wyszukanych pozycji: 28
Extraordinary Aesthetes: Decadents, New Women, and Fin-De-Siècle Culture
ISBN: 9781487546083 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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325,30 zł |
Oscar Wilde on Trial: The Criminal Proceedings, from Arrest to Imprisonment
ISBN: 9780300222722 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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359,00 zł |
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Volume 3: The Picture of Dorian Gray: The 1890 and 1891 Texts
ISBN: 9780198187721 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 534 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the third volume in the Oxford English Texts edition of the works of Oscar Wilde. This definitive variorum edition of Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray reprints the thirteen-chapter and twenty-chapter versions of this famous story as separate works. The volume provides readers with the most detailed account available of the considerable changes that Wilde made to a controversial narrative that appeared in two, very different editions in 1890 and 1891 respectively.
This is the third volume in the Oxford English Texts edition of the works of Oscar Wilde. This definitive variorum edition of Wilde's The Picture of D...
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1584,50 zł |
Wilde Writings: Contextual Conditions
ISBN: 9780802035325 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Opening with an introduction by Joseph Bristow and featuring thirteen original essays that examine Wilde's achievements as an aesthete, critic, dramatist, novelist, and poet, this provocative and ground-breaking volume ushers the field of Oscar Wilde studies into the twenty-first century. The contributors focus on three neglected areas of Wilde criticism - textual editing, the production and dissemination of Wilde's dramas, and the situating of Wilde's writings in cultural, political and social contexts - and cast fresh light on topics that include Wilde's early dramatic criticism, his... Opening with an introduction by Joseph Bristow and featuring thirteen original essays that examine Wilde's achievements as an aesthete, critic, dra... |
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346,29 zł |
The Oxford Book of Adventure Stories
ISBN: 9780192142146 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When we think of adventure we envision feats of derring-do, perilous journeys into the remote wilderness, swashbuckling deeds on the high seas, and survival in the face of impossible odds. Now, in a collection that challenges our very notion of adventure, Joseph Bristow brings together twenty-three riveting tales, penned by such masters as Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, and Zane Gray, but with notable contributions from such unexpected sources as Margaret Atwood, Tim O'Brien, and Daphne Du Maurier.
Here readers will find bravery and boldness in settings that range... When we think of adventure we envision feats of derring-do, perilous journeys into the remote wilderness, swashbuckling deeds on the high seas, and su...
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448,70 zł |
Oscar Wilde and the Cultures of Childhood
ISBN: 9783319604107 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This is the first collection of critical essays that explores Oscar Wilde's interest in children's culture, whether in relation to his famous fairy stories, his life as a caring father to two small boys, his place as a defender of children's rights within the prison system, his fascination with youthful beauty, and his theological contemplation of what it means to be a child in the eyes of God. The collection also examines the ways in which Wilde's works--not just his fairy stories--have been adapted for young audiences.
This is the first collection of critical essays that explores Oscar Wilde's interest in children's culture, whether in relation to his famous fairy st...
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430,95 zł |
Sexual Sameness (Routledge Revivals): Textual Differences in Lesbian and Gay Writing
ISBN: 9780415741125 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1992, "Sexual Sameness "examines the differing textual strategies male and female writers have developed to celebrate homosexuality. Examining such writers as E.M. Forster, James Baldwin, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Audre Lourde, this wide-ranging book demonstrates how literature has been one of the few cultural spaces in which sexual outsiders have been able to explore forbidden desires. From the humiliating trials of Oscar Wilde to the appalling stigmatisation of people living with AIDS, "Sexual Sameness "reveals the persistent homophobia that has until recently... First published in 1992, "Sexual Sameness "examines the differing textual strategies male and female writers have developed to celebrate homosexual... |
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230,81 zł |
Sexual Sameness : Textual Differences in Lesbian and Gay Writing
ISBN: 9780415741088 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1992, Sexual Sameness examines the differing textual strategies male and female writers have developed to celebrate homosexuality. Examining such writers as E.M. Forster, James Baldwin, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Audre Lourde, this wide-ranging book demonstrates how literature has been one of the few cultural spaces in which sexual outsiders have been able to explore forbidden desires. From the humiliating trials of Oscar Wilde to the appalling stigmatisation of people living with AIDS, Sexual Sameness reveals the persistent homophobia that has until recently almost...
First published in 1992, Sexual Sameness examines the differing textual strategies male and female writers have developed to celebrate homosexuality. ...
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787,03 zł |
Sexuality: Global Formations Past and Present
ISBN: 9780415299282 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Theories of sexuality and desire are commonly used in literary and cultural studies. In this illuminating study Joseph Bristow introduces readers to the fundamental critical debates surrounding the topic. This fully updated second edition includes:
Theories of sexuality and desire are commonly used in literary and cultural studies. In this illuminating study Joseph Bristow introduces readers t... |
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456,42 zł |
The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry
ISBN: 9780521646802 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book provides an introduction to the issues that absorbed the attention of poets from the 1830s to the 1890s. The thirteen chapters offer fresh insights into the works of well-known figures such as Robert Browning, and Alfred Tennyson and the writings of women poets--such as Amy Levy and Augusta Webster--whose contribution to Victorian culture has only recently been acknowledged by scholars. The volume, which will be of interest to scholars and students alike, features a detailed chronology of the Victorian period and a guide to further reading.
This book provides an introduction to the issues that absorbed the attention of poets from the 1830s to the 1890s. The thirteen chapters offer fresh i...
