Literatura: historia y crítica

Literatura y estudios literarios / Literatura: historia y crítica (94033)

Literatura y estudios literarios / Literatura: historia y crítica
Libros Eliminar filtro Literatura y estudios literarios Eliminar filtro Literatura: historia y crítica Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • Israel... Through the Book of Leviticus - Easy Reader Edition
    Ahava Lilburn
    The Ancient Texts and the Bible series was compiled by Ahava Lilburn and produced by Minister 2 Others. This ten volume set synchronizes the manuscripts of Enoch, Jasher, and Jubilees into the Bible, making one complete storyline.  The books are interwoven using the Torah as the backbone, and the extra-biblical texts as the fleshing out of that backbone.The eighth book in this ...
    Disponible

    25,39 €

  • Why Write? Why Read?
    Michael Rosen
    This booklet gathers together some recent talks and blogs on writing and reading, for use by teachers, librarians, parents, or anyone interested in engaging children and students in reading, writing, analysing why and how we do both. ...
    Disponible

    6,19 €

  • Spedestä Säätiöön
    Panu Petteri Höglund
    SPEDESTÄ SÄÄTIÖÖN – kolme esseetä populaari­kulttuu­rista. Spede Pasanen oli vuosikymmenten ajan Suomen tuotteliain viihdemies. Olisiko nyt aika pohtia myös Speden ansioita suomalaisen komedian uudistajana? John Carter oli Tarzanista kuuluisan Edgar Rice Burroughsin toiseksi tunnetuin seikkailijahahmo, joka sai uutta kuuluisuutta taannoisen suurelokuvan ansiosta. Miten apinamie...
    Disponible

    27,20 €

  • Japan Dreams
    Mark Peters
    There is Japan, and then there is Japan. Follow the author from his first early morning glimpse of Mount Fuji to the deepening realisation that even our most familiar and cherished notions can prove to be insubstantial scraps of nothingness. At times earthy, at times philosophical, ‘Japan Dreams’ is more than a zen-like meditation on life. It is a high-speed criss-crossing of...
    Disponible

    22,09 €

  • Beyond the Road
    JT Curran
    “Beyond the Road” is JT Curran’s first published volume of poetry.  Selected from collected works which span over fifty years, JT’s poetry blends colorful observations with thought-provoking reflections.  With wit, compassion, irony, and humor, this book invites the reader to consider the signposts, off-ramps, co-travelers and vistas which populate our journeys. JT’s words remi...
    Disponible

    24,76 €

  • Genesis of the Shakespearean Works
    Peter D Matthews
    This book is the result of fourteen years research scrutinizing thousands of historical documents. Dr Matthews reveals never before seen facts regarding the earliest quartos and the first folio – even new research into the leather cover of the Bodleian first folio and how that particular copy came into the possession of the Turbutt family.Dr Matthews has forensically dated the ...
    Disponible

    77,90 €

  • Turbulence
    Various Artists
    An anthology of work from writers and poets taking part in the MA in Writing at the National University of Ireland, Galway, this book was originally published in 2003. It features an introduction by Irish Writer Mike McCormack, Winner of the Goldsmith Prize 2016 for 'Solar Bones', who was Writer-In-Residence in NUIG at that time. It features fiction: a bald trapeze artist seeks...
    Disponible

    11,45 €

  • TWILIGHT IN ITALY
    D.H. Lawrence / D.HLawrence
    TWILIGHT IN ITALY by D.H. LAWRENCE  A new edition of the travel book that D.H. Lawrence wrote about his travels in Germany, Italy and the Alps. Twilight In Italy is one of Lawrence's most lyrical and upbeat books, an enchanting account of travelling around Europe.    Illustrated with paintings by J.M.W. Turner.    EXTRACT FROM THE PASSAGE WHERE D.H. LAWRENCE IS AT LAKE GARD...
    Disponible

    18,61 €

  • AIR AND ANGELS
    JOHN DONNE
    JOHN DONNE: AIR AND ANGELS: SELECTED POEMS A selection of the finest poems by British poet John Donne. John Donne was, Robert Graves said, a ’Muse poet’, a poet who wrote passionately of the Muse. It is easy to see Donne as a love poet, in the tradition of love poets such as Bernard de Ventadour, Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarch and Torquato Tasso. Donne has written his ...
    Disponible

