wyszukanych pozycji: 13
Utopia and Terror in Contemporary American Fiction
ISBN: 9781138813953 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book examines the quest for/failure of Utopia across a range of contemporary American/transnational fictions in relation to terror and globalization through authors such as Susan Choi, Andre Dubus, Dalia Sofer, and John Updike. While recent critical thinkers have reengaged with Utopia, the possibility of terror - whether state or non-state, external or homegrown - shadows Utopian imaginings. Terror and Utopia are linked in fiction through the exploration of the commodification of affect, a phenomenon of a globalized world in which feelings are managed, homogenized across cultures,... This book examines the quest for/failure of Utopia across a range of contemporary American/transnational fictions in relation to terror and globali... |
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251,80 zł |
Fictions of America: Narratives of Global Empire
ISBN: 9780415333849 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Internet has had a huge impact on channels of communication and information, reaching across time and space to connect the world through globalisation. In this Internet-led world, story links to story, windows open on new stories and no overall authority establishes priority. This sense of globalisation has raised many questions for contemporary American Novelists, primarily the usefulness or redundancy of narrative and its potentially adaptive function. What are the right stories for such a broadband world? How do contemporary American novelists respond to issues such as the influence... The Internet has had a huge impact on channels of communication and information, reaching across time and space to connect the world through global... |
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194,08 zł |
Contemporary Fictions: Essays on American and Postcolonial Narratives
ISBN: 9781781883297 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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538,14 zł |
Nadine Gordimer's Burger's Daughter: A Casebook
ISBN: 9780195147179 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. South African writer Nadine Gordimer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. Her seventh novel, Burger's Daughter, focuses upon the daughter of a white, communist Afrikaner hero. Based partly on fact, successively banned and unbanned by the South African authorities, the novel has also become something of a test case for feminist critics of Gordimer's writing. This casebook includes an interview with and an essay by Nadine Gordimer on the novel, classic and recent critical essays, an introduction discussing biographical and historical contexts and the literary reception, and a...
South African writer Nadine Gordimer won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. Her seventh novel, Burger's Daughter, focuses upon the daught...
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175,26 zł |
Contemporary Fictions: Essays on American and Postcolonial Narratives
ISBN: 9781781883327 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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112,48 zł |
Nadine Gordimer (Routledge Revivals)
ISBN: 9781138799370 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. International in her appeal, Nadine Gordimer is an original and accomplished novelist whose works have found literary and popular recognition. In this critical study, first published in 1988 and the first by a woman, Judie Newman discusses all Gordimer s novels, including "A Sport of Nature." Gordimer s writing is both political committed and formally innovative, confronting subject matter of great contemporary interest and at the same time seeking out narrative forms that combine European and indigenous culture. Her novels are sensitive to their context, while also offering an important... International in her appeal, Nadine Gordimer is an original and accomplished novelist whose works have found literary and popular recognition. In t... |
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173,09 zł |
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp
ISBN: 9781853310386 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 752 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Stowe's second anti-slavery novel is a primary text for students of literature and history--less well-known but now more pertinent than Uncle Tom's Cabin. This vigorous and compulsive read combines thought-provoking themes, rich characterisation, satire and sentiment.
Stowe's second anti-slavery novel is a primary text for students of literature and history--less well-known but now more pertinent than Uncle Tom's Ca...
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125,87 zł |
Nadine Gordimer (Routledge Revivals)
ISBN: 9781138799363 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. International in her appeal, Nadine Gordimer is an original and accomplished novelist whose works have found literary and popular recognition. In this critical study, Judie Newman discusses Gordimer's novels, including 'A Sport of Nature'. Gordimer's writing is both political committed and formally innovative, confronting subject matter of great contemporary interest and at the same time seeking out narrative forms that combine European and indigenous culture. Her novels are sensitive to their context, while also offering an important contribution to postmodernist reassessments of narrative...
International in her appeal, Nadine Gordimer is an original and accomplished novelist whose works have found literary and popular recognition. In this...
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403,96 zł |
The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing
ISBN: 9781399508865 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 752 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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220,36 zł |
Public Art, Memorials and Atlantic Slavery
ISBN: 9780415850216 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this collection distinguished American and European scholars, curators and artists discuss major issues concerning the representation and commemoration of slavery, as brought into sharp focus by the 2007 bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade. Writers consider nineteenth and twentieth century American and European images of African Americans, art installations, photography, literature, sculpture, exhibitions, performances, painting, film and material culture. This is essential reading for historians, cultural critics, art-historians, educationalists and museologists, in America...
In this collection distinguished American and European scholars, curators and artists discuss major issues concerning the representation and commemora...
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146,86 zł |
Public Art, Memorials and Atlantic Slavery
ISBN: 9780415483155 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this collection distinguished American and European scholars, curators and artists discuss major issues concerning the representation and commemoration of slavery, as brought into sharp focus by the 2007 bicentennial of the abolition of the slave trade. Writers consider nineteenth and twentieth century American and European images of African Americans, art installations, photography, literature, sculpture, exhibitions, performances, painting, film and material culture. This is essential reading for historians, cultural critics, art-historians, educationalists and museologists, in... In this collection distinguished American and European scholars, curators and artists discuss major issues concerning the representation and commem... |
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456,42 zł |
The Edinburgh Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Letters and Letter-Writing
ISBN: 9780748692927 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 752 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This comprehensive study by leading scholars in an important new field - the history of letters and letter writing - is essential reading for anyone interested in nineteenth-century American politics, history or literature. Because of its mass literacy, population mobility, and extensive postal system, nineteenth-century America is a crucial site for the exploration of letters and their meanings, whether they be written by presidents and statesmen, scientists and philosophers, novelists and poets, feminists and reformers, immigrants, Native Americans, or African Americans. This book breaks...
This comprehensive study by leading scholars in an important new field - the history of letters and letter writing - is essential reading for anyone i...
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1049,37 zł |
Fictions of America : Narratives of Global Empire
ISBN: 9780415333832 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Looks at the ways in which India, China and Africa can be said to have underwritten American culture, how literature has been marketed globally, and how novelists have answered back to power with resistant fictions. This book provides a response to the questions raised by globalisation.
Looks at the ways in which India, China and Africa can be said to have underwritten American culture, how literature has been marketed globally, and h...
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708,33 zł |