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Queer Lyrics: Difficulty and Closure in American Poetry
ISBN: 9781349635443 / Angielski / Miękka / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Queer Lyrics fills a gap in queer studies: the lyric, as poetic genre, has never been directly addressed by queer theory. Queer Lyrics considers the place of form in queer theory, while opening new vistas on the poetry of these seminal figures.
Queer Lyrics fills a gap in queer studies: the lyric, as poetic genre, has never been directly addressed by queer theory. Queer Lyrics considers the p...
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201,24 |
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The Open Book: Creative Misreading in the Works of Selected Modern Writers
ISBN: 9781349634231 / Angielski / Miękka / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Open Book is a provocative study of literary influence at work in English writing from Hardy to Woolf. By doing so, The Open Book offers a fresh and pragmatic opening onto the relation between personal, cultural and institutional history on the one hand, and literary history on the other.
The Open Book is a provocative study of literary influence at work in English writing from Hardy to Woolf. By doing so, The Open Book offers a fresh a...
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201,24 |
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Lamentation and Modernity in Literature, Philosophy, and Culture
ISBN: 9781349539345 / Angielski / Miękka / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Saunders analyzes the ideological uses of loss in literary, philosophical, and social texts from the late 19th and 20th centuries through the lens of women's lament traditions and includes philosophical texts by Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida; and literary works by William Faulkner, Stephane Mallarme, Dimitris Hatzis, and Tahar Ben Jelloun.
Saunders analyzes the ideological uses of loss in literary, philosophical, and social texts from the late 19th and 20th centuries through the lens of ...
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201,24 |
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Hartley Coleridge: A Reassessment of His Life and Work
ISBN: 9781349534975 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first modern study of Hartley Coleridge, showing that he deserves our attention not as the son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, but as a literary presence in his own right.
The first modern study of Hartley Coleridge, showing that he deserves our attention not as the son of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, but as a literary prese...
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201,24 |
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Emerson and Neo-Confucianism: Crossing Paths Over the Pacific
ISBN: 9781349461967 / Angielski / Miękka / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comparative investigation of Emerson's Transcendental thought and Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism, this book shows how both thinkers traced the human morality to the same source in the ultimately moral nature of the universe and developed theories of the interrelation of universal law and the human mind.
A comparative investigation of Emerson's Transcendental thought and Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism, this book shows how both thinkers traced the human mora...
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201,24 |
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New Critical Essays on H. P. Lovecraft
ISBN: 9781349461660 / Angielski / Miękka / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The last ten years have witnessed a renewed interest in H.P. Lovecraft in academic and scholarly circles. New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft seeks to offer an expansive and considered account of a fascinating yet challenging writer; both popular and critically valid but also problematic in terms of his depictions of race, gender and class.
The last ten years have witnessed a renewed interest in H.P. Lovecraft in academic and scholarly circles. New Critical Essays on H.P. Lovecraft seeks ...
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483,04 |
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Cyberfiction: After the Future
ISBN: 9781349383481 / Angielski / Miękka / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cyberfiction: After the Future explores a world where cybernetics sets the terms for life and culture - our world of ubiquitous info-tech, instantaneous capital flows, and immanent catastrophe. Economics fuses with technology to create a new kind of speculative fiction: cyberfiction. Paul Youngquist reveals the ways in which J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler, and William Gibson, among others, map a territory where information reigns supreme and the future is becoming a thing of the past.
Cyberfiction: After the Future explores a world where cybernetics sets the terms for life and culture - our world of ubiquitous info-tech, instantaneo...
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201,24 |
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African American Culture and Legal Discourse
ISBN: 9781349382439 / Angielski / Miękka / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work examines the experiences of African Americans under the law and how African American culture has fostered a rich tradition of legal criticism. Moving between novels, music, and visual culture, the essays present race as a significant factor within legal discourse. Essays examine rights and sovereignty, violence and the law, and cultural ownership through the lens of African American culture. The volume argues that law must understand the effects of particular decisions and doctrines on African American life and culture and explores the ways in which African American cultural...
This work examines the experiences of African Americans under the law and how African American culture has fostered a rich tradition of legal criticis...
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201,24 |
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Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries
ISBN: 9781349372539 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Employing the methods of Poe's own detective, Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries offers new and surprising discoveries about Poe's stories "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Mystery of Marie Roget," and "The Purloined Letter." Kopley sheds light on the beginnings of the modern detective tale and anchors Poe to his rightful place within the genre. Offering archival study and biographical analysis, as well as a reprint of the three stories, this book is an insightful and useful guide for students and experts alike."
Employing the methods of Poe's own detective, Edgar Allan Poe and the Dupin Mysteries offers new and surprising discoveries about Poe's stories "The M...
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201,24 |
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Edith Wharton and the Conversations of Literary Modernism
ISBN: 9781349372515 / Angielski / Miękka / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study imagines modernism as a series of conversations and locates Edith Wharton s voice in those debates.
This study imagines modernism as a series of conversations and locates Edith Wharton s voice in those debates.
