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Remnants of Empire in Algeria and Vietnam: Women, Words, and War
ISBN: 9780739120224 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Remnants of Empire in Algeria and Vietnam: Women, Words, and War author Pamela A. Pears proposes a new approach to Francophone studies. The work uses postcolonial theory, along with gender and feminist inquiries, to emphasize the connections between two Francophone literatures, Algerian and Vietnamese. Specifically Pears focuses on four novels: Yamina Mechakra's La Grotte eclatee, Ly Thu Ho's Le Mirage de la paix, Malika Mokeddem's L'Interdite, and Kim Lefevre's Retour a la saison des pluies. All four novels show the profound transformation of women's roles in Algeria and Vietnam during...
In Remnants of Empire in Algeria and Vietnam: Women, Words, and War author Pamela A. Pears proposes a new approach to Francophone studies. The work us...
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246,17 zł |
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Miss Nobody
ISBN: 9781849211277 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A centenary edition of the 1913 novel, Miss Nobody, by Ethel Carnie (later Ethel Carnie Holdsworth), widely believed to be the first published novel written by a working-class woman in Britain.
A centenary edition of the 1913 novel, Miss Nobody, by Ethel Carnie (later Ethel Carnie Holdsworth), widely believed to be the first published novel w...
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97,37 zł |
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The Novels of Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9780415568005 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This 'Routledge Revivals' reissue is not about Bloomsbury, lesbianism, madness or suicide, but is a much-needed introduction to Virginia Woolf's nine novels, written in the hope of turning attention back from the life to the fictional work.
This 'Routledge Revivals' reissue is not about Bloomsbury, lesbianism, madness or suicide, but is a much-needed introduction to Virginia Woolf's nine ...
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228,62 zł |
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Margaret Atwood's Fairy-Tale Sexual Politics
ISBN: 9781604738612 / Angielski / Miękka / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Margaret Atwood's Fairy-Tale Sexual Politics by Sharon Rose Wilson Sharon Rose Wilson's analysis of Margaret Atwood's sexual politics through a study of fairy-tale patterns offers a new reading of Atwood and a fresh appreciation of the traditional fairy tale's ability to illuminate modern literature. Not only is this the first study to explore systematically Atwood's fiction and poetry through fairy-tale images, but also it occasions the first time Atwood has allowed examples of her artwork to be published in a book. In relating Atwood's fragile, mysterious paintings, collages, linocuts,...
Margaret Atwood's Fairy-Tale Sexual Politics by Sharon Rose Wilson Sharon Rose Wilson's analysis of Margaret Atwood's sexual politics through a study ...
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219,82 zł |
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The Unsociable Sociability of Women's Lifewriting
ISBN: 9780230246478 / Twarda / 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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194,52 zł |
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Just Looking (Routledge Revivals): Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola
ISBN: 9780415573153 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The spectacular development of early consumer society in Britain, France and the United States had a profound impact on constructions of femininity and masculinity, and commercial and cultural values in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on novels by Theodore Dreiser, George Gissing and Emile Zola, Just Looking, first published in 1985, addresses itself to a central paradox of the period: the perceived antithesis of the terms commerce and culture which emerged at a time which saw the actual drawing together of commercial and cultural practices. Drawing on structural,...
The spectacular development of early consumer society in Britain, France and the United States had a profound impact on constructions of femininity an...
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228,62 zł |
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Bitter Scrolls: Sexist Poison in the Canon
ISBN: 9780761852889 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a broad survey of our 'sacred texts, ' both Holy Writ and secular masterpieces, whose canonical status often exempt them from hardnosed, commonsense criticism. A frank look at this literature is necessary and reveals a stunning combination of bias and blindness toward women
This book is a broad survey of our 'sacred texts, ' both Holy Writ and secular masterpieces, whose canonical status often exempt them from hardnosed, ...
