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Native American Autobiography Redefined: A Handbook
ISBN: 9780820479446 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Autobiographical stories, widely popular since their creation, are still one of the primary ethnographic and historic sources on Native North American individuals. Many books in this genre, including the famous Black Elk Speaks, have been translated into numerous languages. Native American Autobiography Redefined: A Handbook interrogates critical discussions about Native American autobiographies and challenges their often Eurocentric perspectives: it offers a new rubric for studying the genre, dismantles misperceptions about indigenous peoples, and analyzes in detail a...
Autobiographical stories, widely popular since their creation, are still one of the primary ethnographic and historic sources on Native North American...
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Maternal Conditions: Reading Kingsolver, Castillo, Erdrich, and Ozeki
ISBN: 9781433101472 / Angielski / Twarda / 173 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maternal Conditions analyzes the depiction of motherhood in the works of Barbara Kingsolver, Ana Castillo, Louise Erdrich, and Ruth Ozeki. The book examines the politics underlying and engendered by ethnically diverse representations of the maternal, interrogating the dominant cultural understanding of the good mother. This analysis then moves to a study of how the subjective experience of mothers is portrayed in these writings, ending with an exploration of the relationship between motherhood and ethics.
Maternal Conditions analyzes the depiction of motherhood in the works of Barbara Kingsolver, Ana Castillo, Louise Erdrich, and Ruth Ozeki. The ...
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Hollywood Through Private Eyes; The Screen Adaptation of the 'Hard-Boiled' Private Detective Novel in the Studio Era
ISBN: 9783039105472 / Angielski / Miękka / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The private detective novels of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane have provided the source for some of Hollywood s most successful, controversial and baffling films. Spanning almost the whole of the studio era, the private eye mini-genre boasted stars like William Powell, Humphrey Bogart and Dick Powell, as well as top-calibre directors John Huston, Edward Dmytryk and Robert Aldrich. Yet the movies themselves still manage to remain something of an enigma: MGM s influential adaptation of Hammett s The Thin Man has been all but ignored by critics and historians,...
The private detective novels of Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler and Mickey Spillane have provided the source for some of Hollywood s most successfu...
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360,73 |
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Horror and Evil in the Name of Enjoyment: A Psychoanalytic Critique of Ideology
ISBN: 9783039112456 / Angielski / Miękka / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book argues for the significance of ideology critique and moral judgment in the fields of literary, cultural, political and philosophical studies. By drawing on Slavoj i ek s theory of ideology the author examines postmodern horror films like Jonathan Demme s The Silence of the Lambs, multiculturalism, post-September 11 political discourses and the society of enjoyment in terms of paranoia and perversion and reveals patterns of enjoyment structured through ideological fantasy. The Lacanian/ i ekian theory of ideological fantasy and ethics of psychoanalysis is then applied to...
This book argues for the significance of ideology critique and moral judgment in the fields of literary, cultural, political and philosophical studies...
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451,23 |
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A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
ISBN: 9780820479477 / Angielski / Twarda / 871 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is a unique collection of proverbial language found in literary contexts. It includes proverbial materials from a multitude of plays, (auto)biographies of well-known actors like Britain s Laurence Olivier, songs by William S. Gilbert or Lorenz Hart, and American crime stories by Leslie Charteris. Other authors represented in the dictionary are Horatio Alger, Margery Allingham, Samuel Beckett, Lewis Carroll, Raymond Chandler, Benjamin Disraeli, Edward...
A Dictionary of Anglo-American Proverbs & Proverbial Phrases Found in Literary Sources of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries is a unique co...
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708,75 |
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Means Matter: Market Fructification of Innovative American Poetry in the Late 20th Century
ISBN: 9783034304443 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a major source for scholars of the latest American poetry. These exciting essays comprise energy and documented discussions on experimentalism, multiculturalism, hyperspace, and gender. Anthologies and little magazines form the matrix for this exploration on conceptual issues surrounding language. The author widens the perspective in which a great deal of writing forced the limits of poetry in this kind of publications. At the same time, he analyzes new contexts and enters into conversation with other sources for inspiration found through other disciplines such as social theory,...
This book is a major source for scholars of the latest American poetry. These exciting essays comprise energy and documented discussions on experiment...
