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  • Balzac: Oeuvres complètes

    Édition mise à jour et corrigée avec sommaire interne actif

    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

    Avant 1,99 € Après 0,99 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Le sujet dans le tableau. Essais d'iconographie analytique de Daniel Arasse (Les Fiches de Lecture d'Universalis)

    Les Fiches de Lecture d'Universalis

    Dans sa pratique courante, l'histoire de l'art a deux façons d'aborder la question du « sujet » en peinture. D'un côté, elle s'intéresse au « sujet » créateur, de l'autre, au « sujet » représenté. D'une part l'auteur : catalographie, biographie, etc. ; d'autre part la signification des œuvres : iconographie et iconologie. ... En savoir plus

    6,99 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Jewish Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Ilan Stavans ...
    Collection series Very Short Introductions
    The story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries. In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish literature from 1492 to the present, cultural historian Ilan Stavans focuses on its multilingual and transnational nature. Stavans presents a wide range of traditions within Jewish literature and the ... En savoir plus

    7,06 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • The Frenchmen

    Or, My Life in Theory

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    10,60 €

  • Sartre

    Modifié par Christina Howells ...
    Collection series Modern Literatures In Perspective
    First published in 1996. This text provides an introduction to the historical and cultural context of Sartre and his work. It explores and explains the conflicting critical reactions to Sartre's work. A glossary of critical terms and cultural references provides background information. ... En savoir plus

    66,45 €

  • Come stare soli

    Lo scrittore, il lettore e la cultura di massa

    Traduit par Silvia Pareschi ...
    Il lettore che si addentra nel variegato insieme di generi e argomenti affrontati in questo volume non si sente mai solo: l'autore, con il suo stile inconfondibile e il suo appassionato spirito critico, è infatti una presenza viva e costante. Il linguaggio brillante e raffinato di Franzen ritorna nelle sue molteplici sfaccettature, adattandosi docilmente alle esigenze del saggio letterario, del ... En savoir plus

    6,99 €

  • Spacecraft

    Collection series Object Lessons
    Science fiction is filled with spacecraft. On Earth, actual rockets explode over Texas while others make their way to Mars. But what are spacecraft, and just what can they teach us about imagination, ecology, democracy, and the nature of objects? Why do certain spacecraft stand out in popular culture?If ever there were a spacecraft that could be detached from its context, sold as toys, turned into ... En savoir plus

    Avant 13,38 € Après 11,63 €

  • An Analysis of Robert O. Keohane's After Hegemony

    Collection series The Macat Library
    Robert O. Keohane’s After Hegemony is both a classic of international relations scholarship and an example of how creative thinking can help shed new light on the world.Since the end of World War II, the global political landscape had been dominated by two superpowers, the USA and the USSR, and the tense stand-off of the Cold War. But, as the Cold War began to thaw, it became clear that a new ... En savoir plus

    8,30 €

  • By Any Other Name

    A Cultural History of the Rose

    par Simon Morley ...
    A beautifully illustrated history of the Queen of Flowers and her enduring power in our gardens, art, religion and imagination.‘Fascinating... I’ll never look at a rose in quite the same way again.’ Adrian TinniswoodThe rose is bursting with meaning. Over the centuries it has come to represent love and sensuality, deceit, death and the mystical unknown. Today the rose enjoys unrivalled popularity ... En savoir plus

    17,29 €

  • Thinking Poetry

    Modifié par Peter Nicholls, Peter Boxall ...
    This collection brings together some of the most prominent critics of contemporary poetry and some of the most significant poets working in the English language today, to offer a critical assessment of the nature and function of poetic thought. Working at once with questions of form, literary theory and philosophy, this volume gives an extraordinarily diverse, original and mobile account of the ... En savoir plus

    52,21 €

  • One-Way Street

    Traduit par Edmund Jephcott ...
    One-Way Street is a thoroughfare unlike anything else in literature—by turns exhilarating and bewildering, requiring mental agility and a special kind of urban literacy. Presented here in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most virtuosic and experimental, ... En savoir plus

    13,38 €

  • The Ephemeral History of Perfume

    Scent and Sense in Early Modern England

    par Holly Dugan ...
    In contrast to the other senses, smell has long been thought of as too elusive, too fleeting for traditional historical study. Holly Dugan disagrees, arguing that there are rich accounts documenting how men and women produced, consumed, and represented perfumes and their ephemeral effects. She delves deeply into the cultural archive of olfaction to explore what a sense of smell reveals about ... En savoir plus

