wyszukanych pozycji: 21
Imagining Apocalypse: Studies in Cultural Crisis
ISBN: 9780312222796 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This volume brings together essays by specialists in different disciplines on the cultural expression of apocalypse, in particular in anglophone science fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Approaching these works from historical, philosophical, linguistic and literary perspectives, the contributors examine the relationship between secular and spiritual apocalypse, connecting the fiction and films to their historical moment. Not surprisingly, war recurs throughout this material, as a critical turning-point, fulfilment of prophecy, or prelude to a new age. In particular the...
This volume brings together essays by specialists in different disciplines on the cultural expression of apocalypse, in particular in anglophone scien...
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388,20 zł |
Cinematic Fictions: The Impact of the Cinema on the American Novel Up to the Second World War
ISBN: 9781846318122 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The phrase 'cinematic fiction' has now been generally accepted into critical discourse, but is usually applied to post-war novels. This book asks a simple question: given their fascination with the new medium of film, did American novelists attempt to apply cinematic methods in their own writings? From its very beginnings the cinema has played a special role in defining American culture. Covering the period from the 1910s up to the Second World War, Cinematic Fictions offers new insights into classics like The Great Gatsby and The Grapes of Wrath discussing major writers' critical writings on...
The phrase 'cinematic fiction' has now been generally accepted into critical discourse, but is usually applied to post-war novels. This book asks a si...
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164,69 zł |
Imagining Apocalypse: Studies in Cultural Crisis
ISBN: 9781349622474 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This volume brings together essays by specialists in different disciplines on the cultural expression of apocalypse, in particular in anglophone science fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
This volume brings together essays by specialists in different disciplines on the cultural expression of apocalypse, in particular in anglophone scien...
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388,20 zł |
American Science Fiction and the Cold War : Literature and Film
ISBN: 9781853312274 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. American science fiction - in both literature and film - has played a key role in the portrayal of the fears inherent in the Cold War. Working through a series of key texts, this work investigates the political inflexions put on American narratives in the post-war decades by Cold War cultural circumstances. American society is a key element in the author's exploration of science fiction narratives which include Fahrenheit 451, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Dr Strangelove.
American science fiction - in both literature and film - has played a key role in the portrayal of the fears inherent in the Cold War. Working through...
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161,72 zł |
Literature and the Visual Media
ISBN: 9781843840565 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Fiction and film interrelate closely to each other, and the specially commissioned essays in this volume all consider different aspects of this relationship. Beginning with discussions of Dickens and Victorian literature, the contributors, all leading scholars in this field, demonstrate how visual devices like the magic lantern caught the interest of writers and affected their choice of subject and method. The impact of the cinema on the British modernists is then discussed, and the remaining essays provide detailed case studies on such subjects as Hemingway, Updike, and the depiction of...
Fiction and film interrelate closely to each other, and the specially commissioned essays in this volume all consider different aspects of this relati...
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339,10 zł |
Ray Bradbury
ISBN: 9780252080586 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. As much as any individual, Ray Bradbury brought science fiction's ideas into the mainstream. Yet he transcended the genre in both form and popularity, using its trappings to explore timely social concerns and the kaleidoscope of human experience while in the process becoming one of America's most beloved authors.
David Seed follows Bradbury's long career from the early short story masterpieces through his work in a wide variety of broadcast and film genres to the influential cultural commentary he spread via essays, speeches, and interviews. Mining Bradbury's classics and hard-to-find... As much as any individual, Ray Bradbury brought science fiction's ideas into the mainstream. Yet he transcended the genre in both form and popularity,...
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99,07 zł |
A Companion to Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781405112185 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 632 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers.
A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by sc...
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850,91 zł |
Nineteenth Century Science Fiction: Volume II: Experiments, Inventions, and Case Studies
ISBN: 9780367520830 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume presents a selection from the American and British fiction of the nineteenth century which was evolving into what we now know as science fiction. The sources are accompanied by editorial commentary, and will be of great interest to students and researchers of history and literature.
This volume presents a selection from the American and British fiction of the nineteenth century which was evolving into what we now know as science f...
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599,95 zł |
American Science Fiction and the Cold War: Literature and Film
ISBN: 9781579581954 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Seed, a reader in the department of English at the University of Liverpool, investigates political inflections in American science fiction during the Cold War. Nuclear holocaust, Russian invasion, and the perceived rise of totalitarianism in American society are explored in such science fiction narr
Seed, a reader in the department of English at the University of Liverpool, investigates political inflections in American science fiction during the ...
