wyszukanych pozycji: 26
Gesher; Russian Theatre in Israel - A Study of Cultural Colonization
ISBN: 9780820476155 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Gesher Theatre opened in 1990 as a marginal immigrant troupe in Tel Aviv, and soon became one of the most popular innovative theatres in Israel. It has now achieved international acclaim. However, because its bilingual performances and multicultural cast challenge cornerstones of Zionism, the mainstream Israeli media constantly debate Gesher s position. Gesher: Russian Theatre in Israel A Study of Cultural Colonization discusses Gesher s history and analyzes its controversial media reception. What emerges is an extension of postcolonial theory to new cultural contexts, leading to a...
Gesher Theatre opened in 1990 as a marginal immigrant troupe in Tel Aviv, and soon became one of the most popular innovative theatres in Israel. It ha...
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304,42 zł |
The Moral World of «Billy Budd»
ISBN: 9781433123535 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The Moral World of Billy Budd sees the novel not as inviting us to choose between the testament of acceptance and the testament of resistance, those views that, respectively, support and critique Captain Vere but rather as challenging us to experience the difficulty of making decisions in the world. The first part is devoted to an intensive examination of the evolution of the two testaments, including analyses of the three book-length studies of the novel, climaxing with Wenke s argument that the Genetic Text shows the novel s active pursuit of ambiguity. The second part analyzes the...
The Moral World of Billy Budd sees the novel not as inviting us to choose between the testament of acceptance and the testament of resistance, ...
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536,72 zł |
Before the Sun Has Set: Retribution in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor
ISBN: 9780820481661 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 147 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This detailed analysis of the theme of retribution is a key to understanding the fiction of Flannery O Connor. An idea central to the Bible, Dante, and Chaucer one is paid back for the evil one does or for failure to do good retribution expresses O Connor s interest as a writer and defines the contour of her achievement as an artist. Within the twenty-year span of her writing career, O Connor s notion of retribution expanded from her original concept in her first story, -The Geranium, - of retribution as personal and familial, to her final version in her last story, -Judgement Day, - which...
This detailed analysis of the theme of retribution is a key to understanding the fiction of Flannery O Connor. An idea central to the Bible, Dante, an...
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442,46 zł |
Black Banners: Genre Scenes from the Turn of the Century- Translated and with an Introduction by Donald K. Weaver
ISBN: 9781433107832 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Black Banners, written in 1904, is August Strindberg s last major novel of social criticism. It embodies an attack on the decadence and immorality he perceived in the literary circles and cultural life of Stockholm at the turn of twentieth century and led to the so-called -Strindberg Feud-. It is considered by many to be the most notorious roman a clef in Swedish literature and it occasioned the greatest scandal of a career marked by controversy."
Black Banners, written in 1904, is August Strindberg s last major novel of social criticism. It embodies an attack on the decadence and immoral...
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380,91 zł |
Casting Off the Shackles of Family: Ibsen's Nora Figure in Modern Chinese Literature, 1918-1942
ISBN: 9780820433448 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Nora, a character from Henrik Ibsen s play A Doll House, was a model for liberal-thinking Chinese women during the May Fourth Era of the 1920s and 1930s. Nora-like figures appeared often in modern Chinese literature to illustrate the issue of women s emancipation. Casting Off the Shackles of Family explores the reception and transformation of the Nora theme in the works of Lu Hsun, Mao Tun, Ting Ling, and other May Fourth writers. In particular, it uses female heroic journey theories to trace women s pursuit of independence and freedom in modern China."
Nora, a character from Henrik Ibsen s play A Doll House, was a model for liberal-thinking Chinese women during the May Fourth Era of the 1920s ...
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449,67 zł |
In Their Own Terms; American Literary Historiography in the United States and Italy
ISBN: 9781433101885 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. In a historical period of international and global frames of literary investigation, In Their Own Terms is a timely and valuable contribution to cross-cultural forms of dialogue between non-American modes of analysis and US American literary studies. It is a wide-ranging and provocative look into American literary historiography that engages readers in analytical examinations of US literary histories considered landmarks in their field, from the early nineteenth-century work of Samuel L. Knapp to the newly completed Cambridge volumes. It focuses on texts that have had a decisive...
In a historical period of international and global frames of literary investigation, In Their Own Terms is a timely and valuable contribution t...
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500,66 zł |
Literary Intellectuals: East and West
ISBN: 9781433132278 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 155 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The modernist movement, in literature as well as in criticism, provides a very instructive case of iconoclastic canon-change and subsequent canon-formation, and modern British literary criticism has been remarkably canon-forming in its basic tendency. This is particularly true of the line in British criticism that has revealed strong cultural preoccupations primarily centered on the works of T. S. Eliot and F. R. Leavis. George Orwell is a figure in the history of British cultural criticism who links the pre-war and the post-war generations of modernist writers and critics. Raymond Williams...