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311,26 zł |
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Feminist Literary Theory: A Reader
ISBN: 9781405183130 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now in its third edition, Feminist Literary Theory remains the most comprehensive, single volume introduction to a vital and diverse field
Now in its third edition, Feminist Literary Theory remains the most comprehensive, single volume introduction to a vital and diverse field
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185,72 zł |
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Science, Sexuality and Sensation Novels: Pleasures of the Senses
ISBN: 9780230203167 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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194,52 zł |
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Domesticity and Design in American Women's Lives and Literature: Stowe, Alcott, Cather, and Wharton Writing Home
ISBN: 9780415882729 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hellman explores independent female authors who had intriguing and autonomous relationships with home. She also looks at how women authors wrote female characters into existence who had strikingly different relationships with home, and contended with profound burdens of housekeeping in an oppressive domestic sphere.
Hellman explores independent female authors who had intriguing and autonomous relationships with home. She also looks at how women authors wrote femal...
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753,56 zł |
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Aesthetic Pleasure in Twentieth-Century Women's Food Writing: The Innovative Appetites of M. F. K. Fisher, Alice B. Toklas, and Elizabeth David
ISBN: 9780415871389 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text explores the aesthetic pleasures of eating and writing in the lives of M.F.K. Fisher, Alice B. Toklas, and Elizabeth David. Each of them pioneered an idiosyncratic form of writing that challenged the rigidly gendered bounds of 19th century food writing to establish a 20th century tradition that celebrates female appetite.
This text explores the aesthetic pleasures of eating and writing in the lives of M.F.K. Fisher, Alice B. Toklas, and Elizabeth David. Each of them pio...
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753,56 zł |
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In Her Words: Critical Studies on Gloria Fuertes
ISBN: 9781611480146 / Angielski / Twarda / 485 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During her lifetime Gloria Fuertes achieved the status of a controversial cultural icon, both through her poetry for adults and through her poetry, recorded readings, and television programs for juveniles. This collection of lively essays, by authors who specialize in contemporary Spanish poetry, approaches the works of Gloria Fuertes from various theoretical and critical perspectives. In Her Words speaks to the inherent complexity of Gloria Fuertes's poetry, as manifested in its ultimate indeterminacy and undecidability, yet attests to this poet's abiding value as the voice of the...
During her lifetime Gloria Fuertes achieved the status of a controversial cultural icon, both through her poetry for adults and through her poetry, re...
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650,99 zł |
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Images of the Apocalypse in African American Blues and Spirituals: Destruction in This Land
ISBN: 9783631681312 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the recurrence of Apocalyptic motifs and imagery in blues and spirituals recorded by blues musicians. It looks at the ways in which Black Americans portray Apocalypse ideas about the Last Judgement from the Book of Revelation, and how literary themes in spirituals and blues depict the destruction of the world.
This book explores the recurrence of Apocalyptic motifs and imagery in blues and spirituals recorded by blues musicians. It looks at the ways in which...
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347,38 zł |
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Woman and Modernity: The (Life)Styles of Lou Andreas-Salomé
ISBN: 9780801499074 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Woman and Modernity provides what previous studies of Salome have in large part neglected to offer a sustained investigation of the literariness of Salome's texts and of Salome as a significant reader of modernity. Focusing on key encounters in Salome's writings, such as her exchanges with Nietzsche, Ibsen, Rilke, Freud, and late nineteenth-century middle-class German feminists such as Dohm and Stucker, Martin approaches Salome's life and work as a series of strategic negotiations concerning the place of women and the meaning of femininity."
Woman and Modernity provides what previous studies of Salome have in large part neglected to offer a sustained investigation of the literariness of Sa...
