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Franz Kafka

de Ronald Gray

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 This 1973 text provides a critical introduction to the writings of Franz Kafka. Within it Ronald Gray surveys the novels and short stories, and glances also at the religious or confessional writings. He presents a persuasive and coherent account of Kafka's personal and artistic development and its meaning and value for us.
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Racine Or, The Triumph Of Relevance

de Odette De Mourgues

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This is a digital reprint of Mme de Mourgues' critical introduction to the work of Racine. It concentrates entirely on the plays themselves, and attempts to say what they are and how they work on the mind of the spectator or reader.
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Brecht: The Dramatist

de Ronald Gray

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 In this 1976 introduction to Brecht's theatre and theory, Ronald Gray explores the dramatist's interacting roles as a committed Marxist seeking to influence audiences and as one of the most innovative craftsmen ever to work in the theatre.
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Two French Moralists - La Rochefoucauld And La Bruyere

de Odette De Mourgues

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 Professor de Mourgues' study of seventeenth-century classical French writers La Rochefoucauld and La BruyÃ¨re investigates the term 'moralist' and how it applies to the two writers. This study raises delicate questions of interpretation, and adds equally to the fascination of the two writers' work.
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Chekhov - A Study Of The Major Stories And Plays

de Beverley Hahn

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 This 1977 critical introduction to Chekhov examines his development and achievement as prose-writer and dramatist. Beverly Hahn draws attention to the depth of Chekhov's imagination, and makes a strong case for viewing him as a humanist actively interested in modern European theories and ideas, but committed to celebrating the unpredictability of human lives.
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Pushkin: A Comparative Commentary

de John Bayley

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 In this first critical assessment in English of Pushkin's writing, the author examines his achievement in relation to Russian literature and the European tradition.
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A Generation Of Spanish Poets 1920â€“1936

de C. B. Morris

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 This critical study of the group of remarkably talented poets who flourished in Spain between the First World War and the Spanish Civil War demonstrates how they shared certain themes and attitudes. These are often 'difficult' poets, but become less so when they are sympathetically examined by Mr Morris.
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Jaroslav Hasek - A Study Of Svejk And The Short Stories

de Cecil Parrott

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 This 1982 book was the first major critical study of Jaroslav HaÅ¡ek and his most important literary creation, The Good Soldier Å vejk. Cecil Parrott begins from the point of view that a closer examination of the conditions under which the book was written reveal it to be a much deeper work than it appears on the surface.
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Boileau And The Nature Of Neoclassicism

de Gordon Pocock

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 Boileau has traditionally been regarded as the spokesman of French neo-classicism but some elements of scholarship have discounted the importance of neo-classical doctrine in general and of Boileau's particular contribution to it. Pocock examines Boileau's commitment to French neo-classicism and his embodiment of it in his work.
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Rimbaud - A Critical Introduction

de Cecil Arthur Hackett

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 Professor Hackett concentrates on Rimbaud's poems, especially the more important of the early verse poems, the Lettre du voyant, the 1872 verse poems and the major writings, Illuminations and Une Saison en enfer. This critical survey, originally published in 1981, will interest the specialist, students and the general reader.
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Tolstoy - A Critical Introduction

de R. F. (University Of St Andrews) Christian

58,13€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This is a critical introduction to the novels and short stories of Tolstoy, treating them in their own right as works of literature, not as biographical evidence or contributions to a philosophical system. The heart of the book, inevitably, is in the examination of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, but most of Tolstoy's other fiction is also discussed.
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Moliere: A Playwright And His Audience

de W. D. Howarth

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 This study explores the evolution of MoliÃ¨re's comedy as a vehicle for his own talents as an actor and for the resources of his company. The author also seeks to define the composition of the original audiences, both in the public theatre and at Court, and to assess the taste and attitudes of the spectators for whom the plays were written.
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Rabelais: A Critical Study In Prose Fiction

de Dorothy Gabe Coleman

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 Coleman sees Rabelais as finding a particular form - Menippean satire - in which he could achieve a balance between seriousness and irony, involvement and detachment, direct address to the reader and distance, and in which he was able to develop his own unique language.
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Pasternak - A Critical Study

de Henry Gifford

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 Henry Gifford discusses Pasternak's choice of vocation, and then examines the poetry and stories of the 1920s and 1930s, his work as translator, his two autobiographies, the novel that brought him world fame and much personal anguish, Doctor Zhivago, his late poems and his unfinished play, The Blind Beauty.
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Mikhail Bulgakov - A Critical Biography

de Lesley (Professor) Milne

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 Upon publication this was the full, post-glasnost critical biography of Mikhail Bulgakov (1891â€"1940). Lesley Milne traces Bulgakov's career from the ethical concept of the writer's role, his response to his time, especially in the 1920s and 1930s, and his search for an audience in and beyond that time.
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The Mind And Art Of Calderon - Essays On The Comedias

de Alexander Augustine Parker

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 Professor Parker's essays provide a wide-ranging survey of CalderÃ³n's secular, three-act plays (comedias) through detailed analyses of individual works. The themes found in the plays are studied in relation to the background of ideas in seventeenth-century Spain and to the development of CalderÃ³n's own view of the intellectual life and the social, ethical and moral problems of this age.
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Paul Valery And Poetry Of Voice

de Christine M. Crow

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This is one of the first studies to treat ValÃ©ry's theory and practice of poetry together and is the first full-length study of his poetry in English. Discussion of his ideas on poetic composition leads to a detailed analysis of the principal poetry: the long term poem La Jeune Parque and all the poems in the main collection.
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Goethe - A Critical Introduction

de Ronald Gray

51,37€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This is a concise survey and criticism of Goethe's work, for the general reader and the student. The book can be used in conjunction with Dr GrayÃ†s selection of the poems; the two books together are the best possible introduction to one of the greatest European men of letters.
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The Mind And Art Of Calderon - Essays On The Comedias

de Alexander Augustine Parker

74,35€

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 Professor Parker's essays provide a wide-ranging survey of the work of Calderon, the greatest exponent of Spanish Golden Age drama.
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Sartre - The Necessity Of Freedom

de Christina Howells

57,46€

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 This book is a comprehensive study of the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre.
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Perspectives On Technology

de Nathan Rosenberg

45,06€

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 Perspectives on Technology consists of papers written by Nathan Rosenberg over a ten-year period, from the early 1960s to the early 1970s.
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Two French Moralists - La Rochefoucauld And La Bruyere

de Odette De Mourgues

10,80€

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 Professor de Mourgues' study examines the works of La Rochefoucauld and La Bruyere in regards to the term 'moralist'.
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Brecht: The Dramatist

de Ronald Gray

37,18€

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 Ronald Gray explores the dramatist's interacting roles as a committed Marxist and an innovative craftsman.
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Boileau And The Nature Of Neoclassicism

de Gordon Pocock

6,76€

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 An analysis of Boileau's commitment to French neo-classicism and the embodiment of it in his work.
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