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The Other Reconstruction: Where Violence and Womanhood Meet in the Writings of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Angelina Weld Grimke, and Nella Larsen
ISBN: 9780815334958 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Miller (no credentials noted) examines the literary treatment of lynching in several Reconstruction-era texts. The writers considered describe the economic, political, and social factors contributing to race violence, and present a re-conceptualized view of womanhood. In so doing, they challenge st
Miller (no credentials noted) examines the literary treatment of lynching in several Reconstruction-era texts. The writers considered describe the eco...
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707,28 |
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American Women Short Story Writers: A Collection of Critical Essays
ISBN: 9780815335870 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of original and classic essays examines the contributions that female authors have made to the short story. The introductory chapter discusses why genre critics have ignored works by women and why feminist scholars have ignored the short story genre. Subsequent chapters discuss early stories by such authors as Lydia Maria Child and Rose Terry Cooke. Other chapters are devoted to the influences (race, class, sexual orientation, education) that have shaped women's short fiction through the years.
This collection of original and classic essays examines the contributions that female authors have made to the short story. The introductory chapter d...
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195,06 |
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Sharp Eyes: John Burroughs and American Nature Writing
ISBN: 9780815606376 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Burroughs combined scientific observation with poetic spirit in his nature writing. This collection of essays explores Burrough's life and character, as well as his role as a writer and his relationships with contemporaries including Whitman, Thoreau, Emerson and Muir.
John Burroughs combined scientific observation with poetic spirit in his nature writing. This collection of essays explores Burrough's life and charac...
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97,50 |
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Marietta Holley: Life with "Josiah Allen's Wife"
ISBN: 9780815630883 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aims to recover the buried reputation of one of America's most popular writers from 1873 to 1914.
Aims to recover the buried reputation of one of America's most popular writers from 1873 to 1914.
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77,99 |
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Feminist Readings of Native American Literature: Coming to Voice
ISBN: 9780816516339 / Angielski / Miękka / 181 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who in a society can speak, and under what circumstances? These questions are at the heart of both Native American literature and feminist literary and cultural theory. Despite the recent explosion of publication in each of these fields, almost nothing has been written to date that explores the links between the two. With Feminist Readings of Native American Literature, Kathleen Donovan takes an important first step in examining how studies in these two fields inform and influence one another. Focusing on the works of N. Scott Momaday, Joy Harjo, Paula Gunn Allen, and others, Donovan...
Who in a society can speak, and under what circumstances? These questions are at the heart of both Native American literature and feminist literary an...
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82,88 |
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Ghosts of Slavery: A Literary Archaeology of Black Women's Lives
ISBN: 9780816637232 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through their open defiance, women like Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth had a significant impact on the institution of slavery. But what of the millions of other women who did not commit public or even private acts of resistance? Are their stories worthy of our attention? While some scholars imply that only the struggle for freedom was legitimate, Jenny Sharpe complicates the linear narrative -- from slavery to freedom and literacy -- that emerged from the privileging of autobiographical accounts like that of Frederick Douglass. She challenges a paradigm that equates agency with resistance...
Through their open defiance, women like Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth had a significant impact on the institution of slavery. But what of the mil...
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97,50 |
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Cultural Erotics in Cuban America
ISBN: 9780816647958 / Angielski / Twarda / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Miami is widely considered the center of Cuban-American culture. However vital to the diasporic communities' identity, Miami is not the only--or necessarily the most profound--site of cultural production. Looking beyond South Florida, Ricardo L. Ortiz addresses the question of Cuban-American diaspora and cultural identity by exploring the histories and self-sustaining practices of smaller communities in such U.S. cities as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. In this wide-ranging work Ortiz argues for the authentically diasporic quality of postrevolutionary, off-island Cuban experience....
Miami is widely considered the center of Cuban-American culture. However vital to the diasporic communities' identity, Miami is not the only--or neces...
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292,67 |
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Cultural Erotics in Cuban America
ISBN: 9780816647965 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Miami is widely considered the center of Cuban-American culture. However vital to the diasporic communities' identity, Miami is not the only--or necessarily the most profound--site of cultural production. Looking beyond South Florida, Ricardo L. Ortiz addresses the question of Cuban-American diaspora and cultural identity by exploring the histories and self-sustaining practices of smaller communities in such U.S. cities as Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York. In this wide-ranging work Ortiz argues for the authentically diasporic quality of postrevolutionary, off-island Cuban experience....
