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Lewis Mumford: Critic of Culture and Civilization
ISBN: 9783039115570 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lewis Mumford s achievements as an architectural critic, literary critic and urbanist are well known. However, his contribution to the American studies movement and to cultural studies in general has almost been forgotten in recent years. By situating Mumford s work in its contemporary intellectual context and by considering some of its legacies for the study of culture and civilization especially in the nascent field of American studies this book considers Mumford as an author, drawing out some of the expressive, political and methodological significance of this term. In an attempt to...
Lewis Mumford s achievements as an architectural critic, literary critic and urbanist are well known. However, his contribution to the American studie...
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342,64 |
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Canada: Images of a Post/National Society
ISBN: 9789052014852 / Angielski / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Has Canada moved beyond the nation state into the world of the post-national? To what extent have fixed notions of Canadian nationhood been replaced by a more global, decentralized sense of identification? Is nationhood (or post-nationhood) best expressed by statelessness and exile or by belonging? Or can Canadian national identity in fact fruitfully coexist with the post-national consciousness? These are some of the issues covered by this volume, issues seen from a range of perspectives literary, cultural, political and economic. In the literary sphere the national/post-national debate is...
Has Canada moved beyond the nation state into the world of the post-national? To what extent have fixed notions of Canadian nationhood been replaced b...
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364,19 |
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Proverbs Are Never Out of Season; Popular Wisdom in the Modern Age
ISBN: 9781433119910 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book takes an engaging look at the significance of traditional proverbs and their variation in the modern world. From sales pitch to propagandistic tool, Wolfgang Mieder looks at how we adapt proverbs to rapidly changing social attitudes the original wording of proverbs changes to fit modern advertising slogans or political rhetoric, misogynist sayings become feminist slogans, and late medieval woodcuts illustrating proverbs find their modern equivalents in political cartoons and comic strips. The book is richly illustrated and contains name, subject, and proverb indexes."
This book takes an engaging look at the significance of traditional proverbs and their variation in the modern world. From sales pitch to propagandist...
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225,47 |
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«Yes We Can»: Barack Obama's Proverbial Rhetoric
ISBN: 9781433106682 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As President Barack Obama outlined his promise for change during the presidential campaign, he made effective use of proverbs and proverbial phrases, and invented many quotable epithets that have all the makings of future proverbs. This book examines how Obama s natural and authentic reliance on traditional metaphors enhances his impressive rhetoric, rather than reducing it to mere sound bites. Proverbs, with their often colorful metaphors, add expressiveness and emotion to his communications, giving people the opportunity to follow his pragmatic or philosophical arguments through common...
As President Barack Obama outlined his promise for change during the presidential campaign, he made effective use of proverbs and proverbial phrases, ...
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590,43 |
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Arcadian Waters and Wanton Seas: The Iconology of Waterscapes in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Culture
ISBN: 9781433102974 / Angielski / Twarda / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The nineteenth century was the great age of landscape painting in Europe and America. In an era of rapid industrialization and transformation of landscape, pictures of natural scenes were what people wanted most to display in their homes. The most popular and marketable pictures, often degenerating into kitsch, showed a wilderness with a pond or a lake in which obtrusive signs of industry and civilization had been edited out.
Inspired by Romantic ideas of the uniqueness of the nation, pictorial and literary art was supposed to portray the -soul- of the nation and the spirit of place, a... The nineteenth century was the great age of landscape painting in Europe and America. In an era of rapid industrialization and transformation of lands...
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464,37 |
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Modern and Postmodern Narratives of Race, Gender, and Identity: The Descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings
ISBN: 9781433108754 / Angielski / Twarda / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The alleged affair between Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, and his slave Sally Hemings was proven as a fact by DNA analysis in 1998. While many historians continue to deny the affair, some have accepted the love affair between Jefferson and Hemings as fact, and many historical omissions regarding the affair have been revised since the 1998 DNA results. However, the identity and the dignity of the Hemings family, which were previously ignored in the official history, have been restored not only by science but also by literature. This book examines how African...
The alleged affair between Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, and his slave Sally Hemings was proven as a fact by DNA analysi...
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528,54 |
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William Faulkner, Gavin Stevens, and the Cavalier Tradition
ISBN: 9781433111556 / Angielski / Twarda / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many readers imagine Gavin Stevens as the character most similar to William Faulkner in all of his apocryphal Yoknapatawpha, and while Stevens was once considered the most reliable Faulknerian spokesperson, ample scholarship has demonstrated that he functions as far more than merely the author s mouthpiece. In William Faulkner, Gavin Stevens, and the Cavalier Tradition, Lorie Watkins Fulton defines Stevens s role and examines the scope of his influence. Fulton proposes that Faulkner uses similarities between himself and Stevens to voice, at a fictional remove, concerns about people of...
