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  • La Montaña Mágica

    de Thomas Mann ...
    La Montaña Mágica es una de las grandes novelas del siglo XX, una obra maestra de Thomas Mann que combina reflexión filosófica, profundidad psicológica y una narrativa hipnótica.La historia sigue a Hans Castorp, un joven ingeniero que viaja a un sanatorio en los Alpes suizos para visitar a su primo enfermo. Lo que parecía una corta estancia de tres semanas se convierte en siete años de ... Leer más

    $1,141 CLP

  • The Screwtape Letters

    Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil

    de C. S. Lewis ...
    A milestone in the history of popular theology, ‘The Screwtape Letters’ is an iconic classic on spiritual warfare and the power of the devil.This profound and striking narrative takes the form of a series of letters from Screwtape, a devil high in the Infernal Civil Service, to his nephew Wormwood, a junior colleague engaged in his first mission on earth trying to secure the damnation of a young ... Leer más

    $7,695 CLP

  • Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

    How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

    "So engrossing, clearheaded, and lucid that its arrival is not just welcome but cause for celebration." —Dan Cryer, NewsdayStephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more about Shakespeare than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did" (John Leonard, Harper's), has written a biography that enables us to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the ... Leer más

    $12,663 CLP

  • On Eagles' Wings

    An Exploration of Eucatastrophe in Tolkien's Fantasy

    de Anna Thayer ...
    If you are at all familiar with Tolkien’s work, then Bilbo’s cry – proclaiming the arrival of Eagles – will be no stranger to you. Indeed, these plot-armoured birds are somewhat of a hallmark of the Master of Middle-Earth, one rejoiced over and lampooned in equal measure by both lovers and critics of his writing.But they are misunderstood. Tolkien’s Eagles cannot be taken literally; they are a ... Leer más

    $9,203 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • ‘Wit’s Wild Dancing Light’

    Reading the Poems of Alexander Pope

    The book is a chronological reading of Alexander Pope’s poems, from the Pastorals (1709) to the four-book Dunciad (1743). Each of the 26 chapters forming the volume selects examples for detailed scrutiny, demonstrating how close reading can generate understanding of a whole poem and how critical appraisal can build into a creative survey of an entire poetic career. The book’s approach is intended ... Leer más

    $8,180 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Henry VIII

    The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth is a history play by William Shakespeare, based on the life of Henry VIII of England. An alternative title, All is True, is recorded in contemporary documents, the title Henry VIII not appearing until the play's publication in the First Folio of 1623. Stylistic evidence indicates that the play was written by Shakespeare in collaboration with, ... Leer más

    $4,293 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Der Sturm

    Illustriert von Onésimo Colavidas

    Der Sturm : Illustriert von Onésimo ColavidasDer Sturm war das erste Stück von Shakespeare. Es ist ein heiteres Verwechslungsspiel, mit Magie, Liebe und Geistern. Das Stück handelt vom Schicksal Prosperos und seiner Tochter. Dieser wurde als Herzog von Mailand von seinem Bruder vertrieben, ist auf eine Insel geflüchtet, überwindet mittels Magie seine dort gestrandeten Feinde und kehrt, nachdem ... Leer más

    $4,293 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Death Rights

    Romantic Suicide, Race, and the Bounds of Liberalism

    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    Death Rights presents an antiracist critique of British romanticism by deconstructing one of its organizing tropes—the suicidal creative "genius." Putting texts by Olaudah Equiano, Mary Shelley, John Keats, and others into critical conversation with African American literature, black studies, and feminist theory, Deanna P. Koretsky argues that romanticism is part and parcel of the legal and ... Leer más

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  • Appreciating Shakespeare

    In "Appreciating Shakespeare" a master teacher and theatrical dramaturge makes the essentials for deeply appreciating the meaning in Shakespeare's works easily understandable for readers and playgoers of all ages. Part 1 provides background on Shakespeare's life, language, poetic and dramatic techniques, theatrical context, and historical and cultural background. Part 2 offers short essays on ... Leer más

