wyszukanych pozycji: 22
Literature and Culture of the Chicago Renaissance: Postmodern and Postcolonial Development
ISBN: 9780367230173 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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696,20 zł |
Literature and Culture of the Chicago Renaissance: Postmodern and Postcolonial Development
ISBN: 9780367246518 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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195,92 zł |
Jack Kerouac and the Traditions of Classic and Modern Haiku
ISBN: 9781498558297 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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261,59 zł |
East-West Literary Imagination: Cultural Exchanges from Yeats to Morrison
ISBN: 9780826220806 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This study traces the shaping presence of cultural interactions, arguing that American literature has become a hybridization of Eastern and Western literary traditions. Cultural exchanges between the East and West began in the early decades of the nineteenth century as American transcendentalists explored Eastern philosophies and arts. Hakutani examines this influence through the works of Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. He further demonstrates the East-West exchange through discussions of the interactions by modernists such as Yone Noguchi, Yeats, Pound, Camus, and... This study traces the shaping presence of cultural interactions, arguing that American literature has become a hybridization of Eastern and Western... |
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352,85 zł |
The Beat Generation and Counterculture; Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9781433106033 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Beat Generation and Counterculture examines three authors associated with the -Beat Generation- Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac and the relevance of their attempt to travel, learn, and write about exotic non-Western cultures and repressed minority cultures in the United States, projecting the influence of history, premodern religious practices, and postcolonial social and intellectual problems into the written development of countercultural ethos and praxis. The Beat Generation and Counterculture underscores T. S. Eliot s emphasis on -earning tradition...
The Beat Generation and Counterculture examines three authors associated with the -Beat Generation- Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs, and Jack...
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639,83 zł |
Toni Morrison and the Maternal: From «The Bluest Eye» to «God Help the Child», Revised Edition
ISBN: 9781433170768 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this revised edition, Linda Wagner-Martin offers a compelling study of African American writer Toni Morrison's work, beginning with The Bluest Eye in 1970 and continuing through her 2015 novel God Help the Child. Wagner-Martin describes Morrison as an inherently original novelist who was shaped throughout her career by her role within families. Her study focuses on Morrison's use of family in her narratives, particularly on the roles of mother and child. Beginning with the paradigm of a good mother (Mrs. MacTeer) in The Bluest Eye, set against women who are found wanting in their mother...
In this revised edition, Linda Wagner-Martin offers a compelling study of African American writer Toni Morrison's work, beginning with The Bluest Eye ...
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311,00 zł |
Desire and Disillusionment; A Guide to American Fiction Since 1890
ISBN: 9781433122910 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Desire and Disillusionment: A Guide to American Fiction Since 1890 departs from the typical academic study in that it appeals to the general reading public, undergraduate and graduate students, and literary scholars. The book s focus on a highly relatable subject, longing and loss, its running plot summaries, and lucid presentation account for this broad appeal. Lawrence E. Hussman examines selected novels and short stories of fifty major American fiction writers from Stephen Crane to Junot Diaz. The reader will also find references to American politics, history, and popular culture in...
Desire and Disillusionment: A Guide to American Fiction Since 1890 departs from the typical academic study in that it appeals to the general re...
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686,64 zł |
American Haiku, Eastern Philosophies, and Modernist Poetics
ISBN: 9781793634504 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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488,57 zł |
East-West Literary Imagination: Cultural Exchanges from Yeats to Morrisonvolume 1
ISBN: 9780826221827 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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178,87 zł |
Playing with Expectations: Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel
ISBN: 9781433130069 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 177 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Playing with Expectations: Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel explores a merging of works by African American novelists to promote critical acceptance of postmodern literature and advance the legitimacy and usefulness of postmodern literary techniques. This book examines novels by Ishmael Reed, Charles Johnson, and Toni Morrison, and two novels by comparative newcomer Colson Whitehead all of whom have used postmodern techniques not only to help their work be read, but to gain a racially wide audience that is open, willing, and able to understand.
... Playing with Expectations: Postmodern Narrative Choices and the African American Novel explores a merging of works by African American novelist...
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559,82 zł |
Haiku and Modernist Poetics
ISBN: 9780230616554 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. This book examines the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and traces its impact on modernist poetics. This study shows that the most pervasive East-West artistic, cultural, and literary exchange that has taken place in modern and postmodern times was in the reading and writing of haiku in the West. Hakutani roots Y.B Yeats symbolism in cross cultural visions; reveals Ezra Pound s imagism to have originated in haiku; and discusses some of the finest haiku written by Jack Kerouac, Richard Wright, Sonia Sanchez, and James Emanuel.
