wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Kodak Elegy: A Cold War Childhood
ISBN: 9780815609728 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. What was it like to grow up as the son of a Kodak engineer during the company s glory days? Decker presents a vivid portrait of life in the Rochester suburbs where residents eagerly conformed to period expectations: two kids, two cars, a move from a snug middle-class neighborhood to a spacious upper-middle-class subdivision. In recollecting the blithe and troubled scenes of America s postwar prosperity, Decker evokes a bygone era with rich detail and biting clarity. Depicting the banalities of the place and time, Kodak Elegy narrates a political education shaped by the Civil Rights... What was it like to grow up as the son of a Kodak engineer during the company s glory days? Decker presents a vivid portrait of life in the Rochest... |
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122,02 zł |
Geographies of Flight: Phillis Wheatley to Octavia Butler
ISBN: 9780810142336 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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532,22 zł |
Epistolary Practices: Letter Writing in America before Telecommunications
ISBN: 9780807847435 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Letters have long been read as primary sources for biography and
history, but their performative, fictive, and textual dimensions have only recently attracted serious notice. In this book, William Merrill Decker examines the place of the personal letter in American popular and literary culture from the colonial to the postmodern period. After offering an overview of the genre, Decker explores epistolary practices that coincide with American experiences of space, settlement, separation, and reunion. He discusses letters written by such well-known and well-educated... Letters have long been read as primary sources for biography and
history, but their performative, fictive, and textual dimensions have only re... |
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282,32 zł |
The Literary Vocation of Henry Adams
ISBN: 9780807865293 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the mid-1880s, Henry Adams committed himself to a posture that has since been associated with his name: neglected patrician, doomsayer, literary man whose bereavement at his wife's suicide confirmed his abandonment of an active public life. Adams (1838-1918) defined himself as other than contemporary Americans. Yet he also cast himself as the Republic's last true patriot, and beneath his reticence lay the firm belief that he was the one man who could save America -- if only his voice were heard.
This insightful book focuses on the relationship between Adams and his audience,... In the mid-1880s, Henry Adams committed himself to a posture that has since been associated with his name: neglected patrician, doomsayer, literary...
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256,66 zł |
Geographies of Flight: Phillis Wheatley to Octavia Butler
ISBN: 9780810142329 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Provides the first comprehensive treatment of the ways in which African American authors across three centuries have confronted the predicament of inhabiting space under conditions of bondage and structural oppression. The book examines how fourteen black authors have sought to transform a cartography that reflects white supremacist assumptions.
Provides the first comprehensive treatment of the ways in which African American authors across three centuries have confronted the predicament of inh...
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187,89 zł |
Henry Adams and the Need to Know
ISBN: 9780934909877 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The University of Virginia Press is proud to add the Massachusetts Historical Society to our list of distribution partners. Beginning immediately, we will be the exclusive distributor of the following new titles and backlist from the society's fine selection of books. For Henry Adams at the turn of the twentieth century, as for his successors in the twenty-first, the relation of mind to a world remade by technology and geopolitical conflict largely determined the destiny of civil life.
The University of Virginia Press is proud to add the Massachusetts Historical Society to our list of distribution partners. Beginning immediately, we ...
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291,48 zł |