Trovati 107 documenti.
Trovati 107 documenti.
The art of fiction : illustrated from classic and modern texts / David Lodge
London : Penguin books, 1992
Abstract: "The Art of Fiction" is essential, thoroughly entertaining reading for writers, students and anyone who wants to understand how literature works. The articles by David Lodge, which first appeared in the "Independent on Sunday", are expanded here and consider the subject under a wide range of headings such as 'The Intrusive Author', 'Suspense' and 'Magic Realism'. Styles and techniques are illustrated in each case by passages from classic or modern fiction. Drawing on writers as diverse as Henry James and Martin Amis, Jane Austen and Fay Weldon and Henry Fielding and James Joyce, Lodge also demonstrates the richness and variety of British and American fiction.
Wide Sargasso Sea / Jean Rhys ; introduction by Francis Wyndham.
New York : Norton, [1992], c1966.
Norton paperback fiction
Abstract: Jean Rhys' late, literary masterpiece "Wide Sargasso Sea" was inspired by Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, and is set in the lush, beguiling landscape of Jamaica in the 1830s. Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent sensuality and beauty. After their marriage the rumours begin, poisoning her husband against her. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is driven towards madness.
The golden pot, and other tales / E. T. A. Hoffmann ; translated and edited by Ritchie Robertson.
Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
The World's classics
Modern Library College ed.
New York : Random House, 1992.
Modern Library ed.
New York : Modern Library, 1992.
Madame Bovary : provincial lives / Gustave Flaubert ; translated with introduction by Geoffrey Wall.
Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1992.
Abstract: Classic / British English Emma Bovary is a dreamer. She escapes from her boring life with her father by marrying Charles, a doctor, but married life does not bring her the love and excitement she expected. She looks for love outside her marriage, and one of literature's great tragedies begins to unfold.
Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Abstract: The Book of the Fourth World offers detailed analyses of texts that range far back into the centuries of civilised life from what is now Latin- and Anglo-America. At the time of its 'discovery', the American continent was identified as the Fourth World of our planet. In the course of just a few centuries its original inhabitants, though settled there for millennia and countable in many millions, have come to be perceived as a marginal if not entirely dispensable factor in the continent's destiny. Today the term has been taken up again by its native peoples, to describe their own world: both its threatened present condition, and its political history, which stretches back thousands of years before Columbus. In order to explore the literature of this world, Brotherston uses primary sources that have traditionally been ignored because they have not conformed to Western definitions of oral and written literature, such as the scrolls of the Algonkin, the knotted strings (Quipus) of the Inca, Navajo dry-paintings and the encyclopedic pages of Meso-America's screenfold books.
Wives at war, and other stories / by Flora Nwapa.
1st Africa World Press ed.
Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, 1992.
African women writers series
Fundamentals of spatial information systems / Robert Laurini and Derek Thompson
London [etc.] : Academic press, c1992
The APIC series ; 37
1st ed.
Boston : Little, Brown, c1992.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c1992.
Revealing antiquity ; 5
Abstract: The rich and splendid culture of the ancient Greeks has often been described as emerging like a miracle from a genius of its own, owing practically nothing to its neighbors. Walter Burkert offers an argument against that distorted view, pointing toward a balanced picture of the archaic period "in which, under the influence of the Semitic East, Greek culture began its unique flowering, soon to assume cultural hegemony, in the Mediterranean". Burkert focuses on the "orientalizing" century 750-650 B.C., the period of Assyrian conquest, Phoenician commerce, and Greek exploration of both East and West, when not only eastern skills and images but also the Semitic art of writing was transmitted to Greece. He tracks the migrant craftsmen who brought the Greeks new techniques and designs, the wandering seers and healers teaching magic and medicine, and the important Greek borrowings from Near Eastern poetry and myth. Drawing widely on archaeological, textual and historical evidence, he demonstrates that eastern models significantly affected Greek literature and religion in the Homeric age.
Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c1992.
Classics of naval literature
Roman society : a social, economic, and cultural history / Henry C. Boren.
2nd ed.
Lexington, Mass. : D.C. Heath, 1992.
New York : Marsilio, c1992
Marsilio classics
Diccionario de la lengua espanola
21.
Madrid : Real Academia Espaänola, 1
Dave Barry does Japan = Deibu Baråi ga "Nihon o suru" / Dave Barry
1st ed
New York : Random House, c1992
London : Arrow, 2001.
Abstract: The acclaimed bestseller (over 63,000 copies sold in paperback) now reissued with a new cover. <br>What kind of man spends his Saturday afternoons with people named Bonehead, Paraffin Pete and Steamin' Sammy? Bill Buford's acclaimed" Among the Thugs" is a book about the experience and the attractions of crowd violence.
Film and politics in America : a social tradition / Brian Neve.
London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.
Studies in film, television, and the media
Abstract: This study looks at the social and political nature of American film by concentrating on a generation of writers who directed films in Hollywood in the 1940s. The author discusses how they negotiated their roles in relation to the studio system, itself undergoing change, and to what extent their experience in the political and theater movements of 1930s New York was to be reflected in their later films. The book deals with wider issues relating to the relationship between American film and American politics and society, by examining the middle period work of Frank Capra, film noir and politics, and the impact on American film of the Congressional investigations of the late 1940s and early 1950s. He focuses in particular on Orson Welles, Elia Kazan, Jules Dassin, Abraham Polonsky, Nicholas Ray, Robert Rossen and Joseph Losey, and discusses their later American work. The book relates the work of these writers and directors to the broader industrial, bureaucratic, social and political developments of the period 1935-1970, with special emphasis on the post-war decade.
A primer in game theory / Robert Gibbons
New York \etc.! : Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1992