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  • Architecture and ekphrasis

    Space, time and the embodied description of the past

    by Dana Arnold ...
    Series series Rethinking Art's Histories
    Architecture and ekphrasisexamines how eighteenth-century prints and drawings of antique architecture operated as representations of thought. Using original archival material, it considers the idea of the past in the period, specifically how it was discovered and described, and investigates how space and time inform visual ekphrasis or descriptions of architecture. The idea of embodiment is used ... Read more

    Was 22,31 € Now 19,49 €

  • The Frenchmen

    Or, My Life in Theory

    by Emily Eakin ...
    **“A marvelous book. It’s gossipy and personal and completely fascinating...cafe gossip with the footnotes left in.”— New York Times“A superbly engrossing adventure of ideas...this will surely be my philosophy book of the year.” —Sarah Bakewell, New York Times bestselling author of Humanly PossibleFrom leading critic and essayist Emily Eakin, a stylish personal history of French theory and its ... Read more

    10,38 €

  • Why Read the Classics?

    by Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Why Read the Classics? is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic (number one - classics are those books that people always say they are 'rereading', not 'reading'), this is an absorbing collection of Italo Calvino's witty and passionate criticism.Italo Calvino, one of ... Read more

    9,49 €

  • Two

    The Machine of Political Theology and the Place of Thought

    by Roberto Esposito ...
    Translated by Zakiya Hanafi ...
    Series series Commonalities
    The debate on “political theology” that ran throughout the twentieth century has reached its end, but the ultimate meaning of the notion continues to evade us. Despite all the attempts to resolve the issue, we still speak its language—we remain in its horizon.The reason for this, says Roberto Esposito, lies in the fact that political theology is neither a concept nor an event; rather, it is the ... Read more

    30,52 €

  • Manufacturing Consent

    The classic analysis of how power shapes the news

    by Edward S Herman, Noam Chomsky ...
    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 ... Read more

    14,99 €

  • Madame Bovary

    by Gustave Flaubert ...
    Series series Collins Classics
    HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.‘…for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart.’Married to Charles, a provincial doctor, Emma Bovary yearns for a more glamorous life. Disenchanted with her husband and seeking an escape from their dull ... Read more

    4,12 €

  • Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain

    by Susheila Nasta ...
    The figure of the disaporic or migrant writer has recently come to be seen as the 'Everyman' of the late modern period, a symbol of the global and the local, a cultural traveller who can traverse the national, political and ethnic boundaries of the new millennium. Home Truths: Fictions of the South Asian Diaspora in Britain seeks not only to place the individual works of now world famous writers ... Read more

    139,12 €

  • L’Abbaye de Grange

    by Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    Par une matinée de forte gelée de l’hiver de 1897, je fus réveillé en sentant une main qui se posa fortement sur mon épaule. C’était celle de Holmes qui, tenant son bougeoir, s’était approché de moi. Son visage avait une expression à laquelle il était impossible de se méprendre et je compris qu’une nouvelle aventure commençait. — Allons, levez-vous, Watson, il y a du nouveau… pas un mot… habillez ... Read more

    2,21 €

  • Du Dandysme et de George Brummell

    by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly ...
    À M. César DalyPendant que vous voyagez, mon cher Daly, et que le souvenir de vos amis ne sait où vous prendre, voici quelquechose (je n’ose pas dire un livre) qui vous attendra à votre seuil. C’est la statuette d’un homme qui ne mériteguère que d’être représenté en statuette : curiosité de mœurs et d’histoire, bonne à mettre sur l’étagère de votrecabinet de travail. ... Read more

    1,99 €

  • Théophile Gautier

    by Ferdinand Brunetière ...
    Il y a deux opinions sur Théophile Gautier. La première, qui était la sienne, selon toute apparence, est celle de sa famille et de ses amis, de ses disciples et de ses biographes. C’est aussi celle des artistes, ainsi qu’ils s’appellent volontiers eux-mêmes, race pour laquelle,   ... Read more

    2,29 €

  • Everyman Lesson Plans

    by BookRags ...
    The Everyman lesson plan contains a variety of teaching materials that cater to all learning styles. Inside you'll find 30 Daily Lessons, 20 Fun Activities, 180 Multiple Choice Questions, 60 Short Essay Questions, 20 Essay Questions, Quizzes/Homework Assignments, Tests, and more. The lessons and activities will help students gain an intimate understanding of the text; while the tests and quizzes ... Read more

    20,60 €

  • Portraits historiques - Edmond Burke

    by Philarète Chasles ...
    En juillet 1838, lord Melbourne disait à la chambre des lords d’Angleterre « que de tous les excentriques modernes, M. Burke lui semblait un des plus étranges, que ses vues étaient impraticables et ses idées chimériques, qu’il n’y avait dans ses jugemens et dans ses paroles qu’exagération et extravagance, qu’il n’admettait rien de modéré, point de modifications, point de transactions ; enfin que ... Read more

    2,29 €

  • Hieroglyphic Modernisms

    Writing and New Media in the Twentieth Century

    by Jesse Schotter ...
    Series series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture

