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The Trial of Curiosity: Henry James, William James, and the Challenge of Modernity
ISBN: 9780195071245 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) In this important revisionist study, Posnock integrates literary and psychological criticism with social and cultural theory to make a major advance in our understanding of the life and thought of two great American figures, Henry and William James. Challenging canonical images of both brothers, Posnock is the first to place them in a rich web of cultural and intellectual affiliations comprised of a host of American and European theorists of modernity. A startlingly new Henry James emerges from a cross-disciplinary dialogue, which features Veblen, Santayana, Bourne, and Dewey, as well as...
In this important revisionist study, Posnock integrates literary and psychological criticism with social and cultural theory to make a major advance i...
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559,13 zł |
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Color and Culture: Black Writers and the Making of the Modern Intellectual
ISBN: 9780674003798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 371 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) The coining of the term "intellectuals" in 1898 coincided with W. E. B. Du Bois's effort to disseminate values and ideals unbounded by the color line. Du Bois's ideal of a "higher and broader and more varied human culture" is at the heart of a cosmopolitan tradition that Color and Culture identifies as a missing chapter in American literary and cultural history. The book offers a much needed and startlingly new historical perspective on "black intellectuals" as a social category, ranging over a century--from Frederick Douglass to Patricia Williams, from Du Bois, Pauline Hopkins, and... The coining of the term "intellectuals" in 1898 coincided with W. E. B. Du Bois's effort to disseminate values and ideals unbounded by the color li... |
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190,83 zł |
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Philip Roth's Rude Truth: The Art of Immaturity
ISBN: 9780691138435 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) Has anyone ever worked harder and longer at being immature than Philip Roth? The novelist himself pointed out the paradox, saying that after establishing a reputation for maturity with two earnest novels, he "worked hard and long and diligently" to be frivolous--an effort that resulted in the notoriously immature Portnoy's Complaint (1969). Three-and-a-half decades and more than twenty books later, Roth is still at his serious "pursuit of the unserious." But his art of immaturity has itself matured, developing surprising links with two traditions of immaturity--an American one that... Has anyone ever worked harder and longer at being immature than Philip Roth? The novelist himself pointed out the paradox, saying that after establ... |
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152,88 zł |
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The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Ellison
ISBN: 9780521827812 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel Invisible Man is one of the most important controversial novels in the American canon and remains widely read and studied. This Companion provides the most up-to-date introduction to this influential and significant novelist and critic and to his masterpiece. It features newly commissioned essays, a chronology and a guide to further reading. The essays recover the compelling urgency and relevance of Ellison's political and artistic vision. Students and scholars of American and African-American literature will find this work invaluable.
Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel Invisible Man is one of the most important controversial novels in the American canon and remains widely read and studied. ...
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379,71 zł |
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The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Ellison
ISBN: 9780521535069 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel Invisible Man is one of the most important controversial novels in the American canon and remains widely read and studied. This Companion provides the most up-to-date introduction to this influential and significant novelist and critic and to his masterpiece. It features newly commissioned essays, a chronology and a guide to further reading. The essays recover the compelling urgency and relevance of Ellison's political and artistic vision. Students and scholars of American and African-American literature will find this work invaluable.
Ralph Ellison's 1952 novel Invisible Man is one of the most important controversial novels in the American canon and remains widely read and studied. ...
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173,32 zł |
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Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
ISBN: 9780521031264 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Cindy Weinstein radically revises our understanding of nineteenth-century sentimental literature. Arguing that these novels are far more complex than critics have suggested, Weinstein expands the archive of sentimental novels to include some of the more popular, though under-examined writers, and shows how canonical texts can take on new meaning when read in the context of these novels. She demonstrates the aesthetic and political complexities of this influential genre and its impact on Stowe, Twain and Melville.
Cindy Weinstein radically revises our understanding of nineteenth-century sentimental literature. Arguing that these novels are far more complex than ...