    $24,304 CLP

  • Interviste e articoli inediti in italia su Arthur Conan Doyle e il suo Sherlock Holmes

    de Luigi Siviero ...
    Giallo - saggio (43 pagine) - Articoli e interviste risalenti all’epoca d’oro di Sherlock Holmes...In questo interessante e prezioso libro digitale sono raccolti alcuni articoli e interviste risalenti all’epoca d’oro di Sherlock Holmes, scritti tra gli altri da Joseph Bell, il chirurgo che fu maestro di Arthur Conan Doyle e funse da fonte di ispirazione primaria per la creazione del celebre ... Leer más

    $4,293 CLP

  • 葉蘭之詩,喬治.歐威爾社會批判小說經典:當金錢成為社會信仰,他的靈魂在泥沼中沉淪

    Traducido por 梁煜 ...
    他鄙視金錢,不願同流合污,毅然放棄了唾手可得的好工作他渴望金錢,因為困窘讓他難以活得有尊嚴在精神與物質的矛盾拉扯中,他的生活正逐步四分五裂……▎沒有土地的上流人士 康斯托克家族──但他現在明白了他們的問題究竟在哪裡。這不僅僅是因為缺錢。而是因為,他們沒有錢,精神卻還仍然活在金錢的世界裡──活在有錢是德無錢是罪的世界裡。不是貧窮,而是體面的貧窮拖垮了他們。他們已經接受了金錢法則,而在這套法則下他們就是敗寇。他們從來沒有豁出去的意識,從不會像下層貧民那樣,不管有錢沒錢,只管活下去。▎康斯托克家族的最後一名成員 戈登──他不想回頭。但要假裝因為他的貧窮是他主動加在自己身上的,所以他就逃脫了貧窮附帶的種種弊病,這是沒用的。這並不是艱苦的問題。一星期兩英鎊不會真的吃什麼苦,而且就算真的吃苦,也沒關係。關鍵是缺錢在心智和靈魂上毀了你。心理上的呆滯,精神上的低俗──當你的收入降到某個特定的水準以下後 ... Leer más

    $6,583 CLP

  • Blind Impressions

    Methods and Mythologies in Book History

    Series series Material Texts
    "As bibliographers or book historians, we perform our work by changing the function of the objects we study. We rarely pick up an Aldine edition to read one of the classical texts it contains. . . . Print culture, under this notion, is not a medium for writing or thought but a historical object of study; our bibliographical field, our own concoction, becomes the true referent of the objects we ... Leer más

    $53,654 CLP

  • Bonds of Secrecy

    Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England

    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    How beliefs about human and divine secrets informed medieval ideas about the mind and shaped the practices of literary interpretationsWhat did it mean to keep a secret in early medieval England? It was a period during which the experience of secrecy was intensely bound to the belief that God knew all human secrets, yet the secrets of God remained unknowable to human beings. In Bonds of Secrecy, ... Leer más

    $26,410 CLP

  • Multilingual Subjects

    On Standard English, Its Speakers, and Others in the Long Eighteenth Century

    In the eighteenth century, the British Empire pursued its commercial ambitions across the globe, greatly expanding its colonial presence and, with it, the reach of the English language. During this era, a standard form of English was taught in the British provinces just as it was increasingly exported from the British Isles to colonial outposts in North America, the Caribbean, South Asia, Oceania, ... Leer más

    $60,814 CLP

  • Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650

    de Eric Weiskott ...
    What would English literary history look like if the unit of measure were not the political reign but the poetic tradition? The earliest poems in English were written in alliterative verse, the meter of Beowulf. Alliterative meter preceded tetrameter, which first appeared in the twelfth century, and tetrameter in turn preceded pentameter, the five-stress line that would become the dominant English ... Leer más

    $57,233 CLP

  • The House of Arden

    The Arden family treasure has been missing for generations, and the last members of the Arden line, Edred, Elfrida, and their Aunt Edith, have nothing to their names but the crumbling castle they live in. Just before his tenth birthday, Edred inherits the title of Lord Arden; he also learns that the missing fortune will be his if—and only if—he can find it before he turns ten. With no time to lose ... Leer más

