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(Im)Perfection Subverted, Reloaded and Networked: Utopian Discourse Across Media
ISBN: 9783631628485 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This study explores various intersections between the traditional utopian discourse and such media as music, comic books, TV series, feature films, documentaries, fan fiction, computer games and web projects, bringing to focus the transformative role of the media used for the presentation and implementation of utopian projects. It shows both the variety of forms of expression of utopian impulses and the relocation and reinterpretation of utopia in the contemporary culture of convergence.
This study explores various intersections between the traditional utopian discourse and such media as music, comic books, TV series, feature films, do...
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397,07 zł |
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Strange Vistas: Perspectives on the Utopian
ISBN: 9783631786666 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The volume demonstrates the scope of utopian thinking and the enduring significance of past utopian fictions and historical events as potentially contributing to a more comprehensive understanding of the contemporary reality. The essays examine the concept of utopia in a variety of contexts, such as philosophy, translation, music, social and political issues, like workers' movements and ideology, exploring global utopian fiction from medieval Persian poetry, through late 19th- and early 20th-century narratives, to contemporary Russian and British dystopian novels. Taken together, the texts...
The volume demonstrates the scope of utopian thinking and the enduring significance of past utopian fictions and historical events as potentially cont...
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299,28 zł |
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Painted Devils, Siren Tongues: The Semiotic Universe of Jacobean Tragedy
ISBN: 9783631626269 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The book outlines the semiotic universe of Jacobean drama, examining both canonical tragedies by Thomas Middleton, John Webster and less known dramas such as Anonymous Lust s Dominion, Markham and Sampson s Herod and Antipater or Thierry and Theodoret by Beaumont and Fletcher."
The book outlines the semiotic universe of Jacobean drama, examining both canonical tragedies by Thomas Middleton, John Webster and less known dramas ...
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307,95 zł |
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Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers: The English Country House in the Contemporary Novel
ISBN: 9783631657157 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers is the first study of contemporary literary representations of one of the most iconic topoi in English literature and culture the country house. The book analyses nine contemporary novels, including Kazuo Ishiguro s The Remains of the Day, Ian McEwan s Atonement, Sarah Waters s The Little Stranger and Alan Hollinghurst s The Stranger s Child, by situating them in a broader context of manorial literary tradition. Analysing the different traditions of the novel of manners, gothic fiction and postmodern metafiction, the...
Dreams, Nightmares and Empty Signifiers is the first study of contemporary literary representations of one of the most iconic topoi in English ...
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397,07 zł |
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Mediating the World in the Novels of Iain Banks: The Paradigms of Fiction
ISBN: 9783631626146 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This book offers a detailed analysis of all mainstream novels of Iain Banks. It explores the question of mediation, the process of a semiotic (re)construction of the world on the part of Banks s characters, with reference to the four directions of fictional worldmodelling, i.e. the four types of relationship between the individual and the world established by the author s first novel, The Wasp Factory. In order to give justice to the extremely eclectic novelistic production of Iain Banks, the analysis of fifteen of his novels contained in the present study employs diverse...
This book offers a detailed analysis of all mainstream novels of Iain Banks. It explores the question of mediation, the process of a semiotic (re)cons...
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410,93 zł |
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Space in Literature: Method, Genre, Topos
ISBN: 9783631718063 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This study focuses on the problem of spatiality in literature. Evoking a wide range of theoretical and methodological perspectives, the book demonstrates that the analysis of the spatial aspect of the literary text encompasses a variety of textual elements and structures. Organized around three defining problems - spatial topoi, genres and methods - the study gives the reader a good insight into contemporary research on the intersection of space and literature. The topics covered in this book range from the symbolism of different topoi, spatial modelling in literary genres to the spatial form...
This study focuses on the problem of spatiality in literature. Evoking a wide range of theoretical and methodological perspectives, the book demonstra...
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377,76 zł |
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Welcome to the Chemical Theatre: The Urban Chronotope in Peter Ackroyd's Fiction
ISBN: 9783631626184 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The book discusses the evolution of the urban chronotope in the selected novels by Peter Ackroyd, an acclaimed British author. The examined narratives illustrate the transformation from the postmodern tenets of historiographic metafiction into a unique urban mythopoetics by means of a semiotic analysis.
The book discusses the evolution of the urban chronotope in the selected novels by Peter Ackroyd, an acclaimed British author. The examined narratives...
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321,56 zł |
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Imperfect Worlds and Dystopian Narratives in Contemporary Cinema
ISBN: 9783631614891 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Imperfect Worlds and Dystopian Narratives in Contemporary Cinema is a collection of studies on filmic dystopias: Goto, the Island of Love; Even Dwarfs Started Small; Stalker; Videodrome; Sexmission; Ga-ga: Glory to the Heroes; Kingsajz; Equilibrium; V for Vendetta; Children of Men; The Aerial. Employing a variety of theoretical perspectives (from cultural semiotics to post-structuralist approach), the authors analyse films from different cultural, linguistic and political contexts, demonstrating the interplay...
Imperfect Worlds and Dystopian Narratives in Contemporary Cinema is a collection of studies on filmic dystopias: Goto, the Island of Love
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285,92 zł |
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Mediated Utopias: From Literature to Cinema
ISBN: 9783631628447 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The volume comprises adaptation studies of ten selected utopian/dystopian fictions written and filmed in Europe and America during the 20th and 21st centuries: Things to Come, Lost Horizon, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Lord of the Flies, The Andromeda Nebula, Brave New World, Total Recall, The Secret Garden, Harrison Bergeron and Never Let Me Go. It focuses not only on the ways of constructing fictional realities and techniques of rendering literary utopias/dystopias into film, but also on their cultural and political...
The volume comprises adaptation studies of ten selected utopian/dystopian fictions written and filmed in Europe and America during the 20th and 21st c...
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349,04 zł |
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Academia in Fact and Fiction
ISBN: 9783631673249 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. -Academia in Fact and Fiction- comprises twenty-eight essays on the relationship(s) between the university and the practice of belles lettres. The collection includes studies of the teaching of fiction by university professors; the fit or misfit between the creative writer and the academy; the depiction of the university, its staff and atmosphere, in literature, cinema and new media; and the varieties of academic fiction ranging from the ludic and satirical to the tragic. Most of the works addressed in the volume are British or American, modern or contemporary, but the historical... -Academia in Fact and Fiction- comprises twenty-eight essays on the relationship(s) between the university and the practice of belles lettres |
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465,63 zł |
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Reading Contemporary TV Series: Aesthetics, Themes, and Reception
ISBN: 9783631862469 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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267,35 zł |
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