Many readers imagine Gavin Stevens as the character most similar to William Faulkner in all of his apocryphal Yoknapatawpha, and while Stevens was onc...
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378,40 |
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Global Literary Journalism; Exploring the Journalistic Imagination
ISBN: 9781433118661 / Angielski / Miękka / 409 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text brings together the writings of more than twenty international academics to explore the rapidly expanding field of literary journalism a term the editors view as ?disputed terrain'. Journalists from a uniquely wide range of countries and regions including Britain, Canada, Cape Verde, Finland, India, Ireland, Latin America Norway, Sweden, the Middle East, the United States are covered as are a range of subject areas. These are divided into sections titled Disputed Terrains: Crossing the Boundaries between Fact, Reportage and Fiction, Exploring Subjectivities: The Personal is Where We...
This text brings together the writings of more than twenty international academics to explore the rapidly expanding field of literary journalism a ter...
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258,69 |
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Rewriting Black Identities: Transition and Exchange in the Novels of Toni Morrison
ISBN: 9789052011677 / Angielski / Miękka / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book received a Toni Morrison Society Recognition Award
The complexity of African-American identities is a central concern in Toni Morrison s writing. Speaking of -the enormous layers of lives that black Americans] live, - she has commented that -If I examine those layers, I don t come up with simple statements.- Drawing on relevant areas of feminist, poststructuralist and race-related theory, this study explores aspects of that complexity, encompassing all eight of her novels to date, including Love (2003). Opening with an exploration of The Bluest Eye... This book received a Toni Morrison Society Recognition Award
The complexity of African-American identities is a central concern in Toni Mor... |
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306,88 |
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Mudrooroo: A Likely Story: Identity and Belonging in Postcolonial Australia
ISBN: 9789052013565 / Angielski / Miękka / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mudrooroo: A Likely Story reads the fiction of one of Australia s most controversial and enigmatic literary figures against the backdrop of the likelihood that he assumed an Aboriginal identity to which he was not entitled. As he is neither black nor white, Colin Johnson (a.k.a. Mudrooroo) writes on issues of identity and belonging from the position of an outsider. The book argues that the experimental nature of Johnson s creative body of work coupled with the complexities of his in-between status, mean that both the man and his writing evade neat categorisation within mainstream...
Mudrooroo: A Likely Story reads the fiction of one of Australia s most controversial and enigmatic literary figures against the backdrop of the...
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335,54 |
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Dis/Figuring Sam Shepard
ISBN: 9789052013527 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This illustrated volume covers the career of Sam Shepard, the provocative American playwright, scriptwriter, actor, and director, through an introductory survey followed by in-depth analyses of representative selections from the one-acts (Action, States of Shock), experimental collaborations with Joseph Chaikin (Savage/Love), and by now classic family plays (Buried Child, A Lie of the Mind). It ranges from Shepard s unpublished adaptation of Marlowe s Doctor Faustus through the textual variants and political context of Operation Sidewinder to Robert Altman s...
This illustrated volume covers the career of Sam Shepard, the provocative American playwright, scriptwriter, actor, and director, through an introduct...
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349,74 |
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Teaching Jean Toomer's 1923 Cane
ISBN: 9780820424927 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cane one of the major works of the Harlem Renaissance and Jean Toomer s imagist masterpiece, is now a part of the canon in Afro-American literature. Teaching Jean Toomer s 1923 Cane is a unique literary tool that explores the brilliance and far-sighted vision of Toomer, allowing Cane to be taught holistically as a discovery process, using the blues motif and the poetic essay. This book s text and figures ground a discussion of Cane s enigmatic and figurative language, connecting the Harlem Renaissance to the Negritude Movement and to later Afro-centric literary movements....
Cane one of the major works of the Harlem Renaissance and Jean Toomer s imagist masterpiece, is now a part of the canon in Afro-American litera...
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178,80 |
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A Postmodern Literacy Policy Analysis
ISBN: 9780820445618 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book traces the development of four literacy discourses over twenty-five years: human capital, cultural, critical, and feminist literacy. By analyzing four federal educational policies and their specific references to literacy, language instruction, and key signifiers of the kinds of literacy prescribed for teachers and students, Mary Frances Agnello describes how the discourses of human capital and cultural literacy have been and remain predominant over the lesser well-known discourses of critical and feminist literacy. Tracing the proliferations and transformations in the meanings of...
