wyszukanych pozycji: 8
No Gifts from Chance: A Biography of Edith Wharton
ISBN: 9780292702745 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 546 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A biography of the noted author, tracing her evolution from shy debutante to the social chronicler of her age. A biography of the noted author, tracing her evolution from shy debutante to the social chronicler of her age. |
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233,87 zł |
The Private Self: Theory and Practice of Women's Autobiographical Writings
ISBN: 9780807842188 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This collection of twelve essays discusses the principles and practices of women's autobiographical writing in the United States, England, and France from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Employing feminist and poststructuralist methodologies, the essays examine a wide range of private life writings -- letters, journals, diaries, memoirs, pedagogical texts, and fictional and factual autobiographies. The concepts of theory and practice -- as opposing and mutually exclusive methodologies, as focal points for conflicting interpretations, and finally as complementary approaches to the...
This collection of twelve essays discusses the principles and practices of women's autobiographical writing in the United States, England, and France ...
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257,66 zł |
Feminist Issues in Literary Scholarship
ISBN: 9780253204141 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. ..". an important and valuable collection... the essays are at the cutting edge of post modernism." Maggie Humm, Women s Studies International Forum "This well-written, carefully edited anthology provides an excellent overview of the thicket of contemporary feminist literary theory... No library should be without it." Kathryn Allen Rabuzzi, Syracuse University, Religious Studies Review "In all, this is a rich and varied collection." Journal of Modern Literature Explores the aesthetic and political issues inherent in feminist critical theory and practice. Contributors... ..". an important and valuable collection... the essays are at the cutting edge of post modernism." Maggie Humm, Women s Studies International Foru... |
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51,92 zł |
Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940
ISBN: 9780292790407 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 566 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Now available in a durable paperback edition, Shari Benstock's critically acclaimed, best-selling Women of the Left Bank is a fascinating exploration of the lives and works of some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the century's early years. This ambitious historical, biographical, and critical study has taken its place among the foremost works of literary criticism. Maurice Beebe calls it "a distinguished contribution to modern literary history." Jane Marcus hails it as "the first serious literary... Now available in a durable paperback edition, Shari Benstock's critically acclaimed, best-selling Women of the Left Bank is a fascinat... |
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202,68 zł |
On Fashion
ISBN: 9780813520339 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Until recently, fashion was considered the "F-word" in intellectual circles, dismissed as unworthy of serious attention. Yet no area of life, no individual moment, stands outside fashion's discourses. Intuitively, we all know that clothing is a language, incessesantly communicating messages about its wearer. But who speaks this language, to whom it is addressed, what does it mean, and how are its meanings established and tranformed? On Fashion explores the ways our material, political, psychological, sexual, even intellectual lives are woven into fashion's fabric. This stimulating collection...
Until recently, fashion was considered the "F-word" in intellectual circles, dismissed as unworthy of serious attention. Yet no area of life, no indiv...
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175,06 zł |
The House of Mirth
ISBN: 9780312062347 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series has introduced more than a quarter of a million students to literary theory and earned enthusiastic praise nationwide. Along with an authoritative text of a major literary work, each volume presents critical essays, selected or prepared especially for students, that approach the work from several contemporary critical perspectives, such as gender criticism and cultural studies. Each essay is accompanied by an introduction (with bibliography) to the...
Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series has introdu...
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103,89 zł |
A Handbook of Literary Feminisms
ISBN: 9780195102062 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A Handbook of Literary Feminisms brings together for the first time two distinct threads of literary feminism: literary history and feminist criticism and theory. The first section of the book offers a history of women's contributions to Anglo-American literature over the past 500 years. It charts the social, cultural, and historical conditions that both shaped women's writing and prevented it from being recognized or valued by literary history. The second section provides an explanation and analysis of trends in feminist criticism and theory, focusing on how feminist approaches to...
A Handbook of Literary Feminisms brings together for the first time two distinct threads of literary feminism: literary history and feminist ...
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783,72 zł |
Edith Wharton Abroad: Selected Travel Writings, 1888-1920
ISBN: 9780312161200 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In EDITH WHARTON ABROAD, Sarah Bird Wright has carefully chosen selections from Edith Wharton's travel writing that convey the writer's control of her craft. Wharton disliked the generality of guidebooks and focused instead on the "parentheses of travel" - the undiscovered hidden corners of Europe, Morocco, and the Mediterranean. This collection spans a period of three decades and takes the reader with Wharton from France to Italy and to Greece. Included is an excerpt from her unpublished memoir, THE CRUISE OF THE VANDIS, as well as front line depictions of Lorraine and the Vosges during...
In EDITH WHARTON ABROAD, Sarah Bird Wright has carefully chosen selections from Edith Wharton's travel writing that convey the writer's control of her...
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86,06 zł |