wyszukanych pozycji: 21
The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period
ISBN: 9780199590308 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Tenth Muse explores writings on the cinema in the first decades of the twentieth century. Laura Marcus examines the impact of cinema on early twentieth-century literary and, more broadly, aesthetic and cultural consciousness, by bringing together the study of the terms and strategies of early writings about film with literary engagement with cinema in the same period. She gives a new understanding of the ways in which early writers about film - reviewers, critics, theorists - developed aesthetic categories to define and accommodate what was called 'the seventh art' or 'the tenth muse' and...
The Tenth Muse explores writings on the cinema in the first decades of the twentieth century. Laura Marcus examines the impact of cinema on early twen...
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235,19 zł |
Autobiography: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780199669240 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Autobiography is one of the most popular of written forms. Laura Marcus defines what autobiographies are, considering their relationship with similar literary forms, and analysing the core themes in autobiographical writing. She also discusses how autobiography offers the most fundamental accounts of what it means to be a self in the world.
Autobiography is one of the most popular of written forms. Laura Marcus defines what autobiographies are, considering their relationship with similar ...
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49,18 zł |
Late Victorian Into Modern
ISBN: 9780198704393 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than codify. Instead of summarizing existing knowledge scholars working in the field aim at opening fresh discussion; instead of emphasizing settled consensus they direct their readers to areas of enlivened and unresolved debate.
This volume opens up, in new and innovative ways, a range of dimensions, some familiar and some more obscure, of late Victorian and modern literature and culture, primarily in British contexts. Late Victorian into... The original essays in Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature mean to provoke rather than reassure, to challenge rather than co...
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757,12 zł |
Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema
ISBN: 9781107622951 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Laura Marcus is one of the leading literary critics of modernist literature and culture. Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema covers the period from around 1880 to 1930, when modernity as a form of social and cultural life fed into the beginnings of modernism as a cultural form. Railways, cinema, psychoanalysis and the literature of detection - and their impact on modern sensibility - are four of the chief subjects explored. Marcus also stresses the creativity of modernist women writers, including H. D., Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf. The overriding themes of this...
Laura Marcus is one of the leading literary critics of modernist literature and culture. Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema cover...
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186,72 zł |
The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period
ISBN: 9780199230273 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 580 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Tenth Muse explores writings on the cinema in the first decades of the twentieth century. Laura Marcus examines the impact of cinema on early twentieth-century literary and, more broadly, aesthetic and cultural consciousness, by bringing together the study of the terms and strategies of early writings about film with literary engagement with cinema in the same period. She gives a new understanding of the ways in which early writers about film - reviewers, critics, theorists - developed aesthetic categories to define and accommodate what was called 'the seventh art' or 'the tenth muse' and...
The Tenth Muse explores writings on the cinema in the first decades of the twentieth century. Laura Marcus examines the impact of cinema on early twen...
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609,42 zł |
Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9780746309667 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Examines a wide range of Virginia Woolf's novels, short stories, essays and autobiographical writings in the context of themes and topics of central contemporary relevance and interest: time, history and narrative; modernism and the city; gender, sexuality and identity; art and life-writings.
Examines a wide range of Virginia Woolf's novels, short stories, essays and autobiographical writings in the context of themes and topics of central c...
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102,24 zł |
Auto/Biographical Discourses: Criticism, Theory, Practice
ISBN: 9780719055300 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the forefront of the large and growing interest in life-writings. A comprehensive account of the criticism and theory of autobiography. The book makes complex debates accessible to a wide readership.
In the forefront of the large and growing interest in life-writings. A comprehensive account of the criticism and theory of autobiography. The book ma...
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109,36 zł |
Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema
ISBN: 9781107044968 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Laura Marcus is one of the leading literary critics of modernist literature and culture. Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema covers the period from around 1880 to 1930, when modernity as a form of social and cultural life fed into the beginnings of modernism as a cultural form. Railways, cinema, psychoanalysis and the literature of detection - and their impact on modern sensibility - are four of the chief subjects explored. Marcus also stresses the creativity of modernist women writers, including H. D., Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf. The overriding themes of this...
Laura Marcus is one of the leading literary critics of modernist literature and culture. Dreams of Modernity: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Cinema cover...