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220,78 |
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American Experience - The Experience of America
ISBN: 9783631635919 / Angielski / Twarda / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume comprises a collection of essays by Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Belarussian, and American scholars in the fields of American Studies, literary history, art history, and political science. It is focused on the topic of experience as a concept related to the United States and analyses US history, literature, film, art, politics, and society. The essays deal with a wide range of problems and types of representation, from experience as a component of various theoretical discourses through the experience of foreign visitors and recent immigrants for whom America has often been a place...
This volume comprises a collection of essays by Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Belarussian, and American scholars in the fields of American Studies, lite...
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429,62 |
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Beautiful Strangers: Ireland and the World of the 1950s
ISBN: 9783034308014 / Angielski / Miękka / 197 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking collection examines popular and literary culture in the 1950s through the lens of postwar Ireland. The 1950s are at once a site of cultural nostalgia and of vital relevance to twenty-first-century readers. The diverse essays collected here offer insight into the artistic effects of austerity on both creators and consumers of 1950s culture, examining cultural production in Britain and the United States as well as Ireland. The first book of its kind, it blends critical analysis with cultural memory of a unique time in the history of Irish literature and the broader world....
This groundbreaking collection examines popular and literary culture in the 1950s through the lens of postwar Ireland. The 1950s are at once a site of...
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300,48 |
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Apropos Canada / À Propos Du Canada: Fuenf Jahre Graduiertentagungen Der Kanada-Studien
ISBN: 9783631594728 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first graduate conference of the Young Scholars Network of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking countries took place in Berlin in 2004. The conference has been an integral part of the academic year in Canadian Studies ever since. It offers an opportunity for young scholars to present their B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. projects and receive feedback and helpful suggestions from peers and experts. This type of academic exchange is particularly important in Canadian Studies as they often occupy a marginal position at universities. Beside graduate students from Canada, Germany and...
The first graduate conference of the Young Scholars Network of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking countries took place in Berlin ...
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400,90 |
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Irish English as Represented in Film
ISBN: 9783631586822 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study is the first of its kind to analyse the representation of Irish English in film. Using a corpus of 50 films, ranging from John Ford s The Informer (1935) to Lenny Abrahamson s Garage (2007), the author examines the extent to which Irish English grammatical, discourse and lexical features are present in the films and provides a qualitative analysis of the accents in these works. The authenticity of the language is called into question and discussed in relation to the phenomenon of the Stage Irishman."
This study is the first of its kind to analyse the representation of Irish English in film. Using a corpus of 50 films, ranging from John Ford s Th...
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730,61 |
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Writing with Light : Words and Photographs in American Texts
ISBN: 9783039115723 / Angielski / Miękka / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contributor Martin Padget s essay: -Native Americans, the Photobook and the Southwest: Ansel Adams s and Mary Austin s Taos Pueblo was awarded the 2010 Arthur Miller Essay Prize.
This book is an integrated collection of essays on the interface between literature and photography, as exemplified in important North American texts. The aspects of this increasingly debated topic treated here include: the evidential nature of the photographic image; evocations of photographs in poetry and fiction; ways in which photographs illustrate literary works; the status and function of... Contributor Martin Padget s essay: -Native Americans, the Photobook and the Southwest: Ansel Adams s and Mary Austin s Taos Pueblo was award...
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400,90 |
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The Leprous Man: A Psychoanalytical Investigation Into Stephen Donaldson's Fantasy Novels
ISBN: 9783039119813 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the extraordinarily violent and abusive nature of Stephen Donaldson s male protagonists. Thomas Covenant of The Chronicles is a leper, rotten and physically collapsing. In Mordant s Need and The Gap series the male characters are moral lepers. The Gap offers a Janus-faced male lead in the form of two men who are both multiple rapists. The male hero in Mordant s Need is outwardly socially acceptable but his alter egos are overly corporeal and sexually obsessed. In spite of their unappealing condition, all these protagonists yearn to be...
This book explores the extraordinarily violent and abusive nature of Stephen Donaldson s male protagonists. Thomas Covenant of The Chronicles i...
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365,05 |
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Imagination in Transition: Mamet's Move to Film
ISBN: 9789052019888 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The move from playwright to cinema screenwriter and director is a rare accomplishment. No American writer has achieved this transition with the level of success enjoyed over the past two decades by David Mamet. Over this same period Mamet has also authored a body of aggressive critical writing that demonstrates enduring aesthetic and ideological preoccupations, regularly expressed as a set of confident -best practices-. However, the relationship between theory and practice becomes particularly (and productively) rowdy at the sites of Mamet s transitional -media crossing-. Imagination in...
