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12 produkter
Who Was Jacques Derrida?
An Intellectual Biography
Av David Mikics
Häftad, 2010
561 kr
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Who Was Jacques Derrida? is the first intellectual biography of Derrida, the first full-scale appraisal of his career, his influence, and his philosophical roots. It is also the first attempt to define his crucial importance as the ambassador of "theory," the phenomenon that has had a profound …
Stanley Kubrick
American Filmmaker
Av David Mikics
Inbunden, 2020
247 kr
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An engrossing biography of one of the most influential filmmakers in cinematic history"A cool, cerebral book about a cool, cerebral talent. . . . A brisk study of [Kubrick's] films, with enough of the life tucked in to add context as well as brightness and bite.”—Dwight Garner, New York Times"An …
Bellow's People
How Saul Bellow Made Life Into Art
Av David Mikics
Inbunden, 2016
533 kr
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David Mikics has been hailed by Harold Bloom as one of our finest literary critics. In this fresh and revealing book, he examines Saul Bellow’s work through the real-life relationships and friendships that Bellow transmuted into the genius of his art. The book is divided into eight chapters on some …
Annotated Emerson
Av Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics
Inbunden, 2012
351 kr
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A brilliant essayist and a master of the aphorism (“Our moods do not believe in each other”; “Money often costs too much”), Emerson has inspired countless writers. He challenged Americans to shut their ears against Europe’s “courtly muses” and to forge a new, distinctly American cultural identity. …
Art of the Sonnet
Av Stephanie Burt, David Mikics
Häftad, 2011
310 kr
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Few poetic forms have found more uses than the sonnet in English, and none is now more recognizable. It is one of the longest-lived of verse forms, and one of the briefest. A mere fourteen lines, fashioned by intricate rhymes, it is, as Dante Gabriel Rossetti called it, “a moment’s monument.” From …
Slow Reading in a Hurried Age
Av David Mikics
Inbunden, 2013
408 kr
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Wrapped in the glow of the computer or phone screen, we cruise websites; we skim and skip. We glance for a brief moment at whatever catches our eye and then move on. Slow Reading in a Hurried Age reminds us of another mode of reading--the kind that requires our full attention and that has as its …
Romance of Individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche
Av David Mikics
Inbunden, 2003
916 kr
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The great American thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson and the influential German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, though writing in different eras and ultimately developing significantly different philosophies, both praised the individual's wish to be transformed, to be fully created for the first time. …
Romance of Individualism in Emerson and Nietzsche
Av David Mikics
Häftad, 2027
418 kr
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The great American thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson and the influential German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, though writing in different eras and ultimately developing significantly different philosophies, both praised the individual’s wish to be transformed, to be fully created for the first time. …
American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Pynchon
2019
493 kr
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Our foremost literary critic on our most essential writers, from Emerson and Whitman to Hurston and Ellison, from Faulkner and O'Connor to Ursula K. LeGuin and Philip Roth. No critic has better understood the ways writers influence one another—how literary traditions are made—and no writer has …
MAD Files, The: Writers and Cartoonists on the Magazine that Warped America's Brain!
A Library of America Special Publication
Häftad, 2024
235 kr
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Celebrate America's zaniest and most subversive magazine in 26 essays and comix from all-star contributors, including Roz Chast, Jonathan Lethem, and Grady Hendrix. Before SNL and the wise-guy sarcasm of Letterman and Colbert, before The Simpsons and online memes, there was . . . MAD . A mainstay …
MAD Files: Writers and Cartoonists on the Magazine that Warped America's Brain!
Av David Mikics
E-bok, 2024
251 kr
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New Handbook of Literary Terms
Av David Mikics
Häftad, 2010
262 kr
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An indispensable literary reference guide that comes at a time of formidable complexity in literary studiesA New Handbook of Literary Terms offers a lively, informative guide to words and concepts that every student of literature needs to know. Mikics’s definitions are essayistic, witty, learned, …
