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Portrait Stories
ISBN: 9780823262601 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling? Portrait Stories argues that it is the ways they problematize the relation between subjectivity and representation. Through close readings of short stories and novellas by Poe, James, Hoffmann, Gautier, Nerval, Balzac, Kleist, Hardy, Wilde, Storm, Sand, and Gogol, the author shows how the subjectivities of sitter, painter, and viewer are produced in relation to representations shaped by particular interests and power relations, often determined by gender as well as by class. She focuses on the power that can accrue to the painter...
What makes stories about portraits so gripping and unsettling? Portrait Stories argues that it is the ways they problematize the relation between subj...
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203,46 zł |
Economies of Change: Form and Transformation in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
ISBN: 9780804726115 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book argues against the tendency of much of literary studies today to mistake the critique of formalism for a license to disregard form altogether. In detailed readings of ten novels (by Balzac, Stendhal, Austen, Dickens, and James), the author shows how novelists, in their practice of novelistic representation, deal with certain cultural issues, social values, and ideological purposes through the particular combination and manipulation of a set of formal possibilities. The analysis of each novel centers around the notion of transformation--or the "economy of change"--as it informs the...
This book argues against the tendency of much of literary studies today to mistake the critique of formalism for a license to disregard form altogethe...
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349,53 zł |
Flaubert Writing: A Study in Narrative Strategies
ISBN: 9780804713146 / Angielski / Twarda / 1986 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The author's starting point for this study was the conviction that Flaubert's difficulty in sustaining a narrative, so evident in his early works, was not entirely overcome even in the works of his maturity.
The author's starting point for this study was the conviction that Flaubert's difficulty in sustaining a narrative, so evident in his early works, was...
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375,62 zł |