The move from playwright to cinema screenwriter and director is a rare accomplishment. No American writer has achieved this transition with the level ...
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304,80 |
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Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, and the Vampire Franchise
ISBN: 9781433108938 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on the wildly successful Twilight series, this collection of scholarly essays examines the phenomenon from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives. Particular attention is paid to cultural, social, and economic aspects of the series and to the recurrent messages about youth, gender roles, romance, and sexuality. Essays discuss race and religion, and provide audience analyses of young adult, adult, anti-, and international fans. Other chapters are political-economic examinations into celebrity, tourism, and publishing. With new research by established and rising scholars,...
Focusing on the wildly successful Twilight series, this collection of scholarly essays examines the phenomenon from diverse theoretical and methodolog...
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Jane Smiley, Jonathan Franzen, Don Delillo: Narratives of Everyday Justice
ISBN: 9781433112942 / Angielski / Twarda / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The novels of Jane Smiley, Jonathan Franzen, and Don DeLillo propose new readings of justice in contemporary American literature. Jason S. Polley argues that such distinctive writers as Smiley, Franzen, and DeLillo reconfigure what he calls -acts of justice- in various modalities and spaces. These authors re-conceptualize justice in their portrayals of peripheral groups, such as women, minorities, and outcasts. In lieu of fictionalizing justice in conventional courtrooms, these writers narratives make a virtue of representing the undetermined and everyday presence of justice. As a result,...
The novels of Jane Smiley, Jonathan Franzen, and Don DeLillo propose new readings of justice in contemporary American literature. Jason S. Polley argu...
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Who Speaks for Writing; Stewardship in Writing Studies in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9781433114878 / Angielski / Twarda / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who Speaks for Writing confronts a range of current debates about stewardship in writing studies in the 21st century.
In recent years, writing studies has become more and more institutionalized in departments, programs, and majors. Specializations within the discipline have proliferated as have moments of collaboration. These circumstances make an exploration and understanding of the stakes in this burgeoning field important. The authors represent a broad range of expertise and specialization in the field, and they seek to answer questions not only about the current ownership... Who Speaks for Writing confronts a range of current debates about stewardship in writing studies in the 21st century.
In recent years, writ... |
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Things of the Spirit: Art and Healing in the American Body Politic, 1929-1941
ISBN: 9781433115684 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1930s, the crises brought about by the Depression, climatic devastation, and the rearmament of Europe led Americans from all walks of life to believe that capitalism and technology had synthesized into a monstrous force that threatened the human race. And yet, this chaotic decade also witnessed an unprecedented level of support, both rhetorical and institutional, for the importance of art in the lives of everyday Americans. This book investigates that paradox, asking why, when simple survival presented its own obstacles, our historically pragmatic culture began to define art as a...
In the 1930s, the crises brought about by the Depression, climatic devastation, and the rearmament of Europe led Americans from all walks of life to b...
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473,85 |
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Mnemopoetics: Memory and Slavery in African-American Drama
ISBN: 9789052012766 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Issues in Travel Writing: Empire, Spectacle, and Displacement
ISBN: 9780820445809 / Angielski / Miękka / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The increased attention now devoted to studying travel writing and theory follows on the heels of a growing critical interest in autobiography (a genre closely aligned to travel writing); commentary on multiculturalism, nationalism, colonialism, and post-colonialism; and in spectacle and visual culture. The essays collected here address these diverse impulses and focus provocatively on issues of colonialism/post-colonialism, empire, identity, culture, spectacle, pilgrimage, map theory, narrative theory, diaspora, and displacement, and discuss writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway, Theodore...
The increased attention now devoted to studying travel writing and theory follows on the heels of a growing critical interest in autobiography (a genr...
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205,92 |
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«No Struggle, No Progress»: Frederick Douglass and His Proverbial Rhetoric for Civil Rights
ISBN: 9780820455624 / Angielski / Twarda / 531 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) is a giant among civil rights leaders of the United States. With words and deeds he fought against slavery and championed civil rights for all citizens, regardless of race, gender, or creed. His very own proverbial motto, -If there is no struggle, there is no progress-, expresses his moral commitment to free the slaves and to fight for human rights. Much of his rhetorical prowess is based on proverbial language. As an abolitionist, he cites proverbs to argue against slavery. He also employs this Biblical and folk wisdom in his call for liberty and equality,...
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) is a giant among civil rights leaders of the United States. With words and deeds he fought against slavery and champion...
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