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Feminist Narrative Ethics: Tacit Persuasion in Modernist Form
ISBN: 9780814252581 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Feminist Narrative Ethics: Tacit Persuasion in Modernist Form establishes a new theory of narrative ethics by analyzing rhetorical techniques prompt readers of novels to reconsider their ethical convictions about women's rights. Katherine Saunders Nash proposes four new theoretical paradigms: the ethics of persuasion (Virginia Woolf), of fair play (Dorothy L. Sayers), of distance (E. M. Forster), and of attention (John Cowper Powys). While offering close readings of novels by each author, this book also provides a new, interdisciplinary basis for coordinating feminist and rhetorical...
Feminist Narrative Ethics: Tacit Persuasion in Modernist Form establishes a new theory of narrative ethics by analyzing rhetorical techniques p...
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151,69 |
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Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary
ISBN: 9781498525855 / Angielski / Twarda / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary performs a ground-breaking intervention by uncovering the relationship between literary cloth-working women and migration in a range of American novels across centuries. Bona demonstrates how four authors, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Alice Walker, Sandra Cisneros, and Adria Bernardi, innovate on pre-modern stories of weaving women in order to explore the intricate connections between handwork, resourcefulness, and mobility. Refracted through the lens of women's migratory experiences vis-a-vis cloth-working aesthetics, Women Writing...
Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary performs a ground-breaking intervention by uncovering the relationship between liter...
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401,61 |
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The Women In Dante's Divine Comedy: Gender Equality
ISBN: 9781514326466 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dante's Divine Comedy ranks among the greatest masterpieces of world literature. Reading the poem for gender reveals a subversive dimension that has not been sufficiently examined. Dante gives eight women prominence, transgressing gender roles and challenging medieval patriarchy. These women have structural, pedagogical and psychological significance in the Divine Comedy. At each stage of his journey from darkness to light, the pilgrim Dante encounters a woman who teaches and guides him to understand the difference between misdirected love and spiritual love. At the conclusion of the journey,...
Dante's Divine Comedy ranks among the greatest masterpieces of world literature. Reading the poem for gender reveals a subversive dimension that has n...
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60,49 |
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A Readers Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781138173972 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This introduction to feminist literary criticism in its international contexts discusses a broad range of complex critical writings and then identifies and explains the main developments and debates within each approach. Each chapter has an easy-to-use format, comprising an introductory overview, an explanation of key themes and techniques, a detailed account of the work of specific critics, and a summary which includes critiques of the approach. Each chapter is accompanied by a guide to the primary texts and further reading.
This introduction to feminist literary criticism in its international contexts discusses a broad range of complex critical writings and then identifie...
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710,17 |
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Perspectives on Early Modern Women in Iberia and the Americas: Studies in Law, Society, Art and Literature in Honor of Anne J. Cruz
ISBN: 9781940075365 / Angielski / Twarda / 642 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hardcover edition of this compilation of thirty-four articles written by renowned international specialists in Hispanic literature, history and culture gathers a variety of approaches to elucidate the lives, work and influence of women in early modern Iberia and the Americas. The volume honors Professor Anne J. Cruz, whose brilliant scholarship in historical gender and women's studies and early modern Spanish literature has stimulated generations of Hispanists. The authors delve deeply into social and political history, law, literature and artistic representation to yield provocative and...
Hardcover edition of this compilation of thirty-four articles written by renowned international specialists in Hispanic literature, history and cultur...
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366,85 |
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Novelist Tagore: Gender and Modernity in Selected Texts
ISBN: 9781138660359 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rabindranath Tagore is widely regarded as a poet-philosopher and educationist, but his novels remain a relatively underexplored aspect of his oeuvre. Focusing on gender and modernity as key features of his fiction, this book charts Tagore's evolution as a novelist from self-conscious psychologizing in Chokher Bali to an engagement with nationalism in Gora and Ghare Baire (The Home and the World); a portrayal of asceticism and desire in Chaturanga (Quartet); an analysis of marriage, sexuality and change in Bengali society in Yogayog... Rabindranath Tagore is widely regarded as a poet-philosopher and educationist, but his novels remain a relatively underexplored aspect of his oeuvr... |
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244,84 |
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Winifred Holtby's Social Vision: 'Members One of Another'
ISBN: 9781138664456 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winifred Holtby (1898-1935) is best-known today for her friendship with fellow feminist and pacifist Vera Brittain and for her last novel, South Riding. This is the first monograph to provide a literary criticism of Holtby's social philosophy and presents in-depth readings of all her major works as well as some of her less well-known writing.
Winifred Holtby (1898-1935) is best-known today for her friendship with fellow feminist and pacifist Vera Brittain and for her last novel, South Ridin...
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244,84 |
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A Readers Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780745011943 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This introduction to feminist literary criticism in its international contexts discusses a broad range of complex critical writings and then identifies and explains the main developments and debates within each approach. Each chapter is accompanied by a guide to the primary texts and further reading.
This introduction to feminist literary criticism in its international contexts discusses a broad range of complex critical writings and then identifie...
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239,94 |
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Calvino and the Pygmalion Paradigm
ISBN: 9781784623296 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Calvino and the Pygmalion Paradigm is the first book-length analysis of the representation of the feminine in Calvino's fiction. Using the structural umbrella of the Pygmalion paradigm and using feminist interpretative techniques, this book offers interesting alternative readings of two of Calvino's important early narrative collections.
