wyszukanych pozycji: 8
Canadian Literature
ISBN: 9780748621620 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. An important critical study of Canadian literature, placing internationally successful anglophone Canadian authors in the context of their national literary history. While the focus of the book is on twentieth-century and contemporary writing, it also charts the historical development of Canadian literature and discusses important eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors. The chapters focus on four central topics in Canadian culture: Ethnicity, Race, Colonisation; Wildernesses, Cities, Regions; Desire; and Histories and Stories. Each chapter combines case studies of five key texts with a...
An important critical study of Canadian literature, placing internationally successful anglophone Canadian authors in the context of their national li...
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124,44 zł |
Literary Culture and Female Authorship in Canada 1760-2000
ISBN: 9789042009059 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Hammill traces the evolving situation of the Canadian woman writer over the course of two centuries, and explores the impact of social and cultural change on the experience of writing in Canada.
Hammill traces the evolving situation of the Canadian woman writer over the course of two centuries, and explores the impact of social and cultural ch...
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166,89 zł |
Sophistication: A Literary and Cultural History
ISBN: 9781846312328 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In an era obsessed with celebrity and glamour, 'sophistication' has come to be perceived as the most desirable of human qualities but it was not always so. In this fascinating book Faye Hammill explores how a word that once meant falsification and perversion came to be regarded as signifying discrimination and refinement. Hammill provides a literary, linguistic and cultural route from the Romantics, via the emergence of the Dandy and then of Modernism, to that most sophisticated of figures, Noel Coward, and on to the meaning of sophistication in the twenty-first century. Ranging widely across...
In an era obsessed with celebrity and glamour, 'sophistication' has come to be perceived as the most desirable of human qualities but it was not alway...
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177,45 zł |
Canadian Literature
ISBN: 9780748621613 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. An important critical study of Canadian literature, placing internationally successful anglophone Canadian authors in the context of their national literary history. While the focus of the book is on twentieth-century and contemporary writing, it also charts the historical development of Canadian literature and discusses important eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors. The chapters focus on four central topics in Canadian culture: Ethnicity, Race, Colonisation; Wildernesses, Cities, Regions; Desire; and Histories and Stories. Each chapter combines case studies of five key texts with a...
An important critical study of Canadian literature, placing internationally successful anglophone Canadian authors in the context of their national li...
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440,90 zł |
Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture Between the Wars
ISBN: 9780292726062 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. As mass media burgeoned in the years between the first and second world wars, so did another phenomenon--celebrity. Beginning in Hollywood with the studio-orchestrated transformation of uncredited actors into brand-name stars, celebrity also spread to writers, whose personal appearances and private lives came to fascinate readers as much as their work. Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars profiles seven American, Canadian, and British women writers--Dorothy Parker, Anita Loos, Mae West, L. M. Montgomery, Margaret Kennedy, Stella Gibbons, and E. M.... As mass media burgeoned in the years between the first and second world wars, so did another phenomenon--celebrity. Beginning in Hollywood with the... |
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103,69 zł |
Modernism's Print Cultures
ISBN: 9781472573254 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The print culture of the early twentieth century has become a major area of interest in contemporary Modernist Studies. Modernism's Print Cultures surveys the explosion of scholarship in this field and provides an incisive, well-informed guide for students and scholars alike. Surveying the key critical work of recent decades, the book explores such topics as: - Periodical publishing - from 'little magazines' such as Rhythm to glossy publications such as Vanity Fair The print culture of the early twentieth century has become a major area of interest in contemporary Modernist Studies. Modernism's Print Cultur... |
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140,00 zł |
Modernism's Print Cultures
ISBN: 9781472573261 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The print culture of the early twentieth century has become a major area of interest in contemporary Modernist Studies. Modernism's Print Cultures surveys the explosion of scholarship in this field and provides an incisive, well-informed guide for students and scholars alike. Surveying the key critical work of recent decades, the book explores such topics as: - Periodical publishing - from 'little magazines' such as Rhythm to glossy publications such as Vanity Fair The print culture of the early twentieth century has become a major area of interest in contemporary Modernist Studies. Modernism's Print Cultur... |
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492,77 zł |
Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing 1900-1950
ISBN: 9781403916921 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 343 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This study provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging resource which includes information on many previously neglected British women writers (novelists, poets, dramatists, autobiographers) and topics. It provides contextualizing material, with concise introductions to related topics, including organizations, movements, genres and publications.
This study provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging resource which includes information on many previously neglected British women writers (novelists...
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382,84 zł |