Why Acting Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780300195743,
ISBN: HB: 9780300195781,
Yale University Press,
March 2016
192 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
192 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
Does acting matter? David Thomson, one of our most respected and insightful writers on movies and theater, answers this question with intelligence and wit. In this fresh and thought-provoking essay, Thomson tackles this most elusive of subjects, exam...
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19.00 GBP
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22.50 GBP
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Why the Romantics Matter
ISBN: HB: 9780300144291,
Yale University Press,
February 2015
224 pp., 19,7x13,3 cm
224 pp., 19,7x13,3 cm
With his usual wit and elan, esteemed historian Peter Gay enters the contentious, long-standing debates over the romantic period. Here, in this concise and inviting volume, he reformulates the definition of romanticism and provides a fresh account of...
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18.99 GBP
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Why Niebuhr Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780300192544,
Yale University Press,
July 2013
272 pp., 19,7x13,3 cm
272 pp., 19,7x13,3 cm
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) was a Protestant preacher, an influential religious thinker, and an important moral guide in mid-twentieth-century America. But what does he have to say to us now? In what way does he inform the thinking of political lead...
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26.00 GBP
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Why Trilling Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780300187823,
Yale University Press,
February 2013
192 pp., 19,7x13,3 cm
192 pp., 19,7x13,3 cm
Lionel Trilling, regarded at the time of his death in 1975 as America's preeminent literary critic, is today often seen as a relic of a vanished era. His was an age when literary criticism and ideas seemed to matter profoundly in the intellectual lif...
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Why Translation Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780300171303,
Yale University Press,
March 2011
160 pp., 19,7x13,3 cm
160 pp., 19,7x13,3 cm
"Why Translation Matters" argues for the cultural importance of translation, and for a more encompassing and nuanced appreciation of the translator's role. As the acclaimed translator Edith Grossman writes in her introduction, "My intention is to sti...
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14.99 GBP
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Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780300168143,
Yale University Press,
September 2010
272 pp., 19,7x13,3 cm
272 pp., 19,7x13,3 cm
In December 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a brilliant French artillery officer and a Jew of Alsatian descent, was court-martialed for selling secrets to the German military attache in Paris based on perjured testimony and trumped-up evidence. The sen...
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26.00 GBP
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Why Poetry Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780300151466,
Yale University Press,
January 2010
224 pp., 19,7x13,3 cm
224 pp., 19,7x13,3 cm
Poetry doesn't matter to most people, observes Jay Parini at the opening of this book. Undeterred, he commences a deeply felt meditation on poetry, its language and meaning, and its power to open minds and transform lives. By the end of the book, Par...
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13.99 GBP
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Why Arendt Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780300136197,
Yale University Press,
August 2009
240 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm, 1 black&white illus.
240 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm, 1 black&white illus.
Upon publication of her 'field manual', "The Origins of Totalitarianism", in 1951, Hannah Arendt immediately gained recognition as a major political analyst. Over the next twenty-five years, she wrote ten more books and developed a set of ideas that...
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