This book examines the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and traces its impact on modernist poetics. This study shows that the most pervasive ...
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192,74 zł |
American Realist Fictions of Marriage: From Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton to Frances Harper, Pauline Hopkins
ISBN: 9781433128684 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. American Realist Fictions of Marriage intervenes in current critical debates in American literary realism by showing how realism functions as a mode of narration for fictive constructions of marriage and the race, gender, and class upheavals these depictions of marriage represent.
American Realist Fictions of Marriage intervenes in current critical debates in American literary realism by showing how realism functions as a mode o...
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626,49 zł |
Richard Wright and Haiku
ISBN: 9780826220011 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In the last years of his life, Richard Wright, the fierce and original American novelist known for "Native Son" and "Black Boy, " wrote over four thousand haiku. In "Richard Wright and Haiku, "Yoshinobu Hakutani considers Wright the poet and his late devotion to the spare, unrhymed verse that dwells on human beings relationship to the natural world rather than on their relationships with one another, a strong departure from the intense and often conflicted relationships that had dominated his fiction. Wright was not the only famous American author to be attracted to the art of haiku.... In the last years of his life, Richard Wright, the fierce and original American novelist known for "Native Son" and "Black Boy, " wrote over four t... |
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320,28 zł |
The Nation of Islam and Black Consciousness: The Works of Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, and Other Writers
ISBN: 9781433165306 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Nation of Islam and Black Consciousness: The Works of Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, and Other Writers engages in the scholarly discussions about the origins and formation of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, which rarely give credit to the role of the Nation of Islam's (NOI) teachings in the emergence of the movement and in shaping the subjects and themes of its literary works. This book reevaluates the common belief that Malcolm X is the most appealing black historical figure in the movement's literature and demonstrates how the NOI's perception of black consciousness shaped...
The Nation of Islam and Black Consciousness: The Works of Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, and Other Writers engages in the scholarly discussions about th...
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577,97 zł |
Jack Kerouac and the Traditions of Classic and Modern Haiku
ISBN: 9781498558273 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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488,57 zł |
The Game as It Is Played: Essays on Theodore Dreiser
ISBN: 9781433117800 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Game as It Is Played comprises the best of Donald Pizer s essays on Theodore Dreiser. Pizer, one of Dreiser s principal critics over the past forty years, is especially concerned in establishing the distinctive nature and quality of Dreiser s naturalism in many of these essays. From one of Dreiser s earliest short stories to his acknowledged masterpiece, An American Tragedy, Pizer demonstrates that in Dreiser s hands naturalism is not the blunt instrument it is usually assumed to be but rather a powerful tool for the rendering of a complex view of the human condition. In...
The Game as It Is Played comprises the best of Donald Pizer s essays on Theodore Dreiser. Pizer, one of Dreiser s principal critics over the pa...
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599,82 zł |
Haiku, Other Arts, and Literary Disciplines
ISBN: 9781793647207 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Haiku, Other Arts, and Literary Disciplines investigates the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and determines the relationships of haiku with other arts, such as essay, painting, and music, as well as the backgrounds of haiku, such as literary movements, philosophies, and religions that underlie haiku composition. By analyzing the poets who played major roles in the development of haiku and its related geners, these essays illustrate how Japanese haiku poets, and American writers such as Emerson and Whitman, were inspired by nature, especially its beautiful scenes and seasonal...
Haiku, Other Arts, and Literary Disciplines investigates the genesis and development of haiku in Japan and determines the relationships of haiku with ...
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526,56 zł |
Freaks in Late Modernist American Culture: Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Carson McCullers
ISBN: 9781636675909 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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238,65 zł |
Art, Music, and Literature, 1897-1902
ISBN: 9780252073984 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Dreiser's captivating portraits of turn-of-the-century America's famous figures
Before coming to national attention for his novel "Sister ""Carrie, " Theodore Dreiser worked for nearly a decade as a magazine editor and freelance writer. Now in paperback, "Art, Music, and Literature, 1897-1902" collects a rich selection of Dreiser's brief, colorful articles and interviews with American artists, musicians, and writers during this period. His profiles and interviews include such notables as Alfred Stieglitz, William Dean Howells, and legendary impresario Major James Burton Pond, as well as... Dreiser's captivating portraits of turn-of-the-century America's famous figures
Before coming to national attention for his novel "Sister ""Carrie,... |
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103,09 zł |
American Haiku: New Readings
ISBN: 9781498527170 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. American Haiku: New Readings explores the history and development of haiku by American writers, examining individual writers from the late nineteenth century to modern times.
American Haiku: New Readings explores the history and development of haiku by American writers, examining individual writers from the late nineteenth ...
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569,99 zł |