Calvino and the Pygmalion Paradigm is the first book-length analysis of the representation of the feminine in Calvino's fiction. Using the structural ...
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176,74 |
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Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics
ISBN: 9781474271516 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics uniquely brings together feminist and queer theoretical perspectives on gender and sexuality through close analysis of works by Sarah Waters. This timely study examines topics ranging from heterosexuality, homosexuality, masculinities, femininities, sex, pornography, and the cultural effects of othering and domination across her work. The book covers each of Waters's published novels to date including Tipping the Velvet, Fingersmith and The Paying Guests and also considers her non-fiction and academic writing as well as the...
Sarah Waters: Gender and Sexual Politics uniquely brings together feminist and queer theoretical perspectives on gender and sexuality through c...
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618,66 |
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Where the Meanings Are (Routledge Revivals): Feminism and Cultural Spaces
ISBN: 9781138812949 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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195,86 |
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In the Archive of Longing: Susan Sontag's Critical Modernism
ISBN: 9781474414340 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This adventurous critical inquiry into Sontag's archive illuminates the intimate link between modernism and theory while also providing a fascinating reintroduction to these two movements and concepts. Mena Mitrano explores three core ideas in this study: the confusion of terms between modernism and theory; the concept of an 'unwritten theory' suggested by Sontag's subterranean engagement with the foremost theorists of our time (Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze, Lacan, Jameson and others) in the rawness of her journals and notebooks; and Sontag's identity as a non-traditional philosopher, through...
This adventurous critical inquiry into Sontag's archive illuminates the intimate link between modernism and theory while also providing a fascinating ...
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489,77 |
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Angela Carter and Surrealism: 'A Feminist Libertarian Aesthetic'
ISBN: 9781472415752 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the author's disseration (doctoral)--Linkeoping University, 2012.
Based on the author's disseration (doctoral)--Linkeoping University, 2012.
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808,12 |
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Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible
ISBN: 9780748683505 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible, Georgina Colby explores Acker's compositional processes and intricate experimental practices, from early poetic exercises written in the 1970s to her final writings in 1997.
In Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible, Georgina Colby explores Acker's compositional processes and intricate experimental practices, from early poeti...
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489,77 |
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The Pinker Print
ISBN: 9781530156252 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chimmy Lawson started off as a mere social media caption enthusiast, writing humorous and often controversial anecdotes about her life and beliefs on Instagram. Her debut masterpiece, The Pinker Print can best be described as an extended account of her views on topics particularly important to the young, modern woman. The self-proclaimed "funny feminist," has managed to articulately tackle the subjects of love, race and role models (among others), not with the intention of changing your life but with the determination to spark a new or alternative thought process. Laugh with her, lament with...
Chimmy Lawson started off as a mere social media caption enthusiast, writing humorous and often controversial anecdotes about her life and beliefs on ...
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29,14 |
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Formal Matters in Contemporary Latino Poetry
ISBN: 9781349351664 / Angielski / Miękka / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today's Latino poetry scene is incredibly vibrant. With original interviews, this is the first meditation on the thematic features of such poetry. Looking at how Julia Alvarez, Rhina Espaillat, Rafael Campo, and C. Dale Young use structures such as meter, rhyme, and line break, this study identifies a poetics of formalist Latino poetry.
Today's Latino poetry scene is incredibly vibrant. With original interviews, this is the first meditation on the thematic features of such poetry. Loo...
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201,24 |
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Femininity, Crime and Self-Defence in Victorian Literature and Society: From Dagger-Fans to Suffragettes
ISBN: 9781349336104 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exploration into the development of women's self-defence from 1850 to 1914 features major writers, including H.G. Wells, Elizabeth Robins and Richard Marsh, and encompasses an unusually wide-ranging number of subjects from hatpin crimes to the development of martial arts for women.
This exploration into the development of women's self-defence from 1850 to 1914 features major writers, including H.G. Wells, Elizabeth Robins and Ric...
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201,24 |
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Middlebrow Feminism in Classic British Detective Fiction: The Female Gentleman
ISBN: 9781349446902 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a feminist study of a recurring character type in classic British detective fiction by women - a woman who behaves like a Victorian gentleman. Exploring this character type leads to a new evaluation of the politics of classic detective fiction and the middlebrow novel as a whole.
This is a feminist study of a recurring character type in classic British detective fiction by women - a woman who behaves like a Victorian gentleman....
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201,24 |
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Science, Sexuality and Sensation Novels: Pleasures of the Senses
ISBN: 9781349301027 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fascinating new book offers a detailed account of the prolific debate about the sensation novel and considers the genre's dialogues with a number of sciences. Well-known and obscure sensation novels are read against this context in order to recover the forgotten history of sensual reading the genre inspired.
This fascinating new book offers a detailed account of the prolific debate about the sensation novel and considers the genre's dialogues with a number...
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201,24 |
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The Unsociable Sociability of Women's Lifewriting
ISBN: 9781349319596 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By investigating women lifewriters' complex quest to distinguish themselves both within and from institutions and communities, this volume uses Kant's concept of unsociable sociability to formulate a divided sense of self at the heart of women's lifewriting, offering a provocative response to the notion of the relational female subject.
By investigating women lifewriters' complex quest to distinguish themselves both within and from institutions and communities, this volume uses Kant's...
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201,24 |