the plot reflects the patterns of human destiny and seeks to impose a new meaning on life. ... En savoir plus

    CHF 10.04

  • Balzac: Oeuvres complètes

    Édition mise à jour et corrigée avec sommaire interne actif

    Ce livre numérique comprend des oeuvres complètes de Balzac. L'édition est méticuleusement éditée et formatée. Honoré de Balzac est un des maîtres incontestés du roman français dont il a abordé plusieurs genres : le roman historique et politique, avec Les Chouans, le roman philosophique avec Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu, le roman fantastique avec La Peau de chagrin ou encore le roman poétique avec Le ... En savoir plus

    CHF 2.00 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Manufacturing Consent

    The classic analysis of how power shapes the news

    A foundational text on media, propaganda and democracy.First published in 1988 and still startlingly relevant, Manufacturing Consent lays bare the economic and political forces that influence mass media. In this seminal work, linguist Noam Chomsky and economist Edward Herman argue that the press serves powerful interests, not public truth - subtly filtering stories through ownership, advertising ... En savoir plus

    CHF 12.00

  • Ways of Seeing

    par John Berger ...
    Collection series Penguin Modern Classics
    How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever."Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we ... En savoir plus

    CHF 9.00

  • A Year With Aslan

    Daily Thoughts and Questions from the One True King of Narnia

    par C. S. Lewis ...
    This long-awaited daily reader brings 365 selections from The Chronicles of Narnia to provide daily inspiration, solace and guidance, as well as a memorable reminder of the power of C.S. Lewis’s enchanting stories and insightful themes.The Chronicles of Narnia have long been mainstays of children’s literature, but when re-read as an adult can deliver an entirely new experience. In the midst of ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.20

  • Giving up the Ghost

    A memoir

    par Hilary Mantel ...
    ‘Like Lorna Sage's Bad Blood … A masterpiece’ RACHEL CUSKAt no. 58 the top of my head comes to the outermost curve of my great-aunt, Annie Connor. Her shape is like the full moon, her smile is beaming; the outer rim of her is covered by her pinny, woven with tiny flowers. It is soft from washing; her hands are hard and chapped; it is barely ten o'clock and she is getting the cabbage on. 'Hello, ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.75

  • The Bestseller Code

    What if an algorithm could predict which manuscripts would become mega-bestsellers?Girl on the Train. Fifty Shades. The Goldfinch. Why do some books capture the whole world's attention? What secret DNA do they share? In The Bestseller Code, Archer and Jockers boldly claim that blockbuster hits are highly predictable, and they have created the algorithm to prove it. Using cutting-edge text mining ... En savoir plus

    CHF 10.00

  • 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know

    par John Sutherland ...
    Collection series 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know series
    In a series of 50 accessible essays, John Sutherland introduces and explains the important forms, concepts, themes and movements in literature, drawing on insights and examples from both classic and popular works.From postmodernism to postcolonialism, William Shakespeare to Jane Austen , 50 Literature Ideas You Really Need to Know is a complete introduction to the most important literary concepts ... En savoir plus

    CHF 1.95

  • Mothers, Fathers, and Others

    Essays

    par Siri Hustvedt ...
    'Dizzyingly flexible, deeply human, often funny, it blasts aside our preconceptions and urges us to see the world as it is' iFeminist philosophy meets family memoir in Siri Hustvedt's most personal essay collection yet, a scintillating and profound exploration of motherhood, the maternal and misogyny.Ranging across artistic mothers such as Jane Austen and Louise Bourgeois, psychoanalysis, science, ... En savoir plus

    CHF 3.95

  • Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Jonathan Culler ...
    Collection series Very Short Introductions
    What is literary theory? Is there a relationship between literature and culture? In fact, what is literature, and does it matter?These are some of questions addressed by Jonathan Culler in this Very Short Introduction to literary theory. Often a controversial subject, said to have transformed the study of culture and society in the past two decades, literary theory is accused of undermining ... En savoir plus

    CHF 6.36

  • The Art of Fiction

    par David Lodge ...
    In this entertaining and enlightening collection David Lodge considers the art of fiction under a wide range of headings, drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James, Martin Amis, Jane Austen and James Joyce. Looking at ideas such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Magic Realism and Symbolism, and illustrating each topic with a passage taken from a classic or modern novel, ... En savoir plus

    CHF 10.00

  • Cruel Optimism

    par Lauren Berlant ...
    A relation of cruel optimism exists when something you desire is actually an obstacle to your flourishing. Offering bold new ways of conceiving the present, Lauren Berlant describes the cruel optimism that has prevailed since the 1980s, as the social-democratic promise of the postwar period in the United States and Europe has retracted. People have remained attached to unachievable fantasies of ... En savoir plus

    CHF 15.48

  • Si loin, si proche...

