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Greening the Lyre: Environmental Poetics and Ethics
ISBN: 9780874179835 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Greening the Lyre covers important and neglected ground environmental language theory. David W. Gilcrest poses two overarching questions: To what extent does contemporary nature poetry represent a recapitulation of familiar poetics? And, to what extent does contemporary nature poetry engage a poetics that stakes out new territory? The author addresses these questions with important thinkers, especially Kenneth Burke, and considers such poets as Frost, Kunitz, Heaney, Ammons, Cardenal, and Rich. This book will be of great value to anyone in the environmental studies field.
" Greening the Lyre covers important and neglected ground environmental language theory. David W. Gilcrest poses two overarching questions: To what exte...
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Scarlet Experiment: Birds and Humans in America
ISBN: 9780803294981 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Emily Dickinson's poem "Split the Lark" refers to the "scarlet experiment" by which scientists destroy a bird in order to learn more about it. Indeed, humans have killed hundreds of millions of birds--for science, fashion, curiosity, and myriad other reasons. In the United States alone, seven species of birds are now extinct and another ninety-three are endangered. Conversely, the U.S. conservation movement has made bird-watching more popular than ever, saving countless bird populations; and while the history of actual physical human interaction with birds is complicated, our long aesthetic...
Emily Dickinson's poem "Split the Lark" refers to the "scarlet experiment" by which scientists destroy a bird in order to learn more about it. Indeed,...
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The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them
ISBN: 9780674737877 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contemporary American poetry has plenty to offer new readers, and plenty more for those who already follow it. Yet its difficulty--and sheer variety--leaves many readers puzzled or overwhelmed. The critic, scholar, and poet Stephen Burt sets out to help. Beginning in the early 1980s, where critical consensus ends, Burt canvasses American poetry of the past four decades, from the headline-making urgency of Claudia Rankine's Citizen to the stark pathos of Louise Gluck, the limitless energy of Juan Felipe Herrera, and the erotic provocations of D. A. Powell. The Poem Is You:... Contemporary American poetry has plenty to offer new readers, and plenty more for those who already follow it. Yet its difficulty--and sheer variet... |
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Re/Membering Place
ISBN: 9783034312813 / Angielski / Miękka / 343 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a collection of essays from the conference -Re/membering Place-, held at Stendhal University from 13 to 15 October 2011. It explores the issue of -Re/membering Place- in a colonial and postcolonial context of displacement, loss, and alienation. The authors consider -re/membering- as a process of reconstruction which entails the recreation of memory, be it individual or collective, the re-appropriation of the past and of collective myths, the reshaping of identity, and their representation in literature and the arts. They tackle various forms of story-telling in fiction,...
This book is a collection of essays from the conference -Re/membering Place-, held at Stendhal University from 13 to 15 October 2011. It explores the ...
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607,41 |
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Theatres in the Round: Multi-Ethnic, Indigenous, and Intertextual Dialogues in Drama
ISBN: 9789052016900 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays explores some of the avenues along which the field of comparative drama studies could be reconfigured at the dawn of the twenty-first century. It offers a comparative analysis of theatre across national and linguistic boundaries while simultaneously acknowledging newer trends in ethnic studies. Indeed, the contributors to this critical anthology productively combine traditional comparative literature methodologies with performance approaches and postcolonial perspectives. In this way, they shed new light on the intertextual, multi-ethnic, and cross-cultural dialogues...
This collection of essays explores some of the avenues along which the field of comparative drama studies could be reconfigured at the dawn of the twe...
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Brave to Be Involved: Shifting Positions in the Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks
ISBN: 9783034305044 / Angielski / Miękka / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2004) was the first African American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize, she occupies a curious position in the larger black canon. Despite her importance, with the exception of very few critical accounts of her work, she has been usually treated in critical isolation from her black peers, be they male or female. Brooks s earlier stages were discarded by many black critics as works directed to white audiences, whereas black critics who became interested in her nationalist phase limited her to the Black Aesthetic perspective. Such approaches to Brooks s opus fail...
Although Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2004) was the first African American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize, she occupies a curious position in the larger b...
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America, But Better
ISBN: 9781771001229 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on their hilarious viral campaign, a new satirical political party announces its Canadacy for president of the United States This isn't an invasion, it's an intervention. From the country that brought you toques and Justin Bieber comes a plan to restore America to its former glory. The U.S. political system increasingly resembles an all-chimp revue of Cats, and its citizens are looking for a new leader. That leader is Canada. After launching their campaign on YouTube to 700,000 hits, and interviews with CNN and the Huffington Post, the leaders of the Canada Party here unveil their...
Based on their hilarious viral campaign, a new satirical political party announces its Canadacy for president of the United States This isn't an invas...
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Defined by a Hollow: Essays on Utopia, Science Fiction and Political Epistemology
ISBN: 9783039114030 / Angielski / Miękka / 586 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume incorporates Darko Suvin s thinking on utopian horizons in fiction and on eutopian and dystopian readings of historical reality since the 1970s. While the focus is on the United States and the United Kingdom, the essays also draw on French, German and Russian sources. The book is composed of eighteen chapters, including four sets of poems. The chapters include heretic reflections on utopian fiction, science fiction and utopian studies, explorations of dystopias, and epistemological examinations of political standpoint. Throughout, plebeian history is the stance from which all the...
