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44 produkter
Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse
A History of Eastern German Education, 1945-1995
Av John Rodden
E-bok, 2002
1454 kr
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This is the first English-language study of GDR education and the first book, in any language, to trace the history of Eastern German education from 1945 through the 1990s. Rodden fully relates the GDR''s attempt to create a new Marxist nation by means of educational reform, and looks not only at …
Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse
A History of Eastern German Education, 1945-1995
Av John Rodden
E-bok, 2002
1454 kr
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This is the first English-language study of GDR education and the first book, in any language, to trace the history of Eastern German education from 1945 through the 1990s. Rodden fully relates the GDR''s attempt to create a new Marxist nation by means of educational reform, and looks not only at …
Of G-Men and Eggheads
The FBI and the New York Intellectuals
Av John Rodden
Inbunden, 2017
1238 kr
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Spy romances of Cold War counterespionage evoke scenes of heroic FBI and CIA agents dedicated to smashing communism and its subversive coterie of intellectual fellow travelers bent on painting the world red. John Rodden cuts this tall tale down to its authentic pint size, refusing to indulge the …
Of G-Men and Eggheads
The FBI and the New York Intellectuals
Av John Rodden
Häftad, 2017
329 kr
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Spy romances of Cold War counterespionage evoke scenes of heroic FBI and CIA agents dedicated to smashing communism and its subversive coterie of intellectual fellow travelers bent on painting the world red. John Rodden cuts this tall tale down to its authentic pint size, refusing to indulge the …
Of G-Men and Eggheads
The FBI and the New York Intellectuals
Av John Rodden
E-bok, 2017
568 kr
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Spy romances of Cold War counterespionage evoke scenes of heroic FBI and CIA agents dedicated to smashing communism and its subversive coterie of intellectual fellow travelers bent on painting the world red. John Rodden cuts this tall tale down to its authentic pint size, refusing to indulge the …
Dialectics, Dogmas, and Dissent
Stories from East German Victims of Human Rights Abuse
Av John Rodden
Häftad, 2014
524 kr
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Germany underwent two periods of dictatorial repression in the twentieth century, first under Hitler and the Nazis in the late 1930s and early 1940s and then under the communist German Democratic Republic from 1945 until the Berlin Wall fell in 1989. The abuses of human rights under the Nazis are …
Textbook Reds
Schoolbooks, Ideology, and Eastern German Identity
Av John Rodden
Häftad, 2013
512 kr
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If one wants to know what children in communist East Europe were told to think about their nation and their leaders, their class enemy, and their so-called Soviet friends, no better source exists than textbooks. In textbooks the dogmas of communism were communicated in their most simplified form …
Conversations with Isabel Allende
Revised Edition
Av John Rodden
Häftad, 2004
378 kr
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This revised edition has been updated to cover Allende's three newest books-City of the Beasts, Portrait in Sepia: A Novel, and Daughter of Fortune. It includes four new interviews in which Allende discusses completing her trilogy of novels that began with House of the Spirits, as well as her …
Every Intellectual's Big Brother
George Orwell's Literary Siblings
Av John Rodden
Häftad, 2006
349 kr
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George Orwell has been embraced, adopted, and co-opted by everyone from the far left to the neoconservatives. Each succeeding generation of Anglo-American intellectuals has felt compelled to engage the life, work, and cultural afterlife of Orwell, who is considered by many to have been the foremost …
Unexamined Orwell
Av John Rodden
Häftad, 2011
511 kr
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The year 1984 is just a memory, but the catchwords of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four still routinely pepper public discussions of topics ranging from government surveillance and privacy invasion to language corruption and bureaucratese. Orwell's work pervades the cultural imagination, …
Understanding Animal Farm
A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
Av John Rodden
Inbunden, 1999
820 kr
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Animal Farm is a political allegory of the history of the USSR written in the form of a fable. Its stinging moral warning against the abuse of power is forcefully demonstrated in this casebook through a wide variety of historical, political, and literary documents that are directly applicable to …
The Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell
Häftad, 2012
411 kr
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Arguably the most influential political writer of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains a crucial voice for our times. Known world-wide for his two best-selling masterpieces Nineteen Eighty-Four, a gripping portrait of a dystopian future, and Animal Farm, a brilliant satire on the Russian …
The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell
Av John Rodden
Häftad, 2007
486 kr
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George Orwell is regarded as the greatest political writer in English of the twentieth century. The massive critical literature on Orwell has not only become extremely specialized, and therefore somewhat inaccessible to the nonscholar, but it has also attributed to and even created misconceptions …
The Cambridge Introduction to George Orwell
Inbunden, 2012
1554 kr
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Arguably the most influential political writer of the twentieth century, George Orwell remains a crucial voice for our times. Known world-wide for his two best-selling masterpieces Nineteen Eighty-Four, a gripping portrait of a dystopian future, and Animal Farm, a brilliant satire on the Russian …
The Cambridge Companion to George Orwell
Av John Rodden
Inbunden, 2007
1666 kr
