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James Joyce and Nationalism
ISBN: 9780415103435 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. James Joyce and Nationalism comprehensively revises our understanding of Joyce by re-examining his writing against Irish Nationalism.
In this exciting and provocative book, Emer Nolan looks at the relationship between modernism and nationalism, tracing the applicability of alternative notions of nationalism to the various phases of Joyce's work. Nolan also brings post-colonial and feminist theories to a close re-reading of Joyce's works. This insightful and challenging work provides a polemical introduction to Joyce and is a much needed contribution to the vast field of Joyce... James Joyce and Nationalism comprehensively revises our understanding of Joyce by re-examining his writing against Irish Nationalism.
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708,33 zł |
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Twentieth-Century Fiction : From Text to Context
ISBN: 9780415105903 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By applying recent trends in literary and language theory to a range of 20th-century fiction, the contributors to this text make new theoretical insights available to student readers. The analytical and interpretive strategies examined in this book are presented in such a way as to facilitate critical reading and evaluation. The essays, which are arranged into three groups and which focus on the textual level, narrative and context, look at a wide range of 20th-century authors including Fowles, Forster, Lessing and Woolf. In addition, this student-friendly text includes a subject index, a...
By applying recent trends in literary and language theory to a range of 20th-century fiction, the contributors to this text make new theoretical insig...
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303,71 zł |
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Baudrillard and Signs: Signification Ablaze
ISBN: 9780415112567 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book documents Baudrillard's encounters with semiology and structuralism, detailing his efforts to destroy structural analyses from the inside by setting signification ablaze with his concept of symbolic exchange. The text also reveals Baudrillard's difficulties in attempting to go beyond signification. It situates Baudrillard's work in the broad spectrum of European and American semiotic traditions.
This book documents Baudrillard's encounters with semiology and structuralism, detailing his efforts to destroy structural analyses from the inside by...
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708,33 zł |
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Baudrillard and Signs: Signification Ablaze
ISBN: 9780415112574 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book documents Baudrillard's encounters with semiology and structuralism, detailing his efforts to destroy structural analyses from the inside by setting signification ablaze with his concept of symbolic exchange. The text also reveals Baudrillard's difficulties in attempting to go beyond signification. It situates Baudrillard's work in the broad spectrum of European and American semiotic traditions.
This book documents Baudrillard's encounters with semiology and structuralism, detailing his efforts to destroy structural analyses from the inside by...
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251,80 zł |
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Critical Theory and Practice: A Coursebook
ISBN: 9780415114387 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text combines of survey, reader and workbook which is suitable for the beginning student of literary theory. The work is divided into seven chapters, each of which contains guiding commentary, examples from literary and critical works, and a variety of exercises. Each chapter includes a glossary and annotated selection of suggested further reading, and there is also a full bibliography. The authors cover the key issues and debates of literary theory, including: language, linguistics and literature; structures of literature; literature and history; subjectivity, psychoanalysis and...
This text combines of survey, reader and workbook which is suitable for the beginning student of literary theory. The work is divided into seven chapt...
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708,33 zł |
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Bakhtinian Thought: Intro Read
ISBN: 9780415118996 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An understanding of the work of Mikhail Bakhtin is essential for a comprehensive grasp of contemporary debates in literary theory, language and social history. Bakhtinian Thought offers a collection of writings by Bakhtin, Voloshinov and Medvedev to be accompanied by a full introduction to the work, by the editor Simon Dentith. This collection includes extracts from all the major areas of their work, and makes accessible to the student and teacher pieces of writing previously difficult to locate. Among the texts reproduced are: Language, Speech and Utterance; Material and Device as Components...
An understanding of the work of Mikhail Bakhtin is essential for a comprehensive grasp of contemporary debates in literary theory, language and social...
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209,82 zł |
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Visualisation in Popular Fiction 1860-1960 : Graphic Narratives, Fictional Images
ISBN: 9780415119146 / Angielski / Twarda / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text explores the important but neglected tradition of illustrated fiction in English, and suggests new analytical approaches for its study, by offering detailed discussions of a range of representative texts. Among the issues and genres Sillars explores are: Victorian narrative paintings, Edwardian fictional magazines, comic strips, illustrated children's stories and the translation of novels into film.
