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The Revolutionary Imagination: The Poetry and Politics of John Wheelwright and Sherry Mangan
ISBN: 9780807866320 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this study of two neglected New England poets, Alan Wald challenges the literary culture that has obscured the radical and Marxist heritage of American letters in our century. "Simply by aspiring to accurate historical remembrance," Wald writes, "this book aims to subvert the currently sanctified canon of letters and the vision of society legitimized by its codification."
John Wheelwright (1897-1940) and Sherry Mangan (1904-1961) were Harvard-educated, avant-garde poets in the 1920s. Influenced by Leon Trotsky, they became revolutionaries during the Great Depression. In this first... In this study of two neglected New England poets, Alan Wald challenges the literary culture that has obscured the radical and Marxist heritage of Amer...
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Fante: A Family's Legacy of Writing, Drinking and Surviving
ISBN: 9780062027092 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No two lives could have been more different, yet similar in a few essential ways than John and Dan Fante′s. As father and son, John and Dan Fante were prone to fights, resentment and extended periods of silence. As men, they were damaged by alcoholism. As writers, they were compelled by anger, rage and unstoppable passion. In FANTE, Dan Fante traces his family′s history from the hillsides of Italy to the immigrant neighborhoods of Colorado to Los Angeles. There, John Fante struggles to gain the literary recognition he so badly craves, and despite the publication of his... No two lives could have been more different, yet similar in a few essential ways than John and Dan Fante′s. As father and son, John and Dan F... |
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56,97 |
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James M. Cain: Hard-Boiled Mythmaker
ISBN: 9780810881181 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing an overview of all of James M. Cain's fiction, including an analysis of the major themes of his entire literary career, the book examines Cain's impact on and importance in 20th-century culture, film in particular.
Providing an overview of all of James M. Cain's fiction, including an analysis of the major themes of his entire literary career, the book examines Ca...
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311,54 |
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The Cowboy Legend: Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American Ranching Frontier
ISBN: 9781552385289 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The cowboy, as perhaps no other figure, has captured the imagination of North Americans for over a century. Before Owen Wister's publication of The Virginian in 1902, the image of the cowboy was essentially that of the dime novel - a rough, violent, one-dimensional drifter, or the stage cowboy variety found in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show. Wister's novel was to transform, almost overnight, this image of the cowboy. Soon after its publication, Wister sent a copy, inscribed -To the hero from the author, - to Everett Johnson, a cowboy from Virginia who had been a friend of Wister's in...
The cowboy, as perhaps no other figure, has captured the imagination of North Americans for over a century. Before Owen Wister's publication of The Vi...
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155,77 |
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Reading Emily Dickinson's Letters: Critical Essays
ISBN: 9781558499010 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Emily Dickinson, who regarded a letter as "a joy of Earth," was herself a gifted epistolary artist -- cryptic and allusive in style, dazzling in verbal effects, and sensitively attuned to the recipients of her many letters. In this volume, distinguished literary scholars focus intensively on Dickinson's letter-writing and what her letters reveal about her poetics, her personal associations, and her self-awareness as a writer. Although Dickinson's letters have provided invaluable perspective for biographers and lovers of poetry since Mabel Loomis Todd published the first selection in... Emily Dickinson, who regarded a letter as "a joy of Earth," was herself a gifted epistolary artist -- cryptic and allusive in style, dazzling in ve... |
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141,12 |
![One with Others: [a Little Book of Her Days] Wright, C. D. 9781556593888 Copper Canyon Press](/9781556593888_one_with_others_a_little_book_of_her_days.jpg "One with Others: [a Little Book of Her Days]") |
One with Others: [a Little Book of Her Days]
ISBN: 9781556593888 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Honored in "Best Books of the Year" listings from "The New Yorker," National Public Radio, "Library Journal," and The Huffington Post. ""One With Others" represents Wright's most audacious experiment yet.""The New Yorker" " A] book . . . that defies description and discovers a powerful mode of its own." National Public Radio " A] searing dissection of hate crimes and their malignant legacy.""Booklist" "Today, Gentle Reader, Honored in "Best Books of the Year" listings from "The New Yorker," National Public Radio, "Library Journal," and The Huffington Post. ""One With... |
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68,42 |
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The Weather for Poetry: Essays, Reviews, and Notes on Poetry, 1977-81
ISBN: 9780472063406 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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87,38 |
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Poetry After the Invention of América: Don't Light the Flower
ISBN: 9780230115798 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays traces the emergence of the Western poem from the standpoint of its collision with "American" otherness, particularly, the Latin American tradition. Unlike works extending Western conceptions of writing or searching for an alleged American ethnopoetics, this book approaches literature as a Western invention and, in turn, seeks out correspondences between traditions
This collection of essays traces the emergence of the Western poem from the standpoint of its collision with "American" otherness, particularly, the L...
