wyszukanych pozycji: 17
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ISBN: 9780803224414 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. It is to me that we owe our immortality, and this is the story that proves it beyond all doubt. With this sentence Rene Belletto begins a novel that compresses every genre he has worked in thriller, science fiction, experimental literature, horror into one breathless narrative in which what is at stake is nothing less than our own immortality.
Playing with the expectations of the reader, Belletto constructs a logical puzzle that defies logic, much like the almost-perpetual motion machine invented by the narrator of this novel and his father. What sets the story in (perpetual) motion is a... It is to me that we owe our immortality, and this is the story that proves it beyond all doubt. With this sentence Rene Belletto begins a novel that c...
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No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives
ISBN: 9780199354351 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. No Accident, Comrade argues that chance became a complex yet conflicted cultural signifier during the Cold War, when a range of thinkers--politicians, novelists, historians, biologists, sociologists, and others--contended that totalitarianism denied the very existence and operation of chance in the world. They claimed that the USSR perpetrated a vast fiction on its population, a fiction amplified by the Soviet view that there is no such thing as chance or accident, only manifestations of historical law (hence the popular American refrain used to refer to Marxism: "It was no accident,...
No Accident, Comrade argues that chance became a complex yet conflicted cultural signifier during the Cold War, when a range of thinkers--pol...
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American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War: A Critical Reassessment
ISBN: 9781609381134 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The time is right for a critical reassessment of Cold War culture both because its full cultural impact remains unprocessed and because some of the chief paradigms for understanding that culture confuse rather than clarify.A collection of the work of some of the best cultural critics writing about the period, "American Literature and Culture in an Age of Cold War" reveals a broad range of ways that American cultural production from the late 1940s to the present might be understood in relation to the Cold War. Critically engaging the reigning paradigms that equate postwar U.S. culture with...
The time is right for a critical reassessment of Cold War culture both because its full cultural impact remains unprocessed and because some of the ch...
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American Literature in Transition, 1950-1960
ISBN: 9781108418232 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. American Literature in Transition, 1950-1960 explores the under-recognized complexity and variety of 1950s American literature by focalizing discussions through a series of keywords and formats that encourage readers to draw fresh connections among literary form and concepts, institutions, cultures, and social phenomena important to the decade. The first section draws attention to the relationship between literature and cultural phenomena that were new to the 1950s. The second section demonstrates the range of subject positions important in the 1950s, but still not visible in many accounts of...
American Literature in Transition, 1950-1960 explores the under-recognized complexity and variety of 1950s American literature by focalizing discussio...
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The Cambridge Companion to Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9781009423601 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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331,10 |
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The Cambridge Companion to the Beats
ISBN: 9781107184459 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This Companion offers an in-depth overview of the Beat era, one of the most popular literary periods in America.
This Companion offers an in-depth overview of the Beat era, one of the most popular literary periods in America.
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The Beats: A Literary History
ISBN: 9781107176683 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. By detailing one of the most popular and significant cultural movements of the post-World War II era, readers will encounter a rich literary history that focuses on text rather than biography. This reframes Beat scholarship around the merits of Beat literary production, rather than the lives of the artists.
By detailing one of the most popular and significant cultural movements of the post-World War II era, readers will encounter a rich literary history t...
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The Cambridge Companion to Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9781009423564 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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94,42 |
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Black Surrealist: The Legend of Ted Joans
ISBN: 9781501379543 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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107,70 |
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No Accident, Comrade: Chance and Design in Cold War American Narratives
ISBN: 9780199826889 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. No Accident, Comrade argues that chance became a complex yet conflicted cultural signifier during the Cold War, when a range of thinkers--politicians, novelists, historians, biologists, sociologists, and others--contended that totalitarianism denied the very existence and operation of chance in the world. They claimed that the USSR perpetrated a vast fiction on its population, a fiction amplified by the Soviet view that there is no such thing as chance or accident, only manifestations of historical law (hence the popular American refrain used to refer to Marxism: "It was no accident,...
No Accident, Comrade argues that chance became a complex yet conflicted cultural signifier during the Cold War, when a range of thinkers--pol...
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Black Surrealist: The Legend of Ted Joans
ISBN: 9781501379550 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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Dying
ISBN: 9781564785930 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. A metaphysical thriller about the lengths to which men will go to escape the inevitable--be it love or death.
A metaphysical thriller about the lengths to which men will go to escape the inevitable--be it love or death.
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53,76 |
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Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War
ISBN: 9781609386313 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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357,54 |
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ABC's On The Farm
ISBN: 9798361497676 / Angielski / Miękka / 38 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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60,65 |
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The Cambridge Companion to the Beats
ISBN: 9781316635711 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Cambridge Companion to the Beats offers an in-depth overview of one of the most innovative and popular literary periods in America, the Beat era. The Beats were a literary and cultural phenomenon originating in New York City in the 1940s that reached worldwide significance. Although its most well-known figures are Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs, the Beat movement radiates out to encompass a rich diversity of figures and texts that merit further study. Consummate innovators, the Beats had a profound effect not only on the direction of American literature, but also...
The Cambridge Companion to the Beats offers an in-depth overview of one of the most innovative and popular literary periods in America, the Beat era. ...
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117,66 |
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For You I Would Make an Exception
ISBN: 9783988320247 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
77,65 |
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The Beats: A Literary History
ISBN: 9781316629918 / Angielski / Miękka / 2025 / 479 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
cena:
117,61 |