Miami is widely considered the center of Cuban-American culture. However vital to the diasporic communities' identity, Miami is not the only--or neces...
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107,26 |
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This Is Called Moving: A Critical Poetics of Film
ISBN: 9780817351601 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the writer, director, producer, and cinematographer of almost all her 30 films, videos, and shorts, Abigail Child has been recognized as a major and influential practitioner of experimental cinema since the early 1970s. Hallmarks of her style are the appropriation and reassembly of found footage and fragments from disparate visual sources, ranging from industrial films and documentaries to home movies, vacation photography, and snippets of old B movies. The resulting collages and montages are cinematic narratives that have been consistently praised for their beauty and sense of wonder and...
As the writer, director, producer, and cinematographer of almost all her 30 films, videos, and shorts, Abigail Child has been recognized as a major an...
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136,53 |
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Feminist Interventions in Early American Studies
ISBN: 9780817353421 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The intersections of gender, race, and class in the culture and literature of early America to 1830.Because feminist scholarship is thriving in the field of colonial American studies, this volume is timely. It showcases new feminist perspectives on the literature of the period, addressing the diverse experiences of European, African, Latin, and Native Americans.The essays synthesize feminist perspectives from a number of approaches, including cultural studies, gender studies, new historicism, and race theory. They treat a variety of literary genres, from sermons, travel...
The intersections of gender, race, and class in the culture and literature of early America to 1830.Because feminist scholarship is thri...
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156,09 |
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The House That Jack Built: The Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer
ISBN: 9780819563408 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The House That Jack Built collects for the first time the four historic talks given by controversial poet Jack Spicer just before his early death in 1965. These lively and provocative lectures function as a gloss to Spicer's own poetry, a general discourse on poetics, and a cautionary handbook for young poets. This long-awaited document of Spicer's unorthodox poetic vision, what Robin Blaser has called "the practice of outside," is an authoritative edition of an underground classic. Peter Gizzi's afterword elucidates some of the fundamental issues of Spicer's poetry and lectures,...
The House That Jack Built collects for the first time the four historic talks given by controversial poet Jack Spicer just before his early death in 1...
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90,24 |
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The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott
ISBN: 9780820317403 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott" contains a broad cross-section of letters from the correspondence of the creator of "Little Women" and provides a compelling autobiography of this most autobiographical of writers. Spanning a period of forty-five years, this collection provides vivid accounts of Alcott's life and development as a writer. Episodes in Alcott's life are candidly reflected: her youth, when the prototype of Jo March was already being shaped; the 1868 publication of "Little Women" and the prosperity and renown the book brought its author; her never-ending struggles... "The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott" contains a broad cross-section of letters from the correspondence of the creator of "Little Women" and ... |
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177,45 |
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A Literary Guide to Flannery O'Connor's Georgia
ISBN: 9780820327631 / Angielski / Miękka / 115 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Flannery O Connor spent most of her life in Georgia. Most of O Connor s fiction is also set in the state, in locales rich in symbolism and the ambience of southern rural and small-town life. Filled with contemporary and historical photos, this guide introduces O Connor s readers to the places where the great writer lived and worked--places whose features and details sometimes found their way into her fiction. The guide describes such places as O Connor s childhood home in Savannah; the Governor s Mansion, Cline House, and Central State Hospital in Milledgeville; and the family farm,... Flannery O Connor spent most of her life in Georgia. Most of O Connor s fiction is also set in the state, in locales rich in symbolism and the ambi... |
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122,98 |
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Romancing the Vote: Feminist Activism in American Fiction, 1870-1920
ISBN: 9780820328584 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the nineteenth century progressed into the twentieth, novels about politically active women became increasingly common. Until now, however, no one has studied this body of writing as a distinct tradition in American literature. In "Romancing the Vote," Leslie Petty recovers this tradition and also examines how the fiction written about the women's rights and related movements contributed to the creation and continued vitality of those movements. Petty examines the novels as paradigms of feminist activism and reform communities and elucidates how they, whether wittingly or not, model... As the nineteenth century progressed into the twentieth, novels about politically active women became increasingly common. Until now, however, no o... |
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244,69 |
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James Wright: The Poetry of a Grown Man: Constancy and Transition in the Work of James Wright
ISBN: 9780821409091 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although some critics have identified two phases in the poetry of James Wright and have isolated particulars of his movement from traditional to more experimental forms, few have noted also the elements of constancy in the evolution of his poetry. In this first comprehensive scholarly introduction to Wright s work, Stein traces the unified growth of Wright s poetry, asserting that while stylistic changes are often more apparent than actual, Wright does undergo a continuing personal and aesthetic development throughout his career. Stein examines the entire body of Wright s poetry, including...
