Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9788483235539
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Discover the pleasure of reading with this new seven-level series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks specifically written for teenagers and young adults.
Robinson Crusoe: Paperback Student Book Without Answers
Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9788483235539
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Discover the pleasure of reading with this new seven-level series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks specifically written for teenagers and young adults.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9788483235539
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Discover the pleasure of reading with this new seven-level series of original fiction, adapted fiction and factbooks specifically written for teenagers and young adults.
Myths of Modern Individualism
Author: Ian Watt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521585643
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
In this volume, Ian Watt examines the myths of Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan and Robinson Crusoe, as the distinctive products of modern society. He traces the way the original versions of Faust, Don Quixote and Don Juan - all written within a forty-year period during the Counter Reformation - presented unflattering portrayals of the three figures, while the Romantic period two centuries later recreated them as admirable and even heroic. The twentieth century retained their prestige as mythical figures, but with a new note of criticism. Robinson Crusoe came much later than the other three, but his fate can be seen as representative of the new religious, economic and social attitudes which succeeded the Counter-Reformation. The four figures help to reveal problems of individualism in the modern period: solitude, narcissism, and the claims of the self versus the claims of society. They all pursue their own view of what they should be, raising strong questions about their heroes' character and the societies whose ideals they reflect.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521585643
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
In this volume, Ian Watt examines the myths of Faust, Don Quixote, Don Juan and Robinson Crusoe, as the distinctive products of modern society. He traces the way the original versions of Faust, Don Quixote and Don Juan - all written within a forty-year period during the Counter Reformation - presented unflattering portrayals of the three figures, while the Romantic period two centuries later recreated them as admirable and even heroic. The twentieth century retained their prestige as mythical figures, but with a new note of criticism. Robinson Crusoe came much later than the other three, but his fate can be seen as representative of the new religious, economic and social attitudes which succeeded the Counter-Reformation. The four figures help to reveal problems of individualism in the modern period: solitude, narcissism, and the claims of the self versus the claims of society. They all pursue their own view of what they should be, raising strong questions about their heroes' character and the societies whose ideals they reflect.
Kliatt Young Adult Paperback Book Guide
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Languages : en
Pages : 380
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The Subject of Revolution
Author: Jennifer L. Lambe
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146968117X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
From television to travel bans, geopolitics to popular dance, The Subject of Revolution explores how knowledge about the 1959 Cuban Revolution was produced and how the Revolution in turn shaped new worldviews. Drawing on sources from over twenty archives as well as film, music, theater, and material culture, this book traces the consolidation of the Revolution over two decades in the interface between political and popular culture. The "subject of Revolution," it proposes, should be understood as the evolving synthesis of the imaginaries constructed by its many "subjects," including revolutionary leaders, activists, academics, and ordinary people within and beyond the island's borders. The book reopens some of the questions that have long animated debates about Cuba, from the relationship between populace and leadership to the archive and its limits, while foregrounding the construction of popular understandings. It argues that the politicization of everyday life was an inescapable effect of the revolutionary process as well as the catalyst for new ways of knowing and being.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146968117X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
From television to travel bans, geopolitics to popular dance, The Subject of Revolution explores how knowledge about the 1959 Cuban Revolution was produced and how the Revolution in turn shaped new worldviews. Drawing on sources from over twenty archives as well as film, music, theater, and material culture, this book traces the consolidation of the Revolution over two decades in the interface between political and popular culture. The "subject of Revolution," it proposes, should be understood as the evolving synthesis of the imaginaries constructed by its many "subjects," including revolutionary leaders, activists, academics, and ordinary people within and beyond the island's borders. The book reopens some of the questions that have long animated debates about Cuba, from the relationship between populace and leadership to the archive and its limits, while foregrounding the construction of popular understandings. It argues that the politicization of everyday life was an inescapable effect of the revolutionary process as well as the catalyst for new ways of knowing and being.
The Cambridge Companion to ‘Robinson Crusoe'
Author: John Richetti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108609287
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
An instant success in its own time, Daniel Defoe's The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe has for three centuries drawn readers to its archetypal hero, the man surviving alone on an island. This Companion begins by studying the eighteenth-century literary, historical and cultural contexts of Defoe's novel, exploring the reasons for its immense popularity in Britain and in its colonies in America and in the wider European world. Chapters from leading scholars discuss the social, economic and political dimensions of Crusoe's island story before examining the 'after life' of Robinson Crusoe, from the book's multitudinous translations to its cultural migrations and transformations into other media such as film and television. By considering Defoe's seminal work from a variety of critical perspectives, this book provides a full understanding of the perennial fascination with, and the enduring legacy of, both the book and its iconic hero.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108609287
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
An instant success in its own time, Daniel Defoe's The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe has for three centuries drawn readers to its archetypal hero, the man surviving alone on an island. This Companion begins by studying the eighteenth-century literary, historical and cultural contexts of Defoe's novel, exploring the reasons for its immense popularity in Britain and in its colonies in America and in the wider European world. Chapters from leading scholars discuss the social, economic and political dimensions of Crusoe's island story before examining the 'after life' of Robinson Crusoe, from the book's multitudinous translations to its cultural migrations and transformations into other media such as film and television. By considering Defoe's seminal work from a variety of critical perspectives, this book provides a full understanding of the perennial fascination with, and the enduring legacy of, both the book and its iconic hero.
South American Explorer
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Category : South America
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Category : South America
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Teaching Communication Skills in the Elementary School
Author: Gertrude A. Boyd
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 970
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 970
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Books
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Robinson Crusoe
Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: Welbeck Editions
ISBN: 9781913519438
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher: Welbeck Editions
ISBN: 9781913519438
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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