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Chess Pieces
Av David Solway
Häftad, 1999
346 kr
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From handling of the chessmen you infer the secret springs of human character. To pluck the enemy chessman between your fingers and replace it with your own reveals the cultivated, well-bred killer who cannot stand the sight of blood; knock the chessman over with a small click of wood on wood tells …
Lying about the Wolf
Essays in Culture and Education
Av David Solway
E-bok, 1997
1008 kr
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Solway explains that the current generation of students, raised in a nonhistorical and iconic environment, do not live in time as an emergent, continuous medium in which the complexities of experience are parsed and organized. Their psychological world is largely devoid of syntax - of causal, …
Random Walks
Essays in Elective Criticism
Av David Solway
E-bok, 1997
1197 kr
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The first section of the book develops Solway''s approach to literature, starting from the assumption that genuine criticism requires the intellectual freedom to range at will across the literary landscape rather than restricting one''s direction based on what is current, fashionable, or …
Turtle Hypodermic of Sickenpods
Liberal Studies in the Corporate Age
Av David Solway
E-bok, 2000
990 kr
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A dominant theme that pervades this collection is the status of "theory" in the educational system. Solway claims that nothing of genuine and productive import comes out of theories. The manifold problems that bedevil the academy cannot be solved, or even rectified, by the usual onslaught of …
Chess Pieces
Av David Solway
E-bok, 1999
263 kr
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But never underestimate the powers of the pawn who can promote into a queen and put a kingdom on, or moving humbly up the board, killing on the side, outpriest the priest, and leave the knight without a horse to ride, and trip the elevated rook to bring it crashing down, and nudge the misanthropic …
Pallikari of Nesmine Rifat
Av David Solway
Häftad, 2005
205 kr
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In this sensuously defiant collection of new poems, the winner of the 2004 Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal expands and deepens a poetic ruse. In his critically acclaimed collections Saracen Island and Companion, David Solway took on the voice of a fictitious Greek poet named Andreas Karavis. The …
Properties of Things
From: The Poems of Batholomew the Englishman
Av David Solway
E-bok, 2012
274 kr
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This collection of poems continues David Solway''s exploration in the realm of fictive translation.
Crossing the Jordan
On Judaism, Islam, and the West
Av David Solway
Inbunden, 2023
351 kr
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Profoundly Superficial
Observations on a Net Zero Culture
Av David Solway
Inbunden, 2025
431 kr
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Profoundly Superficial
Observations on a Net Zero Culture
Av David Solway
Häftad, 2025
250 kr
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Properties of Things
From: The Poems of Batholomew the Englishman
Av David Solway
Häftad, 2007
184 kr
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The Properties of Things continues David Solway's explorations in the realm of fictive translation, this time that of the obscure thirteenth century scholar Bartolomaeus Anglicus. The result is a poetic alphabetary, ranging from the bawdy to the sublime. David Solway has been called "an …
