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The War I Survived Was Vietnam: Collected Writings of a Veteran and Antiwar Activist
ISBN: 9781476666143 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This singular collection of articles, essays, poems, criticism and personal recollections by a Vietnam veteran documents the author's reflections on the war, from his combat experiences to his exploration of American veteran identity to his struggles with PTSD. His career as an advocate for the welfare of GIs and veterans exposed to dangerous radiation and herbicides is covered. Several pieces deal with how the Vietnam experience is being archived by scholars for historical interpretation. These collected works serve as a study of how wars are remembered and written about by surviving...
This singular collection of articles, essays, poems, criticism and personal recollections by a Vietnam veteran documents the author's reflections on t...
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167,87 |
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Toward Diversity and Emancipation: (Re-)Narrating Space in the Contemporary American Novel
ISBN: 9783837635089 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the pivotal role which space and spatiality assume in the plot and narrative discourse of contemporary American literary narratives. Embarking from a new, spatialized approach to cultural history and particularly narrative theory that might also prove useful for neighboring philologies, Marcel Thoene hypothesizes that the canon of novels selected represents a dialectic of simultaneous affirmation and subversion of the American myth of space. This brings about an integrative and emancipatory function of space, reflecting the current dynamic toward a more transcultural,...
This book focuses on the pivotal role which space and spatiality assume in the plot and narrative discourse of contemporary American literary narrativ...
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244,84 |
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You Animal Machine (the Golden Greek)
ISBN: 9781566893602 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the tale of Melena, five times married, mother of three, burlesque dancer, and "the toughest, hardest-assed woman to ever eat wood and bite nails." Located in history and memory, her life cracks open questions of identity at the heart of an American immigrant woman's experience and becomes an argument that no existence is ever truly marginal. Eleni Sikelianos is the author of six books of poetry, most recently The Loving Detail of the Living and the Dead, as well as a hybrid memoir, The Book of Jon. Sikelianos directs the creative writing program at the University of Denver.
This is the tale of Melena, five times married, mother of three, burlesque dancer, and "the toughest, hardest-assed woman to ever eat wood and bite na...
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65,32 |
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Empowerment Zones und Soziale Stadt: Ein Vergleich zweier sozialräumlich orientierter Entwicklungsprogramme in den USA und Deutschland im Hinblick auf
ISBN: 9783640247783 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Kultur und Landeskunde, Note: 1,7, Freie Universitat Berlin (John-F.-Kennedy-Institut), Veranstaltung: "Informelle und soziale Okonomie: Vergleich Nordamerika und Europa," 15 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Rahmen der folgenden Arbeit sollen die beiden prominentesten und umfangreichsten Stadtentwicklungsprogramme der jungeren Vergangenheit in Deutschland und den USA bezuglich ihrer Zielsetzung und Struktur im Hinblick auf Burgerbeteiligung und Empowerment untersucht werden. Bei den beiden Programmen...
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Kultur und Landeskunde, Note: 1,7, Freie Universitat Berlin (John-F.-Kennedy-Institut),...
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147,68 |
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Happy American Dream: Die großen amerikanischen Mythen und ihre Dekonstruktion bei Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Jonathan Franzen und Philipp Ro
ISBN: 9783656282532 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, Note: 2,3, Universitat Augsburg (Historisch-philologische Fakultat), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Fokus steht die Darstellung und auch die Dekonstruktion dreier uramerikanischer Mythen in drei groen Romanen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die Werke: "Der groe Gatsby" von F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Amerikanisches Idyll" von Philipp Roth und "Die Korrekturen" von Jonathan Franzen. Die besprochenen Mythen sind der American Dream - mit den Untermythen Self-Made Man, Upward Mobility, From Rags to Riches, Land of Endless Opportunities...
Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Literatur, Note: 2,3, Universitat Augsburg (Historisch-philologische Fakultat), Sprach...
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281,21 |
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Ebonics als Fremdsprache oder pädagogisches Problem: Die Diskussion nach der Oakland Resolution von 1996
ISBN: 9783656373247 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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153,35 |
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The Significance of the Western Myth in modern America
ISBN: 9783656497264 / Angielski / Miękka / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,0, University of Paderborn (Institut fur Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Pro-Seminar 'The American Frontier', language: English, abstract: In this term paper I'm going to answer the question if the Western Myth and the idea of an American Frontier are still current topics in modern day America. The glorified myth of a frontier moving faster and faster into the unknown is deeply rooted in the heads of the American people, since the first settlers moved westwards, over hundred-fifty...
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 2,0, University of Paderborn (Institut fur An...