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201,24 |
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Understanding Tennessee Williams
ISBN: 9781611170061 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alice Griffin offers an in-depth evaluation of the nine plays that established Tennessee Williams as America's greatest lyric dramatist. Describing Williams as the first playwright writing in English to combine full-blooded characters, theatricalism, and poetic dialogue, Griffin analyzes the language, characters, dramatic effects, and staging of his classic plays and calls attention to Williams's unique gift for creating dialogue as lyrical poetry yet as authentic as everyday conversation. She reveals the importance of symbolism in his work, uncovers his often overlooked humor, and explains...
Alice Griffin offers an in-depth evaluation of the nine plays that established Tennessee Williams as America's greatest lyric dramatist. Describing Wi...
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82,71 |
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Reformation Fictions: Polemical Protestant Dialogues in Elizabethan England
ISBN: 9780199604692 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reformation Fictions rehabilitates some twenty polemical dialogues published in Elizabethan England, for the first time giving them a literary, historicist and, to a lesser extent, theological reading. By juxtaposing these Elizabethan publications with key Lutheran and Calvinist dialogues, theological tracts, catechisms, sermons, and dramatic interludes, Antoinina Bevan Zlatar explores how individual dialogists exploit the fictionality of their chosen genre.
Writers like John Veron, Anthony Gilby, George Gifford, John Nicholls, Job Throckmorton, and Arthur Dent, to name the most prolific,... Reformation Fictions rehabilitates some twenty polemical dialogues published in Elizabethan England, for the first time giving them a literary, histor...
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651,92 |
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Literature, Language, and Politics
ISBN: 9780820338071 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Literature, Language, and Politics brings together papers drawn from and inspired by the controversial, landmark symposium on "Politics and the Discipline" held at the 1987 Modern Language Association meeting in San Francisco. During the 1980s, debates raged both within and outside academe over curriculum, with conservatives arguing for a return to an educational philosophy based on the "classics" of Western civilization and a multi-cultural coalition of liberals, leftists, and feminists seeking to preserve the diversity of educational experience fought for since the... Literature, Language, and Politics brings together papers drawn from and inspired by the controversial, landmark symposium on "Politics and ... |
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119,49 |
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My Wisdom That No One Wants
ISBN: 9780865347762 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reily sets history's great words of wisdom into rhyme, metered, and narrative verse, and presents them in a musical beat that cuts through to the core of every issue and will appeal to youths and adults.
Reily sets history's great words of wisdom into rhyme, metered, and narrative verse, and presents them in a musical beat that cuts through to the core...
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113,84 |
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Agency in the Margins: Stories of Outsider Rhetoric
ISBN: 9781611474190 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection attempts to answer the question of how do people who are defined as outsiders create agency? How do they become agents of change, of social, political, spiritual, and cultural power outside of those spaces that we traditionally understand as belonging to the powerful? The subjects in this collection vary: authors discuss contemporary hip-hop music, early twentieth-century literature, prison publications, post-Civil War treatment of free African Americans, queer culture, and more. They are loosely categorized as covering issues of race, class, gender, and contemporary issues of...
This collection attempts to answer the question of how do people who are defined as outsiders create agency? How do they become agents of change, of s...
