LIBROS DEL AUTOR: k j dover

8 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: k j dover

  • Marginal Comment
    Christopher Stray / K. J. Dover / Stephen Halliwell
    Marginal Comment, which attracted keen and widespread interest on its original publication in 1994, is the remarkable memoir of one of the most distinguished classical scholars of the modern era. Its author, Sir Kenneth Dover, whose academic publications included the pathbreaking book Greek Homosexuality (1978, reissued by Bloomsbury in 2016), conceived of it as an ’experimenta...
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    127,63 €

  • The Truman Gumshoes
    J.K. Van Dover
    The hard-boiled style of detective fiction emerged in America in the years after the First World War. In the late 1940s, following the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, a new generation of young writers revisited the conventions governing the fictional private eye, and began to move him (the tough detective was still always male) and his world in new direc...
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    79,57 €

  • The Detective and the Artist
    J.K. Van Dover
    This book focuses on the distinctive role that artists have played in detective fiction--as detectives, as villains and victims, and as bystanders. With a few significant exceptions, literary detectives have always identified themselves as essentially the deconstructors of the artful crimes of others. They may use various methods--ratiocinative, scientific, or hard-boiled--b...
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    79,57 €

  • The Judge Dee Novels of R.H. van Gulik
    J.K. Van Dover
    From 1949 to 1968 author Robert van Gulick wrote 15 novels, two novellas and eight short stories featuring Judge Dee, a Chinese magistrate and detective from the Tang dynasty. In addition to providing the setting for riveting mysteries, Dee’s world highlighted aspects of traditional Chinese culture through his personal relationships with his wives, his lieutenants and the ci...
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    71,91 €

  • Greek Word Order
    K. J. Dover / Kenneth J. Dover
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    47,52 €

  • Making the Detective Story American
    J K Van Dover / J.K. Van Dover
    This critical text examines the fiction of Earl Derr Biggers, S. S. Van Dine, and Dashiell Hammett during a crucial half-decade when they transformed the detective story. The characters they created, including Charlie Chan, Philo Vance, and the Continental Op, represented a new style of detective solving crimes in fresh ways. Their successes would push crime and detective fi...
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    72,04 €

  • A Historical Commentary on Thucydides
    A. Andrewes / A. W. Gomme / K. J. Dover
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    427,65 €

  • Clouds
    Aristophanes / K. J. Dover / KJDover
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    142,05 €