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147,68 |
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Faulkner and Formalism: Returns of the Text
ISBN: 9781628460650 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Faulkner and Formalism: Returns of the Text collects eleven essays in which contributors query the status of Faulkner's literary text in contemporary criticism and scholarship. How do scholars today approach Faulkner's texts? For some, including Arthur F. Kinney and James B. Carothers, -returns of the text- is a phrase that raises questions of aesthetics, poetics, and authority. For others, the phrase serves as an invitation to return to Faulkner's language, to writing and the letter itself. Serena Blount, Owen Robinson, James Harding, and Taylor Hagood interpret -returns of the... Faulkner and Formalism: Returns of the Text collects eleven essays in which contributors query the status of Faulkner's literary text in con... |
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137,09 |
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'Fight Club' - A model of a social revolution
ISBN: 9783638705394 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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185,72 |
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The Essential Ellen Willis
ISBN: 9780816681211 / Angielski / Miękka / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
The Essential Ellen Willis gathers writings that span forty years and are both deeply engaged with the times in which they were first published and yet remain fresh and relevant amid today's seemingly intractable political and cultural...
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97,90 |
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The Madman
ISBN: 9781627300643 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This thought-provoking collection of unique, subtle, but meaningful parables casts an ironic light on the beliefs, hopes, and vanities of humankind. By the celebrated author of the international bestseller, The Prophet.
This thought-provoking collection of unique, subtle, but meaningful parables casts an ironic light on the beliefs, hopes, and vanities of humankind. B...
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42,95 |
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Place Names in the U.S.A.
ISBN: 9783640858255 / Angielski / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seminar paper from the year 1982 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Amerikanistik / American Studies), course: Proseminar 'Einfuhrung in die Lexikologie und Morphologie des amerikanischen Englisch', 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Place names, or toponyms, may represent the best-known specimens of the American variant of English. Like other "Americanisms," they may be the product of composition, derivation, or borrowing from another language. A glance at a map shows that they, too, have...
Seminar paper from the year 1982 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Ame...
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147,68 |
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Sherwood Anderson's and Ernest Hemingway's stories of initiation
ISBN: 9783640876495 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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159,82 |
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Performing the Border
ISBN: 9783640955688 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Kultur und Landeskunde, Note: 1,7, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin (Anglistik/Amerikanistik), Veranstaltung: Filmessay, 10 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Video "Performing the Border" geht es um ausgebeutete Frauen an der mexikanischen Grenze, um kulturelle Verschiebungen und politische Umstande. Ich mochte auf das "Filmessay" naher eingehen. Das Essay ist ursprunglich ein literarischer Genre, der sich durch Filme wie "Sans Soleil" von Chris Marker einen Platz in der audiovisuellen Ebene geschaffen...
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2002 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Kultur und Landeskunde, Note: 1,7, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin (Anglistik/Amerikanis...
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153,35 |
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American Film Comedies
ISBN: 9783656381099 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Dresden Technical University (Amerikanische Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaften), course: American Film Comedies, 0 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This dialogue from -Cactus Flower- is very likely to catch the attention of a 21stcentury woman instantly because of its chauvinist, discriminating tone against women. It is very intriguing to find this conversation in a film which was shot in the so-called liberal sixties, and which raised the question to me whether patriarchal...
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, Dresden Technical University (Amerikanische Kultur- und Lit...
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159,82 |
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Behaviorism - a short discussion
ISBN: 9783656529538 / Angielski / Miękka / 20 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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141,21 |
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Die Mobilität des Migranten: Räumliche und kulturelle Grenzüberschreitungen in Cary Fukunagas 'Sin nombre'
ISBN: 9783656547129 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Kultur und Landeskunde, Note: 1,3, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf, Veranstaltung: The Americas - Las Americas - Les Ameriques, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Zu Beginn der Arbeit wird der (gemeinsame) historische Kontext der Vereinigten Staaten und Mexiko skizziert. Mit Hinblick auf den Schwerpunkt der Arbeit ruckt der historische Kontext, die gemeinsame Grenze und die hohe Zahl illegaler mexikanischer Einwanderer in den Vordergrund. Dieser Uberblick dient nicht allein der Darstellung des mexikanisch-amerikanischen...
Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Amerikanistik - Kultur und Landeskunde, Note: 1,3, Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf, Veranstaltung:...
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266,65 |
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Prejudices: First Series
ISBN: 9781453849118 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prejudices First Series, BY H. L. Mencken
Prejudices First Series, BY H. L. Mencken
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76,67 |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014
ISBN: 9780544003422 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Undeniably exquisite . . .The essays in the collection are] meditations that reveal not only how science actually happens but also who or what propels its immutable humanity. Maria Popova, Brain Pickings A stimulating compendium. Kirkus Reviews Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Deborah Blum selects the year stop science and nature writing from writers who balance research with humanity and in the process uncover riveting stories of discovery across the disciplines."
Undeniably exquisite . . .The essays in the collection are] meditations that reveal not only how science actually happens but also who or what... |
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84,74 |
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The Best American Essays 2014
ISBN: 9780544309906 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A creature from an alternative universe . . . wanting to understand what is on the American mind should rush to the nearest bookstore and buy a copy of this distinguished anthology . . . Exhilarating." -- Publishers Weekly The Best American Essays 2014 is selected and introduced by John Jeremiah Sullivan, author of the critically acclaimed essay collection Pulphead. The New York Times placed Sullivan "among the best young nonfiction writers in English" and the New York Times Book Review heralded Pulphead as "the best, and most... "A creature from an alternative universe . . . wanting to understand what is on the American mind should rush to the nearest bookstore and buy a... |
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61,61 |
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