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181,89 zł |
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Shifting Subjects: Plural Subjectivity in Contemporary Francophone Women's Autobiography
ISBN: 9781611490305 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are many different ways to say "I." This book examines the ways in which four contemporary women writers (Helene Cixous, Assia Djebar, Gisele Halimi, and Julia Kristeva) have written their autobiographical "I" as a plural concept. These women refuse the individual "I" of traditional autobiography by developing narrative strategies that multiply the voices in their texts. They similarly cast doubt upon current theorizations of the female self in autobiography by questioning the possibility of plural selfhood in narrative and its seemingly cathartic effects. Each writer approaches...
There are many different ways to say "I." This book examines the ways in which four contemporary women writers (Helene Cixous, Assia Djebar, Gisele Ha...
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443,11 zł |
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Uneasy Possessions: The Mother-Daughter Dilemma in French Womenos Writings, 1671-1928
ISBN: 9781611490381 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Uneasy Possessions: The Mother-Daughter Dilemma in French Women's Writings, 1671-1928, Katharine Ann Jensen analyzes the work of five major French women writers, discovering a four-century pattern of mother-daughter relationships marked by domination, submission, and conflict. This groundbreaking study explores work of Marie-Madeleine de Lafayette, Marie de Sevigne, Elisabeth Vigee Lebrun, George Sand, and Colette, providing a new reading of women's history and offering a new understanding of female psychology. Jensen argues that conflict between the mothers and daughters depicted in these...
In Uneasy Possessions: The Mother-Daughter Dilemma in French Women's Writings, 1671-1928, Katharine Ann Jensen analyzes the work of five major French ...
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650,99 zł |
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Perennial Empires: Postcolonial, Transnational, and Literary Perspectives
ISBN: 9781604977400 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Focusing its concern through the often-neglected role of literature in shaping and influencing these forces, this powerful collection of essays addresses the complex new ways that international power exercises control over all aspects of life-from new forms of public governance to the construction of private identities. The book acknowledges the emergence of new theoretical models of imperialism and empire, but it sets them firmly within the longer history of the analysis of the post colonial. It explores contemporary concerns such as global ecology, queer theory, and "the War on Terror" and...
"Focusing its concern through the often-neglected role of literature in shaping and influencing these forces, this powerful collection of essays addre...
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585,60 zł |
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The Story of Shaw's Saint Joan
ISBN: 9780773503786 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The literary genetics of Shaw's most famous play are here examined for the first time. The sources of Saint Joan are closely compared with the original shorthand manuscript and that is compared with its subsequent revisions. This evidence is supplemented by facts drawn from Shaw's correspondence in print, in the British Library, and in private collections, and by accounts both in print and in the correspondence of people who knew Shaw at the time of his writing Saint Joan. The manuscript and its revisions are examined in the light of all that has been written about the play since it first...
The literary genetics of Shaw's most famous play are here examined for the first time. The sources of Saint Joan are closely compared with the origina...
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363,79 zł |
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Rebecca West Today: Contemporary Critical Approaches
ISBN: 9781611492965 / Angielski / Twarda / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rebecca West Today, the first-ever collection of essays on this prolific writer, employs cutting-edge as well as more traditional methodological approaches, ranging from historicism to gender studies, textual analyses, and philosophical engagements. The book also contains a useful section on teaching the works of Rebecca West.
Rebecca West Today, the first-ever collection of essays on this prolific writer, employs cutting-edge as well as more traditional methodological appro...
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530,64 zł |
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Grace Paley: Illuminating Dark Lives
ISBN: 9780292735682 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Grace Paley is a "writer's writer," admired by both scholars and the reading public for her originality and unique voice. In this first book-length study of her work, Jacqueline Taylor explores the source of Paley's originality, locating it in the way Paley transforms language to create strongly woman-centered stories. Drawing on interviews with the author, as well as the stories themselves, Taylor emphasizes Paley's awareness that women's voices have been muted and their stories ignored or left untold in our culture's male-oriented dominant discourse. She watches Paley in the... Grace Paley is a "writer's writer," admired by both scholars and the reading public for her originality and unique voice. In this first book-length... |
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83,10 zł |
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