LIBROS DEL AUTOR: richard bevis

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  • The Time Machine and the Domaine
    Richard W. Bevis / Richard WBevis
    Why have so many cultures created what we call imaginative literature in the past, and still do? What prompts so many people to read literature? And how are we to understand the economy that links these producers and consumers? These and related questions plagued the author for a couple of decades before he began to set down the results of his research into the roles and functi...
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    26,50 €

  • Dudes and Savages
    Richard W. Bevis / Richard WBevis
    In a book that is part memoir, part documentary and part fictional narrative, Richard Bevis follows an assortment of teenage 'savages' as they descend on Yellowstone Park in 1957, looking for action (and each other) while working at a variety of jobs. Blending comedy and seriousness, *Dudes and Savages: The Resonance of Yellowstone* moves from geology to romance, from history t...
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    15,26 €

  • Images of Liberty
    Bevis Richard Bevis
    Our ancestors did not always see beauty in the starkness of deserts, mountains, and polar wastes; that was the work of ages. In The Road to Egdon Heath (1999), Richard Bevis undertook to explain how and why this change - noted by Thomas Hardy in 1878 - came about. In Images of Liberty he picks up this story in the late nineteenth century and carries it into the present time. 'T...
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    23,56 €

  • English Drama
    Richard W. Bevis
    What were the causes of Restoration drama’s licentiousness? How did the elegantly-turned comedy of Congreve become the pointed satire of Fielding? And how did Sheridan and Goldsmith reshape the materials they inherited? In this account of the entire period, Richard Bevis argues that none of these questions can be answered without an understanding of Augustan and Georgian histor...
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    107,91 €