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201,24 |
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England in 1815: A Critical Edition of the Journal of Joseph Ballard
ISBN: 9781349370801 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913 as: England in 1815 as seen by a young Boston merchant.
Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913 as: England in 1815 as seen by a young Boston merchant.
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201,24 |
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Teaching Beauty in DeLillo, Woolf, and Merrill
ISBN: 9781349370627 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What happened to beauty? How did the university literature classroom turn into a seminar on politics? Focusing on such writers as Don DeLillo, Virginia Woolf, and James Merrill, this book examines what has been lost to literature as a discipline, and to literary criticism as a practice, as a result of efforts to reduce the aesthetic to the ideological. Green-Lewis and Soltan celebrate the return of beauty as a subject in its own right to literary studies, a return all the more urgent given beauty s ability to provide not merely consolation but a sense of order and control in the context of a...
What happened to beauty? How did the university literature classroom turn into a seminar on politics? Focusing on such writers as Don DeLillo, Virgini...
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201,24 |
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The Supernatural Sublime
ISBN: 9780875801940 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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126,78 |
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A Political Companion to Flannery O'Connor
ISBN: 9780813169408 / Angielski / Twarda / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Acclaimed author and Catholic thinker Flannery O'Connor (1925--1964) penned two novels, two collections of short stories, various essays, and numerous book reviews over the course of her life. Her work continues to fascinate, perplex, and inspire new generations of readers and poses important questions about human nature, ethics, social change, equality, and justice. Although political philosophy was not O'Connor's pursuit, her writings frequently address themes that are not only crucial to American life and culture, but also offer valuable insight into the interplay between fiction and... Acclaimed author and Catholic thinker Flannery O'Connor (1925--1964) penned two novels, two collections of short stories, various essays, and numer... |
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219,50 |
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Bilingual Brokers: Race, Literature, and Language as Human Capital
ISBN: 9780823275304 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reading Asian American and Latino literature, Bilingual Brokers traces the shift in attitudes toward bilingualism in postwar America from the focus on cultural assimilation to that of resource management. Interweaving the social significance of language as human capital and the literary significance of English as the language of cultural capital, Jeehyun Lim examines the dual meaning of bilingualism as liability and asset in relation to anxieties surrounding "new" immigration and globalization. Using the work of Younghill Kang, Carlos Bulosan, Americo Paredes, Maxine Hong...
Reading Asian American and Latino literature, Bilingual Brokers traces the shift in attitudes toward bilingualism in postwar America from the...
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351,20 |
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Democracy in Contemporary U.S. Women's Poetry
ISBN: 9781349369683 / Angielski / Miękka / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reads the work of contemporary women poets against recent debates in third wave feminism and democratic theory in exploring the range of ways in which women poets have interrogated the complexities of being public in contemporary U.S culture.
This book reads the work of contemporary women poets against recent debates in third wave feminism and democratic theory in exploring the range of way...
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201,24 |
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Alternative Paradigms of Literary Realism
ISBN: 9781349383603 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using the traditional genres of allegory, pastoral, and parable, this book develops alternative paradigms of literary realism with which to reexamine a group of crucial but marginalized 20th century writers who have been misread as conventional mimetic realists.
Using the traditional genres of allegory, pastoral, and parable, this book develops alternative paradigms of literary realism with which to reexamine ...
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201,24 |
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Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing
ISBN: 9781349413645 / Angielski / Miękka / 339 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fragments of Union, a new approach to comparative literary studies, is about forms of connections: between nations, literatures, individuals, words. It asks how, and why, connections get severed, and about the nature of the pieces that remain. Interdisciplinary readings of writings by Scots and Americans re-draw the literary map of both countries during the Enlightenment and Romantic periods. Political, philosophical, cultural and grammatical dimensions give its analysis sharp relevance to the new conditions presented by devolved government in Britain.
Fragments of Union, a new approach to comparative literary studies, is about forms of connections: between nations, literatures, individuals, words. I...
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402,53 |
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The Place of Imagination: Wendell Berry and the Poetics of Community, Affection, and Identity
ISBN: 9781481303866 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Loving place translates into loving people, which in turn transforms broken human narratives into restored lives rooted and ordered by their places.--Kathryn Bradford Heidelberger "The Christian Century"
Loving place translates into loving people, which in turn transforms broken human narratives into restored lives rooted and ordered by their places.--...
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214,62 |
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Bestsellers in Nineteenth-Century America: An Anthology
ISBN: 9781783085798 / Angielski / Twarda / 1200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bestsellers in Nineteenth Century America seeks to produce for students novels, poems and other printed material that sold extremely well when they first appeared in the United States. Many of the most famous American works of the nineteenth century that we know today -- such as Herman Melville's Moby-Dick -- were not widely read when they first appeared. This collection seeks to offer its readers a glimpse at the literature that lit up the literary horizon when the works were first published, leading to insights on key cultural aspects of the nineteenth-century United... Bestsellers in Nineteenth Century America seeks to produce for students novels, poems and other printed material that sold extremely well ... |
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