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250,97 zł |
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Race, Slavery, and Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
ISBN: 9780521856744 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) Moving boldly between literary analysis and political theory, contemporary and antebellum US culture, Arthur Riss invites readers to rethink prevailing accounts of the relationship between slavery, liberalism, and literary representation. Situating Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglass at the center of antebellum debates over the person-hood of the slave, this 2006 book examines how a nation dedicated to the proposition that 'all men are created equal' formulates arguments both for and against race-based slavery. This revisionary argument promises to be unsettling...
Moving boldly between literary analysis and political theory, contemporary and antebellum US culture, Arthur Riss invites readers to rethink prevailin...
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448,56 zł |
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The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature
ISBN: 9780521814881 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) As a central icon of political and cultural democracy, the crowd occupies a prominent place in the American literary and cultural landscape. Mary Esteve examines a range of writing by Poe, Hawthorne, Du Bois, James, and Stephen Crane to provide a study of crowd representations in American literature from the antebellum era to the early twentieth century. She argues that these writers examined the aesthetic and political meanings of urban crowd scenes.
As a central icon of political and cultural democracy, the crowd occupies a prominent place in the American literary and cultural landscape. Mary Este...
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448,56 zł |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation
ISBN: 9780521560269 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) Peter Gibian explores the key role played by Oliver Wendell Holmes, senior, in what was known as America's "Age of Conversation." Holmes' multivoiced writings can serve as a key to open up the closed interiors of Victorian America, whether in saloons or salons, parlors or clubs, hotels or boarding houses. Combining social, intellectual, medical, legal and literary history with close textual analysis, and setting Holmes in dialoge with Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Fuller and Alcott, Gibian radically redefines the context for our understanding of the major literary works of the American...
Peter Gibian explores the key role played by Oliver Wendell Holmes, senior, in what was known as America's "Age of Conversation." Holmes' multivoiced ...
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350,28 zł |
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The American Historical Romance
ISBN: 9780521389372 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) Dekker traces the American historical novel from its origins in the early 1800s to the beginning of World War II, examining the genre's connections with Enlightenment and Romantic theories of history, the rise of literary regionalism, the ambitions of Romantic writers to revive the epic and romance, changing gender roles, and individual authors' troubled responses to the modern era's great revolutionary and imperialistic conflicts. Though concerned with the historical romance's development, Dekker devotes most of this book to new readings of major texts by James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel...
Dekker traces the American historical novel from its origins in the early 1800s to the beginning of World War II, examining the genre's connections wi...
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222,46 zł |
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Literature, Amusement, and Technology in the Great Depression
ISBN: 9780521813433 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) This study examines the exchange between literature and recreational practices in 1930s America. William Solomon argues that autobiographical writers like Edward Dahlberg and Henry Miller derived aesthetic inspiration from urban manifestations of the carnival spirit: Coney Island amusement parks, burlesque, vaudeville, and the dime museum display of human oddities. More broadly, he demonstrates that the literary projects of the period pivoted around images of grotesquely disfigured bodies which appeared as part of this recreational culture.
This study examines the exchange between literature and recreational practices in 1930s America. William Solomon argues that autobiographical writers ...
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448,51 zł |
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Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860-1930
ISBN: 9780521824255 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) Race, Work and Desire analyses literary representations of work relationships across the colour-line from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Michele Birnbaum examines inter-racial bonds in fiction and literary correspondence by black and white authors and artists - including Elizabeth Keckley, Frances E. W. Harper, W. D. Howells, Grace King, Kate Chopin, Langston Hughes, Amy Spingarn and Carl Van Vechten - exploring the way servants and employers, doctors and patients, and patrons and artists negotiate their racial differences for artistic and political ends. Situating...
Race, Work and Desire analyses literary representations of work relationships across the colour-line from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twen...
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448,56 zł |
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Henry James and the Writing of Race and Nation
ISBN: 9780521497503 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) In this study, Blair challenges Henry James' perceived status as the literary figurehead of an impregnable high culture. Emphasizing James' engagement in forms of popular culture (including ethnography, minstrelsy, photography, and journalism), Blair traces the ways in which his writing, steeped in these forms, acted as a force in the forging of racial, national, and cultural identity.
