wyszukanych pozycji: 8
Bible and Novel: Narrative Authority and the Death of God
ISBN: 9780199680573 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Victorian novel acquired greater cultural centrality just as the authority of the scriptures and of traditional religious teaching seemed to be declining. Did the novel supplant the Bible? The novelists often adopted or participated in a broadly progressive narrative of social change which can be seen as a secular replacement for the theological narrative of "salvation history" and the waning authority of biblical narrative. Victorian fiction seems in some ways to enact the process of secularization. But contemporary religious resurgence in various parts of the world and postmodern...
The Victorian novel acquired greater cultural centrality just as the authority of the scriptures and of traditional religious teaching seemed to be de...
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611,74 zł |
Bible and Novel: Narrative Authority and the Death of God
ISBN: 9780198744993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Victorian novel acquired greater cultural centrality just as the authority of the scriptures and of traditional religious teaching seemed to be declining. Did the novel supplant the Bible? The novelists often adopted or participated in a broadly progressive narrative of social change which can be seen as a secular replacement for the theological narrative of "salvation history" and the waning authority of biblical narrative. Victorian fiction seems in some ways to enact the process of secularization. But contemporary religious resurgence in various parts of the world and postmodern...
The Victorian novel acquired greater cultural centrality just as the authority of the scriptures and of traditional religious teaching seemed to be de...
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169,34 zł |
Irish Literature Since 1800
ISBN: 9780582494787 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A full understanding of Irish Literature and the consciousness of Irish writers requires seeing them in the context of the issues that dominated the period in which they wrote. The questions of nationality, race and religion, the nature of Irish identity and efforts to develop a cultural consciousness, are examined here.
A full understanding of Irish Literature and the consciousness of Irish writers requires seeing them in the context of the issues that dominated the p...
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281,66 zł |
The Sinews of the Spirit: The Ideal of Christian Manliness in Victorian Literature and Religious Thought
ISBN: 9780521128605 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book provides a fresh perspective on nineteenth-century life by examining the nature and context of 'Christian manliness' or 'muscular Christianity', an ideal of conduct that was widely popular with Victorian preachers and writers. It pays particular attention to Charles Kingsley (author of The Water-Babies) and Thomas Hughes (author of Tom Brown's Schooldays). Dr Vance traces the origins of Christian manliness in the traditions of English sporting prowess, in notions of chivalry and gentlemanliness, and in the preaching of vigourous virtue from St Paul to Victorian evangelists. He also...
This book provides a fresh perspective on nineteenth-century life by examining the nature and context of 'Christian manliness' or 'muscular Christiani...
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278,61 zł |
The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: Volume 4: 1790-1880
ISBN: 9780199594603 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 752 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. Covering the full range of English literature from the early Middle Ages to the present day, OHCREL both synthesizes existing scholarship and presents cutting-edge new research, employing an international team of expert contributors for each of the five volumes.
OHCREL endeavours to interrogate, rather than inertly reiterate, conventional... The Oxford History of Classical Reception (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which litera...
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1217,18 zł |
Irish Literature Since 1800
ISBN: 9781138153172 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book surveys Irish writing in English over the last two centuries, from Maria Edgeworth to Seamus Heaney, to give the literary student and the general reader an up-to-date sense of its variety and vitality and to indicate some of the ways in which it has been described and discussed. It begins with a brief outline of Irish history, of Irish writing in Irish and Latin, and of writing in English before 1800. Later chapters consider Irish romanticism, Victorian Ireland, W.B.Yeats and the Irish Literary Revival, new directions in Irish writing after Joyce and the literature of... This book surveys Irish writing in English over the last two centuries, from Maria Edgeworth to Seamus Heaney, to give the literary student and the... |
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704,29 zł |
The Victorians & Ancient Rome
ISBN: 9780631180760 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This is the first full-length study of the impact on Victorian Britain of the history and literature of ancient Rome.
This is the first full-length study of the impact on Victorian Britain of the history and literature of ancient Rome.
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537,89 zł |
The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature: Volume 4: 1790-1880
ISBN: 9780198859222 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 760 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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238,54 zł |