    29,46 €

  • Les Trois Correspondants

    by Arthur Conan Doyle ...
    uelle chaleur ! s’écria Mortimer en s’épongeant le front. Et dire qu’on paierait cinq shillings pour avoir une pareille température dans un hammam ! — Oui, répondit Scott, mais dans un hammam on ne parcourrait pas à cheval un trajet de vingt milles… Pour moi, je serais d’avis de nous arrêter dans ce bosquet de palmiers et d’y faire halte jusqu’à ce soir… ... Read more

    2,21 €

  • Cultural Labour

    Conceptualizing the ‘Folk Performance’ in India

    by Brahma Prakash ...
    Folk performances reflect the life-worlds of a vast section of subaltern communities in India. What is the philosophy that drives these performances, the vision that enables as well as enslaves these communities to present what they feel, think, imagine, and want to see? Can such performances challenge social hierarchies and ensure justice in a caste-ridden society? In Cultural Labour, the author ... Read more

    39,54 €

  • Correspondance de Washington

    by Charles de Rémusat ...
    Le monde manque de grands hommes, et l’on dit qu’il n’en reverra pas. On condamne les sociétés modernes à ignorer ou à méconnaître ceux qui naîtraient dans leur sein ; on leur refuse jusqu’à la faculté d’en produire. Sur leur sol, le blé pousse encore, mais le chêne ne croîtra plus. On dit que c’est la faute de notre civilisation, et l’on s’en prend à ce qu’elle a de meilleur. Elle est, à ce qu’on ... Read more

    2,21 €

  • Nye kulturstudier

    Teorier og temaer

    by Ole Martin Høystad, Anne Scott Sørensen, Halvard Vike, Erling Bjurström ...
    Translated by Joachim Wrang ...
    Nye kulturstudier er den første samlede fremstilling på dansk af den type kulturforskning der er blevet etableret i en række lande i kølvandet på oprettelsens af Centre for Contemporary Studies i Birmingham i 1964. Disse nye kulturstudier kom tidligt til de nordiske lande hvor de første tværfaglige studier blev oprettet i 1970erne. I bogen gives der en indføring i traditionens grundlæggende brede ... Read more

    6,21 €

  • Outliers: The Story of Success Lesson Plans

    by BookRags ...
    The Outliers: The Story of Success lesson plan contains a variety of teaching materials that cater to all learning styles. Inside you'll find 30 Daily Lessons, 20 Fun Activities, 180 Multiple Choice Questions, 60 Short Essay Questions, 20 Essay Questions, Quizzes/Homework Assignments, Tests, and more. The lessons and activities will help students gain an intimate understanding of the text; while ... Read more

    20,60 €

  • Lamb to the Slaughter Lesson Plans

    by BookRags ...
    The Lamb to the Slaughter lesson plan contains a variety of teaching materials that cater to all learning styles. Inside you'll find 30 Daily Lessons, 20 Fun Activities, 180 Multiple Choice Questions, 60 Short Essay Questions, 20 Essay Questions, Quizzes/Homework Assignments, Tests, and more. The lessons and activities will help students gain an intimate understanding of the text; while the tests ... Read more

    20,60 €

  • 中国文学批评史论

    by 龚鹏程著 ...
    本书梳理了文学批评史上一些重要概念，讲述了中国文学艺术发展的结构；通过解读文学批评经典，阐释了文学批评的理则；并剖析了一些常用的有影响力的古典文学术语。 ... Read more

    16,84 €

  • Thomas Keneally's Career and the Literary Machine

    by Paul Sharrad ...
    Thomas Keneally is known as a best-selling novelist and public figure in his Australian homeland and has also managed a transnational career. He is, however, something of a conundrum in being regularly disparaged by critics and often failing to meet expectations of sales. ‘Thomas Keneally’s Career and the Literary Machine’ explains some of the reasons behind such disparities, focusing in part on ... Read more

    22,89 €

  • Encyclopedic Dictionary of Semiotics, Media, and Communication

    Edited by Marcel Danesi ...
    Semiotics, Media Studies and Communication Studies are three closely interlinked fields. Briefly stated, Semiotics, the science of signs, looks at how humans search for and construct meaning; Communication Studies is concerned with how meaning is conveyed; and Media Studies considers the ways in which messages are transmitted and received. This dictionary is designed to help students and general ... Read more

    25,11 €

  • La Chevalerie

    by Jean-Jacques Ampère ...
    La poésie chevaleresque forme la portion la plus considérable, la plus originale et, à quelques égards, la plus intéressante de la littérature du moyen-âge. Les troubadours et les trouvères ont exprimé dans leurs chants lyriques ce que ces sentimens et les mœurs que la chevalerie a créés ont eu de plus délicat, de plus ingénieux, de plus raffiné ; les épopées de ces poètes réfléchissent ces ... Read more

    2,29 €

  • Wit Lesson Plans

    by BookRags ...
    The Wit lesson plan contains a variety of teaching materials that cater to all learning styles. Inside you'll find 30 Daily Lessons, 20 Fun Activities, 180 Multiple Choice Questions, 60 Short Essay Questions, 20 Essay Questions, Quizzes/Homework Assignments, Tests, and more. The lessons and activities will help students gain an intimate understanding of the text; while the tests and quizzes will ... Read more

    20,60 €