Selected Writings Volume 1 1913-1926

Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the twentieth century, but until now only a few of his writings have been available in English. Harvard University Press has now undertaken to publish a significant portion of his work in definitive translation, under the general editorship of Michael W. Jennings. This volume, the first of three, will at last give rea…

Selected Writings Volume 2 Part 2 1327-1934

In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mourning political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of Selected Writings, covering the years 1927 to 1934, displays the full spectrum of Benjamin's achievements at this pivotal stage in his career. Pr…

Selected Writings Volume 2 Part 1 1927-1930

In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the Selected Writings is now available in paperback in two parts. In Part 1, Benjamin is represented by two of his greatest literary essays, "Sur…

Selected Writings Volume 4 1938-1940

"Every line we succeed in publishing today...is a victory wrested from the powers of darkness." So wrote Walter Benjamin in January 1940. Not long afterward, he himself would fall prey to those powers, a victim of suicide following a failed attempt to flee the Nazis. However insistently the idea of catastrophe hangs over Benjamin's writings in the final years of his life, the "victories wrested…

Selected Writings Volume 3 1935-1938

Radical critic of a European civilization plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie--such was Walter Benjamin in the later 1930s. This volume, the third in a four-volume set, offers twenty-seven brilliant pieces, nineteen of which have never before been translated. The centerpiece, A Berlin Childhood around 1900, marks the first appearance in Engli…

Percintaan Angin Kumpulan Cerpen

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979-22-0282-X

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ix + 166 hlm.; 18 cm.

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813.301 RAM p

Comedy : An Essay on Comedy

Casting a critical eye on comic works throughout the ages, Meredith finds that the most skilled masters of the comic art―Aristophanes, Rabelais, Voltaire, Cervantes, Fielding, Molière―used comedy to grasp the essence of humanity. Comedy, according to Meredith's theory, serves an important moral and social function: it redeems us from our posturings, stripping away pride, arrogance, complac…

Style in Fiction : A Linguistic Introduction to English Fictional Prose

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xiii + 402 pgs.; 21,

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xiii + 402 pgs.; 21,5 cm.

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823.809 LEE s

The Hollow Crown : The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors

The fifteenth century experienced the longest and bloodiest series of civil wars in British history. The crown of England changed hands violently five times as the great families of England fought to the death for the right to rule. Some of the greatest heroes and villains in history were thrown together in these chaotic years. Yet efforts were made to maintain some semblance of peace and or…

Mengapa kau Culik ANak Kami? : Tiga Drama Kekerasan Politik

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979-9341-26-4

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viii + 188 hlm.; 21 cm.

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813 AJI m