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Art and Artists as Social Phenomena: What They Said — A Problem Through Correspondence
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn this intriguing and deeply intellectual philosophical treatise, the pseudonymous or independent thinker Icilio...
Personal Writings
St Ignatius' thoughts and work on Christian spirituality One of the key figures in Christian history, St. Ignatius of Loyola (c. 1491-1556) was a passionate and unique spiritual thinker and...
Selected Writings
Influential writings on the possibility of synthesising Greek thought and Christian faith Composed during a critical time in the evolution of European intellectual life, the works of Meister Eckhart (c....
A Study Of Writing: The Foundations Of Grammatology
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis seminal work, A Study Of Writing: The Foundations Of Grammatology, chronicles the intricate evolution of...
The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings
Completely revised and edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent Carretta An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century slave...
Selected Writings
Brings together the major writings of the great Italian philosopher. In his reflections on Christianity, Saint Thomas Aquinas forged a unique synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology. Preoccupied with...
Selected Writings
Contains new translations of de Nerval's work Poet, visionary, short-story writer and autobiographer, Gerard de Nerval (1808-1855) explored the uncertain borderlines between dream and reality, irony and madness, autobiography and...
Committed Writings
A collection that includes some of Camus' most brilliant political writing This volume contains some of Camus' most powerful political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role...
Hermit in Paris
Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life shed no light on...
Poesie Siciliane
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image **ITALIAN TEXT ONLY**From the sun-drenched island of Sicily rises the irreverent and deeply human voice...
Marxism And Art: Writings In Aesthetics And Criticism
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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark anthology in Marxist aesthetics and cultural theory, Marxism and Art: Writings in Aesthetics and Criticism presents a sweeping collection of...
Secret Journal And Other Writings
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Condition remarks:Book: AcceptableJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsFew voices from the turbulent heart of twentieth-century France carry the same haunting complexity as Pierre Drieu La...
The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings
A comprehensive new selection of the great satirist's prose and poetic works, edited by Leo Damrosch Alexander Pope (1688-1744) was the greatest English poet of his age, whose acerbic insights...
A New Theory Of Vision: And Other Writings
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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark collection in the history of philosophy and empiricist thought, A New Theory of Vision and Other Writings presents George Berkeley's...
Echoes of Translation: Reading Between Texts
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In a series of readings of Sophocles, Holderlin, Baudelaire, Nietzsche and Benjamin, Rainer Nagele investigates the extraordinary territory that lies not merely between texts but also between languages - in...
Ai Weiwei's Blog: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009
Manifestos and immodest proposals from China's most famous artist and activist, culled from his popular blog, shut down by Chinese authorities in 2009. In 2006, even though he could barely...
Generating Prose: Relations, Patterns, Structures
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The book titled Generating Prose: Relations, Patterns, Structures by the author Willis L Pitkin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian
What is history and how should it be written? This important new anthology contains all the seminal texts that relate to the writing of history in the ancient world The...
The Living Thoughts Of Mazzini
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: worn/faded, chipping and tears but still structural (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. At the...
One-Way Street and Other Writings
Introduction by Amit Chaudhuri; translated by J.A. Underwood Walter Benjamin - philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist - was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth...
Inferno: A Norton Critical Edition
This Norton Critical Edition of Dante's masterpiece is based on Michael Palma's verse translation, which is acclaimed for its elegant rendering of Dante's triple-rhyme scheme into contemporary English. Richard Wilbur...
Practical Criticism
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFirst published in 1929, Practical Criticism stands as one of the most groundbreaking and influential works in the...
Books And Portraits: Some Further Selections From The Literary And Biographical Writings Of Virginia Woolf
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew voices in the literary world resonate with as much intellectual vitality and lyrical precision as that of Virginia Woolf, and Books and Portraits...
The Writings Of Henry D. Thoreau (Five Volume Set)
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Condition remarks: Condition: Good to Very Good. Jacket: Good some minor wear and toning to spines. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: No markings. Binding: Intact. Bookseller sticker on DJs. A cornerstone...
T.S. Eliot: The Critical Heritage
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Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: good; price clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Tight and secure. Usual shelf-wear. Few poets have provoked as fierce, as sustained, and...
Freedom, Only Freedom: The Prison Writings of Behrouz Boochani
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Step By Step: Political Writings: 1936-1939
In the years following the great depression, with Germany rearming and the rise of fascism across Europe being met with a policy of appeasement from the Democratic countries, Winston Churchill...
Remembering Absence: The Sense of Life in Island Greece
Drawing on research conducted on Chios during the sovereign debt crisis that struck Greece in 2010, Nicolas Argenti follows the lives of individuals who symbolize the transformations affecting this Aegean...
Homer and His Iliad
A thrilling study of the greatest of all epic poems, by one of the world's leading classicists Homer's Iliad is the famous epic poem set among the tales of Troy....
Catalogue Of The Drawings By Inigo Jones, John Webb And Isaac De Caus At Worcester College Oxford
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Author: John Harris And A. A. TaitBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1979Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis scholarly catalogue presents a comprehensive collection of architectural drawings...
The Story of Writing
People can be interested in language, writing and scripts. They may wonder how, when and where did writing evolve? Do alphabets function better than hieroglyphs? And are we today, in...
Titi Lvcreti Cari De Rervm Natvra Libri Sex. Volumes II & III
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Author: Cyril BaileyBinding: HardbackPublished: OXFORD: AT THE CLARENDON PRESS, 1963Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis classical Latin poetry set presents Lucretius’ philosophical...
Writing Without Words: Alternative Literacies in Mesoamerica and the
The history of writing, or so the standard story goes, is an ascending process, evolving toward the alphabet and finally culminating in the "full writing" of recorded speech. Writing without...
Wormholes: Essays and Occasional Writings
This collection includes articles written for magazines, book reviews from the THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW and the IRISH PRESS and forewords and introductions he has written for books...
The Critical Writings of Adrian Stokes (Three-Volume Set)
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Author: Adrian Stokesbinding: HardbackPublished: Thames and Hudson, 1978Condition: book: Very good, jacket: Wear and tear, page: Good, markings: No markingsThis three-volume set compiles the critical writings of Adrian Stokes, showcasing...
Writing and the Rise of Finance: Capital Satires of the Early
The early eighteenth century saw a far-reaching financial revolution in England. In this original study, Colin Nicholson reads familiar texts such as Gulliver's Travels, The Beggar's Opera and The Dunciad...
The C.J. Dennis Collection: From His 'Forgotten' Writings
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The Wiley Reader: Designs For Writing
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA masterclass in the art of written communication, The Wiley Reader: Designs for Writing is an...
Reading and Writing
I was eleven, no more, when the wish came to me to be a writer; and then very soon it was a settled ambition. But for the young V. S....
The Origin Of The Aryans: An Account Of The Prehistoric Ethnology And Civilisation Of Europe
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Author: Isaac TaylorBinding: HardbackPublished: Walter Scott, London., 1892Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Tanning and foxing to pages,...
Pragmatism and Other Writings
The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most...
Selected Writings on Art and Literature
Before publishing the sensuous and scandalous poems of Les Fleurs du Mal, Charles Baudelaire (1821-67) had already earned respect as a forthright and witty critic of art and literature. This...