This volume incorporates Darko Suvin s thinking on utopian horizons in fiction and on eutopian and dystopian readings of historical reality since the ...
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Bitten by Twilight: Youth Culture, Media, and the Vampire Franchise
ISBN: 9781433108945 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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The Beat Generation and Counterculture; Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9781433106033 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Beat Generation and Counterculture examines three authors associated with the -Beat Generation- Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac and the relevance of their attempt to travel, learn, and write about exotic non-Western cultures and repressed minority cultures in the United States, projecting the influence of history, premodern religious practices, and postcolonial social and intellectual problems into the written development of countercultural ethos and praxis. The Beat Generation and Counterculture underscores T. S. Eliot s emphasis on -earning tradition...
The Beat Generation and Counterculture examines three authors associated with the -Beat Generation- Paul Bowles, William S. Burroughs, and Jack...
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521,69 |
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Domestic Biographies: Stowe, Howells, James, and Wharton at Home
ISBN: 9781433112249 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Domestic Biographies: Stowe, Howells, James, and Wharton at Home presents comparative domestic biographies of four American Realist writers: Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. Drawing upon extensive primary sources to reconstruct the authors private lives, Domestic Biographies illuminates how they lived when no one was looking. In particular this book examines how the authors worked and wrote at home and how their home life in turn made its way into their novels and non-fiction. Domestic Biographies offers an innovative and...
Domestic Biographies: Stowe, Howells, James, and Wharton at Home presents comparative domestic biographies of four American Realist writers: Ha...
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Plerosis/Kenosis: Poetic Language and Its Energies
ISBN: 9781433119361 / Angielski / Twarda / 291 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why do readers report being powerfully affected by great poetry? What happens to us when we read a poem? Literary criticism has struggled to answer these questions because it treats poems as material artifacts of one kind or another. But readers do not experience literary texts as lifeless and silent material artifacts. They hear voices in them and feel moved and altered by them. Plerosis/Kenosis offers a new way of reading poems by treating poems as dynamic essentially as fields of energy and by focusing on how poetry pushes language towards two contradictory goals: the desire to say...
Why do readers report being powerfully affected by great poetry? What happens to us when we read a poem? Literary criticism has struggled to answer th...
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Aesthetics, Politics, and Educational Inquiry; Essays and Examples
ISBN: 9780820445205 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays explores the possibilities of studying educational matters with the tools of narrative and literature. Written over the course of the 1980s and 1990s, these essays trace the literary turn in educational research toward forms of literary journalism, critical storytelling, and postmodern narrative. The articles are presented as biographical evidence of the author s ongoing quest for forms of educational research that are well-suited to the enormously complex nature of educational encounters. This collection includes both theoretical dissertations and actual case...
This collection of essays explores the possibilities of studying educational matters with the tools of narrative and literature. Written over the cour...
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The Critical Response in Japan to African American Writers
ISBN: 9780820455372 / Angielski / Twarda / 327 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This annotated bibliography lists all the journal articles, book chapters, and reviews on African American writers published in Japan between 1927 and 1993. The introduction provides an overview of the critical reception of African American literature in Japan from the 1927 monograph on Booker T. Washington to a special session (-Today s African American Women Writers-) at the 64th annual meeting of the English Literary Association of Japan in 1992. Also included is a list of Japanese translations of works by African American writers including such genres as novel, short story, poetry, essay,...
This annotated bibliography lists all the journal articles, book chapters, and reviews on African American writers published in Japan between 1927 and...
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Creativity and the Poetic Mind
ISBN: 9780820469447 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Creativity and the Poetic Mind mingles the voices of well-known writers such as Nikki Giovanni, Donald Hall, John Koethe, Marge Piercy, and Robert Pinsky with newer voices, and includes engaging excerpts from interviews with thirty-eight American poets. Within a sustained argument about creative states of mind, this book innovatively presents and explores the technique of -going to the place- as more reliable in writing poetry than waiting for -inspiration-. It explains why poets frequently believe that talking about their own poetry may damage their creativity and why, for centuries,...
Creativity and the Poetic Mind mingles the voices of well-known writers such as Nikki Giovanni, Donald Hall, John Koethe, Marge Piercy, and Rob...
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514,34 |
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Blood Obsession: Vampires, Genre, and the Compulsion to Repeat
ISBN: 9780820474205 / Angielski / Miękka / 157 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is it about vampires that fascinates the human imagination? Blood Obsession closely scrutinizes theories of Sigmund Freud and Tzvetan Todorov and arrives at a model of the vampire as the perfect representative of genre for a variety of reasons the vampire figure appeals to its audience because of an interdependency of looplike mental and narrative structures that lure both reader and writer incessantly back to the genre. At the same time, this book provides the reader with a thorough survey of literary and filmic vampires in both adult and juvenile fictions. Lastly, it blends the...
What is it about vampires that fascinates the human imagination? Blood Obsession closely scrutinizes theories of Sigmund Freud and Tzvetan Todo...
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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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359,89 |
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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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