This book traces the development of four literacy discourses over twenty-five years: human capital, cultural, critical, and feminist literacy. By anal...
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151,91 |
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Explorations in Contemporary Feminist Literature: The Battle Against Oppression for Writers of Color, Lesbian and Transgender Communities
ISBN: 9780820456621 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explorations in Contemporary Feminist Literature: The Battle Against Oppression for Writers of Color, Lesbian and Transgender Communities is a work that bridges issues of oppression across diverse communities within the contemporary feminist movement. Fictional writings by authors such as Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, Rose Tremain, and others are addressed in regard to their content of social messages. The major focus of this book is the need for personal-redefinition by members of marginalized communities seeking a ground of self-determination and respect, as expressed by various...
Explorations in Contemporary Feminist Literature: The Battle Against Oppression for Writers of Color, Lesbian and Transgender Communities is a ...
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185,40 |
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Beat Generation: Critical Essays
ISBN: 9780820457789 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It has been fifty years since the Beats first came upon the literary scene and although the academy s hostility toward the Beats has not completely abated, it has certainly diminished. Today mainstream publishers are adding many Beat titles to their lists, and students of Beat literature can draw upon a wealth of critical resources that have been published in the last twenty years. The fourteen critical essays gathered in this collection verify that Jack Kerouac is still the undisputed king of the Beats followed by William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. At the same time, however, the Beat...
It has been fifty years since the Beats first came upon the literary scene and although the academy s hostility toward the Beats has not completely ab...
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185,40 |
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The Family in Twentieth-Century American Drama
ISBN: 9780820463216 / Angielski / Twarda / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The central subject of American drama is, arguably, the American family. From Royall Tyler s colonial comedy The Contrast (1787) to August Wilson s King Hedley II (2000), relationships between husbands, wives, and their children have been used consistently by American playwrights to explore and illuminate the American experience. This study of the family in twentieth-century American drama explores how filial relationships are affected by the capitalistic culture of consumption that permeates twentieth-century American society. By analyzing relationships within both traditional...
The central subject of American drama is, arguably, the American family. From Royall Tyler s colonial comedy The Contrast (1787) to August Wils...
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385,50 |
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Reading, Learning, Teaching N. Scott Momaday
ISBN: 9780820481869 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reading, Learning, Teaching N. Scott Momaday is an introduction to the literature and art of American writer N. Scott Momaday, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize and member of the Kiowa American Indian Tribe. This book describes the impact of Momaday s family, Kiowa heritage, Pueblo cultural experiences, and academic preparation on his worldview, poetry, novels, essays, children s books, works in mixed genres, painting, and drawing, and it offers an analysis of his major works including the structural aspects and major themes of his writing and art. Jim Charles s description of specific...
Reading, Learning, Teaching N. Scott Momaday is an introduction to the literature and art of American writer N. Scott Momaday, winner of the 19...
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159,02 |
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Nation, Race & History in Asian American Literature; Re-membering the Body
ISBN: 9781433102684 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nation, Race & History in Asian American Literature reflects on the symbolic processes through which the United States constitutes its subjects as citizens, connecting such processes to the global dynamics of empire building and a suppressed history of American imperialism. Through a comparative analysis of David Henry Hwang s M. Butterfly, Lois-Ann Yamanaka s Blu s Hanging, and Jessica Hagedorn s Dogeaters, this study considers the ways in which bodies challenge the categories asserted in nation-building. The book proposes that underwritten by the vast histories...
Nation, Race & History in Asian American Literature reflects on the symbolic processes through which the United States constitutes its subjects...
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264,02 |
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Identity and Cultural Translation: Writing Across the Borders of Englishness: Women's Writing in English in a European Context
ISBN: 9783039102679 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The papers collected in this volume include a selection of those presented at a conference which took place at the University of Minho, Portugal, in July 2001 held under the auspices of the project European Intertexts: a Study of Women s Writing in English as Part of a European Fabric. The contributions focus on a variety of texts issuing from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds and debate the topics of Identity and Cultural Translation as instances of physical and allegorical border crossings in today s world while investigating their relation to Anglophone culture.
This... The papers collected in this volume include a selection of those presented at a conference which took place at the University of Minho, Portugal, in J...
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414,41 |
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Vagueness in Normative Texts
ISBN: 9783039106530 / Angielski / Miękka / 482 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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700,25 |
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