wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Grammars of Colonialism: Representing Languages in Colonial South Africa
ISBN: 9781403933812 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The study of languages was crucial to colonial power in 18th and 19th-century South Africa. This important book examines representations of the South African Bantu languages Xhosa and Zulu, revealing the ways in which colonial linguistics contributed to both the making of the colonial order and to instabilities at the heart of the project.
The study of languages was crucial to colonial power in 18th and 19th-century South Africa. This important book examines representations of the South ...
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384,63 zł |
End of empire and the English novel since 1945
ISBN: 9780719097454 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Particular genres are also discussed, including the family saga, travel writing, detective fiction and popular romances. All included reflect on the predicament of an England which no longer lies at the centre of imperial power, arriving at a fascinating diversity of conclusions about the meaning and consequences of the end of empire and the...
This first book-length study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, ...
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108,52 zł |
Bad English: Literature, Multilingualism, and the Politics of Language in Contemporary Britain
ISBN: 9781526108845 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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461,42 zł |
End of Empire and the English Novel CB
ISBN: 9780719085789 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George Orwell and William Golding to Penelope Lively, Alan Hollinghurst and Ian McEwan. Particular genres are also discussed, including the family saga, travel writing, detective fiction and popular romances.All included reflect on the predicament of an England which no longer lies at the centre of imperial power, arriving at a fascinating diversity of conclusions about the meaning and consequences of the end of empire and the priveleged location of...
This study explores the history of postwar England during the end of empire through a reading of novels which appeared at the time, moving from George...
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488,57 zł |
Bad English: Literature, Multilingualism, and the Politics of Language in Contemporary Britain
ISBN: 9781526163820 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Bad English investigates the impact of increasing language diversity, precipitated by migration, globalisation, and new forms of communication, in transforming contemporary literature in Britain. Considering writers whose work engages experimentally, playfully, and ambivalently with English's power, while exploring what it means to move between forms of language, it makes the case for literature as the pre-eminent medium to probe the terms of linguistic belonging, and for a diverse and growing field of writing in Britain defined by its inside/outside relationship to English in its...
Bad English investigates the impact of increasing language diversity, precipitated by migration, globalisation, and new forms of communication, in tra...
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135,71 zł |
Multilingual Currents in Literature, Translation and Culture
ISBN: 9781138120532 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. At a time increasingly dominated by globalization, migration, and the clash between supranational and ultranational ideologies, the relationship between language and borders has become more complicated and, in many ways, more consequential than ever. This book shows how concepts of 'language' and 'multilingualism' look different when viewed from Belize, Lagos, or London, and asks how ideas about literature and literary form must be remade in a contemporary cultural marketplace that is both linguistically diverse and interconnected, even as it remains profoundly unequal. Bringing together... At a time increasingly dominated by globalization, migration, and the clash between supranational and ultranational ideologies, the relationship be... |
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799,34 zł |
Multilingual Currents in Literature, Translation and Culture
ISBN: 9780367667603 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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237,17 zł |