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477,05 |
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Emerson for the Twenty-First Century: Global Perspectives on an American Icon
ISBN: 9781611491456 / Angielski / Twarda / 610 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While previous collections of Emerson essays have tended to be a sort of 'stock-taking' or 'retrospective' look at Emerson scholarship, the present collection follows a more 'prospective' trajectory for Emerson studies based on the recent increase in global perspectives in nearly all fields of humanistic studies. The present collection is divided into four main sections: "Emerson, Europe, and Beyond;" "Emerson and Science;" "Emerson Thinking;" "and "Emerson and Activism." The first category emphasizes the global perspective in Emerson's literary and cultural relations, followed closely by two...
While previous collections of Emerson essays have tended to be a sort of 'stock-taking' or 'retrospective' look at Emerson scholarship, the present co...
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637,69 |
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The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture: Volume Six: Us Popular Print Culture 1860-1920
ISBN: 9780199234066 / Angielski / Twarda / 744 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What did most people read? Where did they get it? Where did it come from? What were its uses in its readers' lives? How was it produced and distributed? What were its relations to the wider world of print culture? How did it develop over time? These questions are central toThe Oxford History of Popular Print Culture, an ambitious nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present.
Volume six explores a cornucopia of US popular print materials from 1860 to 1920, the period when mass culture exploded... What did most people read? Where did they get it? Where did it come from? What were its uses in its readers' lives? How was it produced and distribute...
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870,98 |
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At the Gates of Dawn: A Collection of Writings by Ella Young
ISBN: 9781908011169 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An anthology of work by the Irish writer Ella Young, featuring her poems, prose and mythical storytelling.
An anthology of work by the Irish writer Ella Young, featuring her poems, prose and mythical storytelling.
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89,40 |
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Interracial Encounters: Reciprocal Representations in African American and Asian American Literatures, 1896-1937
ISBN: 9780814752555 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2013 Honorable Mention, Asian American Studies Association's prize in Literary Studies Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Why do black characters appear so frequently in Asian American literary works and Asian characters appear in African American literary works in the early twentieth century? Interracial Encounters attempts to answer this rather straightforward literary question, arguing that scenes depicting Black-Asian interactions, relationships, and conflicts capture the constitution of African American and Asian American identities...
2013 Honorable Mention, Asian American Studies Association's prize in Literary Studies Part of the American Lite...
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345,62 |
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Thoughts and Notes at Home and Abroad
ISBN: 9781108032650 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American philanthropist Elihu Burritt (1810 79) was involved in and lectured widely on many causes, including the abolition of slavery, temperance, and world peace. Known as the 'learned blacksmith' because of his early training in the trade, he was eventually appointed US consul in Birmingham, England, from 1865 to 1870. In addition to his campaigning, Burritt was a prolific writer, producing books and articles on a range of subjects. In this work, published in 1868, he assembles a collection of his writings published between 1850 and 1855 in a variety of periodicals. This compilation covers...
American philanthropist Elihu Burritt (1810 79) was involved in and lectured widely on many causes, including the abolition of slavery, temperance, an...
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222,38 |
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Creating the National Mosaic: Multiculturalism in Canadian Children S Literature from 1950 to 1994
ISBN: 9789042033511 / Angielski / Twarda / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Canadian Multicultural Mosaic has long been recognized as an - if not the - outstanding characteristic of the Canadian nation at home and abroad. It has, further, come to be regarded as a model worldwide of a well-functioning culturally diverse society. This first book-length study of Canadian multicultural children's literature sets out to explore how literature for the young has contributed to the creation of the country's multicultural discourse as well as to the construction of its national identity. In this context, children's literature possesses particular significance, as juvenile...
The Canadian Multicultural Mosaic has long been recognized as an - if not the - outstanding characteristic of the Canadian nation at home and abroad. ...
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467,43 |
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Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling
ISBN: 9780804771467 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Art Spiegelman's Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, it marked a new era for comics. Comics are now taken seriously by the same academic and cultural institutions that long dismissed the form. And the visibility of comics continues to increase, with alternative cartoonists now published by major presses and more comics-based films arriving on the screen each year. Projections argues that the seemingly sudden visibility of comics is no accident. Beginning with the parallel development of narrative comics at the turn of the 20th century, comics have long been a... When Art Spiegelman's Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, it marked a new era for comics. Comics are now taken seriously by the same academ... |
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442,97 |
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