wyszukanych pozycji: 5
Beckett's Creatures: Art of Failure After the Holocaust
ISBN: 9781474234535 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the shadow of the Holocaust, Samuel Beckett captures humanity in ruins through his debased beings and a decomposing mode of writing that strives to 'fail better'. But what might it mean to be a 'creature' or 'creaturely' in Beckett's world? In the first full-length study of the concept of the creature in Beckett's prose and drama, this book traces the suspended lives and melancholic existences of Beckett's ignorant and impotent creatures to assess the extent to which political value marks the divide between human and inhuman. Through close readings of Beckett's prose and drama,... In the shadow of the Holocaust, Samuel Beckett captures humanity in ruins through his debased beings and a decomposing mode of writing that strives... |
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622,44 zł |
Beckett's Creatures: Art of Failure After the Holocaust
ISBN: 9781350054431 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the shadow of the Holocaust, Samuel Beckett captures humanity in ruins through his debased beings and a decomposing mode of writing that strives to 'fail better'. But what might it mean to be a 'creature' or 'creaturely' in Beckett's world? In the first full-length study of the concept of the creature in Beckett's prose and drama, this book traces the suspended lives and melancholic existences of Beckett's ignorant and impotent creatures to assess the extent to which political value marks the divide between human and inhuman. Through close readings of Beckett's prose and drama,... In the shadow of the Holocaust, Samuel Beckett captures humanity in ruins through his debased beings and a decomposing mode of writing that strives... |
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181,49 zł |
Modernism and the Anthropocene: Material Ecologies of Twentieth-Century Literature
ISBN: 9781498555388 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Modernism and the Anthropocene explores twentieth-century literature as it engages with the non-human world across a range of contexts. From more familiar modernist works by D.H. Lawrence and Hart Crane to still-emergent genres like comics and speculative fiction, this volume tackles a series of related questions regarding how best to understand humanity's increasing domination of the natural world.
Modernism and the Anthropocene explores twentieth-century literature as it engages with the non-human world across a range of contexts. From more fami...
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464,10 zł |
Modernism and the Anthropocene: Material Ecologies of Twentieth-Century Literature
ISBN: 9781498555401 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Bringing together work from twelve leading scholars in the field of ecocriticism, Modernism and the Anthropocene explores the diverse ways that early twentieth-century literature initiated far-reaching conversations about the material and non-human world.
Bringing together work from twelve leading scholars in the field of ecocriticism, Modernism and the Anthropocene explores the diverse ways that early ...
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163,80 zł |
Screening the Nonhuman: Representations of Animal Others in the Media
ISBN: 9781498513746 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Screening the Nonhuman draws connections between how animals represented on screen translate into reality. In doing so, the book demonstrates that consuming media is not a neutral act but rather a political one. The images humans consume have real world consequences for how animals are treated as actors, as pets, and in nature. The contributors propose that altering the representations of animals can change the way humans relate to non/humans. Our hope is for humans to generate more ethical relationships with non/humans, ultimately mediating reality both in terms of fiction and non-fiction....
Screening the Nonhuman draws connections between how animals represented on screen translate into reality. In doing so, the book demonstrates that con...
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518,70 zł |