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12 produkter
A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter
Häftad, 2012
367 kr
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Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets
Inbunden, 2005
1238 kr
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This elegant and thoughtful work offers an important new way of understanding Jane Austen by defining the fundamental impact and influence of British Romanticism on her later novels. In comparing the earlier and later phases of Austen's career, Deresiewicz addresses an important yet neglected issue …
Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets
E-bok, 2005
990 kr
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This elegant and thoughtful work offers an important new way of understanding Jane Austen by defining the fundamental impact and influence of British Romanticism on her later novels. In comparing the earlier and later phases of Austen''s career, Deresiewicz addresses an important yet neglected …
Jane Austen Education
How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That ReallyMatter
E-bok, 2011
144 kr
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An eloquent memoir of a young man''s life transformed by literature. In A Jane Austen Education , Austen scholar William Deresiewicz turns to the author''s novels to reveal the remarkable life lessons hidden within. With humor and candor, Deresiewicz employs his own experiences to demonstrate the …
End of Solitude
Selected Essays on Culture and Society
E-bok, 2022
195 kr
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A passionate, probing collection gathering nearly thirty years of groundbreaking reflection on culture and society alongside four new essays, by one of our most respected essayists and critics. What is the internet doing to us? What is college for? What are the myths and metaphors we live by? These …
Death of the Artist
How Creators Are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech
Ljudbok, 2020
384 kr
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A deeply researched warning about how the digital economy threatens artists'' lives and work—the music, writing, and visual art that sustain our souls and societies—from an award-winning essayist and critic There are two stories you hear about earning a living as an artist in the digital age. One …
Excellent Sheep
The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
Häftad, 2015
242 kr
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As a professor at Yale, William Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students, some of the nation's brightest minds, were adrift when it came to the big questions: how to think critically and creatively and how to find a sense of purpose. Now he argues that elite colleges are …
Excellent Sheep
The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
E-bok, 2014
196 kr
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A groundbreaking manifesto about what our nation’s top schools should be—but aren’t—providing: “The ex-Yale professor effectively skewers elite colleges, their brainy but soulless students (those ‘sheep’), pushy parents, and admissions mayhem” ( People ). As a professor at Yale, William Deresiewicz …
La muerte del artista
E-bok, 2021
126 kr
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Una advertencia sobre cómo la economía digital amenaza la vida y el trabajo de los artistas: la música, la escritura y las artes visuales que sustentan nuestras almas y sociedades.Se escuchan dos relatos sobre ganarse la vida como artista en la era digital. Uno surge de Silicon Valley: "Nunca ha …
El rebaño excelente
E-bok, 2019
136 kr
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¿Es el universitario una oveja, que hay que unir a un buen rebaño para que alcance una buena posición económica? ¿Eso es todo, o casi todo? Deresiewicz denuncia carencias, interpela, incomoda. Porque está en juego la propia construcción interior de la persona.Enseñar no es un problema de …
Perspecta 29 "Into the Fire"
The Yale Architectural Journal
Av William Deresiewicz, Garrett S. Finney m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
192 kr
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