Although some critics have identified two phases in the poetry of James Wright and have isolated particulars of his movement from traditional to more ...
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185,36 |
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Haunted by Waters: Fly Fishing in North American Literature
ISBN: 9780821412190 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Four essential questions: Why does one fish? How should one properly fish? What relations are created in fishing? And what effects does fishing have on the future? "Haunted by Waters" is a self-examination by the author as he constructs his own narrative and tries to answer these questions for himself. But it is also a thorough examination of the answers he uncovers in the course of reading what's been written on the subject.
As his own story unfolds, Mark Browning analyzes angling literature from the Bible to Norman Maclean, always bringing his inquiry back to the same source: the... Four essential questions: Why does one fish? How should one properly fish? What relations are created in fishing? And what effects does fishing have o...
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112,14 |
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Transcendental Wordplay: America's Romantic Punsters and the Search for the Language of Nature
ISBN: 9780821413241 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, America was captivated by a muddled notion of etymology. New England Transcendentalism was only one outcropping of a nationwide movement in which schoolmasters across small-town America taught students the roots of words in ways that dramatized religious issues and sparked wordplay.
Shaped by this ferment, our major romantic authors shared the sensibility that Friedrich Schlegel linked to punning and christened romantic irony. Notable punsters or etymologists all, they gleefully set up as sages, creating jocular masterpieces from their... Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, America was captivated by a muddled notion of etymology. New England Transcendentalism was only o...
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243,89 |
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Secretaries of the Moon: The Letters of Wallace Stevens and José Rodriguez Feo
ISBN: 9780822306702 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The letter from Jose Rodriguez Feo that prompted Stevens's poem was the third in a ten-year correspondence (1944-54) between the poet and the young Cuban, who quickly became Stevens's "most exciting correspondent." The two shared a Harvard education, both were anxious to see Stevens translated for a Cuban audience, and each had an enduring admiration for Santayana, whose awareness of the cultural tensions between the Northern and Southern hemispheres formed a basis for the protracted argument between Stevens as the practical, Protestant father and the passionate Rodriguez Feo. The Cuban's...
The letter from Jose Rodriguez Feo that prompted Stevens's poem was the third in a ten-year correspondence (1944-54) between the poet and the young Cu...
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404,86 |
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Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
ISBN: 9780822324805 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Sentimental Materialism" Lori Merish considers the intricate relationship between consumption and womanhood in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Taking as her starting point a diversity of cultural artifacts from domestic fiction and philosophical treatises to advice literature and cigars Merish explores the symbolic functions they served and finds that consumption evolved into a form of personal expressiveness that indicated not only a woman s wealth and taste but also her race, class, morality, and civic values. The discursive production of this new subjectivity the feminine...
In "Sentimental Materialism" Lori Merish considers the intricate relationship between consumption and womanhood in the late eighteenth and nineteenth ...
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507,29 |
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From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park: Activism, Culture, & American Studies
ISBN: 9780822326717 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paul Lauter, an icon of American Studies who has been a primary agent in its transformation and its chief ambassador abroad, offers a wide-ranging collection of essays that demonstrate and reflect on this important and often highly politicized discipline. While American Studies was formerly seen as a wholly subsidiary academic program that loosely combined the study of American history, literature, and art, From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park reveals the evolution of an independent, highly interdisciplinary program with distinctive subjects, methods, and goals that are much different...
Paul Lauter, an icon of American Studies who has been a primary agent in its transformation and its chief ambassador abroad, offers a wide-ranging col...
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136,53 |
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