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704,29 zł |
Future Wars: The Anticipations and the Fears
ISBN: 9781846317552 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The subject of this timely book is that body of fiction which speculates in narrative form about the nature of wars likely to break out in the near or distant future. Although earlier instances occur, the origins of this mode lie primarily in the late nineteenth century but writing about future wars continues to this day with notable fiction on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Ranging widely across periods and conflicts real and imagined, and boasting contributions from the late I. F. Clarke, H. Bruce Franklin and Patrick Parrinder, Future Wars explores the fascinating process of... The subject of this timely book is that body of fiction which speculates in narrative form about the nature of wars likely to break out in the near or...
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601,32 zł |
American Travellers in Liverpool
ISBN: 9781789622041 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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336,07 zł |
Ray Bradbury
ISBN: 9780252038945 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. As much as any individual, Ray Bradbury brought science fiction's ideas into the mainstream. Yet he transcended the genre in both form and popularity, using its trappings to explore timely social concerns and the kaleidoscope of human experience while in the process becoming one of America's most beloved authors.
David Seed follows Bradbury's long career from the early short story masterpieces through his work in a wide variety of broadcast and film genres to the influential cultural commentary he spread via essays, speeches, and interviews. Mining Bradbury's classics and hard-to-find... As much as any individual, Ray Bradbury brought science fiction's ideas into the mainstream. Yet he transcended the genre in both form and popularity,...
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474,74 zł |
Anticipations: Essays on Early Science Fiction and Its Precursors
ISBN: 9780815626404 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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86,30 zł |
Nineteenth Century Science Fiction: Volume I: Experiments, Inventions, and Case Studies
ISBN: 9780367520823 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume presents a selection from the American and British fiction of the nineteenth century which was evolving into what we now know as science fiction.
This volume presents a selection from the American and British fiction of the nineteenth century which was evolving into what we now know as science f...
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599,95 zł |
The Fiction of Joseph Heller: Against the Grain
ISBN: 9781349200092 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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190,77 zł |
A Companion to Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781405184373 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by science fiction writers.
A Companion to Science Fiction assembles essays by an international range of scholars which discuss the contexts, themes and methods used by sc...
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235,86 zł |
Us Narratives of Nuclear Terrorism Since 9/11: Worst-Case Scenarios
ISBN: 9781137543271 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 347 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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582,32 zł |
US Narratives of Nuclear Terrorism Since 9/11: Worst-Case Scenarios
ISBN: 9781349713127 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This study examines the US fiction and related films which makes a series of interventions in the cultural debate over the threat of nuclear terrorism. It traces the beginnings of this anxiety from the 1970s, which increased during the 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The traumatic events of 9/11 became a major reference point for this fiction, which expressed the fear that of a second and worse 9/11. The study examines narratives of conspiracies which are detected and forestalled, and of others which lead to the worst of all outcomes - nuclear detonations, sometimes delivered by...
This study examines the US fiction and related films which makes a series of interventions in the cultural debate over the threat of nuclear terrorism...
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713,84 zł |
Level 7
ISBN: 9780299200640 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Level 7 is the diary of Officer X-127, who is assigned to stand guard at the "Push Buttons," a machine devised to activate the atomic destruction of the enemy, in the country's deepest bomb shelter. Four thousand feet underground, Level 7 has been built to withstand the most devastating attack and to be self-sufficient for five hundred years. Selected according to a psychological profile that assures their willingness to destroy all life on Earth, those who are sent down may never return. Level 7 is the diary of Officer X-127, who is assigned to stand guard at the "Push Buttons," a machine devised to activate the atomic destru... |
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107,93 zł |
Life and Limb: Perspectives on the American Civil War
ISBN: 9781781382509 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The contemporary perspectives - fiction, first-hand accounts, reportage and photographs - found in the pages of this collection give a unique insight into the experiences and suffering of those affected by the American Civil War. The essays and recollections detail some of the earliest attempts by medical professionals to understand and help the wounded, and look at how writers and poets were influenced by their own involvement as nurses, combatants and observers. So alongside the medical observations of figures such as Silas Weir Mitchell and William Keen, you'll find memoirs of writers...
The contemporary perspectives - fiction, first-hand accounts, reportage and photographs - found in the pages of this collection give a unique insight ...
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90,55 zł |