The modernist movement, in literature as well as in criticism, provides a very instructive case of iconoclastic canon-change and subsequent canon-form...
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213,24 zł |
Weimar and Work; Labor, Literature, and Industrial Modernity on the Weimar Left
ISBN: 9781433117954 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Weimar and Work: Labor, Literature, and Industrial Modernity on the Weimar Left analyzes writing about work that was published in communist and anarchist newspapers during the Weimar Republic. By discussing texts that have been almost completely neglected, this book s approach departs from existing scholarship on Weimar in two significant ways. First, it analyzes these texts in the context of the period s dominant theories, practices, psychologies, and utopian ideas concerning labor. Due to the proximity of artistic and industrial -production, - particularly in the minds and practices...
Weimar and Work: Labor, Literature, and Industrial Modernity on the Weimar Left analyzes writing about work that was published in communist and...
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442,46 zł |
John Barth and Postmodernism: Spatiality, Travel, Montage
ISBN: 9780820463858 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. John Barth s eminence as a postmodernist is indisputable. However, much of the criticism dealing with his work is prompted by his own theories of -exhaustion- and subsequent -replenishment, - leaving his writing relatively untouched by theories of postmodernism in general. This book changes that by focusing on the relationship between Barth s aesthetic and the ideology critique of the historical avant-gardes, which were the first to mobilize art against itself and its institutional practices and demands. Examining Barth s metafictional parodies in the light of theories of space and...
John Barth s eminence as a postmodernist is indisputable. However, much of the criticism dealing with his work is prompted by his own theories of -exh...
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580,25 zł |
Domestic Biographies: Stowe, Howells, James, and Wharton at Home
ISBN: 9781433112249 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Domestic Biographies: Stowe, Howells, James, and Wharton at Home presents comparative domestic biographies of four American Realist writers: Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. Drawing upon extensive primary sources to reconstruct the authors private lives, Domestic Biographies illuminates how they lived when no one was looking. In particular this book examines how the authors worked and wrote at home and how their home life in turn made its way into their novels and non-fiction. Domestic Biographies offers an innovative and...
Domestic Biographies: Stowe, Howells, James, and Wharton at Home presents comparative domestic biographies of four American Realist writers: Ha...
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246,73 zł |
Rainer Maria Rilke: The Poet's Trajectory
ISBN: 9780820474014 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 185 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Influenced by Hegel and Nietzsche, and inspired by stays in Italy and France, as well as travels to Russia, Spain, and North Africa, Rainer Maria Rilke nevertheless sought desperately to be original. He rejected all -idees recues, - whether they were of God, reality, or literature, instead creating his own absolute. He searched for the -real, - re-formed German poetry, and revolutionized Western narrative prose with Malte Laurids Brigge. While Rilke s work is marked by two cesuras, after which it displays important advances in diction and the figuration of verbal icons, it becomes ever more...
Influenced by Hegel and Nietzsche, and inspired by stays in Italy and France, as well as travels to Russia, Spain, and North Africa, Rainer Maria Rilk...
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350,01 zł |
Silence and the Silenced; Interdisciplinary Perspectives
ISBN: 9781433123436 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Silence and the Silenced: Interdisciplinary Perspectives comprises a collection of essays from North American and European scholars who examine the various ways in which the theme of silence is developed in literary narratives as well as in such visual media as photography, film, painting, and architecture. The questions of silence and the presence or absence of voice are also explored in the arena of performance, with examples relating to pantomime and live installations. As the book title indicates, two fundamental aspects of silence are investigated: silence freely chosen as a means...
Silence and the Silenced: Interdisciplinary Perspectives comprises a collection of essays from North American and European scholars who examine...
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507,62 zł |
Antigone's Daughters: Gender, Family, and Expression in the Modern Novel
ISBN: 9781433102820 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Antigone s Daughters presents various readings of the classical myth of Antigone as interpreted through modern feminist and psychoanalytic literary theories. Topics such as femininity, education, and establishing selfhood amidst the restrictions of the patriarchal society presented by Sophocles provide the foundation for the modern novel. This study serves as a model for the comparative interpretation of literary works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries including the writings of George Sand (Indiana), Karolina Pavlova (A Double Life), Nikolai Chernyshevsky (What...
Antigone s Daughters presents various readings of the classical myth of Antigone as interpreted through modern feminist and psychoanalytic lite...
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493,20 zł |
Cemetery Plots from Victoria to Verdun; Literary Representations of Epitaph and Burial from the 19th Century through the Great War
ISBN: 9781433115233 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Cemetery Plots from Victoria to Verdun considers the rhetoric of burial reform, cemeterial customs, and epitaphic writing in Great Britain from the mid-nineteenth century through the Great War. The first half of the book studies mid- and late-Victorian responses to death and burial, including epitaph collections, burial reform documents, and fictional representations of burial and epitaph writing, especially in the novels of Charles Dickens. The second half studies the same discourse of burial, mourning, and epitaphs in select fiction, memoirs, diaries, correspondence, and poems...