    Une langue européenne à découvrir : le néerlandais

    Collection series Monde germanophone
    Néerlandais ? hollandais ? flamand ? dialecte allemand ? Mais de quelle langue parlons-nous ? Où se parle le néerlandais ? De quel type de langue s'agit-il ? Comment cette langue s'est-elle développée ? Quels rapports le néerlandais entretient-il avec son grand frère l'allemand ? Quel néerlandais parle-t-on en Belgique ? Quelles sont les caractéristiques majeures de cette langue ? Le néerlandais a ... En savoir plus

    CHF 7.50

  • Animaladies

    Gender, Animals, and Madness

    par Carol J. Adams ...
    Do depictions of crazy cat ladies obscure more sinister structural violence against animals hoarded in factory farms?Highlighting the frequent pathologization of animal lovers and animal rights activists, this book examines how the “madness” of our relationships with animals intersects with the “madness” of taking animals seriously. The essays collected in this volume argue that “animaladies” are ... En savoir plus

    CHF 30.36

  • Essential Bukowski: Poetry

    ‘The best poet in America’ Jean Genet‘He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels’ Leonard CohenThe definitive collection from a writer whose transgressive legacy and raw, funny, acutely observant writing has left an enduring markHere is Bukowski eating walnuts and scratching his back, rolling a cigarette while listening to Brahms, showering with Linda in the mid-afternoon.Here is Bukowski ... En savoir plus

    CHF 11.15

  • About Writing

    7 Essays, 4 Letters, 5 Interviews

    From the four-time Nebula Award–winning novelist and literary critic, essential reading for the creative writer.Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri's Art of Dramatic Writing. Taking up specifics (When do flashbacks work, and when should you avoid them? How do you make characters both ... En savoir plus

    CHF 12.30 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

    par Fredric Jameson ...
    Collection series Post-contemporary interventions
    Now in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of ”postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “low” from market ideology to architecture, from painting to “punk” film, from video art to literature. ... En savoir plus

    CHF 17.74

  • What We See When We Read

    **A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading—how we visualize images from reading works of literature, from one of our very best book jacket designers, himself a passionate reader.“A playful, illustrated treatise on how words give rise to mental images.” —The New York Times**What do we see when we read? Did Tolstoy really describe Anna Karenina? Did ... En savoir plus

    CHF 10.04

  • Das Duell

    Die Geschichte von Günter Grass und Marcel Reich-Ranicki

    Der Dichter und sein Kritiker – eine wechselvolle Fehde und ein großes Stück deutscher Geschichte.Die »Zwangsehe«, wie Günter Grass sie einmal nannte, wurde offiziell am 1. Januar 1960 geschlossen: An diesem Tag besprach der damals 39-jährige Kritiker Marcel Reich-Ranicki »Die Blechtrommel« des gerade 32-jährigen Autors. Er verriss den Roman. Und so begann das wechselhafte, von Rivalität wie ... En savoir plus

    CHF 18.00

  • Un nouvel Essai d’Esthétique

    par Émile Saisset ...
    La science du beau chez les modernes est toute récente. En Ecosse elle date d’Hutcheson, en Allemagne de Kant, en Angleterre de Burke, en France de M. Cousin. Sans dédaigner l’élégant Essai sur le Beau de cet aimable, honnête et courageux jésuite, le père André, sans faire tort non plus aux Salons de Diderot, où la verve incohérente et fumeuse de ce mobile génie éclate en mille brillans aperçus, ... En savoir plus

    CHF 2.08

  • Nous sommes tous des Jedi

    Star Wars décrypté, à la lumière du développement personnel et de la spiritualité

    par Martin HUGUES ...
    Une analyse des deux premières trilogies et de « Star Wars Rebels 1 » L’essai se décompose en six chapitres : Les institutions politiques galactiques : les relations entre le Sénat, le Chancelier et l’ordre Jedi, ce qui amène à la défense de la Démocratie et de la République. La saga et le rapport à l’altérité : la question des robots, la question de la diversité et de la différence, comme ... En savoir plus

    CHF 9.87

  • Translation

    par Susan Bassnett ...
    Collection series The New Critical Idiom
    In a time when millions travel around the planet; some by choice, some driven by economic or political exile, translation of the written and spoken word is of ever increasing importance. This guide presents readers with an accessible and engaging introduction to the valuable position translation holds within literature and society.Leading translation theorist, Susan Bassnett traces the history of ... En savoir plus

    CHF 32.62