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Strange Constellations: A History of Australian Science Fiction
ISBN: 9780313251122 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Australia has long been thought of by Europeans as an exotic and mysterious land. During the nineteenth century, it was envisioned much as the moon and Mars are today: a distant and uncharted place with hidden possibilities for explorations and adventures. The continent captured the imagination of European writers in the 1800s, and with its settlement, Australia became the setting for tales of lost worlds and ancient civilizations. Australia has since developed a rich national literature, and perhaps because of its novelty and wilderness, it has inspired numerous science fiction writers.... Australia has long been thought of by Europeans as an exotic and mysterious land. During the nineteenth century, it was envisioned much as the moon... |
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619,36 zł |
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Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature
ISBN: 9780415065344 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By interpreting the Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform sources from ancient Mesopotamia, this text provides insight into a world with fundamentally different attitudes to eroticism. The sophisticated literary texts which survive - poems, songs, myths, narratives and incantations - offer a range of perspectives on the subject of love and sensuality.
By interpreting the Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform sources from ancient Mesopotamia, this text provides insight into a world with fundamentally different a...
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697,65 zł |
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Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific: Reading History and Trauma in Contemporary Fiction
ISBN: 9780415366694 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific, Susan Y. Najita proposes that the traumatic history of contact and colonization has become a crucial means by which indigenous peoples of Oceania are reclaiming their cultures, languages, ways of knowing, and political independence. In particular, she examines how contemporary writers from Hawai'i, Samoa, and Aotearoa/New Zealand remember, re-tell, and deploy this violent history in their work. As Pacific peoples negotiate their paths towards sovereignty and chart their postcolonial futures, these writers play an invaluable role in invoking... In Decolonizing Cultures in the Pacific, Susan Y. Najita proposes that the traumatic history of contact and colonization has become a cruc... |
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697,65 zł |
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Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin
ISBN: 9780521021135 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines how the South Pacific was represented by explorers, missionaries, travelers, writers and artists between 1767 and 1914. It draws on history, literature, art history, and anthropology in its study of different, often conflicting colonial discourses of the Pacific. Among its themes are the persistent mythmaking around the figure of Cook, the Western obsession with Polynesian sexuality, tattooing, cannibalism and leprosy, the Pacific as a theater for adventure, and as a setting for Europe's displaced fears of its own cultural extinction.
This book examines how the South Pacific was represented by explorers, missionaries, travelers, writers and artists between 1767 and 1914. It draws on...
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279,70 zł |
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Di Serambi: On the Verandah: A Bilingual Anthology of Modern Indonesian Poetry
ISBN: 9780521477147 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the Verandah brings together the work of twelve contemporary Indonesian poets. The poems are presented in both Indonesian and English, together with notes on linguistic and cultural references, and a brief biography of each contributor. The translations have been crafted to keep faith with the rhythm and flow of the Indonesian poetry. The poems chosen offer a range of chronological, thematic, and stylistic perspectives on Indonesian poetry. This anthology will prove invaluable to students and teachers of Indonesian language and culture.
On the Verandah brings together the work of twelve contemporary Indonesian poets. The poems are presented in both Indonesian and English, together wit...
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230,33 zł |
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Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin
ISBN: 9780521550543 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines how the South Pacific was represented by explorers, missionaries, travelers, writers and artists between 1767 and 1914. It draws on history, literature, art history, and anthropology in its study of different, often conflicting colonial discourses of the Pacific. Among its themes are the persistent mythmaking around the figure of Cook, the Western obsession with Polynesian sexuality, tattooing, cannibalism and leprosy, the Pacific as a theater for adventure, and as a setting for Europe's displaced fears of its own cultural extinction.
This book examines how the South Pacific was represented by explorers, missionaries, travelers, writers and artists between 1767 and 1914. It draws on...
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592,41 zł |
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The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature
ISBN: 9780521658430 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book introduces in a lively and succinct way the major writers, literary movements, styles and genres that, at the beginning of a new century, are seen as constituting the field of Australian literature. The book consciously takes a perspective that sees literary works not as aesthetic objects created in isolation by unique individuals, but as cultural products influenced and constrained by the social, political and economic circumstances of their times. It will be an indispensable reference for both national and international readers. It covers Indigenous texts, colonial writing and...
This book introduces in a lively and succinct way the major writers, literary movements, styles and genres that, at the beginning of a new century, ar...
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274,21 zł |
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Henry Handel Richardson: A Life
ISBN: 9780521678643 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This was the first complete biography of Henry Handel Richardson.
This was the first complete biography of Henry Handel Richardson.
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225,82 zł |
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Henry Handel Richardson: A Life
ISBN: 9780521840552 / Angielski / Twarda / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Henry Handel Richardson has been celebrated for her classic Australian novels: The Getting of Wisdom and The Fortunes of Richard Mahony. However, her own life story remains to be told. This book, accordingly, provides the first complete biography of the enigmatic Australian literary icon, shedding new light on her eventful life.
Henry Handel Richardson has been celebrated for her classic Australian novels: The Getting of Wisdom and The Fortunes of Richard Mahony. However, her ...