    11,10 €

  • CIXOUS, IRIGARAY, KRISTEVA
    Kelly Ives
    CIXOUS, IRIGARAY, KRISTEVATHE JOUISSANCE OF FRENCH FEMINISMBy Kelly IvesThis book is a poetic study of three French feminists, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva and Hélène Cixous, the ’holy trinity’ of French feminism. Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Kristeva have created some of the most inspiring, insightful and illuminating writing on contemporary feminism and philosophy EXTRACT FROM ...
    Disponible

    21,20 €

  • JULIA KRISTEVA
    Kelly Ives
    J U L I A K R I S T E V AART, LOVE, MELANCHOLY, PHILOSOPHY, SEMIOTICS AND PSYCHOANALYSISBy Kelly Ives Julia Kristeva was born in Bulgaria in 1941. Educated in part by French nuns, she was involved early on in her life with Communist Party youth organizations and children’s groups. Since moving to Paris in the 1960s, Kristeva has risen in stature in intellectual circles so tha...
    Disponible

    21,33 €

  • Epona
    P.D. MacKenzie Cook / P.DMacKenzie Cook
    Epona: Hidden Goddess of the Celts reflects the importance of gender in ancient religion, and the author explores the primacy of the Feminine through Epona's sovereignty as Horse Goddess among the Celts; her identity as "Mistress of Animals" in her love affairs and working relationships, and the surprising role she apparently played in the ancient Greek and Roman Mysteries....
    Disponible

    23,68 €

  • THOMAS HARDY
    Thomas Hardy
    ...
    Disponible

    14,85 €

  • ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
    WILLIAM H. PATTERSON / WILLIAM HPATTERSON
    ...
    Disponible

    34,12 €

  • Race, Trauma, and Home in the Novels of Toni Morrison
    Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber
    In this first interdisciplinary study of all nine of Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison's novels, Evelyn Jaffe Schreiber investigates how the communal and personal trauma of slavery embedded in the bodies and minds of its victims lives on through successive generations of African Americans. Approaching trauma from several cutting-edge theoretical perspectives -- psychoanalytic, n...
    Disponible

    38,13 €

  • Satellites Out of Orbit
    Chris Wind
    A unique collection of feminist prose and poetry in five sections: I. Epistles: epistles written by Eve, Cain’s wife, Noah’s wife, Delilah, the Queen of Sheba, Mary, and others - as if they were feminist II. Myths: the myths within the myths revealed - what might Pandora, Circe, Penelope, Eurydice, Persephone, the Gorgons, and others have thought and done if they had not been t...
    Disponible

    15,69 €

  • Wordsworth's Political Writings
    This compilation by Richard Gravil of texts edited by W J B Owen and J W Smyser presents the four major political texts in Wordsworth’s prose oeuvre and illustrates both the detail of the poet’s political grasp, and the remarkable swerves he made between 1793 and 1835. The first text, A Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff (1793) is severely Jacobinical. Had Wordsworth published it...
    Disponible

    25,27 €

  • Tracing the Essay
    G. Douglas Atkins
    The essay, as a notably hard form of writing to pin down, has inspired some unflattering descriptions: It is a greased pig, for example, or a pair of baggy pants into which nearly anything and everything can fit. In Tracing the Essay, G. Douglas Atkins embraces the very qualities that have moved others to accord the essay second-class citizenship in the world of letters.Drawing...
    Disponible

    30,56 €

  • Mannerism and Baroque in Seventeeth-Century French Poetry
    James Crenshaw Shepard
    This book examines mannerism and baroque in the poetry of Tristan L’Hermite, a leading lyric poet of the seventeenth century. After presenting a history of scholarship on both the mannerist and baroque styles, James Shepard offers a definition of each as it applies to seventeenth-century lyric poetry. He then turns to Tristan’s works, examining the poems contained in the Plaint...
    Disponible

    38,46 €

  • Gender Identity and Sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction
    A J Dalton / Hazel Butler
    WINNER OF THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARDS 2018 - NON-FICTION.2 of the papers have been nominated for the BSFA Awards 2017: Kim Lakin-Smith and Juliet McKenna.JULIET MCKENNA'S PAPER SHORTLISTED FOR THE BSFA AWARDS 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARD NON-FICTION 2018!“Gender identity and sexuality in Current Fantasy and Science Fiction” is the first Call for Papers of Ac...
    Disponible