This text explores the important but neglected tradition of illustrated fiction in English, and suggests new analytical approaches for its study, by o...
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708,33 zł |
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Multilingualism
ISBN: 9780415120111 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By looking at the effect of language difference, rather than at theories of language, John Edwards examines the interaction of language with nationalism, politics, history, identity and education.
He illustrates his arguments with a rangew of examples, from recent attempts to revive and preserve languages such as Irish and Basque, to the argument over French and English in Canada and the US English' campaign. He also examines the linguistic myopia of those who would seek to elevate one language over another. Multilingualism unpicks the complexity associated with a world of so... By looking at the effect of language difference, rather than at theories of language, John Edwards examines the interaction of language with nationali...
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708,33 zł |
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Towards a 'Natural' Narratology
ISBN: 9780415124829 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this ground breaking work of synthesis, Monika Fludernik combines insights from literary theory and linguistics to provide a challenging new theory of narrative.
This book is both an historical survey and theoretical study, with the author drawing on an enormous range of examples from the earliest oral study to contemporary experimental fiction. She uses these examples to prove that recent literature, far from heralding the final collapse of narrative, represents the epitome of a centuries long developmental process. In this ground breaking work of synthesis, Monika Fludernik combines insights from literary theory and linguistics to provide a challenging new theory...
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760,80 zł |
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Ventriloquized Voices: Feminist Theory and English Renaissance Texts
ISBN: 9780415127936 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ventriloquized Voices is a fascinating examination of the appropriation of the feminine voice by male authors. In a historical and theoretical study of English texts of the early modern period, Elizabeth D. Harvey looks at the transvestism at work in texts which purport to be by women but which are in fact written by men. The crossing of gender in these ventriloquized works illuminates the discourses of patronage, medicine, madness and eroticism in English Renaissance society, revealing as it does the construction of sexuality, gender identity, and power. Harvey has also published: Soliciting...
Ventriloquized Voices is a fascinating examination of the appropriation of the feminine voice by male authors. In a historical and theoretical study o...
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199,33 zł |
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Women's Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology: A Critical Anthology
ISBN: 9780415130967 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Where were the women of the so-called Auden Generation'?During this era of rapidly changing gender roles, social values and world politics, women produced a rich variety of poetry.But until now their work has largely been lost or ignored;in Women's Poetry of the 1930s Jane Dowson finally redresses the balance and recovers women's place in the literary history of the interwar years.This comprehensive and beautifully edited collection includes:
*Previously uncollected poems by authors such as Winifred Holtby and Naomi Mitchison *Poems which are now out of print, such as those by Vita... Where were the women of the so-called Auden Generation'?During this era of rapidly changing gender roles, social values and world politics, women prod...
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199,33 zł |
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The Realist Novel
ISBN: 9780415135719 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book guides the student through the fundamentals of this enduring literary form. By using carefully selected novels and discussing a wide range of authors including Emily Dickinson and John Kincaid, the authors provide a lively examination of the particular themes and modes of realist novels of the period. This is the only book currently available to provide such a wide range of primary and secondary material and is the prefect resource for a literature degree. This book guides the student through the fundamentals of this enduring literary form. By using carefully selected novels and discussing a wide rang... |
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708,33 zł |
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The New Bloomsday Book: A Guide Through Ulysses
ISBN: 9780415138574 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since 1966 readers new to James Joyce have depended upon this essential guide to Ulysses. Harry Blamires helps readers to negotiate their way through this formidable, remarkable novel and gain an understanding of it which, without help, it might have taken several readings to achieve. The New Bloomsday Book is a crystal clear, page-by-page, line-by-line running commentary on the plot of Ulysses which illuminates symbolic themes and structures along the way. It is a highly accessible, indispensible guide for anyone reading Joyce's masterpiece for the first... Since 1966 readers new to James Joyce have depended upon this essential guide to Ulysses. Harry Blamires helps readers to negotiate their ... |
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944,43 zł |
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Writes of Passage: Reading Travel Writing
ISBN: 9780415160131 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Writes of Passage explores the interplay between a system of "othering" which travelers bring to a place, and the "real" geographical difference they discover upon arrival. Exposing the tensions between the imaginary and real, Duncan and Gregory and a team of leading internationa contributors focus primarily upon travelers from the 18th and 19th Centuries to pin down the imaginary within the context of imperial power. The contributors focus on travel to three main regions: Africa, South Asia, and Europe - wit the European examples being drawn from Britain, France and Greece.
