Edward Said: 33 books
by Edward Said
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007
Music at the Limits is the first book to bring together three decades of Edward W. Said's essays and articles on music. Addressing the work of a variety of composers, musicians, and performers, Said carefully draws out music's social, political, and cultural contexts and, as a classically trained...
by Edward Said
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
Edward W. Said locates Joseph Conrad's fear of personal disintegration in his constant re-narration of the past. Using the author's personal letters as a guide to understanding his fiction, Said draws an important parallel between Conrad's view of his own life and the manner and form of his stories....
by Edward Said, Jacqueline Rose
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Banned by the Freud institute in Vienna, this controversial lecture eventually became Edward Said’s final book. Freud and the Non-European builds on Said’s abiding interest in the psychoanalyst’s work to examine Freud’s assumption that Moses was an Egyptian and from there explore the limits...
by Edward W. Said
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Edward Said, the renowned literary and cultural critic and passionately engaged intellectual, is one of our era's most formidable, provocative, and important thinkers. For more than three decades his books, which include Culture and Imperialism, Peace and Its Discontents, and the seminal study Orientalism,...
Música al límite
Tres décadas de ensayos y artículos musicales
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Los mejores textos de Edward Said sobre música, una de sus grandes pasiones.
Música al límite reúne lo mejor de tres décadas de reflexiones de Edward Said sobre la música, una de sus grandes pasiones. Abarcando una gran variedad de compositores e intérpretes, Said analiza su contexto...
Humanismo y crítica democrática
La responsabilidad pública de escritores e intelectuales
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Una defensa apasionada de la educación humanista y los valores democráticos.
La educación humanista tradicional -sostiene Said- lleva mucho tiempo siendo atacada por los tecnócratas de la cultura y la política que desean un cambio profundo en la orientación de los estudios y, por extensión,...
Nuevas crónicas palestinas
El fin del proceso de paz (1995-2002)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Desde el corazón de las tinieblas del conflicto palestino se alza de nuevo la voz de Edward Said para mostrarnos la evolución de la situación en Palestina después del triunfo electoral de Sharon y de los atentados del 11 de septiembre.
La victoria de Sharon en las elecciones israelíes...
On Late Style
Music and Literature Against the Grain
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2008
In this fascinating book, Edward Said looks at the creative contradictions that often mark the late works of literary and musical artists. Said shows how the approaching death of an artist can make its way into his work, examining essays, poems, novels, films, and operas by such artists as Beethoven,...
by Edward W. Said
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 9, 2013
Un clásico imprescindible para comprender los eternos malentendidos sobre el mundo islámico.
En estos tiempos en que los medios de comunicación nos inundan y se ven inundados por imágenes y estereotipos que se refieren al Islam y a los musulmanes, Edward W. Said nos ofrece una descripción...
Paralelismos y paradojas
Reflexiones sobre música y sociedad
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Un libro de ideas originales y sorprendentes sobre música, política y cultura que despliega un derroche de inteligencia de dos grandes mitos de nuestra cultura contemporánea: Daniel Barenboim y Edward W. Said.
El israelí Daniel Barenboim -director de la orquesta Sinfónica de Chicago y...
Representaciones del intelectual
Ensayos sobre literatura clásica
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Said analiza la importancia de la visión ética y la lucha contra la arbitrariedad del poder por parte de los intelectuales.
Pocos autores han alcanzado la talla moral e intelectual del profesor Said, cuya figura crece con el paso del tiempo. Respetado incluso por sus detractores, en este...
Reflexiones sobre el exilio
Ensayos literarios y culturales seleccionados por el autor
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 9, 2013
La selección definitiva de los ensayos culturales y literarios de Edward W. Said realizada por el propio autor.
Este libro reúne ensayos sobre temas culturales y literarios escritos por Edward W. Said a lo largo de tres décadas de intenso trabajo intelectual y político. Vistos en conjunto...
Mimesis
The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (New Expanded Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how...
by Edward W. Said
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 24, 2018
Publicada originalmente en 1993, Cultura e imperialismo es una obra indispensable que restablece el diálogo entre la literatura y la vida, y permite comprender uno de los procesos históricos y culturales más complejos de la modernidad.
En el siglo XIX y principios del XX, mientras las grandes...