wyszukanych pozycji: 12
The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall
ISBN: 9780231125116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 1136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Since the Renaissance, countless writers have been magnetized by the notion of love between women. From Renaissance love poems to twentieth-century novels, plays, and short stories, The Literature of Lesbianism brings together hundreds of literary works on the subject of female homosexuality. This is not an anthology of "lesbian writers." Nor is it simply a one-sided compendium of "positive" or "negative" images of lesbian experience. Terry Castle explores the emergence and transformation of the "idea of lesbianism" its conceptual origins and how it has been transmitted, transformed,...
Since the Renaissance, countless writers have been magnetized by the notion of love between women. From Renaissance love poems to twentieth-century no...
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231,97 zł |
The Professor: A Sentimental Education
ISBN: 9780061670923 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. " Terry Castle is] the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today." --Susan Sontag From one of America's most brilliant critics and cultural commentators, Terry Castle, comes The Professor and Other Writings a collection of startling, gorgeously-written autobiographical essays and a new, long-form piece about the devastation and beauty of early love. James Wolcott, contributing writer to Vanity Fair, calls Terry Castle a "Jedi knight of literary exploration and lesbian scholarship," and The Professor and Other Writings "a... " Terry Castle is] the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today." --Susan Sontag From one of America's most brillia... |
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68,00 zł |
Masquerade and Civilization: The Carnivalesque in Eighteenth-Century English Culture and Fiction
ISBN: 9780804714686 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Public masquerades were a popular and controversial form of urban entertainment in England for most of the eighteenth century. They were held regularly in London and attended by hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people from all ranks of society who delighted in disguising themselves in fanciful costumes and masks and moving through crowds of strangers. The authors shows how the masquerade played a subversive role in the eighteenth-century imagination, and that it was persistently associated with the crossing of class and sexual boundaries, sexual freedom, the overthrow of decorum, and urban...
Public masquerades were a popular and controversial form of urban entertainment in England for most of the eighteenth century. They were held regularl...
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167,90 zł |
The Apparitional Lesbian: Female Homosexuality and Modern Culture
ISBN: 9780231076531 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In essays on literary images of lesbianism from Defoe and Diderot to Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes, on the homosexual reputation of Marie Antoinette, on the lesbian writings of Anne Lister, Sylvia Townsend Warner, and Janet Flanner, and on Henry James's The Bostonians, Castle shows how a lesbian presence can be identified in the literature, history, and culture of the past three centuries.
In essays on literary images of lesbianism from Defoe and Diderot to Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes, on the homosexual reputation of Marie Antoinette...
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176,74 zł |
FearMaker: Family Matters
ISBN: 9780578092775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Twelve-year-old Adam Castle lives in a mansion in Beverly Hills. But for him, life is just like that for any other ordinary twelve-year-old. That is, until he mistakenly overhears the unsavory truth about his father. Dear old Dad is a homicidal maniac and lovely Mom is his beautiful accomplice. To make matters worse, Adam overhears a sweet little conversation where he learns that his dad's next victim will be one of his favorite classmates, Jennifer Isles. Jen is the first girl Adam has ever really liked, I mean got-caught-staring-at-her-more-than-once liked. And his father has plans to...
Twelve-year-old Adam Castle lives in a mansion in Beverly Hills. But for him, life is just like that for any other ordinary twelve-year-old. That is, ...
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40,14 zł |
Clarissa's Ciphers: Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa
ISBN: 9780801414954 / Angielski / Twarda / 1982 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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246,60 zł |
Boss Ladies, Watch Out!: Essays on Women, Sex and Writing
ISBN: 9780415938747 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This text is about women as critics. Terry Castle investigates strong women writers with formidable personalities - Jane Austen, Collette, Willa Cather - often turning analysis of these figures and their work into a keen new perspective on their lives and on life in general. Her canvas includes male writers too, such as the amorous Casanova. Many of these essays have appeared in the London Review of Books, where Castle is a regular contributor.
This text is about women as critics. Terry Castle investigates strong women writers with formidable personalities - Jane Austen, Collette, Willa Cathe...
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199,33 zł |
The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Invention of the Uncanny
ISBN: 9780195080988 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The work of leading scholar Terry Castle, called by the New York Times "always engaging...consistently fascinating," has helped to revolutionize eighteenth-century studies. The Female Thermometer brings together Castle's essays on the phantasmagoric side of eighteenth-century literature and culture. Taking as her emblem the fanciful "female thermometer," an imaginary instrument invented by eighteenth-century satirists to measure levels of female sexual arousal, Castle explores what she calls the "impinging strangeness" of the eighteenth-century imagination--the ways in which...
The work of leading scholar Terry Castle, called by the New York Times "always engaging...consistently fascinating," has helped to revolution...
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242,36 zł |
The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Ariosto to Stonewall
ISBN: 9780231125109 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 1110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Since the Renaissance, countless writers have been magnetized by the notion of love between women. From Renaissance love poems to twentieth-century novels, plays, and short stories, The Literature of Lesbianism brings together hundreds of literary works on the subject of female homosexuality. This is not an anthology of "lesbian writers." Nor is it simply a one-sided compendium of "positive" or "negative" images of lesbian experience. Terry Castle explores the emergence and transformation of the "idea of lesbianism" its conceptual origins and how it has been transmitted, transformed,...
Since the Renaissance, countless writers have been magnetized by the notion of love between women. From Renaissance love poems to twentieth-century no...
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810,02 zł |
Clarissa's Ciphers: Meaning and Disruption in Richardson's Clarissa
ISBN: 9781501707148 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Drawing on feminist criticism and hermeneutic theory, Castle examines the question of authority in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa.
Drawing on feminist criticism and hermeneutic theory, Castle examines the question of authority in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa.
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68,16 zł |
Boss Ladies, Watch Out!: Essays on Women, Sex and Writing
ISBN: 9780415938730 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this text about women as critics, Terry Castle investigates strong women writers with formidable personalities - Jane Austen, Collette, Willa Cather - often turning analysis of these figures and their work into a perspective on their lives and on life in general. Her canvas includes male writers too, such as the amorous Casanova. Many of these essays have appeared in the London Review of Books, where Castle is a regular contributor.
In this text about women as critics, Terry Castle investigates strong women writers with formidable personalities - Jane Austen, Collette, Willa Cathe...
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708,33 zł |
The Price of Salt: A Norton Critical Edition
ISBN: 9780393918168 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. This Norton Critical Edition includes: * The 1952 novel along with-for comparative reading-Patricia Highsmith's two Afterwords (1984 and 1990). * Editorial matter by Terry Castle. * Background materials on The Price of Salt's textual history and genesis (1948-52). * An unusually rich Criticism section, thematically arranged to promote classroom discussion. Letters to Patricia Highsmith (1952-65)-never before published-allow today's readers to understand something of this novel's deeply personal power, while reviews of the 1952, 1984, and 1991 editions trace the novel's critical...
This Norton Critical Edition includes: * The 1952 novel along with-for comparative reading-Patricia Highsmith's two Afterwords (1984 and 1990). ...
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77,27 zł |