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Homelessness in American Literature : Romanticism, Realism and Testimony
ISBN: 9780415945899 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study analyses the theme of homelessness in American literature from the Civil War through the depression. Drawing on the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Horatio Alger, Stephen Crane, Jacob Riis, Jack London, Meridel Le Sueur and others, it reveals how homelessness has been either romanticized or objectified.
This study analyses the theme of homelessness in American literature from the Civil War through the depression. Drawing on the work of Harriet Beecher...
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661,20 |
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Deconstructing Post-WWII New York City: The Literature, Art, Jazz, and Architecture of an Emerging Global Capital
ISBN: 9780415946063 / Angielski / Twarda / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Situating post-WWII New York literature within the material context of American urban history, this work analyses criticism of the spatial restructuring of post-WWII New York City.
Situating post-WWII New York literature within the material context of American urban history, this work analyses criticism of the spatial restructuri...
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710,17 |
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Wallace Stevens and the Realities of Poetic Language
ISBN: 9780415955966 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study examines Wallace Stevens' ideas and practice of poetic language with a focus on the 1930s, an era in which Stevens persistently thematized a keenly felt pressure for the possible social involvement and political utility of poetic language. This study examines Wallace Stevens' ideas and practice of poetic language with a focus on the 1930s, an era in which Stevens persistently thematiz... |
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465,23 |
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Henry Miller and Religion
ISBN: 9780415956031 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study argues that this previously banned author devoted his entire life to articulating a religion of self-liberation in his autobiographical books, examining his life and work within the context of fringe religious movements that were linked with the avant-garde in New York City and Paris at the first of the 20th century. This study shows how these transatlantic movements - including Gurdjieff, Rosicrucianism, and Theosophy - gave him the hermeneutical devices, not to mention the creative license, to interpret texts and symbols from mainline religions in an iconoclastic...
This study argues that this previously banned author devoted his entire life to articulating a religion of self-liberation in his autobiographical boo...
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734,66 |
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Pynchon and the Political
ISBN: 9780415956468 / Angielski / Twarda / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thomas Pynchon's writing has been widely regarded as an exemplary form of postmodern fiction. It is characterized as genre-defying and enigmatic, as a series of complex and esoteric language games. This study attempts to demonstrate, however, that an oblique yet compelling sense of the 'political' Pynchon disappers all too easily under the mantle of postmodernity. Innovative and unsettling discussions of freedom, war, labor, poverty, community, democracy, and totalitarianism are passed over in favour of constrictive scientific metaphors and theoretical play. Against this current, this study...
Thomas Pynchon's writing has been widely regarded as an exemplary form of postmodern fiction. It is characterized as genre-defying and enigmatic, as a...
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734,66 |
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The Genesis of the Chicago Renaissance: Theodore Dreiser, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and James T. Farrell
ISBN: 9780415957922 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study examines the genesis of Chicago's two identified literary renaissance periods (1890-1920 and 1930-1950) through the writings of Dreiser, Hughes, Wright, and Farrell. The relationship of these four writers demonstrates a continuity of thought between the two renaissance periods. By noting the affinities of these writers, patterns such as the rise of the city novel, the development of urban realism, and the shift to modernism are identified as significant connections between the two periods. Although Dreiser, Wright, and Farrell are more commonly thought of as Chicago writers, this...
This study examines the genesis of Chicago's two identified literary renaissance periods (1890-1920 and 1930-1950) through the writings of Dreiser, Hu...
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783,64 |
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The Quest for Epic in Contemporary American Fiction: John Updike, Philip Roth and Don Delillo
ISBN: 9780415961134 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the confluences between two types of literature in contemporary America: the novel and the epic. This work analyses the tradition of the epic as it has evolved from antiquity, through Joyce to its American manifestations and describes how this tradition has impacted upon contemporary American writing.
Explores the confluences between two types of literature in contemporary America: the novel and the epic. This work analyses the tradition of the epic...
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734,66 |
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Love American Style: Divorce and the American Novel, 1881-1976
ISBN: 9780415967839 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A popular subject in sociology and cultural studies, divorce has until recently been overlooked by literary critics. Spanning nearly a century during which the divorce rate skyrocketed, this study traces the treatment of divorce in the American novel. It draws upon popular, sociological, political and architectural history to illustrate how divorce reflects conflicting ideologies and notions of American identity. Focusing primarily on work by William Dean Howells, Edith Wharton, Mary McCarthy and John Updike, Kimberly Freeman delineates a system of tropes particular to divorce in American...
A popular subject in sociology and cultural studies, divorce has until recently been overlooked by literary critics. Spanning nearly a century during ...
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710,17 |
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Labor Pains : Emerson, Hawthorne, & Alcott on Work, Women, & the Development of the Self
ISBN: 9780415967921 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text explores the importance of work and its role in defining and developing the self. Carolyn R. Maibor illustrates the connection between the construction of a substantive self and the call for women to have increased access to the professions and higher education. According to Maibor, the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Louisa May Alcott demonstrate that valorizing the importance of work also validates the need for equality. Labour Pains challenges the traditional view of Emerson as being unconcerned with societal issues, and as growing more conservative over...
This text explores the importance of work and its role in defining and developing the self. Carolyn R. Maibor illustrates the connection between the c...
