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Racism in Contemporary African American Children's and Young Adult Literature
ISBN: 9783319428925 / Angielski / Twarda / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Applying critical race theory to contemporary African American children s and young adult literature, this book explores one key racial issue that has been overlooked both in race studies and literary scholarship internalised racism. By systematically examining the issue of internalised racism and its detrimental psychological effects, particularly towards the young and vulnerable, this book defamiliarises the very racial issue that otherwise has become normalised in American racial discourse, reaffirming the relevance of race, racism, and racialisation in contemporary America. Through... Applying critical race theory to contemporary African American children s and young adult literature, this book explores one key racial issue that ... |
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Contemporary Canadian Women's Fiction: Refiguring Identities
ISBN: 9781349386758 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. All these writers are engaged in rewriting history across generation, and Howells argues that woman's fiction negotiates new possibilities for cultural change, introducing more heterogeneous narratives of identity in multi-cultural Canada.
All these writers are engaged in rewriting history across generation, and Howells argues that woman's fiction negotiates new possibilities for cultura...
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Beckett's Thing: Painting and Theatre
ISBN: 9781474415729 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beckett was deeply engaged with the visual arts and individual painters, including Jack B. Yeats, Bram van Velde, and Avigdor Arikha. In this monograph, David Lloyd explores what Beckett saw in their paintings.
Beckett was deeply engaged with the visual arts and individual painters, including Jack B. Yeats, Bram van Velde, and Avigdor Arikha. In this monograp...
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James Fenimore Cooper: The Later Years
ISBN: 9780300135718 / Angielski / Twarda / 840 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A definitive new biography of James Fenimore Cooper, early nineteenth century master of American popular fiction
American author James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) has been credited with inventing and popularizing a wide variety of genre fiction, including the Western, the spy novel, the high seas adventure tale, and the Revolutionary War romance. America's first crusading novelist, Cooper reminds us that literature is not a cloistered art; rather, it ought to be intimately engaged with the world. In this second volume of his definitive biography, Wayne Franklin... A definitive new biography of James Fenimore Cooper, early nineteenth century master of American popular fiction
American author Ja... |
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Poetry After the Invention of América: Don't Light the Flower
ISBN: 9781349296842 / Angielski / Miękka / 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.
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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Subjected Subcontinent: Sectarian and Sexual Lines in Indian Writing in English
ISBN: 9783034322065 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a new, complex understanding of Indian writing in English by focusing its analysis on both Indo-Pakistani Partition fiction and novels written by women. The author gives a comprehensive outline of Partition novels in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh written in English as well as an overview of the challenges of studying Partition literature, particularly English translations of Partition novels in regional languages. Featured works include Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, Bapsi Sidhwa's Ice-Candy-Man, Amitav Ghosh's Shadow Lines, Meena Arora Nayak's...
This book offers a new, complex understanding of Indian writing in English by focusing its analysis on both Indo-Pakistani Partition fiction and novel...
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Beyond Romantic Ecocriticism: Toward Urbanatural Roosting
ISBN: 9781349287093 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nichols chronicles the Enlightenment view of 'Nature' as static and separate from humans as it moved towards the Romantic 'nature' characterized by dynamic links among all living things. Engaging Romantic and Victorian thinkers, as well as contemporary scholarship, he draws new conclusions about21st-century ideas of nature."
Nichols chronicles the Enlightenment view of 'Nature' as static and separate from humans as it moved towards the Romantic 'nature' characterized by dy...
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Crisis and Contemporary Poetry
ISBN: 9781349319817 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What are the means available to poetry to address crisis and how can both poets and critics meet the conflicts and challenges they face? This collection of essays addresses poetic and critical responses to the various crises encountered by contemporary writers and our society, from the Holocaust to the ecological crisis.
What are the means available to poetry to address crisis and how can both poets and critics meet the conflicts and challenges they face? This collecti...
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201,24 |
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Search for Spock: A Star Trek Book of Exploration: A Highly Illogical Search and Find Parody
ISBN: 9781604337341 / Angielski / Twarda / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Where's waldo; activities and crafts, games and puzzles, star trek, fandom, trekkies, parodies
Where's waldo; activities and crafts, games and puzzles, star trek, fandom, trekkies, parodies
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Atlantic Worlds in the Long Eighteenth Century: Seduction and Sentiment
ISBN: 9781349291472 / Angielski / Miękka / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Innovative and multidisciplinary, this collection of essays marks out the future of Atlantic Studies, making visible the emphases and purposes now emerging within this vital comparative field. The contributors model new ways to understand the unexpected roles that seduction stories and sentimental narratives played for readers struggling to negotiate previously unimagined differences between and among people, institutions, and ideas.