    $1,133 CLP

  • Histoire, Forme et Sens en Littérature

    La Belgique francophone – Tome 3 : L’Évitement (1945–1970)

    Series Libro 56 - Documents pour l'Histoire des Francophonies
    Ce troisième tome de la recherche de Marc Quaghebeur s’attache au quart de siècle qui fait suite à la libération de la Belgique du joug nazi, période considérée comme celle des « trente Glorieuses ». Le redémarrage économico social sous parapluie américain y va de pair culturellement avec une perspective humaniste soucieuse de dépasser ou d’occulter les contradictions historiques et de célébrer l ... Leer más

    $56,987 CLP

  • Yeats, Otherness and the Orient

    Aesthetic and Spiritual Bearings

    Yeats’s relationships with Otherness and the Orient enabled him to develop his own creative abilities and spiritual understanding in expansive ways. Exotic versions of India, Celtic orientalism, the fervent psychological probings of the nineteenth century (which showed a deep interest in the paranormal), mystical studies aided by such figures as Mohini Chaterjee, Arabist ideas and images, the ... Leer más

    $90,951 CLP

  • Dissident Spirits

    The Post-Insular Imprint in Puerto Rican/Diasporic Literature

    This book explores the post-insular imprint in Puerto Rican letters through a sample of authors from the island and the diaspora. From a canonical figure like Alejandro Tapia to the post-Nuyorican poet Víctor Hernández Cruz, and from the working-class feminism of Luisa Capetillo and Franca de Armiño to Virginia Sánchez Korrol’s narrative homage to the legacy of Emilia Casanova, trends such as ... Leer más

    $118,381 CLP

  • Friedrich Corleis (1853-1896)

    Uhrmacher und Dichter aus Altona

    Der Uhrmacher Friedrich Corleis ging 1873 nach Altona, damit in ein Zentrum der deutschen Uhrenfertigung. Dort leitete er bald ein bedeutendes Uhrengeschäft. Corleis besaß eine ungewöhnliche Doppelbegabung. Immer wichtiger wurde ihm seine literarische Tätigkeit. Er schrieb Gedichte, veröffentlichte viele Theaterstücke und fand regionale Anerkennung. Kurz vor seinem frühen Tod schuf er 1895 mit der ... Leer más

    $59,941 CLP

  • Telling Terror in Contemporary Australian Fiction

    de Tino Dallmann ...
    After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, terrorism as a literary theme has flourished in Australian literature. This book examines how terrorism as a theme has been represented in five exemplary novels and elaborates a distinctively Australian approach to the topic. The novels taken into consideration focus on strategies of fictionalisation rather than the actual violence or the ... Leer más

    $69,742 CLP

  • Luis Mateo Díez: El reposo de los muertos

    Luis Mateo Diez: El reposo de los muertos es el primer ensayo en español sobre la obra novelística del gran autor, uno de los mejores del idioma que se consigna. Alcanza el ensayo a la novedad y a la exigencia sobre el material seleccionado. ... Leer más

    $78,765 CLP

  • Tradução e edição de obras hispano-americanas em Portugal

    Que lugar ocupa a edição de escritores hispano-americanos no panorama português? Que escritores foram publicados e em que datas? Como podemos caracterizar o trabalho tradutório do espanhol para o português? Dar resposta a estas e outras questões é o objectivo fundamental desta obra, que apresenta um panorama da dinâmica do polissistema português desde as últimas décadas do século XX ao início do ... Leer más

    $44,645 CLP

  • Virtuelle Arbeitswelten

    Fallstudien zur Kommunikation in Multimediakonferenzen internationaler Arbeitsgruppen

    de Susanne Hoppe ...
    Series Libro 471 - Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
    Das Englische ist als Fachsprache und Lingua franca im internationalen Geschäftskontext unverzichtbar. Diese Studie analysiert erstmals seinen Gebrauch in Multimediakonferenzen, deren Teilnehmer sich an verschiedenen Orten befinden, während sie visuell präsentierte Daten bearbeiten. Die Studie zeigt, welche (non)verbalen Mittel eingesetzt werden, um diese hochspezifische Kommunikation zu meistern. ... Leer más

    $77,417 CLP