Writes of Passage explores the interplay between a system of "othering" which travelers bring to a place, and the "real" geographical differe...
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944,43 zł |
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Writes of Passage: Reading Travel Writing
ISBN: 9780415160148 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Writes of Passage explores the interplay between a system of "othering" which travelers bring to a place, and the "real" geographical difference they discover upon arrival. Exposing the tensions between the imaginary and real, Duncan and Gregory and a team of leading internationa contributors focus primarily upon travelers from the 18th and 19th Centuries to pin down the imaginary within the context of imperial power. The contributors focus on travel to three main regions: Africa, South Asia, and Europe - wit the European examples being drawn from Britain, France and Greece.
Writes of Passage explores the interplay between a system of "othering" which travelers bring to a place, and the "real" geographical differe...
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288,53 zł |
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Consuming Cultures: Feminist Review Issue 55
ISBN: 9780415161725 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Consuming Cultures is concerned with the interrelationship of gender and the circuits of consumption, distribution, production and reproduction. The book looks at the ways in which gender intervenes in all parts of the circuit or the linkages between different elements.
Consuming Cultures is concerned with the interrelationship of gender and the circuits of consumption, distribution, production and reproduct...
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194,08 zł |
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Luxurious Sexualities: Textual Practice Volume 11 Issue 3
ISBN: 9780415161770 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Luxurious Sexualities contains some of the most path- breaking adventurous critical writing currently to be found in Britain. Focusing on eighteenth century sexuality it is intriguing, controversial and provoking.
Textual Practice contains articles relating to women, popular culture, visual media, and ethnic and sexual minorities. Luxurious Sexualities contains some of the most path- breaking adventurous critical writing currently to be found in Britain. Focusing on eig...
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199,33 zł |
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Parody
ISBN: 9780415182201 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Parody is part of all our lives. It occurs not only in literature, but also in everyday speech, in theatre and television, architecture and films. Drawing on examples from Aristophanes to The Simpsons, Simon Dentith explores:
* the place of parody in the history of literature * parody as a subversive or conservative mode of writing * parody's pivotal role in debates about postmodernism * parody in the culture wars from ancient times to the present This lively introduction situates parody at the heart of literary and cultural studies and offers a remarkably clear guide... Parody is part of all our lives. It occurs not only in literature, but also in everyday speech, in theatre and television, architecture and films. Dra...
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445,94 zł |
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The English Novel in History 1700-1780
ISBN: 9780415190305 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text traces the social and moral representations of the period in extended readings of the major novelists (Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Burney and Sterne), as well as evaluating the importance of lesser known ones. The author traces the shifting subject matter of the novel, discussing: scandalous and amatory fictions by Behn, Manley and Eliza Haywood; criminal narratives of the early part of the century by Defoe; the more disciplined, realistic, and didactic strain that appears in the 1740's and 1750's; novels promoting new ideas about the nature of domestic life; and novels by women...
This text traces the social and moral representations of the period in extended readings of the major novelists (Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Burne...
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199,33 zł |
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The Unconscious
ISBN: 9780415192088 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The topic of the unconscious has figured largely in literary studies for some time. Antony Easthope approaches this controversial subject not in terms of the body but as meanings. Using the writings of Freud and Lacan this text offers chapters on: the existence of the unconscious; the unconscious and the subject; the unconscious and the text; and the unconscious and history. The book shows the existence of the unconscious in a variety of examples - from jokes and rugby songs to Hitchcock's Psycho and the life and death of Princess Diana.
The topic of the unconscious has figured largely in literary studies for some time. Antony Easthope approaches this controversial subject not in terms...
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456,42 zł |
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