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|  Produktbeschreibung (21655819): Traversing the Iliad, King Lear, Moby Dick, and other great works, he discerns the properties of the high-spirited states we call the passions. Are vehement states compatible with a culture that values private, selectively shared experiences? How do passions differ from emotions? Does anger have an opposite? Do the passions give scale, shape, and significance to our experience of time? Is a person incapable of anger more dangerous than someone who is irascible? In reintroducing us to our own vehemence, Fisher reminds us that it is only through our strongest passions that we feel the contours of injustice, mortality, loss, and knowledge. It is only through our personal worlds that we can know the world. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil2) ansehen oder für EUR 20.95 bestellen! |
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| | Produktbeschreibung (22146119): This is the book that tells us why piano players outlive drummers; who the last living flying monkey from the film ´´The Wizard of Oz´´ was; and reveals where we go after we die. It also may just be the funniest book ever written about death. Each of the two authors combed the obituary pages every day for a calendar year. They wrote about the Reaper´s usual harvest -- the famous, the infamous, and the fascinating. As in Two Guys Read Moby-Dick, their first joint project, they refused to be corralled by format and wound up writing about . . . well, basically whatever their minds bumped into. The collision is always interesting and often irreverent.These two professional writers, who have been friends since childhood, took up the challenge to be the first two people ever to read ´´Moby-Dick´´ from cover to cover. The result was the critically-acclaimed, popular book: ´´Two Guys Read Moby-Dick.´´ Now comes the sequel -- the alarmingly funny and profound: ´´Two Guys Read the Obituaries.´´ | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil2) ansehen oder für EUR 10.95 bestellen! |
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Sena Jeter Naslund: Die Walfängerin (Nordland-Shop) |  Produktbeschreibung (5199): Roman aus dem Amerikanischen - 667 Seiten. Taschenbuch. - Nantucket im 19. Jahrhundert: Von hier starten Walfänger und Seeleute aus aller Herren Länder ihre beschwerliche Reise. Als 15jährige entdeckt Una ihre Liebe zum Meer und heuert in Männerkleidung auf einem Walfangboot an. Nur knapp überlebt sie den Untergang des Schiffes. Auf schicksalhafte Weise lernt sie Kapitän Ahab kennen und lieben.
Doch während Ahab sein Leben dem Fang des sagenhaften Moby Dick verschrieben hat, beschreitet Una ganz andere, für eine Frau ihrer Zeit ungewöhnliche Wege.
"Ein mitreißendes Frauenepos mit einer betörenden Heldin." (JOURNAL FÜR DIE FRAU)
"Die Geschichte einer außergewöhnlichen Frau." (BRIGITTE)
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| | Produktbeschreibung (21861963): Fiction. Part of Dalkey Archive´s American Literature Series. ´´We are now nearing the end of the millenium, and here comes this bigger-than-life novel once more, with the hope that it will find the readership now that has escaped it for more than fifteen years´´ (John O´Brie, from the Preface). ´´It is as if James Joyce, for his sins, had been forced to grow up in Queens; as if Sam Beckett had been mugged by Godot in a Flushing confort station; as if Sid Caesar played the part of Moby Dick in a Roman Polanski movie shot underwater in Long Island City... Mr. Mano is Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson and Henderson the Rain King´´ (John Leonard, New York Times). Paginated backwards. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil2) ansehen oder für EUR 10.95 bestellen! |
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|  Produktbeschreibung (21016783): The next big statement from one of our foremost radical intellectuals, announcing the end of the postmodern era-and the start of the next big way to think about the world we face today. from the first chapter:´´Those who can, think up feminism or structuralism; those who can´t, apply such insights to Moby-Dick or The Cat in the Hat. But the new generation came up with no comparable ideas of its own. The older generation had proved a hard act to follow. No doubt the new century will in time give birth to its own clutch of gurus. For the moment, however, we are still trading on the past-and this in a world which has changed dramatically since Foucault and Lacan first settled to their typewriters. What kind of fresh thinking does the new era demand?´´For anyone forced to wrestle with the likes of Derrida, Barthes, and Kristeva during their college days, Terry Eagleton needs no introduction. His clear and accessible primer on literary theory was (and is) an indispensable guide to the postmodern era in the humanities. Now he argues that the age of cultural theory has come to a close-and looks at what should follow. Tracing the rise and fall of postmodern ideas from the 1960s through the | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil1) ansehen oder für EUR 14.95 bestellen! |
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Animal House: When Objects Have Animals´ Names (buecher.de - (Teil2)) | | Produktbeschreibung (20962382): A zoologist might classify Italian design objects in various ways, distinguishing between species that are capable of flight (the Vespa Wasp scooter, the Heron lamp), of living aqueous lives (the Dolphin armchair, the jellyfish-like Medusa lamp), and of existing on terra firma (the Grillo Cricket telephone, the mouse-sized Topolino automobile). Alternately, one could catalogue these all-but-inanimate objects in terms of the fictional creatures they evoke (the Moby Dick chair, Bruno Munari´s Meo Romeo cat). This zoophilic trend in Italian design is neither an accidental nor an occasional element, nor need it be seen as some beastial obsession. On the contrary, it is a complex symbolic mechanism that repopulates domestic interiors with a little bit of the animal world that has been chased from our homes and neighborhoods. The presence of these experimental designs in an otherwise animal-free home helps it come to life as a virtual zoo, thus helping us to remember always: It´s a zoo out there. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil2) ansehen oder für EUR 8.95 bestellen! |
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Ambrose the Whale: A Novel for Children and Adults (buecher.de - (Teil1)) |  Produktbeschreibung (21144796): The princess of Cambodia has to choose (don´t we all) between a safe but boring life and a life of exciting risk. Aided by the splash of Ambrose the whale, she embarks on a quest which leads to encounters with a piratical whaling captain, a young sailor, a legion of miniature Vikings, an army of fighting squids, a great white whale (Moby Dick), and a war to liberate the Thrallbeggars (as the miniature Vikings are called) from being the snack food of the ocean, before she finds an answer. In all this, Ambrose is her indispensable friend. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil1) ansehen oder für EUR 8.95 bestellen! |
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Life on the Mississippi: The Authorized Uniform Edition (buecher.de - (Teil2)) | | Produktbeschreibung (21599965): This is the book that everyone knew, in Mark Twain´s time, that he had to write. It is the story of his youth on the Mississippi and his career as a riverboat pilot before the Civil War, which contains not only some of his very best writing, but remains our most vivid picture of this colorful era in American history. It might be fairly said that LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI is to steamboat life what MOBY DICK is to whaling, only without need for a plot, at least not one invented by the author. This is a book taken from life, which transfers life onto the printed page as well as anything in American literature. | | >>> Jetzt bei buecher.de - (Teil2) ansehen oder für EUR 34.95 bestellen! |
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