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Matthiessen/Politics of Criticism
ISBN: 9780299119140 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. F.O. Matthiessen remains one of America s leading twentieth-century critics in part because the problems he and his contemporaries struggled with remain ours today. William E. Cain studies Matthiessen s career with careful attention to biographical, institutional, literary, and political contexts. He considers Matthiessen s many reviews and essays on literature and deals sympathetically, but critically, with Matthiessen s attitudes toward the Cold War as revealed in his memoir, From the Heart of Europe. F.O. Matthiessen remains one of America s leading twentieth-century critics in part because the problems he and his contemporaries struggled with r... |
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Selves at Risk
ISBN: 9780299123703 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An analysis of quests in contemporary American letters, fiction and non-fiction and about contemporary reality. The book explores general issues about quest, reviews work in fiction and non-fiction that define and develop the idea of quest.
An analysis of quests in contemporary American letters, fiction and non-fiction and about contemporary reality. The book explores general issues about...
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88,44 |
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Chicano Narrative: Dialectics of Difference
ISBN: 9780299124700 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An examination of representative aspects of Mexican-American narrative forms including the novel, short story, narrative verse and autobiography. It includes studies of works from Americo Parades' With His Pistol in His Hand to more recent work by women like Sandra Cisneros and Cherrie Moraga.
An examination of representative aspects of Mexican-American narrative forms including the novel, short story, narrative verse and autobiography. It i...
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Chicano Narrative: Dialectics of Difference
ISBN: 9780299124748 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An examination of representative aspects of Mexican-American narrative forms including the novel, short story, narrative verse and autobiography. It includes studies of works from Americo Parades' With His Pistol in His Hand to more recent work by women like Sandra Cisneros and Cherrie Moraga.
An examination of representative aspects of Mexican-American narrative forms including the novel, short story, narrative verse and autobiography. It i...
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68,52 |
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American Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect
ISBN: 9780299127848 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An assessment of the major periods and varieties of American autobiography. Eleven original essays survey what has been done and point toward what can and should be done in future studies of a literary genre that is now receiving major scholarly attention.
An assessment of the major periods and varieties of American autobiography. Eleven original essays survey what has been done and point toward what can...
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83,21 |
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American Fiction in the Cold War
ISBN: 9780299128449 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We tried as hard as we could to believe that politics might be idyl, only to discover that what we took to be a political pastoral was really a grim military campaign or a murderous betrayal of political allies. Thus Lionel Trilling summarized the experience of an entire generation of American liberal intellectuals who had watched with mounting disbelief and disillusion the rise of totalitarianism in the 1950s.
We tried as hard as we could to believe that politics might be idyl, only to discover that what we took to be a political pastoral was really a grim m...
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61,47 |
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American Women's Autobiography: Fea(sts of Memory
ISBN: 9780299132941 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays focuses exclusively on the contribution of American woman to the writing of autiobiography. The authors trace editions of women's life-writing through three and a half centuries, from the narratives of Puritan woman to contemporary multicultural literature. Contributers to the volume include scholars such as: Sidonie Smith, Catharine Stimpson, Ann Gordon, Mary Mason, Nancy Walker, Katheleen Sands, Arlyn Diamond and others whose essays all appear here for the first time.
This collection of essays focuses exclusively on the contribution of American woman to the writing of autiobiography. The authors trace editions of wo...
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Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science
ISBN: 9780299147440 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Considering Thoreau as a serious, committed scientist, this book offers an alternative understanding of his accomplishment and the place of science in American literature. It shows how Thoreau's experience reveals the interaction between Romanticism and the dynamic, law-seeking science of its day.
Considering Thoreau as a serious, committed scientist, this book offers an alternative understanding of his accomplishment and the place of science in...
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Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays: A Tribal Voice
ISBN: 9780299151447 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays reveals the thoughts of a Native American feminist intellectual. A poet and literary scholar, Elizabeth Cook-Lyyn grapples with issues she encountered as a Native American in academia. She asks questions of critical importance to tribal people.
This collection of essays reveals the thoughts of a Native American feminist intellectual. A poet and literary scholar, Elizabeth Cook-Lyyn grapples w...
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72,12 |
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Street Smarts and Critical Theory Street Smarts and Critical Theory Street Smarts and Critical Theory: Listening to the Vernacular Listening to the Ve
ISBN: 9780299151706 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Everybody s got a theory . . . or do they? Everybody s got a theory . . . or do they? |
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Contingency Blues: The Search for Foundations in American Criticism
ISBN: 9780299154103 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paul Jay focuses his analysis on two strands of American criticism. The first attempts to revive what Jay insists is an anachronistic pragmatism derived from Emerson, James and Dewey. The second tends to reduce American criticism to a metadiscourse about the contingent grounds of knowledge.