    22,39 €

  • Soyinka’s Language
    Obioma Ofoego
    This book explores in depth the uses of language in Wole Soyinka’s plays, poetry and prose. The author approaches Soyinka’s works through meticulous close readings, giving the writer his due by capturing the complexities, ambiguities, and nuances of his language.   ...
    Disponible

    52,90 €

  • The Lonely House
    Paul Brody
    During her lifetime, Emily Dickinson did not seek out recognition or attempt to change the world around her, even in the smallest way. A private but not antisocial person, she kept her life’s work, and her innermost feelings, almost entirely to herself. Her life was rich in intellectual pursuits, and she had many friends with whom she exchanged witty and brilliant letters, but ...
    Disponible

    6,16 €

  • Beat Transnationalism
    John Tytell
    Allen Ginsberg told John Tytell that he would not understand the Beat Generation without first experiencing life in Mexico, and so, while writing Naked Angels, the first book to explore the development of Beat literature, Tytell headed south to Oaxaca.In this volume, Tytell examines the importance of Mexico to the Beat Generation, while recounting – via letters from that period...
    Disponible

    16,04 €

  • HEAVENLY LOVE
    Edmund Spenser
    EDMUND SPENSER: HEAVENLY LOVE: SELECTED POEMSA selection of the great poems by Edmund Spenser. Edmund Spenser created a drama of England in his poetry. The ’dream’ occurs throughout his poetry, but finds its most concentrated expression in The Faerie Queene, with its epic treatment of the ’dream of Albion’, a myth-making vision of Blighty as the expression of Elizabeth I’s ma...
    Disponible

    12,89 €

  • PARADISE OF GOLDEN LIGHTS
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: PARADISE OF GOLDEN LIGHTS: SELECTED POEMS A selection of the odes, hymns and paeans of England’s breathless, angelic, anarchic poet. Famous poems, such as ’Ode to the West Wind’ and ’The Cloud’, are set beside extracts from Prometheus Unbound and Epipsychidion. New poems and new illustrations have been added to this edition. Percy Shelley is one of the...
    Disponible

    13,03 €

  • Secrets of the Culture Machine
    Elinor Blackletter
    Secrets of the Culture Machine exposes the hidden systems that shape what becomes literature in the twenty-first century. While the publishing industry presents itself as a space of opportunity-where talent, originality, and 'the market' determine success-the reality is defined by structural controls. Elinor Blackletter reveals how corporate consolidation, editorial gatekeeping...
    Disponible

    11,37 €

  • Standardization (Standardisation)
    Jonathan H. Grossman
    An innovative study of the history of standardization that draws on both technical documents and novels. Jonathan H. Grossman’s elegant analysis of standardization approaches the topic by exploring how institutions create standards. Grossman tracks how published standards documents became the dominant means of homogenizing durable objects during the nineteenth century’s industr...
    Disponible

    36,35 €

  • A Room of One’s Own
    Virginia Woolf
    Read a few pages before you check the date. The wit, the wandering, the refusal to be tidy about a hard question: A Room of One’s Own reads so fresh and so stylistically original that it could have been written today. And yet Virginia Woolf delivered this argument as two lectures at Cambridge in October 1928, and revised it into a book the following year. Its central claim is n...
    Disponible

    18,02 €

  • Chesterton, as seen by his contemporaries
    Cyril Clemens
    A plume of pipe smoke hangs in the air as a group of early 20th-century writers gather in a London parlour, their voices animated by wit, admiration, and the occasional gentle dissent. At the centre of these conversations stands a singular figure: a man whose intellect and generosity of spirit shaped the literary landscape of his era. Through the candid recollections and incisi...
    Disponible

    17,77 €

  • Bram Stoker, Dracula, and the Historical Scene
    Amodio Tortora
    Unpublished work - First edition: Year 2026.Bram Stoker, Dracula, and the Historical Scene examines Dracula as a Gothic work created at the intersection of history, modernity, empire, science, gender, and cultural memory. The study argues that Stoker’s vampire gains his power from the collision of incompatible worlds: medieval warfare and modern property law, folklore and medic...
    Disponible

    12,98 €


01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 Última