wyszukanych pozycji: 7
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The Genre of Autobiography in Victorian Literature
ISBN: 9780472751556 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Clinton Machann challenges recent popular approaches to the Victorian autobiography that treat the genre ahistorically or as a subgenre of fiction. Machann argues instead for considering these autobiographies intertextually and as a historically defined genre that can profitably be studied as nonfiction and as a referential art. The plots of Victorian autobiographies are highly variable in terms of developing motifs and tropes. Autobiographers undergo spiritual and mental crises, live out Romantic and biblical myths, follow historical and scientific paradigms and the dynamic patterns of their...
Clinton Machann challenges recent popular approaches to the Victorian autobiography that treat the genre ahistorically or as a subgenre of fiction. Ma...
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121,95 |
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Masculinity in Four Victorian Epics: A Darwinist Reading
ISBN: 9781032929187 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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190,58 |
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Masculinity in Four Victorian Epics: A Darwinist Reading
ISBN: 9780754666875 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Offering provocative readings of Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, Clough's Amours de Voyage, and Browning's The Ring and the Book, Clinton Machann brings to bear the ideas and methods of literary Darwinism to shed light on the central issue of masculinity in the Victorian epic. This critical approach enables Machann to take advantage of important research in evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, anthropology, among other scientific fields, and to bring the concept of human nature into his discussions of the poems. The importance of the Victorian long poem...
Offering provocative readings of Tennyson's Idylls of the King, Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh, Clough's Amours de Voyage, and Browning's The Ring an...
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733,16 |
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Czech Voices: Stories from Texas in the Amerikán Národní Kalendárvolume 39
ISBN: 9780890968468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Texas A&M University Press has released a paperback edition of "Czech Voices: Stories from ""Texas"" in the Amerikan narodni kalenda. "Originally published in 1991, "Czech Voices "comprises ten short memoir-essays written by some of the earliest Czech immigrants to Texas. Translated and edited by Clinton Machann and James W. Mendl, Jr., "Czech Voices" offers a clear window to the lives of Czech immigrants on a difficult frontier.
Each of the ten autobiographical sketches had been published in the "Amerikan narodni kalenda "(a Czech-language magazine in Chicago. (That publication s... Texas A&M University Press has released a paperback edition of "Czech Voices: Stories from ""Texas"" in the Amerikan narodni kalenda. "Originally publ...
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71,98 |
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Krasna Amerika: A Study of Texas Czechs, 1851-1939
ISBN: 9781571685650 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Krasna Amerika (Beautiful America) will make Texans of Czech descent proud of their heritage. Various aspects of Czech Texan life are presented in a scholarly yet lively manner. The book tells the story of early Czech settlements in Texas; about the persistence of the Czech language in subsequent generations; the folklore, music, festivals, Czech cooking and much more.
Krasna Amerika (Beautiful America) will make Texans of Czech descent proud of their heritage. Various aspects of Czech Texan life are presented in a s...
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95,62 |
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Katherine Anne Porter and Texas: An Uneasy Relationship
ISBN: 9780890964415 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Katherine Anne Porter, best known for her novel "Ship of Fools," was an inveterate traveler--a cosmopolitan jet-setter in the days before jets. But she was of humble origins, born in 1890 in the tiny hamlet of Indian Creek, Texas, and christened Callie Russell Porter. For most of her life she maintained a stormy relationship with her home state. That relationship is documented in a book published by Texas A&M University Press in 1990, the centennial of the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's birth.
Edited by Clinton Machann and William Bedford Clark, "Katherine Anne Porter and Texas: ""An""... Katherine Anne Porter, best known for her novel "Ship of Fools," was an inveterate traveler--a cosmopolitan jet-setter in the days before jets. But sh...
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127,03 |
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Selected Letters of Matthew Arnold
ISBN: 9781349115877 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Contains a selection of letters from the English poet Matthew Arnold.
Contains a selection of letters from the English poet Matthew Arnold.
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201,24 |