wyszukanych pozycji: 10
How Celia Changed Her Mind and Selected Stories: Rose Terry Cooke
ISBN: 9780813511665 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This anthology of fiction by Rose Terry Cooke contains eleven stories, drawn together for the first time in one volume, that reflect the whole spectrum of Cooke's career from the 1850s to the 1890s. It restores to American literature the work of a writer highly admired in her own day and increasingly recognized today as an important figure in the development of realism, the evolution of regionalism as a literary form, and the emergence of women writers in nineteenth-century fiction.
Cooke's stories are rich literarily and historically; her command of dialect, ear for dialogue,... This anthology of fiction by Rose Terry Cooke contains eleven stories, drawn together for the first time in one volume, that reflect the whole spectru...
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160,80 zł |
Short Fiction by Black Women, 1900-1920
ISBN: 9780195061956 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The forty-six short stories collected in this volume were originally published in The Colored American Magazine or The Crisis between 1900 and 1920. The Introduction to the collection, written by Elizabeth Ammons, explores the role played by the major black magazines of that period and demonstrates how these two magazines provided the largest secular outlets for short fiction by black women at the turn of the century.
The forty-six short stories collected in this volume were originally published in The Colored American Magazine or The Crisis betwee...
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792,54 zł |
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Casebook
ISBN: 9780195166965 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. General for the Series: The Casebooks in Criticism introduce readers to the essential criticism on landmark works of literature and film. For each volume, a distinguished scholar who is an authority on the text has collected the most elucidating and distinctive scholarly essays on that work and added key supporting materials. Each volume includes a substantial introduction which considers the key features of the work, describes its publication history, and contextualizes its cultural import and contemporary reputation while also surveying the major approaches which have informed the works...
General for the Series: The Casebooks in Criticism introduce readers to the essential criticism on landmark works of literature and film. For each vol...
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168,41 zł |
Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin: A Casebook
ISBN: 9780195166958 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. General for the Series: The Casebooks in Criticism introduce readers to the essential criticism on landmark works of literature and film. For each volume, a distinguished scholar who is an authority on the text has collected the most elucidating and distinctive scholarly essays on that work and added key supporting materials. Each volume includes a substantial introduction which considers the key features of the work, describes its publication history, and contextualizes its cultural import and contemporary reputation while also surveying the major approaches which have informed the works...
General for the Series: The Casebooks in Criticism introduce readers to the essential criticism on landmark works of literature and film. For each vol...
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360,11 zł |
Conflicting Stories: American Women Writers at the Turn Into the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780195080384 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The early 1890s through the late 1920s saw an explosion in serious long fiction by women in the United States. Considering a wide range of authors--African American, Asian American, white American, and Native American--this book looks at the work of seventeen writers from that period: Frances Ellen Harper, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Sarah Orne Jewett, Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Kate Chopin, Pauline Hopkins, Gertrude Stein, Mary Austin, Sui Sin Far, Willa Cather, Humishuma, Jessie Fauset, Edith Wharton, Ellen Glasgow, Anzia Yezierska, Edith Summers Kelley, and Nella Larsen. The discussion focuses on...
The early 1890s through the late 1920s saw an explosion in serious long fiction by women in the United States. Considering a wide range of authors--Af...
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394,51 zł |
The House of Mirth
ISBN: 9780393624540 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "Professor Ammons' excellent edition is essential for students interested in a contextualized approach to Wharton's The House of Mirth." --Andrew Kopec, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne "A staple in my feminist theory and sex-gender courses, this novel provides endless opportunities for discussion of the situation of women, of performing 'feminine, ' and of the insecurities and dangers for women in a society with limited economic possibilities. This is an excellent edition and I appreciate it." --Paula Backscheider, Auburn University
"Professor Ammons' excellent edition is essential for students interested in a contextualized approach to Wharton's The House of Mirth." --An...
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70,93 zł |
The House of Mirth
ISBN: 9780393959017 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The text has been introduced and thoroughly annotated by the editor for student readers. Backgrounds and Contexts includes selections from Edith Wharton's letters; articles from the period about etiquette, vocations for women, factory life, and Working Girls' Clubs; excerpts from the work of contemporary social thinkers including Thorstein Veblen, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Olive Schreiner; and a consideration of anti-Semitism at the turn of the century by historian John Higham. Also included are Charles Dana Gibson's precautionary piece "Marrying for Money" (including four... The text has been introduced and thoroughly annotated by the editor for student readers. Backgrounds and Contexts includes selections from Edith Wh... |
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70,93 zł |
Sharing the Earth: An International Environmental Justice Reader
ISBN: 9780820347714 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The first of its kind, this anthology of eighty international primary literary texts--poems, short stories, personal essays, testimonials, activist statements, and group-authored visions--illuminates Environmental Justice as a concept and a movement worldwide in a way that is accessible to students, scholars, and general readers. Also included are historical selections that ground contemporary pieces in a continuum of activist concern for the earth and human justice, a much-needed but seldom available perspective. Arts and humanities are crucial in the ongoing effort to achieve an... The first of its kind, this anthology of eighty international primary literary texts--poems, short stories, personal essays, testimonials, activist... |
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201,89 zł |
Sharing the Earth: An International Environmental Justice Reader
ISBN: 9780820347707 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The first of its kind, this anthology of eighty international primary literary texts--poems, short stories, personal essays, testimonials, activist statements, and group-authored visions--illuminates Environmental Justice as a concept and a movement worldwide in a way that is accessible to students, scholars, and general readers. Also included are historical selections that ground contemporary pieces in a continuum of activist concern for the earth and human justice, a much-needed but seldom available perspective. Arts and humanities are crucial in the ongoing effort to achieve an... The first of its kind, this anthology of eighty international primary literary texts--poems, short stories, personal essays, testimonials, activist... |
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740,60 zł |
American Local Color Writing, 1880-1920
ISBN: 9780140436884 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The era in the United States between the Civil War and the end of World War I, was marked by increased nation-building, immigration, internal migration and racial tension. This period of time saw the rise of local colour literature, which described the peculiarities of regional life through "lived experiences." This anthology brings together works from every part of America, written by men and women of many cultures, ethnicities, ideologies and literary styles. The book features such familiar writers as Joel Chandler Harris, Kate Chopin, Hamlin Garland and Sarah Orne Jewett, and introduces...
The era in the United States between the Civil War and the end of World War I, was marked by increased nation-building, immigration, internal migratio...
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125,76 zł |