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  • Beat sound, Beat vision

    The Beat spirit and popular song

    de Laurence Coupe ...
    This book reveals the ideas behind the Beat vision which influenced the Beat sound of the songwriters who followed on from them. Having explored the thinking of Alan Watts, who coined the term ‘Beat Zen’, and who influenced the counterculture which emerged out of the Beat movement, it celebrates Jack Kerouac as a writer in pursuit of a ‘beatific’ vision. On this basis, the book goes on to explain ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Myth

    de Laurence Coupe ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Laurence Coupe offers students a comprehensive overview of the development of myth, showing how mythic themes, structures and symbols persist in literature and entertainment today. This introductory volume:illustrates the relation between myth, culture and literature with discussions of poetry, fiction, film and popular songexplores uses made of the term ‘myth’ within the fields of literary ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

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  • Great Dialogues of Plato

    de Plato ...
    Traducido por W. H. D. Rouse ...
    Written in the form of debates, Great Dialogues of Plato comprises the most influential body of philosophy of the Western world—covering every subject from art and beauty to virtue and the nature of love. ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Stray Birds

    de Rabindranath Tagore ...
    The poem Stray Birds by Rabindranath Tagore is a work of mythical realism that contrasts the natural with the artificial nature. Tagore uses imagery to show nature as something powerful and everlasting, necessary for all living beings. The poem discusses the past life of man being as one with nature as it was before society's focus shifted from nature to advancement. ... Leer más

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Machine in the Garden : Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

    Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

    de Leo Marx ...
    For over four decades Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links between scientific and technological advances and the way society and culture both determine these links. The Machine in the Garden fully examines ... Leer más

    $15.19 USD

  • Greek Tragedies II

    Tbe Libation Bearers • Electra • Iphigenia in Tauris, Electra, The Trojan Women

    de Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides ...
    Five classical Greek tragedies from three great playwrights of the era, featuring updated translations and new introductions.This anthology volume offers a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from Chicago's nine-volume Complete Greek Tragedies. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred ... Leer más

    $11.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Ugly Feelings

    de Sianne Ngai ...
    Envy, irritation, paranoia—in contrast to powerful and dynamic negative emotions like anger, these non-cathartic states of feeling are associated with situations in which action is blocked or suspended. In her examination of the cultural forms to which these affects give rise, Sianne Ngai suggests that these minor and more politically ambiguous feelings become all the more suited for diagnosing ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Gilgamesh

    Edición de John Gardner ...
    The story of Gilgamesh, an ancient epic poem written on clay tablets in a cuneiform alphabet, is as fascinating and moving as it is crucial to our ability to fathom the time and the place in which it was written. Gardner's version restores the poetry of the text and the lyricism that is lost in the earlier, almost scientific renderings. The principal theme of the poem is a familiar one: man's ... Leer más

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  • Medusa

    In the Mirror of Time

    de David Leeming ...
    Medusa petrifies. Her gaze turned the ancients to stone; for Dante she was an erotic power that could destroy men. Freud saw in her serpentine hair a nest of terrifying penises signalling the castration complex, while for the Greek hero Perseus she was a dangerous female monster who must be destroyed. Yet in our time Medusa’s reputation has improved: feminists see her as a noble victim of a ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Paul Auster

    de Mark Brown ...
    Series series Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
    Paul Auster provides the first extended analysis of Auster’s essays, poetry, fiction, films and collaborative projects. It explores his key themes of identity; language and writing; metropolitan living and community; and storytelling and illusion. By tracing how Auster's representations of New York and city life have matured from a position of urban nihilism to qualified optimism, the book shows ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Literary Friends And Acquaintance

    de William Dean Howells ...
    Mr. William Dean Howells has written many books of several kinds which have entertained a great many people of all kinds, but no single book of any kind in which his various talents appear to such advantage to themselves and enjoyment of their readers as in his 'Literary Friends and Acquaintance', which, briefly described as a personal retrospect of American authorship, is in reality a series of ... Leer más

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  • Hemingway's Laboratory

    The Paris in our time

    de Dr. Milton A. Cohen ...
    Illuminates the development of Hemingway’s themes and techniques and his future course as a stylist and writer.In 1924 Ernest Hemingway published a small book of eighteen vignettes, each little more than one page long, with a small press in Paris. Titled in our time, the volume was later absorbed into Hemingway’s story collection In Our Time. Those vignettes, as Milton Cohen demonstrates in ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD