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  • Romanticism

    par Aidan Day ...
    Collection series The New Critical Idiom
    Romanticism was a revolutionary intellectual and artistic movement which generated some of the most popular and influential texts in British and American literary history. This clear and engaging guide introduces the history, major writers and critical issues of this crucial era. This fully updated second edition includes:Discussion of a broad range of writers including William Blake, Mary ... En savoir plus

    29,21 €

  • An Analysis of Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay's The Federalist Papers

    par Jeremy Kleidosty, Jason Xidias ...
    Collection series The Macat Library
    The 85 essays that maker up The Federalist Papers’ clearly demonstrate the vital importance of the art of persuasion. Written between 1787 and 1788 by three of the “Founding Fathers” of the United States, the Papers were written with the specific intention of convincing Americans that it was in their interest to back the creation of a strong national government, enshrined in a constitution – and ... En savoir plus

    8,51 €

  • Speech Begins after Death

    par Michel Foucault, Claude Bonnefoy ...
    Traduit par Robert Bononno ...
    In 1968, Michel Foucault agreed to a series of interviews with critic Claude Bonnefoy, which were to be published in book form. Bonnefoy wanted a dialogue with Foucault about his relationship to writing rather than about the content of his books. The project was abandoned, but a transcript of the initial interview survived and is now being published for the first time in English. In this brief and ... En savoir plus

    9,64 €

  • Persona

    Soggettività nel linguaggio e semiotica dell'enunciazione

    par Claudio Paolucci, Stefano Bartezzaghi ...
    Per la lingua italiana, la persona è l'individuo; per l'etimologia è la maschera; per il teatro è il personaggio; per la linguistica è la categoria in cui si esprime la soggettività. E per la semiotica?La teoria dell'enunciazione dice che l'io della lingua è un messaggero (o nunzio) a cui ognuno di noi affida la propria parola.Basandosi su analisi di testi diversi e non solo verbali (serie tv, ... En savoir plus

    Avant 14,99 € Après 9,99 €

  • Balzac: Oeuvres complètes

    Édition mise à jour et corrigée avec sommaire interne actif

    par Honoré de Balzac ...
    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

    1,99 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Manufacturing Consent

    The classic analysis of how power shapes the news

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    14,99 €

  • 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

    8,49 €

  • 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

    11,98 €

  • Gender Trouble

    Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

    par Judith Butler ...
    Collection series Routledge Classics
    One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial.Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine' ... En savoir plus

    29,21 €

  • Understanding Power

    The Indispensable Chomsky

    par Noam Chomsky ...
    'Arguably the most important intellectual alive' New York TimesAn indispensable collection of Noam Chomsky’s talks on the past, present and future of the politics of powerNoam Chomsky is universally accepted as one of the world’s leading intellectuals of the modern era. Now, for the first time, Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel have assembled the best of Chomsky's talks on the politics of power ... En savoir plus

    14,99 €

  • 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

    9,49 €

  • A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas

    par Virginia Woolf ...
    Collection series Collins Classics
    HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.‘Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind…’Based on a lecture given at Cambridge and first published in 1929, ‘A Room of One’s Own’ interweaves Woolf’s personal experience as a female writer with themes ranging from Austen and Brontë to ... En savoir plus

    1,99 €

  • An Analysis of Charles P. Kindleberger's Manias, Panics, and Crashes

    A History of Financial Crises

    par Nicholas Burton ...
    Collection series The Macat Library
    Perhaps the most peculiar feature of a financial bubble – one that Charles Kindleberger's classic work Manias, Panics and Crashes draws particular attention to – is the inability of those trapped inside it to grasp the seriousness of their predicament. They know in principle that bubbles exist, and they know that the financial crashes that result from them are capable of destroying individuals' ... En savoir plus

    8,51 €

  • Meander, Spiral, Explode

    Design and Pattern in Narrative

    par Jane Alison ...
    "How lovely to discover a book on the craft of writing that is also fun to read . . . Alison asserts that the best stories follow patterns in nature, and by defining these new styles she offers writers the freedom to explore but with enough guidance to thrive." ―VultureAs Jane Alison writes in the introduction to her insightful and appealing book about the craft of writing: “For centuries there’s ... En savoir plus