    51,49 €

  • Die Immunität der Literatur

    par Johannes Türk ...
    Literatur als Strategie der ImmunisierungImmunität ist in den letzten Jahren zu einem Leitbegriff geworden – Johannes Türk nimmt ihn auf und macht ihn für die Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft fruchtbar: Literatur und Immunität hängen eng zusammen, so seine These, ja man kann sogar behaupten, dass Literatur den Menschen immun macht gegenüber den Zumutungen des Lebens – so deutet Türk z.B. die ... En savoir plus

    12,99 €

  • After Strange Texts

    The Role of Theory in the Study of Literature

    Modifié par Gregory S. Jay, David L. Miller ...
    Does the choice of a particular theory alter the practice of readingIn this collection of essays by seven outstanding American scholars, interests as diverse as feminism, Marxism, deconstruction, and cultural poetics are brought together around a central question: how does the choice of a particular theory alter the practice of reading and do altered practices of reading in turn call forth more ... En savoir plus

    17,09 €

  • Pablo Neruda and the U.S. Culture Industry

    par Teresa Longo ...
    Collection series Hispanic Issues
    In this compelling collection, Teresa Longo gathers a diverse group of critical and poetic voices to analyze the politics of packaging and marketing Neruda and Latin American poetry in general in the United States. ... En savoir plus

    Avant 70,01 € Après 62,89 €

  • Textual Practice

    Volume 7, Issue 3: Special Issue: Desire

    Modifié par Terence Hawkes ...
    Since its launch in 1987, Textual Practice has established itself as Britain's leading journal of radical literary theory. This Special Issue of Textual Practice examines the theme of Desire. ... En savoir plus

    51,02 €

  • Addressing Postmodernity

    Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric, and a Theory of Social Change

    Collection series Studies in Rhetoric and Communication
    Reveals the full range of Kenneth Burke's contribution to the possibility of social changeIn Addressing Postmodernity, Barbara Biesecker examines the relationship between rhetoric and social change and the ways human beings transform social relations through the purposeful use of symbols. In discerning the conditions of possibility for social transformation and the role of human beings and ... En savoir plus

    20,07 €

  • Signs in Use

    An Introduction to Semiotics

    Signs in Use is an accessible introduction to the study of semiotics.All organisms, from bees to computer networks, create signs, communicate, and exchange information. The field of semiotics explores the ways in which we use these signs to make inferences about the nature of the world.Signs in Use cuts across different semiotic schools to introduce six basic concepts which present semiotics as a ... En savoir plus

    52,21 €

  • The Psychology of Creative Writing

    The Psychology of Creative Writing takes a scholarly, psychological look at multiple aspects of creative writing, including the creative writer as a person, the text itself, the creative process, the writer's development, the link between creative writing and mental illness, the personality traits of comedy and screen writers, and how to teach creative writing. This book will appeal to ... En savoir plus

    47,37 €

  • Fundamental Concepts of Children’s Literature Research

    Literary and Sociological Approaches

    Collection series Children's Literature and Culture
    In this book, Ewers provides students and professors with a new system of categorization for a differentiated description of children’s literature. In the early 1970s, Swedish children’s literature scholar Göte Kingberg worked to establish a system of scientific terminology for international use, but these terms are now somewhat antiquated. This book offers a much-needed update, systematically ... En savoir plus

    73,57 €

  • Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness

    A Critical Theory Approach to Wallace Stevens and Vladimir Nabokov

    This book boldly crosses traditional academic boundaries, offering an original, philosophically informed argument about the nature of language, reading and interpreting the poetry of Wallace Stevens and the novels of Vladimir Nabokov. Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness is a work both in literary criticism and in philosophy. The approach is strongly influenced by Walter Benjamin’s ... En savoir plus

    92,38 €

  • The Unconscious

    Collection series The New Critical Idiom
    The unconscious is a term which is central to the understanding of psychoanalysis, and, indeed everyday life. In this introductory guide, Antony Easthope provides a witty and accessible overview of the subject showing the reality of the unconscious with a startling variety of examples. He takes us on a vivid guided tour of this troubling topic via jokes, rugby songs, Hamlet, Hitchcock's Psycho, ... En savoir plus

    37,96 €