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11 produkter
Museum of Words
The Poetics of Ekphrasis from Homer to Ashbery
Häftad, 2004
401 kr
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Ekphrasis is the art of describing works of art, the verbal representation of visual representation. Profoundly ambivalent, ekphrastic poetry celebrates the power of the silent image even as it tries to circumscribe that power with the authority of the word. Over the ages its practitioners have …
Hospitality and Treachery in Western Literature
Inbunden, 2014
1198 kr
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In works of Western literature ranging from Homer’s Odyssey to Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? the giving and taking of hospitality is sometimes pleasurable, but more often perilous. Heffernan traces this leitmotiv through the history of our greatest writings, including Christ’s Last …
Representing the French Revolution
Häftad, 1992
481 kr
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Why is the anniversary of the French Revolution celebrated on July 14, the day the Bastille was stormed, rather than on August 26, the day the Declaration of the Rights of Man was signed? Why don't the French do as the Americans, who see their revolution epitomized by the signing of the Declaration …
Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II
Inbunden, 2022
1478 kr
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Mining the borderlands where history meets literature in Britain and Europe as well as America, this book shows how the imminence and outbreak of World War II ignited the imaginations of writers ranging from Ernest Hemingway, W.H. Auden, and James Joyce to Bertolt Brecht, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green, …
Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II
E-bok, 2022
323 kr
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Mining the borderlands where history meets literature in Britain and Europe as well as America, this book shows how the imminence and outbreak of World War II ignited the imaginations of writers ranging from Ernest Hemingway, W.H. Auden, and James Joyce to Bertolt Brecht, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green, …
Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II
E-bok, 2022
323 kr
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Mining the borderlands where history meets literature in Britain and Europe as well as America, this book shows how the imminence and outbreak of World War II ignited the imaginations of writers ranging from Ernest Hemingway, W.H. Auden, and James Joyce to Bertolt Brecht, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green, …
Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II
Häftad, 2024
299 kr
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Mining the borderlands where history meets literature in Britain and Europe as well as America, this book shows how the imminence and outbreak of World War II ignited the imaginations of writers ranging from Ernest Hemingway, W.H. Auden, and James Joyce to Bertolt Brecht, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green, …
Re-creation of Landscape
Häftad, 2002
595 kr
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Compares the common concerns and impulses behind the works of four artists and writers, and demonstrates that the verbal and visual sides of romanticism are parts of a coherent whole.
Cultivating Picturacy
Visual Art and Verbal Interventions
Inbunden, 2006
495 kr
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Though English has no word for the visual counterpart to literacy, Heffernan argues that the capacity to interpret pictures must be cultivated and deserves a name: picturacy. Using examples such as the pre-historic cave paintings of Lascaux, film versions of Frankenstein, the provocative …
Interrelaciones entre literatura y artes
América y Europa en las épocas Moderna y Contemporánea
Av James A. W Heffernan, Lucrecia Radyk m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
55 kr
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Los ensayos aquí reunidos analizan los cruces entre textos literarios e imágenes artísticas a la luz de las modalidades de los intercambios entre el continente americano y Europa, desde el siglo XVII hasta la actualidad.
Politics and Literature at the Dawn of World War II
Häftad, 2024
567 kr
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Mining the borderlands where history meets literature in Britain and Europe as well as America, this book shows how the imminence and outbreak of World War II ignited the imaginations of writers ranging from Ernest Hemingway, W.H. Auden, and James Joyce to Bertolt Brecht, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green, …
