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Translating America: The Circulation of Narratives, Commodities, and Ideas Between Italy, Europe, and the United States
ISBN: 9783034303958 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 377 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. This volume attempts to critically re-think the ways in which facts and myths, histories and fictions that shape current and past understandings of (the US of) -America- have been perceived, assimilated, transformed and, in sum, -translated- in the arena of global culture, especially in Europe. The essays presented analyze notions of -America- and -Americanness-, and their interpretation, transformation and appropriation through linguistic translation, adaptation, domestication and re-imagination, at all levels of the cultural semiosphere. Essays focus on trans-Atlantic and trans-American...
This volume attempts to critically re-think the ways in which facts and myths, histories and fictions that shape current and past understandings of (t...
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391,40 zł |
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The Seeming and the Seen; Essays in Modern Visual and Literary Culture
ISBN: 9783039109975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Taking their cue from the polymorphous relationship between word and image, the essays of this book explore how different media translate the world of phenomena into aesthetic, intellectual or sensual experience. They embrace the media of poetry, fiction, drama, engraving, painting, photography, film and advertising posters ranging from the early modern to the postmodern periods. At the heart of the volume lie essays on works that characteristically perform intriguing interactions between the verbal and visual modes. They discuss the manifold ways in which artists as different as William...
Taking their cue from the polymorphous relationship between word and image, the essays of this book explore how different media translate the world of...
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491,53 zł |
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Translocal Modernisms: International Perspectives
ISBN: 9783039116904 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The full story of modernism is yet to be written. This collection of essays provides an important page in this complex and inconclusive story of fluidities and hybridities by rendering problematical the linear sequence from modernism to postmodernism.
This book explores the many facets of modernism in a variety of essays written by an international group of scholars. It deals with and puts in question the western literary tradition in many of its transcontinental and trans-hemispheric encounters. Criticism of high modernism is put in perspective by discussions of German reactionary... The full story of modernism is yet to be written. This collection of essays provides an important page in this complex and inconclusive story of fluid...
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520,10 zł |
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Cross-Cultural Encounters Between the Mediterranean and the English-Speaking Worlds
ISBN: 9783034306041 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The Mediterranean world has long had strong cultural links to Great Britain as well as to the United States. Through the analysis of artistic objects and critical writings that crystallise this encounter, the essays in this volume demonstrate the variety and complexity of the connections between two geographical zones and two or more cultures.
Mediterranean cultures are shown to haunt American and British culture and artistic productions. The relation between British and American literature and art on the one hand, and Mediterranean arts on the other goes beyond the mere inscription of... The Mediterranean world has long had strong cultural links to Great Britain as well as to the United States. Through the analysis of artistic objects ...
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377,23 zł |
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America Where?: Transatlantic Views of the United States in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9783034312394 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. America Where? Transatlantic Views of the United States in the Twenty-first Century gathers essays by distinguished American Studies scholars from both sides of the Atlantic. The articles address changing representations of America in their many and mutual transnational exchanges, both in the Americas and in Europe. Atlanticism, neo-liberalism, transnationalism, borders, racism, prisons, labor, war and intercultural relations compose the range of approaches to be found in this book. While paying close attention to the geopolitical, social, and cultural...
America Where? Transatlantic Views of the United States in the Twenty-first Century gathers essays by distinguished American Studies scholars f...
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526,92 zł |
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Mapping Liminalities: Thresholds in Cultural and Literary Texts
ISBN: 9783039114559 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. The essays in this book offer new perspectives on the concept of liminality. They explore the relevance and significance of the limen or threshold from a variety of critical and theoretical perspectives, and across a broad range of historical periods. The authors all seek to revisit key questions raised in recent literary and cultural criticism, whilst also moving that discussion in new directions. In particular, the essays stress the importance of defining liminality for particular literary and cultural contexts, and highlight the fact that whilst it is liberating and progressive in some...
The essays in this book offer new perspectives on the concept of liminality. They explore the relevance and significance of the limen or threshold fro...
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534,25 zł |
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