In this study, Blair challenges Henry James' perceived status as the literary figurehead of an impregnable high culture. Emphasizing James' engagement...
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448,56 zł |
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Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics of Intimacy
ISBN: 9780521432030 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) By offering a fresh look at Bishop criticism that has moved from purely formal concerns and postmodern interpretations to more recent feminist analysis, Victoria Harrison traces Bishop's career, dividing Bishop's work into three chronological periods of activity: her early work, her writing in Brazil, and her late retrospective verse. By examining letters and notebooks, Harrison unfolds the biographical events that influenced Bishop's poetic style, addressing her treatment of such topics as family relations, history, politics, war, love, sexuality, and ethnic differences. Elizabeth Bishop's...
By offering a fresh look at Bishop criticism that has moved from purely formal concerns and postmodern interpretations to more recent feminist analysi...
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541,93 zł |
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Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry
ISBN: 9780521274135 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry is an inquiry into the cultural roles lyric poetry does and can play in our age.
Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry is an inquiry into the cultural roles lyric poetry does and can play in our age.
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215,11 zł |
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Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle
ISBN: 9780521832816 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) Edgar Allan Poe is frequently portrayed as an isolated idiosyncratic genius unwilling or unable to adapt himself to the cultural conditions of his time. Eliza Richards revises this portrayal through an exploration of his collaborations and rivalries with his female contemporaries. Richards interprets and re-evaluates the work of three important and largely forgotten women poets in the context of nineteenth-century lyric practices: Frances Sargent Osgood, Sarah Helen Whitman, and Elizabeth Oakes Smith.
Edgar Allan Poe is frequently portrayed as an isolated idiosyncratic genius unwilling or unable to adapt himself to the cultural conditions of his tim...
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448,56 zł |
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American Literary Realism, Critical Theory, and Intellectual Prestige, 1880-1995
ISBN: 9780521782210 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) Focusing on key works of late-nineteenth and early- twentieth-century American literary realism, Phillip Barrish traces the emergence of new ways of gaining intellectual prestige--that is, new ways of gaining some degree of cultural recognition. Through extended readings of works by Henry James, William Dean Howells, Abraham Cahan, and Edith Wharton, Barrish emphasizes the differences between realist modes of cultural authority and those associated with the rise of the social sciences.
Focusing on key works of late-nineteenth and early- twentieth-century American literary realism, Phillip Barrish traces the emergence of new ways of g...
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448,51 zł |
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Reimagining Thoreau
ISBN: 9780521461498 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) Reimagining Thoreau synthesizes the interests of the intellectual and psychological biographer and the literary critic in a reconsideration of Thoreau's literary career. The aims of the book are, first, to situate Thoreau's aims and achievements as a writer within the context of his troubled relationship to the microcosm of antebellum Concord; second, to reinterpret Walden as a temporally layered text in light of the successive drafts of the book and the evidence of Thoreau's journals and contemporaneous writings; and third, to overturn traditional views of Thoreau's "decline" by offering a...
Reimagining Thoreau synthesizes the interests of the intellectual and psychological biographer and the literary critic in a reconsideration of Thoreau...
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448,56 zł |
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American Realism and American Drama, 1880-1940
ISBN: 9780521327114 / Angielski / Twarda / 1987 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) The importance of Native American realism is traced through a study of the evolution of dramatic theory from the early 1890s.
The importance of Native American realism is traced through a study of the evolution of dramatic theory from the early 1890s.
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448,56 zł |
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Consumerism and American Girls' Literature, 1860-1940
ISBN: 9780521821872 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) Why did the figure of "the girl" come to dominate the American imagination from the middle of the nineteenth century into the twentieth? Peter Stoneley looks at how women were fictionalized for the girl reader as ways of achieving a powerful social and cultural presence. Covering a wide range of works and writers, this book is of interest to cultural and literary scholars.
Why did the figure of "the girl" come to dominate the American imagination from the middle of the nineteenth century into the twentieth? Peter Stonele...
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448,56 zł |
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