Paul Jay focuses his analysis on two strands of American criticism. The first attempts to revive what Jay insists is an anachronistic pragmatism deriv...
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186,11 |
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Contingency Blues: The Search for Foundations in American Criticism
ISBN: 9780299154141 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paul Jay focuses his analysis on two strands of American criticism. The first attempts to revive what Jay insists is an anachronistic pragmatism derived from Emerson, James and Dewey. The second tends to reduce American criticism to a metadiscourse about the contingent grounds of knowledge.
Paul Jay focuses his analysis on two strands of American criticism. The first attempts to revive what Jay insists is an anachronistic pragmatism deriv...
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Huckleberry Finn as Idol and Target: The Functions of Criticism in Our Time
ISBN: 9780299155346 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author places Huckleberry Finn in the context of long standing American debate about race and culture. He points out that this quintessentially American novel, assigned to many schools as an important weapon against racism, yet including the word nigger, arouses controversy.
The author places Huckleberry Finn in the context of long standing American debate about race and culture. He points out that this quintessentially Am...
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83,21 |
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American Superrealism: Nathanael West and the Politics of Representation in the 1930s
ISBN: 9780299157043 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study of apocalyptic writer Nathanael West examines his body of work, exploring his distinctive method of negation. Locating him in an American avant-garde tradition, the author considers the possibilities and limitations of dada and surrealism as modes of social criticism.
This study of apocalyptic writer Nathanael West examines his body of work, exploring his distinctive method of negation. Locating him in an American a...
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From the Sin-E Cafe to the Black Hills: Notes on the New Irish
ISBN: 9780299167240 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eamonn Wall arrived in the United States in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the New Irish. In this book he comments on his own experiences and those of his generation, who identify as much with contemporary immigrant America as they do with the long-settled Irish American community. Wall's starting point is the now closed Sin-e Cafe in New York's East Village, which was a hangout in the early 1990s for expatriate Irish musicians, actors and writers. He comments on the poetry, fiction, essays, and memories of both the New Irish and Americans of...
Eamonn Wall arrived in the United States in the 1980s as part of a wave of young, educated immigrants who became known as the New Irish. In this book ...
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63,62 |
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Privileged Moments : Encounters with Writers
ISBN: 9780299169404 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A window into the work of both creative writers and their biographers. It offers insights into the lives of writers such as Arthur Miller, V.S. Naipaul and Iris Murdoch, exploring their reactions to criticism, how they advanced their careers, and their struggles with money, love and illness.
A window into the work of both creative writers and their biographers. It offers insights into the lives of writers such as Arthur Miller, V.S. Naipau...
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102,81 |
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Privileged Moments : Encounters with Writers
ISBN: 9780299169442 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A window into the work of both creative writers and their biographers. It offers insights into the lives of writers such as Arthur Miller, V.S. Naipaul and Iris Murdoch, exploring their reactions to criticism, how they advanced their careers, and their struggles with money, love and illness.
A window into the work of both creative writers and their biographers. It offers insights into the lives of writers such as Arthur Miller, V.S. Naipau...
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Regional Fictions: Culture and Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
ISBN: 9780299171100 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study examines American regionalism, arguing that the colourful local characters, dialects and accents that marked regionalist novels and short stories of the 19th century, were the key to the genre's conversion of seemingly dangerous political differences into appealing cultural quirks.
This study examines American regionalism, arguing that the colourful local characters, dialects and accents that marked regionalist novels and short s...
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Up Society's Ass, Copper: Rereading Philip Roth
ISBN: 9780299193508 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The culmination of 30 years of writing about Philip Roth. A collection of essays, reviews, fulminations and daydreams, it combines first impressions with conclusions that have been percolating for decades - the record of a restless reader coming to terms with a turbulent and mercurial writer.
The culmination of 30 years of writing about Philip Roth. A collection of essays, reviews, fulminations and daydreams, it combines first impressions w...
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Up Society's Ass, Copper: Rereading Philip Roth
ISBN: 9780299193546 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The culmination of 30 years of writing about Philip Roth. This collection of essays, reviews, fulminations and daydreams, combines first impressions with conclusions that have been percolating for decades - the record of a restless reader coming to terms with a turbulent and mercurial writer.
The culmination of 30 years of writing about Philip Roth. This collection of essays, reviews, fulminations and daydreams, combines first impressions w...
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88,11 |
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