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140,46 zł |
Oscar Wilde and the Cultures of Childhood
ISBN: 9783319868585 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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313,40 zł |
The Infernal Desires of Angela Carter: Fiction, Femininity, Feminism
ISBN: 9780582291911 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This text provides a detailed overview of Angela Carter, one of the most gifted, subversive and stylish of British writers to emerge in the 1960s. It examines her fascination with female sexuality from her earliest writings to her works of the 1990s.
This text provides a detailed overview of Angela Carter, one of the most gifted, subversive and stylish of British writers to emerge in the 1960s. It ...
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230,81 zł |
Wilde Discoveries: Traditions, Histories, Archives
ISBN: 9781442646445 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The most significant resource for any researcher wishing to understand the finer details of Oscar Wilde s remarkable career, the Oscar Wilde and His Circle archive at the University of California, Los Angeles houses the world s largest collection of materials relating to the life and work of the gifted Irish writer. Wilde Discoveries brings together thirteen studies based on research done in this archive that span the course of Wilde s work and shed light on previously neglected aspects of Wilde s lively and varied professional and personal life. This volume offers fresh... The most significant resource for any researcher wishing to understand the finer details of Oscar Wilde s remarkable career, the Oscar Wilde and Hi... |
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320,06 zł |
Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend
ISBN: 9780821418383 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend explores the meteoric rise, sudden fall, and legendary resurgence of an immensely influential writer's reputation from his hectic 1881 American lecture tour to recent Hollywood adaptations of his dramas.
Oscar Wilde and Modern Culture: The Making of a Legend explores the meteoric rise, sudden fall, and legendary resurgence of an immensely influential w...
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154,59 zł |
The Fin-De-Siecle Poem: English Literary Culture and the 1890s
ISBN: 9780821416273 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Featuring innovative research by emergent and established scholars, The Fin-de-Siecle Poem throws new light on the remarkable diversity of poetry produced at the close of the nineteenth century in England. Opening with a detailed preface that shows why literary historians have frequently underrated fin-de-siecle poetry, the collection explains how a strikingly rich body of lyrical and narrative poems anticipated many of the developments traditionally attributed to Modernism. Each chapter in turn provides insights into the ways in which late-nineteenth-century poets represented their...
Featuring innovative research by emergent and established scholars, The Fin-de-Siecle Poem throws new light on the remarkable diversity of poetry prod...
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257,09 zł |
The Victorian Poet (Routledge Revivals): Poetics and Persona
ISBN: 9780415740906 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The practice of poetry in the Victorian period was characterised by an extreme diversity of styles, preoccupations and subject-matter. This anthology attempts to draw out some of the main focuses of interest in the Victorian poet. No Victorian poet produced an overall theory of poetry, yet all accepted it as a natural vehicle of expression, and for some subjects, in particular sexuality, the only literary mode. Indeed, the sexual question was made even more acute by the sudden phenomenon of the poetess, and the relation of poetry to gender raised interesting new critical questions. At the... The practice of poetry in the Victorian period was characterised by an extreme diversity of styles, preoccupations and subject-matter. This antholo... |
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209,82 zł |
The Victorian Poet (Routledge Revivals): Poetics and Persona
ISBN: 9780415740814 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The practice of poetry in the Victorian period was characterised by an extreme diversity of styles, preoccupations and subject-matter. This anthology attempts to draw out some of the main focuses of interest in the Victorian poet. No Victorian poet produced an overall theory of poetry, yet all accepted it as a natural vehicle of expression, and for some subjects, in particular sexuality, the only literary mode. Indeed, the sexual question was made even more acute by the sudden phenomenon of the 'poetess', and the relation of poetry to gender raised interesting new critical questions. At the...
The practice of poetry in the Victorian period was characterised by an extreme diversity of styles, preoccupations and subject-matter. This anthology ...
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682,09 zł |
Empire Boys: Adventures in a Man's World
ISBN: 9781138953147 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1991. Focusing on ‘boys' own’ literature, this book examines the reasons why such a distinct type of combative masculinity developed during the heyday of the British Empire. This book reveals the motives that produced this obsessive focus on boyhood. In Victorian Britain many kinds of writing, from the popular juvenile weeklies to parliamentary reports, celebrated boys of all classes as the heroes of their day. Fighting fit, morally upright, and proudly patriotic - these adventurous young men were set forth on imperial missions, civilizing a savage world. Such... Originally published in 1991. Focusing on ‘boys' own’ literature, this book examines the reasons why such a distinct type of combative masculin... |
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173,09 zł |
Empire Boys: Adventures in a Man's World
ISBN: 9781138944299 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1991. Focusing on boys' own literature, this book examines the reasons why such a distinct type of combative masculinity developed during the heyday of the British Empire. This book reveals the motives that produced this obsessive focus on boyhood. In Victorian Britain many kinds of writing, from the popular juvenile weeklies to parliamentary reports, celebrated boys of all classes as the heroes of their day. Fighting fit, morally upright, and proudly patriotic - these adventurous young men were set forth on imperial missions, civilizing a savage world. Such noble... Originally published in 1991. Focusing on boys' own literature, this book examines the reasons why such a distinct type of combative masculinity de... |
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708,33 zł |
Sexuality: Global Formations Past and Present
ISBN: 9780415299299 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Joseph Bristow introduces readers to the most influential contemporary theories of sexual desire and reveals how 19th century scientists invented 'sexuality'. This guide makes complex theoretical ideas accessible to readers.
Joseph Bristow introduces readers to the most influential contemporary theories of sexual desire and reveals how 19th century scientists invented 'sex...
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120,62 zł |