    9,00 €

  • Monster Theory

    Reading Culture

    Modifié par Jeffrey Jerome Cohen ...
    We live in a time of monsters. Monsters provide a key to understanding the culture that spawned them. So argue the essays in this wide-ranging and fascinating collection that asks the question, What happens when critical theorists take the study of monsters seriously as a means of examining our culture?In viewing the monstrous body as a metaphor for the cultural body, the contributors to Monster ... En savoir plus

    15,15 €

  • In Love with Love

    The Persistence and Joy of Romantic Fiction

    par Ella Risbridger ...
    'A literary and deeply heartfelt exploration of an under-appreciated genre. It is heaven from start to finish**'**INDIA KNIGHT, The Times'This book is funny, wise, and joyfully obsessed with its subject'MONICA HEISEY'Endlessly witty, breathtakingly clever, a book you'll read in one sitting'CAROLINE O'DONOGHUE'Th... ... En savoir plus

    10,99 €

  • The Story Sisters

    par Alice Hoffman ...
    A haunting and emotionally satisfying novel from a much-loved and critically acclaimed author, which weaves fairy tale and gritty realism together to dazzling effect.‘The Story Sisters’ charts the lives of three sisters – Elv, Claire and Meg. Each has a fate she must meet alone: one on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. Inhabiting their ... En savoir plus

    11,92 €

  • L'art d'écrire enseigné en vingt leçons

    par Antoine Albalat ...
    Collection series Bibliothèque des introuvables
    Antoine Albalat (1856-1935), spécialiste de la littérature française et auteur bien connu de plusieurs manuels sur l'art d'écrire et d'essais en plus de quelques romans. Voici ce que disait un critique très connu de l'époque sur ce livre : « L'originalité de cet ouvrage venant après tant d'autres du même genre, c'est d'être pratique. M. Albalat a réussi à condenser, en vingt chapitres, les ... En savoir plus

    4,22 €

  • Break, Blow, Burn

    Camille Paglia Reads Forty-three of the World's Best Poems

    par Camille Paglia ...
    America’s most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis to the most famous poems of the Western tradition—and unearths some previously obscure verses worthy of a place in our canon. Combining close reading with a panoramic breadth of learning, Camille Paglia sharpens our understanding of poems we thought we knew, from Shakespeare to Dickinson to Plath, and makes a case for ... En savoir plus

    9,64 €

  • Um (in)visible college na América Latina

    Cecília Meireles, Gabriela Mistral e Victoria Ocampo

    par Jacicarla Souza da Silva ...
    A autora analisa a atuação de três importantes poetisas e escritoras latino-americanas - a brasileira Cecília Meireles (1901-1964), a chilena Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) e a argentina Victoria Ocampo (1890-1979) - dentro do cenário cultural e literário do subcontinente durante as primeiras décadas do século 20, quando elas estabeleceram uma rede de contatos intelectuais e pessoais, principalmente ... En savoir plus

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  • All Desire is a Desire for Being

    par René Girard ...
    A new selection of foundational works from the influential philosopher who developed the theory of mimetic desireWhy do humans have such a remarkable capacity for conflict? From ancient foundational myths to the modern era, the visionary thinker Rene Girard identified the constant, competing desires at the heart of our existence - desires that we copy from others, igniting a contagious violence. ... En savoir plus

    10,99 €

  • The Location of Culture

    par Homi K. Bhabha ...
    Collection series Routledge Classics
    Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others. In The Location of Culture, he uses concepts such as mimicry, interstice, hybridity, and liminality to argue that cultural production is always most productive where it is most ambivalent. ... En savoir plus

    30,43 €

  • Science Fiction

    par Adam Roberts ...
    Collection series The New Critical Idiom
    Science Fiction is a fascinating and comprehensive introduction to one of the most popular areas of modern culture. This second edition reflects how the field is rapidly changing in both its practice and its critical reception. With an entirely new conclusion and all other chapters fully reworked and updated, this volume includes:a concise history of science fiction and the ways in which the genre ... En savoir plus

    31,65 €

  • Bodies That Matter

    On the Discursive Limits of Sex

    par Judith Butler ...
    Collection series Routledge Classics
    In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain sex from the start, ... En savoir plus

    29,21 €