wyszukanych pozycji: 7
Site-Seeing Aesthetics: California Sojourns in Five Installations
ISBN: 9789004437999 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Site-Seeing Aesthetics: California Sojourns in Five Installations takes the reader to Dodger Stadium, Fort Ross, Chinese Camp, the Winchester House, and letters from the Gold Country in a writing and reading of cultural time and site performance. These sojourns’ are informed by insights from among other literary and cultural studies, site-specific performance studies, human geography, archeology, and history into a kind of “literary chorography.” Along the road, the book considers how places come before us as dramatized, hybrid creations of layered and “haunted” scripts. In its...
Site-Seeing Aesthetics: California Sojourns in Five Installations takes the reader to Dodger Stadium, Fort Ross, Chinese Camp, the Winchester House, a...
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451,42 zł |
Horizons of Enchantment: Essays in the American Imaginary
ISBN: 9781611680003 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Horizons of Enchantment is about the peculiar power and exceptional pull of the imaginary in American culture. Johannessen's subject here is the almost mystical American belief in the promise and potential of the individual, or the reliance on a kind of "modern magic" that can loosely be characterized as a fundamental and unwavering faith in the secular sanctity of the American project of modernity. Among the diverse topics and cultural artifacts she examines are the Norwegian American novel A Saloonkeeper's Daughter by Drude Krog Janson, Walt Whitman's Song of Myself, Rodolfo Gonzales's I Am...
Horizons of Enchantment is about the peculiar power and exceptional pull of the imaginary in American culture. Johannessen's subject here is the almos...
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152,88 zł |
Threshold Time : Passage of Crisis in Chicano Literature
ISBN: 9789042023321 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Threshold Time provides an introductory survey of the cultural, social and political history of Mexican American and Chicano literature, as well as new in-depth analyses of a selection of works that between them span a hundred years of this particular branch of American literature. The book begins its explorations of the "passage of crisis" with Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don, continues with Americo Paredes' George Washington Gomez, Tomas Rivera's ...And the Earth Did Not Devour Him, Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory, and ends with Helena Maria Viramontes' Under the...
Threshold Time provides an introductory survey of the cultural, social and political history of Mexican American and Chicano literature, as well as ne...
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253,66 zł |
Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries
ISBN: 9781498571999 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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464,10 zł |
Readings of the Particular : The Postcolonial in the Postnational
ISBN: 9789042021631 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The present collection aims at throwing light on transculturality and the identities and masks that people put on, in writing as much as in life, in an age of global levelling and the struggle for a particular place in a postcolonial world. Topics covered include: North African identity in France; cultural citizenship and the Asian diaspora; novels of beur self-identity by Maghrebi immigrants in France; Scottish fiction, Britain and Empire; memory, amnesia, and the re-invention of the past in South Africa, the Caribbean and elsewhere; borders, necrophilia and history in Southern African...
The present collection aims at throwing light on transculturality and the identities and masks that people put on, in writing as much as in life, in a...
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369,74 zł |
Microdystopias: Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment
ISBN: 9781666929423 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In contrast to classic dystopia's manifestations of world-shattering and -changing events, Microdystopias: Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment introduces and develops the idea of microdystopia as the emerging genre for our times of imperceptibly shrinking horizons of possibilities in relation to film, series, and literature.
In contrast to classic dystopia's manifestations of world-shattering and -changing events, Microdystopias: Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Momen...
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420,42 zł |
Aesthetic Apprehensions: Silence and Absence in False Familiarities
ISBN: 9781793633668 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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464,10 zł |