wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Literatures of Urban Possibility
ISBN: 9783030709112 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book demonstrates how city literature addresses questions of possibility. In city literature, ideas of possibility emerge primarily through two perspectives: texts may focus on what is possible for cities, and they may present the urban environment as a site of possibility for individuals or communities. The volume combines reflections on urban possibility from a range of geographical and cultural contexts—in addition to the English-speaking world, individual chapters analyse possible cities and possible urban lives in Turkey, Israel, Finland, Germany, Russia and Sweden. Moreover,... This book demonstrates how city literature addresses questions of possibility. In city literature, ideas of possibility emerge primarily through tw... |
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586,33 zł |
The Grotesque and the Unnatural
ISBN: 9781604977929 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The grotesque has provided both laymen and scholars with extreme delights for centuries: from the ornamental combining of rare motifs in antiquity to a hybridisation of structural genres in recent times; from fantastical fusions of humans and beasts to comic exaggerations of bodily aberrations and prosthetic postmodern visions. Eluding clear classification at all times, the notion has often been identified with ideas of contradiction and conflation and observed in relation to principles and categories such as estrangement (Wolfgang Kayser) and carnival (Mikhail Bakhtin), the sublime (Victor...
The grotesque has provided both laymen and scholars with extreme delights for centuries: from the ornamental combining of rare motifs in antiquity to ...
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562,55 zł |
Literary Second Cities
ISBN: 9783319627182 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. `In the Shadow of the Alpha City' problematizes the image of cities defined by their function and size, bringing out the contradictions and contestations inherent in cultural productions of second cities, including Birmingham and Bristol in the UK, Las Vegas in the USA, and Tartu in Estonia.
`In the Shadow of the Alpha City' problematizes the image of cities defined by their function and size, bringing out the contradictions and contestati...
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390,87 zł |
Literatures of Urban Possibility
ISBN: 9783030709082 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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586,33 zł |
Literature and the Peripheral City
ISBN: 9781137492876 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Cities have always been defined by their centrality. But literature demonstrates that their diverse peripheries define them, too: from suburbs to slums, rubbish dumps to nightclubs and entire failed cities. The contributors to this collection explore literary urban peripheries through readings of literature from four continents and numerous cities.
Cities have always been defined by their centrality. But literature demonstrates that their diverse peripheries define them, too: from suburbs to slum...
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390,87 zł |
Literary Second Cities
ISBN: 9783319873770 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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390,87 zł |