ilość książek w kategorii: 114453
The Real Thing: Testimonial Discourse and Latin America
ISBN: 9780822318514 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Presented as the authentic testimony of the disenfranchised, the colonized, and the oppressed, testimonio has in the last two decades emerged as one of the most significant genres of Latin America's post-boom literature. In the political battles that have taken place around the formation of the canon, the testimonio holds a special place: no other single genre of literature has taken up such a large part of current debate. Initially hailed in the 1970s as a genuine form of resistance literature, testimonio has since undergone a significant change in its critical...
Presented as the authentic testimony of the disenfranchised, the colonized, and the oppressed, testimonio has in the last two decades emerged a...
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494,43 zł |
The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective
ISBN: 9780822318606 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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494,43 zł |
Loose Ends: Closure and Crisis in the American Social Text
ISBN: 9780822318873 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Offering a study of American cultural production from the colonial era onwards, this book takes up the loose ends of popular American narratives to craft a theory of narrative closure.
Offering a study of American cultural production from the colonial era onwards, this book takes up the loose ends of popular American narratives to cr...
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499,53 zł |
Indian Nation: Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms
ISBN: 9780822319504 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Documents the contributions of Native Americans to the notion of American nationhood and to concepts of American identity at a crucial, defining time in US history. This book examines the rhetoric and writings of nineteenth-century Native Americans, including William Apess, Black Hawk, George Copway, John Rollin Ridge, and Sarah Winnemucca.
Documents the contributions of Native Americans to the notion of American nationhood and to concepts of American identity at a crucial, defining time ...
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468,94 zł |
Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel
ISBN: 9780822320364 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Refuting commonly held beliefs within women's and lesbian history, feminist theory, and histories of the novel, this book challenges the idea that sex between women was unimaginable in British culture before the late nineteenth century.It is of interest to readers engaged in literary and queer theory.
Refuting commonly held beliefs within women's and lesbian history, feminist theory, and histories of the novel, this book challenges the idea that sex...
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482,90 zł |
The Story of All Things: Writing the Self in English Renaissance Narrative Poetry
ISBN: 9780822321019 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Explores the ways in which large historic processes--e.g., the technological mastery of nature, a world-wide market economy--and important events in the lives of individual authors interact to affect the representation of character in the English Renaissa
Explores the ways in which large historic processes--e.g., the technological mastery of nature, a world-wide market economy--and important events in t...
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479,14 zł |
Countermodernism and Francophone Literary Culture: The Game of Slipknot
ISBN: 9780822321101 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Keith L. Walker traverses the traditionally imposed boundaries of geography and race as he examines the literary culture produced by French speakers and writers born outside France. Focusing on the commonalities revealed in their shared language and colonial history, Walker examines for the first time the work of six writers who, while artistically distinct and geographically scattered, share complex sensibilities regarding their own relationship to France and the French language and, as he demonstrates, produce a counterdiscourse to their colonizers' modern literary...
Keith L. Walker traverses the traditionally imposed boundaries of geography and race as he examines the literary culture produced by French speakers a...
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494,43 zł |
Closet Devotions
ISBN: 9780822321804 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Traces the relays between these cultural formations by examining the issue of "sacred eroticism," the literary or artistic expression of devotional feelings in erotic terms that has repeatedly occurred over the centuries.
Traces the relays between these cultural formations by examining the issue of "sacred eroticism," the literary or artistic expression of devotional fe...
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112,09 zł |
A Master on the Periphery of Capitalism: Machado de Assis
ISBN: 9780822322108 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A translation (from the original Portuguese) of the author's renowned study of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839-1908). It investigates in particular how social structure gets internalised as literary form, arguing that Machado's style replicates and reveals the deeply embedded class divisions of nineteenth-century Brazil.
A translation (from the original Portuguese) of the author's renowned study of Brazilian novelist Machado de Assis (1839-1908). It investigates in par...
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468,94 zł |
Utopia and Cosmopolis: Globalization in the Era of American Literary Realism
ISBN: 9780822322306 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Focusing on both utopian and realist narratives, this book offers a revaluation of American literature and culture at the dawn of the twentieth century. Ranging over history, politics, philosophy, and literature, it aims to contribute to debates about utopian thought, globalisation, and American literature.
Focusing on both utopian and realist narratives, this book offers a revaluation of American literature and culture at the dawn of the twentieth centur...
