Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry (Rich Adrienne)(Pevná vazba)

Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry (Rich Adrienne)(Pevná vazba)

Adrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major intellectual voice of her generation. Essential Essays gathers twenty-five of her most renowned essays into one volume, demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice, her prophetic vision, and her

Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry (Rich Adrienne)(Paperback)

Demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice and her prophetic vision, Essential Essays showcases Adrienne Rich's singular ability to unite the political, personal, and poetical. The essays selected here by feminist scholar Sandra M. Gilbert range from the 1960s to 2006, emphasizing Rich's

Radio Art and Music: Culture, Aesthetics, Politics (Mildorf Jarmila)(Pevná vazba)

This book explores the cultural, aesthetic, and political relevance of music in radio art from its beginnings to present day. Contributors include musicologists, literary studies, and cultural studies scholars and cover radio plays, radio shows, and other programs in North American, English,

The Motorcycle: Design, Art, Desire - Ultan Guilfoyle, Charles M. Falco

The essential exploration of the design, history, and culture of the motorcycle - an icon of the machine age.Motorcycles are ubiquitous in the world's streets and cities, evolving over decades in engineering and design to meet individual transportation needs. With the coming demise of the internal

Not With A Bang But A Whimper - The Politics and Culture of Decline (Dalrymple Theodore)(Pevná vazba)

The Tempest (Shakespeare William)(Pevná vazba)

The Tempest is a masterpiece of magical effects, redemptive romance, poetry and politics. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book

Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings (Price Neil)(Pevná vazba)

The definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expertiseThe Viking Age -- from 750 to 1050 -- saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders,

The Art of Participation (Atkins Robert)(Pevná vazba)

This new survey covers the rich and varied history of participatory art, from early happenings and performances to current practices that demand audience interaction. As the hallmarks of Web 2.0--browsing, sharing, collecting, producing--increasingly permeate every aspect of society, this timely

Labour and the left in the 1980s (Davis Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

This volume of essays constitutes the first history of Labour and left-wing politics in the decade when Margaret Thatcher reshaped modern Britain. Leading scholars explore aspects of left-wing culture, activities and ideas at a time when social democracy was in crisis. There are articles about

The Changing Politics and Policy of Austerity (Bdeker Sebastian)(Pevná vazba)

This collection of original essays explores the myriad expressions of austerity since the 2008 financial crisis. Case studies drawn from Canada, Australia and the European Union provide extensive comparative analysis of fiscal consolidation and the varied political responses against austerity

Selected Poems: 1950-2012 (Rich Adrienne)(Paperback)

Adrienne Rich was the singular voice of her generation, bringing discussions of gender, race, and class to the forefront of poetical discourse. This generous selection from all nineteen of Rich's published poetry volumes encompasses her best-known work--the clear-sighted and passionate feminist

Deleuze, Guattari and the Art of Multiplicity (Przedpelski Radek)(Pevná vazba)

This collection of essays from a range of philosophers and art practitioners offers tools through which we can action change across art and philosophy, across a range of media and across the theory/practice divide. Including insights from contemporary Middle Eastern art to Indigenous ritual art and

Different Cultures (Willshaw Steve)(Pevná vazba)

'New Longman Literature' is a selection of pre- and post-1914 fiction, poetry and plays. They include activities which offer specific practice in the skills required by the English Test in the SATs. 'Different Cultures' is a collection of short stories covering a range of

Writing Culture: The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography (Clifford James)(Paperback)

These seminal essays place ethnography at the intersection of interpretive anthropology, cultural studies, social history, travel writing, discourse theory, and textual criticism. They grapple with issues of power and poetics in contemporary situations of globalization, post-coloniality, and

Visual Culture and the German Middle Ages (Starkey K.)(Pevná vazba)

This multi-disciplinary collection of essays draws on various theoretical approaches to explore the highly visual nature of the Middle Ages and expose new facets of old texts and artefacts. The term 'visual culture' has been used in recent years to refer to modern media theory, film, modern art and

African Art (Bassani Ezio)(Pevná vazba)

An illustrated study of traditional and figurative art of Africa that reflects the continent's rich artistic and cultural heritage. African Art explores the continent's marvelous artistic achievements which share its roots with humanities origins. Sculpture has historically been the chief means of

Ireland: The People, The Places, The Stories (Pierce Rachel)(Pevná vazba)

Everything Ireland - a celebration of the Irish people, their rich culture and fascinating

Writing the Sphinx: Literature, Culture and Egyptology (Dobson Eleanor)(Pevná vazba)

Unearths a rich tradition of creative flexibility, collaboration and mutual influence between literary culture and Egyptology The first monograph study to bring literature into conversation with Egyptological culture Incorporates a number of archival primary sources which have, until now, escaped

The World of Bob Dylan (Latham Sean)(Pevná vazba)

Bob Dylan has helped transform music, literature, pop culture, and even politics. The World of Bob Dylan chronicles a lifetime of creative invention that has made a global impact. Leading rock and pop critics and music scholars address themes and topics central to Dylan's life and work: the Blues,

Politics, Ontology and Knowledge in Spinoza (Matheron Alexandre)(Pevná vazba)

A definitive collection of Matheron's essays on Spinoza - translated into English for the first timeOffers an opportunity to access essential writings by Alexandre Matheron, which are considered among the most important in recent Spinoza scholarship in any language Establishes a rigorous

Northern Ireland and the Politics of Boredom: Conflict, Capital and Culture (Legg George)(Pevná vazba)

This book examines the capitalist critiques that underpin representations of sectarian conflict in poetry, photography, performance, oral-testimony and

Photography and the Art Market (Hacking Juliet)(Pevná vazba)

An essential guide to the state of the market for art photography

The cultural politics of contemporary Hollywood film: Power, culture, and society (Beasley Chris)(Pevná vazba)

Using an innovative syncretic 'cultural politics' approach drawing on political theory, film studies and sociology, this book unpacks how political myths about states, citizens, community, intimate life and social criticism operate in Hollywood

On the Brink: Language, Time, History, and Politics (Hamacher Werner)(Pevná vazba)

This collection of essays by one of the foremost figures in contemporary theory takes as its theme the edge or limit between language, time, history, and politics. These are essays that are all on the brink, the very extreme at which one can no longer define where one is located, neither on the