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747,55 |
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Fictional Feminism: How American Bestsellers Affect the Movement for Women's Equality
ISBN: 9780415968065 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the way in which second-wave feminism has been represented in American popular culture, and on the effects that these representations have had on feminism as a political movement. Kim Loudermilk provides close readings of four bestselling novels and their film adaptations: Marilyn French's The Women's Room, John Irving's The World According to Garp, John Updike's The Witches of Eastwick, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale . According to Loudermilk, each of these novels contains explicitly feminist characters and themes, yet each presents a curiously ambivalent...
This book focuses on the way in which second-wave feminism has been represented in American popular culture, and on the effects that these representat...
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783,64 |
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Misery's Mathematics: Mourning, Compensation, and Reality in Antebellum American Literature
ISBN: 9780415968072 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reveals the strain of a moment in American cultural history that led several remarkable writers -- including Emerson, Warner, and Melville -- to render the stark rupture of loss in innovative ways. Pushing Protestant culture's sense of loss into secular terrain, these three key writers rejected Calvinist and sentimental models of bereavement, creating instead the compensations of a mature American literature whose 'originality' stemmed from its capacity to mourn the loss of a common culture and, through such mourning, to assent to new social and cultural realities. Balaam locates... This book reveals the strain of a moment in American cultural history that led several remarkable writers -- including Emerson, Warner, and Melvill... |
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734,66 |
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Revised Lives: Whitman, Religion, and Constructions of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Culture
ISBN: 9780415968706 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An examination of self-representation in US culture. Drawing on studies of the history of the book, Pierre Bourdieu's sociology, and ethnic and gender revisionism, it focuses on the processes of national development, the self-construction of authorial personae and the appropriation of the personae by interpretive communities.
An examination of self-representation in US culture. Drawing on studies of the history of the book, Pierre Bourdieu's sociology, and ethnic and gender...
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710,17 |
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American Flaneur : The Cosmic Physiognomy of Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN: 9780415969772 / Angielski / Twarda / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Investigates the connections between Poe and the nineteenth-century flaneur - or strolling urban observer - and the centrality of the flaneur to Poe's literary aims and intimate yet ambivalent relationship with his surrounding culture.
Investigates the connections between Poe and the nineteenth-century flaneur - or strolling urban observer - and the centrality of the flaneur to Poe's...
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710,17 |
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Dangerous Desire: Literature of Sexual Freedom and Sexual Violence Since the Sixties
ISBN: 9780415970495 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an important work that calls attention to how post-1960s literary representations of rape have shaped the ways in which both sexual and social freedoms are imagined in American literature and culture.
This is an important work that calls attention to how post-1960s literary representations of rape have shaped the ways in which both sexual and social...
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710,17 |
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Dangerous Desire: Literature of Sexual Freedom and Sexual Violence Since the Sixties
ISBN: 9780415970501 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an important work that calls attention to how post-1960s literary representations of rape have shaped the ways in which both sexual and social freedoms are imagined in American literature and culture.
This is an important work that calls attention to how post-1960s literary representations of rape have shaped the ways in which both sexual and social...
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190,96 |
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The Colonizer Abroad: Island Representations in American Prose from Herman Melville to Jack London
ISBN: 9780415970624 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looking at a diverse series of authors--Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Mark Twain, Charles Warren Stoddard, and Jack London--"The Colonizer Abroad" claims that as the U.S. emerged as a colonial power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the literature of the sea became a literature of imperialism. This book applies postcolonial theory to the travel writing of some of America's best-known authors, revealing the ways in which America's travel fiction and nonfiction have both reflected and shaped society.
Looking at a diverse series of authors--Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Mark Twain, Charles Warren Stoddard, and Jack London--"The Colonizer...
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710,17 |
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The Metanarrative of Suspicion in Late Twentieth Century America
ISBN: 9780415970761 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Narratives of suspicion and mistrust have escaped the boundaries of specific sites of discourse to constitue a metanarrative that pervades American culture. Through close reading of texts ranging from novels (Pynchon's Vineland, Silko's Almanac of the Dead, Pierce's The Turner Diaries) to prison literature, this book examines the ways in which narratives of suspicion are both constitutive--and symptomatic--of a metanarrative that pervades American culture.
Narratives of suspicion and mistrust have escaped the boundaries of specific sites of discourse to constitue a metanarrative that pervades American cu...
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783,64 |
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Between Profits and Primitivism : Shaping White Middle-Class Masculinity in the U.S., 1880-1917
ISBN: 9780415970778 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between 1800 and the first World War, white middle-class men were depicted in all kinds of literature as weak and nervous. This book explores the cultural writings dedicated to the physical and mental health of the male subject.
Between 1800 and the first World War, white middle-class men were depicted in all kinds of literature as weak and nervous. This book explores the cult...
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195,86 |
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William Dean Howells and the Ends of Realism
ISBN: 9780415970969 / Angielski / Twarda / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Dean Howells and the Ends of Realism helps us to see him as a writer very much aware of his limitations and of his enormous importance in the development of an American literary tradition.
William Dean Howells and the Ends of Realism helps us to see him as a writer very much aware of his limitations and of his enormous importance in the ...
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710,17 |
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Reading the Text That Isn't There : Paranoia in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
ISBN: 9780415971058 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk. |
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710,17 |
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