Автор: Judd Walter S., Judd Graham A. Название: Flora of Middle-Earth: Plants of J.R.R. Tolkien`s Legendarium ISBN: 0190276312 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190276317 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5701.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this book, Walter Judd and Grant Judd give detailed species accounts of every plant found in Tolkien`s universe, complete with the etymology of the plant`s name, a discussion of its significance within Tolkien`s work, a description of the plant`s distribution and ecology, and an original hand-drawn illustration in the style of a woodcut print.
Автор: Pater Walter, Beaumont Matthew Название: Studies in the History of the Renaissance ISBN: 0199535078 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199535071 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1741.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Studies in the History of the Renaissance is a highly influential defence of aestheticism. Pater redefined the practice of criticism through his readings of some of the paintings, sculptures, and poems of the Renaissance, and shocked contemporaries for sponsoring a hedonistic ethic with his infamous `Conclusion`.
Автор: Walter Scott Название: Old Mortality ISBN: 0199555303 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199555307 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2216.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Old Mortality (1816), which many consider the finest of Scott's Waverley novels, is a swift-moving historical romance that places an anachronistically liberal hero against the forces of fanaticism in seventeenth-century Scotland, in the period infamous as the `killing time'. Its central character, Henry Morton, joins the rebels in order to fight Scotland's royalist oppressors, little as he shares the Covenanters' extreme religious beliefs. He is torn between his love for a royalist's granddaughter and his loyalty to his downtrodden countrymen. As well as being a tale of divided loyalties, the novel is a crucial document in the cultural history of modern Scotland. Scott, himself a supporter of the union between Scotland and England, was trying to exorcise the violent past of a country uncomfortably coming to terms with its status as part of a modern United Kingdom. This novel is in itself a significant political document, in which Scott can be seen to be attempting to create a new centralist Scottish historiography, which is not the political consensus of his own time, the seventeenth century, or today.
Автор: Michael Swan, Catherine Walter, Desmond O`Sullivan Название: New Cambridge English Course 4 Practice Book ISBN: 0521376521 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521376525 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 746.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: The New Cbridge English Course is a four-level course for learners of English. Level 4 takes learners from intermediate to upper-intermediate standard (approximately at the level of the Cambridge First Certificate). It can be used with learners who have studied previous levels of the course, or as an independent upper-intermediate course. The course features: * proven multi-syllabus approach * Clearly focused and 'signposted' aims for each lesson * wide variety of presentation and practice material * allowance for different learning styles and teaching situations * balance between control and freedom in language practice * motivating range of up-to-date topics * frequent use authentic reading and listening material * highly attractive, clearly organised page design. Level 4 teaches all the language and skills necessary at upper-intermediate level. It is divided into five blocks, each containing eight lessons followed by a Summary, Revision, and Fluency Practice section and a Revision Test. Each block provides four 'general purpose' lessons, two 'Skills Focus' lessons, and two 'Focus on Systems' lessons, dealing with special problems of grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.' The
Название: Edinburgh companion to sir walter scott ISBN: 0748641297 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780748641291 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 3958.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This is a comprehensive collection devoted to the work of Sir Walter Scott, drawing on the innovative research and scholarship which have revitalised the study of the whole range of his exceptionally diverse writing in recent years.
Автор: Elizabeth Walter, Kate Woodford Название: Collocations Extra Book with CD-ROM ISBN: 0521745225 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521745222 Издательство: Cambridge University Press Рейтинг: Цена: 13104.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: A collection of photocopiable activities which present and practise frequent and useful collocations.
Автор: Callahan Lance Название: In the Shadows of Divine Perfection: Derek Walcott`s Omeros ISBN: 1138011649 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138011649 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8573.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In the Shadows of Divine Perfection provides an examination of Derek Walcott's Omeros 1990)- the St. Lucian poet's longest work, and the piece that secured his Nobel Laureate-that reveals the deep-seated bond between the root narratives of ancient Greece to the cultural products and practices of the contemporary Caribbean. This book presents the first detailed reading of Walcott's highly controversial attempt to craft a Caribbean master narrative. This book also presents an overview of the poem's ideological orientation and a far-reaching critique of current postcolonial theory. Lance Callahan engages some of the most vexing problems of authenticity by reading Walcott's work alongside ancient Greek literature and culture.
"In some moods, or for some people, the desire to improve can seem so natural as to be banal. The impulse drives forward so much in our culture that it can color our thoughts and shape our actions without being much noticed. But in other moods, or for other people, this strenuous desire becomes all too noticeable, and its demands crushing. It can then drive a sleepless attention to ourselves, a desolate evaluation of what we have been and what we are."—from The Burdens of Perfection
Literary criticism has, in recent decades, rather fled from discussions of moral psychology, and for good reasons, too. Who would not want to flee the hectoring moralism with which it is so easily associated-portentous, pious, humorless? But in protecting us from such fates, our flight has had its costs, as we have lost the concepts needed to recognize and assess much of what distinguished nineteenth-century British literature. That literature was inescapably ethical in orientation, and to proceed as if it were not ignores a large part of what these texts have to offer, and to that degree makes less reasonable the desire to study them, rather than other documents from the period, or from other periods.
Such are the intuitions that drive The Burdens of Perfection, a study of moral perfectionism in nineteenth-century British culture. Reading the period's essayists (Mill, Arnold, Carlyle), poets (Browning and Tennyson), and especially its novelists (Austen, Dickens, Eliot, and James), Andrew H. Miller provides an extensive response to Stanley Cavell's contribution to ethics and philosophy of mind. In the process, Miller offers a fresh way to perceive the Victorians and the lingering traces their quests for improvement have left on readers.
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