Innovative and multidisciplinary, this collection of essays marks out the future of Atlantic Studies, making visible the emphases and purposes now eme...
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201,24 |
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Reading T.S. Eliot: Four Quartets and the Journey Towards Understanding
ISBN: 9781349294398 / Angielski / Miękka / 185 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers an exciting new approach to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets as it shows why it should be read both closely and in relation to Eliot's other works, notably the poems The Waste Land, 'The Hollow Men,' and Ash-Wednesday .
This book offers an exciting new approach to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets as it shows why it should be read both closely and in relation to Eliot's othe...
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The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism: Reading Otherwise
ISBN: 9781349540228 / Angielski / Miękka / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contributors to the volume: Erin Graff Zivin * Bruno Bosteels * Gabriela Basterra * Idelber Avelar * Esther Gabara * Sergio Chejfec * Gabriel Riera * Alberto Moreiras * Doris Sommer * Francine Masiello
Contributors to the volume: Erin Graff Zivin * Bruno Bosteels * Gabriela Basterra * Idelber Avelar * Esther Gabara * Sergio Chejfec * Gabriel Riera * ...
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201,24 |
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Modern Jewish Women Writers in America
ISBN: 9781349538027 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection includes groundbreaking essays, and interviews with scholars and writers which reveal that despite pressures of assimilation, personal goals, and in some cases, anti-Semitism, they have never been able to divorce their lives or literature from their heritage.
This collection includes groundbreaking essays, and interviews with scholars and writers which reveal that despite pressures of assimilation, personal...
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American Political Poetry in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9781349537143 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dowdy uncovers and analyzes the primary rhetorical strategies, particularly figures of voice, in American political poetry from the Vietnam War-era to the present. He brings together a unique and diverse collection of poets, including an innovative section on hip hop performance.
Dowdy uncovers and analyzes the primary rhetorical strategies, particularly figures of voice, in American political poetry from the Vietnam War-era to...
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An Ecological and Postcolonial Study of Literature: From Daniel Defoe to Salman Rushdie
ISBN: 9781349537068 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book argues that humanity's relationship to the land has undergone a fundamental and calamitous change. Marzec reveals how the historical phenomenon known as the 'enclosure movement' has effected not only the ecosystems and the geopolitics of the Twenty-First century, but on how we relate to the earth and conceive of ourselves as human.
This book argues that humanity's relationship to the land has undergone a fundamental and calamitous change. Marzec reveals how the historical phenome...
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New Women Dramatists in America, 1890-1920
ISBN: 9781349534432 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of the lives and accomplishments of five women dramatists of the Progressive Era: Martha Morton, Madeleine Lucette Ryley, Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland, Beulah Marie Dix, and Rida Johnson Young.
A study of the lives and accomplishments of five women dramatists of the Progressive Era: Martha Morton, Madeleine Lucette Ryley, Evelyn Greenleaf Sut...
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Presenting Oprah Winfrey, Her Films, and African American Literature
ISBN: 9781349448593 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Collected essays originally presented at the 2006 annual convention of the College Language Association.
Collected essays originally presented at the 2006 annual convention of the College Language Association.
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Writing Performances: The Stages of Dorothy L. Sayers
ISBN: 9781349732487 / Angielski / Miękka / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Employing the insight of contemporray performance theory, "Writing Performances" argues that Dorothy L. Sayers anticipated by decades the postmodern ironizing of Englightenment sensibilities--not in spite of her Anglo-Catholic convictions, but because of them.
Employing the insight of contemporray performance theory, "Writing Performances" argues that Dorothy L. Sayers anticipated by decades the postmodern i...
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Rethinking Modernism
ISBN: 9781349724031 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Around 1970, scholars adopted the term 'modernism' as a designation for the radical changes that took place in Anglo-American literature in the early twentieth century.
Around 1970, scholars adopted the term 'modernism' as a designation for the radical changes that took place in Anglo-American literature in the early ...
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Henry James on Stage and Screen
ISBN: 9781349658183 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the 1890s, when Henry James tried to achieve fame and financial security by turning to the theatre, he was unceremoniously booed off the stage.
In the 1890s, when Henry James tried to achieve fame and financial security by turning to the theatre, he was unceremoniously booed off the stage.
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