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458,76 zł |
The Poetics of Transition: Emerson, Pragmatism, and American Literary Modernism
ISBN: 9780822322771 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a theme common to both movements. This book will interest scholars and students in the fields of literary criticism, neopragmatism, literary modernism, and American literature.
Examines the connection between American pragmatism and literary modernism by focusing on the concept of transition as a theme common to both movement...
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468,94 zł |
Tropicopolitans: Colonialism and Agency, 1688-1804
ISBN: 9780822322832 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Presents an analysis of texts that accompanied European commercial and imperial expansion from the Glorious Revolution through the French Revolution. This book considers such texts as Behn's "Oroonoko", Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" and "Captain Singleton", and Swift's "Gulliver's Travels". It is suitable for scholars engaged in post colonial studies.
Presents an analysis of texts that accompanied European commercial and imperial expansion from the Glorious Revolution through the French Revolution. ...
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545,40 zł |
The Mouth That Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China
ISBN: 9780822323082 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Chinese ideogram chi is far richer in connotation than the equivalent English verb to eat. Chi can also be read as the mouth that begs for food and words. A concept manifest in the twentieth-century Chinese political reality of revolution and massacre, chi suggests a narrative of desire that moves from lack to satiation and back again. In China such fundamental acts as eating or refusing to eat can carry enormous symbolic weight. This book examines the twentieth-century Chinese political experience as it is represented in literature through hunger, cooking, eating,...
The Chinese ideogram chi is far richer in connotation than the equivalent English verb to eat. Chi can also be read as the mouth that be...
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545,40 zł |
Producing American Races: Henry James, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison
ISBN: 9780822323297 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Looks at how racial identity is produced in novels by James, Faulkner and Morrison and makes the non-essentialist argument that "race" becomes visible to us through a process of image production and exchange.
Looks at how racial identity is produced in novels by James, Faulkner and Morrison and makes the non-essentialist argument that "race" becomes visible...
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468,94 zł |
The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order
ISBN: 9780822323808 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Tales of child sacrifice, demon lovers, incestual relations, and returns from the dead are part of English and Irish gothic literature. This book shows how Anglo-Irish gothic works written from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries reflect the destructive effects of imperialism on the children.
Tales of child sacrifice, demon lovers, incestual relations, and returns from the dead are part of English and Irish gothic literature. This book show...
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494,43 zł |
The Color of Sex: Whiteness, Heterosexuality, and the Fictions of White Supremacy
ISBN: 9780822326267 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In The Color of Sex Mason Stokes offers new ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterosexuality. Stokes examines a wide range of white-supremacist American texts written and produced between 1852 and 1915 literary romances, dime novels, religious and scientific tracts, film and exposes whiteness as a tangled network of racial and sexual desire. Stokes locates these white-supremacist texts amid the anti-racist efforts of African American writers and activists, deepening our understanding of both American and African American...
In The Color of Sex Mason Stokes offers new ways of thinking about whiteness by exploring its surprisingly ambivalent partnership with heterose...
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468,94 zł |
Useful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect
ISBN: 9780822326632 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Drawing on a wide array of literary, scientific, and popular works of the period, this book focuses on the importance of scientific knowledge and its impact on Victorian culture. It presents a social, cultural, and literary history of this knowledge industry and traces its relationships within nineteenth-century literature.
Drawing on a wide array of literary, scientific, and popular works of the period, this book focuses on the importance of scientific knowledge and its ...
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494,43 zł |
Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War
ISBN: 9781107109834 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book shows how the Civil War took imaginative shape across the nineteenth century, inflecting literary forms for decades after 1865.
This book shows how the Civil War took imaginative shape across the nineteenth century, inflecting literary forms for decades after 1865.
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443,40 zł |
Coleridge Biographia Literaria Chapters I-IV, XIV-XXII, Wordsworth Prefaces and Essays on Poetry 1800-1815
ISBN: 9781107536821 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1920, this book presents chapters 1-4 and 14-22 from Coleridge's Biographia Literaria.
Originally published in 1920, this book presents chapters 1-4 and 14-22 from Coleridge's Biographia Literaria.
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132,48 zł |
Stories of the Victorian Writers
ISBN: 9781107544567 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1922, this book aimed to acquaint the reader with the lives and works of eleven eminent Victorian writers.
Originally published in 1922, this book aimed to acquaint the reader with the lives and works of eleven eminent Victorian writers.
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107,00 zł |