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George Orwell is regarded as the greatest political writer in English of the twentieth century. The massive critical literature on Orwell has not only become extremely specialized, and therefore somewhat inaccessible to the nonscholar, but it has also attributed to and even created misconceptions …
Becoming George Orwell
Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy
Av John Rodden
Inbunden, 2020
278 kr
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The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering iconIs George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden’s provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. Rodden does not argue that Orwell was the most distinguished …
Becoming George Orwell
Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy
Av John Rodden
E-bok, 2020
288 kr
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The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering icon Is George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden’s provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. Rodden does not argue that Orwell was the most distinguished …
Becoming George Orwell
Life and Letters, Legend and Legacy
Av John Rodden
Häftad, 2021
215 kr
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The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering iconIs George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden’s provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. Rodden does not argue that Orwell was the most distinguished …
George Santayana
A Biography
Av John Rodden
Häftad, 2003
857 kr
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From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, George Santayana was a highly esteemed and widely read writer of philosophy, poetry, essays, memoirs, and even a best-selling novel, The Last Puritan. After a period of relative neglect, interest in his work has revived. A complete …
George Orwell
The Politics of Literary Reputation
Av John Rodden
Häftad, 2001
912 kr
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The making of literary reputations is as much a reflection of a writer's surrounding culture and politics as it is of the intrinsic quality and importance of his work. The current stature of George Orwell, commonly recognized as the foremost political journalist and essayist of the century, …
Irving Howe and the Critics
Celebrations and Attacks
Av John Rodden
Häftad, 2008
316 kr
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Irving Howe and the Critics is a selection of essays and reviews about the work of Irving Howe (1920–93), a vocal radical humanist and the most influential American socialist intellectual of his generation. Howe authored eighteen books, edited twenty-five more, wrote dozens of articles and reviews, …
Performing the Literary Interview
How Writers Craft Their Public Selves
Av John Rodden
Häftad, 2007
316 kr
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When authors are interviewed about their books or themselves, much more is going on than a simple conversation. The interview becomes a performance space for authorial orchestration and self-promotion, and interviewers in turn respond to such self-display and theatrics. Featuring absorbing …
George Orwell
The Politics of Literary Reputation
Av John Rodden
Inbunden, 2017
2886 kr
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The making of literary reputations is as much a reflection of a writer's surrounding culture and politics as it is of the intrinsic quality and importance of his work. The current stature of George Orwell, commonly recognized as the foremost political journalist and essayist of the century, …
George Santayana
A Biography
Av John Rodden
Inbunden, 2017
2911 kr
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From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, George Santayana was a highly esteemed and widely read writer of philosophy, poetry, essays, memoirs, and even a best-selling novel, The Last Puritan. After a period of relative neglect, interest in his work has revived. A complete …
Cambridge Companion to George Orwell
Av John Rodden
E-bok, 2007
469 kr
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George Orwell is regarded as the greatest political writer in English of the twentieth century. The massive critical literature on Orwell has not only become extremely specialized, and therefore somewhat inaccessible to the nonscholar, but it has also attributed to and even created misconceptions …
Cambridge Companion to George Orwell
Av John Rodden
E-bok, 2007
469 kr
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George Orwell is regarded as the greatest political writer in English of the twentieth century. The massive critical literature on Orwell has not only become extremely specialized, and therefore somewhat inaccessible to the nonscholar, but it has also attributed to and even created misconceptions …
Worlds of Irving Howe
The Critical Legacy
Av John Rodden
E-bok, 2015
1415 kr
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The Worlds of Irving Howe: The Critical Legacy is a wide-ranging anthology of criticism devoted to the literary, cultural, and political work of the writer Irving Howe. The book offers a broad cross-section of critical and biographical writings about Howe. Collected here are assessments of Howe''s …
Worlds of Irving Howe
The Critical Legacy
Av John Rodden
E-bok, 2015
1415 kr
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The Worlds of Irving Howe: The Critical Legacy is a wide-ranging anthology of criticism devoted to the literary, cultural, and political work of the writer Irving Howe. The book offers a broad cross-section of critical and biographical writings about Howe. Collected here are assessments of Howe''s …
Walls That Remain
Eastern and Western Germans Since Reunification
Av John Rodden
E-bok, 2016
2797 kr
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The Walls That Remain explores the trauma of German reunification in 1990 as it affected ordinary Eastern and Western Germans. Told mainly in their own words, this book features the voices of those Germans who have suffered as well as profited from the transformations in German society since the …
Walls That Remain
Eastern and Western Germans Since Reunification
Av John Rodden
E-bok, 2016
2889 kr
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The Walls That Remain explores the trauma of German reunification in 1990 as it affected ordinary Eastern and Western Germans. Told mainly in their own words, this book features the voices of those Germans who have suffered as well as profited from the transformations in German society since the …