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375,56 zł |
Last 24 Hours, the Final Inch: A Victorious Life Is Yours for Keeps . . . Keep Your Eyes on the Finish Line
ISBN: 9781400329984 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,07 zł |
Last 24 Hours, the Final Inch: A Victorious Life Is Yours for Keeps . . . Keep Your Eyes on the Finish Line
ISBN: 9781400329991 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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156,91 zł |
Modernity, Culture and 'The Jew'
ISBN: 9780745620411 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This book provides a rich and wide-ranging analysis of Jewish history and culture, relating them to theories of modernity and postmodernity and to recent debates on ethnicity and postcolonialism. Issues addressed include psychoanalysis and gender, literary anti-semitism, (post)modernity and 'the Jew', and the memory of the Holocaust. A Foreword by Homi Bhabha and an Afterword by Paul Gilroy place these concerns in an extended multicultural and postcolonial context.
The book examines the work of past and present cultural theorists who have placed the figure of 'the Jew' at... This book provides a rich and wide-ranging analysis of Jewish history and culture, relating them to theories of modernity and postmodernity and to rec...
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109,36 zł |
The City
ISBN: 9780745631684 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book is a fresh and engaging analysis of the city as a central concept in contemporary social thought. It probes the contested and negotiated ways in which cities are built, understood, lived and imagined. Taking a thematic approach and drawing on a range of theoretical, methodological and empirical points of reference, it examines such subjects as urban inequality, public space, creative cities, globalization, the night-time economy, suburbia, and memory and emotion. In "The City "Deborah Stevenson argues that, as theories and concepts shape what is known about cities and urban... This book is a fresh and engaging analysis of the city as a central concept in contemporary social thought. It probes the contested and negotiated ... |
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273,53 zł |
The City
ISBN: 9780745631691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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87,48 zł |
Sigmund Freud's the Interpretation of Dreams
ISBN: 9780719039744 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, published in 1900, has been one of the most influential texts of the twentieth century, fundamentally changing the ways in which people have thought about their waking lives as well as their dreams. This book, more than any other in Freud's massive oeuvre, has shaped a vast amount of work in linguistics and semiotics, literary studies, film theory, psychology, philosophical hermeneutics and the history of ideas. This influence is reflected in the editor's introduction, which includes a substantial discussion of the theory and practice of representation, and...
Freud's Interpretation of Dreams, published in 1900, has been one of the most influential texts of the twentieth century, fundamentally changing the w...
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109,36 zł |
The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature
ISBN: 9780521820776 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 897 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Covering the complete range of writing in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, this volume also explores the impact of writing from the former colonies on English literature of the period. It analyzes the ways in which conventional literary genres were influenced by the cultural technologies of radio, cinema and television. This work is of major importance to anyone concerned with twentieth-century literature, its cultural context and its relation to the contemporary.
Covering the complete range of writing in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, this volume also explores the impact of writing from the former coloni...
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951,60 zł |
The Actuality of Walter Benjamin
ISBN: 9780853158639 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This collection shows how extraordinarily substantial were the theoretical footholds which Walter Benjamin supplied. The contributors engage with Benjamin on a number of levels, with essays on historical understanding versus historicism, a look at gender and dialectical images, the space of the city, the sources of Judaism and the aesthetics of conflict. Also analysed are Benjamin's artwork, the novel, the anthropology and philosophy of history, 'fate and character', the baroque and Benjamin the intellectual.
This collection shows how extraordinarily substantial were the theoretical footholds which Walter Benjamin supplied. The contributors engage with Benj...
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146,99 zł |
The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature
ISBN: 9781107609488 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 897 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Covering the complete range of writing in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, this volume also explores the impact of writing from the former colonies on English literature of the period. It analyzes the ways in which conventional literary genres were influenced by the cultural technologies of radio, cinema and television. This work is of major importance to anyone concerned with twentieth-century literature, its cultural context and its relation to the contemporary.
Covering the complete range of writing in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, this volume also explores the impact of writing from the former coloni...
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355,38 zł |
The Zombie Renaissance in Popular Culture
ISBN: 9781137276490 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This collection addresses the significant cultural phenomenon of the 'zombie renaissance' - the growing importance of zombie texts and zombie cultural practices in popular culture. The chapters examine zombie culture across a range of media and practices including films games, music, social media, literature and fandom.
This collection addresses the significant cultural phenomenon of the 'zombie renaissance' - the growing importance of zombie texts and zombie cultural...
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274,23 zł |
Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity
ISBN: 9780198714170 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The essays in Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity, written by renowned international scholars, open up the many dimensions and arenas of modernist movement and movements: spatial, geographical and political: affective and physiological; temporal and epochal; technological, locomotive and metropolitan; aesthetic and representational. Individual essays explore modernism's complex geographies, focusing on Anglo-European modernisms while also engaging with the debates engendered by recent models of world literatures and global modernisms. From questions of space and...
The essays in Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity, written by renowned international scholars, open up the many dimensions a...
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483,87 zł |
Late Victorian Into Modern
ISBN: 9780198847748 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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301,71 zł |