Cemetery Plots from Victoria to Verdun considers the rhetoric of burial reform, cemeterial customs, and epitaphic writing in Great Britain from...
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435,25 zł |
Literary Intellectuals; East and West
ISBN: 9781433121425 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 155 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The modernist movement, in literature as well as in criticism, provides a very instructive case of iconoclastic canon-change and subsequent canon-formation, and modern British literary criticism has been remarkably canon-forming in its basic tendency. This is particularly true of the line in British criticism that has revealed strong cultural preoccupations primarily centered on the works of T. S. Eliot and F. R. Leavis. George Orwell is a figure in the history of British cultural criticism who links the pre-war and the post-war generations of modernist writers and critics. Raymond Williams...
The modernist movement, in literature as well as in criticism, provides a very instructive case of iconoclastic canon-change and subsequent canon-form...
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435,25 zł |
The Island Motif in the Fiction of L.M. Montgomery, Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, and Other Canadian Women Novelists
ISBN: 9780820467924 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Islands, both literal and figurative, recur in fiction authored by many prominent Canadian women writers. Using a critical lens based on Northrop Frye and Julia Kristeva, this book closely examines fourteen novels by eight twentieth-century authors, emphasizing works by L. M. Montgomery, Margaret Laurence, and Margaret Atwood. Several of the novels, such as Montgomery s Anne of Green Gables, Laurence s A Jest of God and The Diviners, Atwood s Surfacing and Bodily Harm, Alice Munro s The Lives of Girls and Women, and Gabrielle Roy s The Tin...
Islands, both literal and figurative, recur in fiction authored by many prominent Canadian women writers. Using a critical lens based on Northrop Frye...
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344,85 zł |
Sanctuaries in Washington Irving's «The Sketch Book»: The Sketch Book
ISBN: 9781433125737 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The present volume comprises a collection of wonderful and insightful essays exploring the theme of sanctuaries in Washington Irving s The Sketch Book. These are sanctuaries of natural beauty, peacefulness, architectural splendor, and mythical vitality. In addition, the book presents a short history of sanctuaries in nineteenth-century American and European literature."
The present volume comprises a collection of wonderful and insightful essays exploring the theme of sanctuaries in Washington Irving s The Sketch B...
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548,57 zł |
Scheherazade's Daughters; The Power of Storytelling in Ecofeminist Change
ISBN: 9781433118715 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Scheherazade, the storyteller of 1001 Arabian Nights, recounts stories literally to save her people, and in Scheherazade s Daughters, Barbara Bennett explores how contemporary female authors attempt to save their own world by telling compelling stories that disseminate ideas of justice and equality for all living things, a philosophy called ecofeminism. Bennett examines how ecofeminism works in works by Margaret Atwood (Surfacing, The Handmaid s Tale, and Oryx & Crake), Barbara Kingsolver (Animal Dreams, The Poisonwood Bible, and Prodigal Summer),...
Scheherazade, the storyteller of 1001 Arabian Nights, recounts stories literally to save her people, and in Scheherazade s Daughters, Ba...
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471,57 zł |
Hunter of Themes: The Interplay of Word and Thing in the Works of Sigizmund Krzizanovskij
ISBN: 9780820461519 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The phantasmagoric short stories and satirical novellas of the Russian modernist Sigizmund Kr i anovskij (1887-1950) are a unique amalgam of verbal pyrotechnics, scientific erudition, and philosophical contemplation. This book examines how the raw materials of Russian byt are transformed through Kr i anovskij s ironic wit and rich imagination. Affinities with the theories of his Russian Formalist and Futurist contemporaries are revealed in Kr i anovskij s use of literary devices to generate the themes of his experimental prose. It demonstrates how paranomasia and other types of pun...
The phantasmagoric short stories and satirical novellas of the Russian modernist Sigizmund Kr i anovskij (1887-1950) are a unique amalgam of verbal py...
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435,25 zł |
Images and Imagery: Frames, Borders, Limits - Interdisciplinary Perspectives
ISBN: 9780820474236 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 293 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Images and Imagery: Frames, Borders, Limits Interdisciplinary Perspectives is a collection of essays by scholars from around the world exploring the complex interactions between literary texts and visual images (in the form of paintings, photographs, and films). Giving coherence to these wide-ranging contributions is the theme of frames, borders, and limits. The eighteen authors, each from a particular point of view, examine works that reach beyond the limits, both cognitive and expressive, of any single mode of expression."
Images and Imagery: Frames, Borders, Limits Interdisciplinary Perspectives is a collection of essays by scholars from around the world explorin...
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522,30 zł |