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451,69 zł |
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Peter Carey
ISBN: 9780719067983 / Angielski / Miękka / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taps into the fact that since the first edition, Carey's fiction has reached a far wider international audience - he's won the Booker Prize for a second time, and Oscar and Lucinda' has been made into a successful feature film. Revised and expanded, this edition features detailed readings of the latest novels - Jack Maggs and True History of the Kelly Gang. Sets Carey's work in the context of his life and influences, showing him to be a disturbing postcolonial writer as well as a great entertainer. Stresses the political concerns of Carey's work. Employs previously neglected radio interviews...
Taps into the fact that since the first edition, Carey's fiction has reached a far wider international audience - he's won the Booker Prize for a seco...
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73,38 zł |
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(In)Scribing Body/Landscape Relations
ISBN: 9780742503205 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an exploration of body/landscape relations and what is possible when body and language are thought of and written together instead of in opposition to each other.
This is an exploration of body/landscape relations and what is possible when body and language are thought of and written together instead of in oppos...
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231,61 zł |
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Rewriting Reality: An Introduction to Elfriede Jelinek
ISBN: 9780854967766 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first systematic study of the controversial Austrian feminist writer, Elfriede Jelinek, offers an extensive survey and analysis of Jelinek's major texts and a discussion of the literary techniques which characterise her writing. Background contextual information on historical and literary developments is provided to help the reader gain a better understanding of Jelinek's writing and her place within current international debates on feminism and literary theory. This first systematic study of the controversial Austrian feminist writer, Elfriede Jelinek, offers an extensive survey and analysis of Jelinek's m... |
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877,50 zł |
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Gulf
ISBN: 9781411656147 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a long novel, a tapestry of life in rural Australia with all the characters, the localities, the climate and the social life so finely pictured that not one single aspect of the portrayal jars. Reminiscent of John Steinbeck's wonderful pen pictures of rural America and the unique characters that dwelt therein. The story line is good and well maintained. The language is rough but not aggressively Australian and laced with typical wit. The racial prejudice is infiltrated throughout the story so imperceptibly that it becomes almost acceptable as a normal attitude, as does the behavior of...
This is a long novel, a tapestry of life in rural Australia with all the characters, the localities, the climate and the social life so finely picture...
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156,88 zł |
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Epics of Sumerian Kings: The Matter of Aratta
ISBN: 9781589830837 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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130,68 zł |
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Analysing Literary Sumerian: Corpus-Based Approaches
ISBN: 9781845532291 / Angielski / Twarda / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together pioneering studies on the world's oldest literature, composed in the extinct language Sumerian and written on clay in the cuneiform (wedge-shaped) script. All the contributions are based on the Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature (ETCSL), a project of the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University whose focus is on the best documented period of Sumerian literature, compositions recorded some 4,000 years ago in southern Iraq. The ETCSL consists of transliterations and translations of nearly 400 compositions and is accessible via the Internet. It is the...
This book brings together pioneering studies on the world's oldest literature, composed in the extinct language Sumerian and written on clay in the cu...
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564,90 zł |
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Kin of Place: Essays on New Zealand Writers
ISBN: 9781869402723 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author addresses most of the leading New Zealand literary figures of the last decades of the last century including Allen Curnow, Lauris Edmond, Kendrick Smithyman, Frank Sargeson, Janet Frame (two essays), Ian Wedde, Maurice Gee, and the talented younger writer Elizabeth Knox. The book represents a collection of perceptive, readable, opinionated comment on a wide range of local writers and writing over a long period and shows in an interesting way the evolution of Stead's critical position.
The author addresses most of the leading New Zealand literary figures of the last decades of the last century including Allen Curnow, Lauris Edmond, K...
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101,40 zł |
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Water from the Moon: Illusion and Reality in the Works of Australian Novelist Christopher Koch
ISBN: 9781934043356 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This theoretically-informed monograph provides a book-by-book analysis of the novelist's ouvre and gives a full picture of his Weltanschauung. A valuable reference for scholars in Australian Studies as well as those researching postcolonial, psychoanalytic and literary theories.
This theoretically-informed monograph provides a book-by-book analysis of the novelist's ouvre and gives a full picture of his Weltanschauung. A valua...
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520,80 zł |
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Re-Mapping Exile: Realities and Metaphors in Irish Literature and History
ISBN: 9788779340107 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of essays by Scandinavian scholars, who discuss and demonstrate new--and at times controversial--approaches to exilic experiences, metaphors and perceptions in modern Irish culture and literature. Writers dealt with are, among others, Roddy Doyle, John Banville, Hubert Butler, Rosa Mulholland, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Anne Sadlier, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, and James Joyce.
A collection of essays by Scandinavian scholars, who discuss and demonstrate new--and at times controversial--approaches to exilic experiences, metaph...
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84,74 zł |
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Menagerie 1
ISBN: 9789798083075 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The prima donna of modern Indonesian literature is the short story. Menagerie 1, the first in a series of volumes focusing on this literary form, offers a wide range of themes by many authors including: Ahmad Tohari B.Y. Tand Budi Darma Danarto Gerson Poyk Hamsad Rangkuti J.E. Siahaan Leila S. Chudori Nh. Dini Putu Wijaya Seno Gumira Ajidarma Umar Nur Zain Also included in Menagerie 1 is Poetry and Philosophy by Subagio Sastrowardoyo; Pariyem's Confession, a prose-poem by Linus Suryadi; Dieng, a photographic portfolio, by Yudhi Soerjoatmodjo; and poems by Chairil Anwar, Sitor Situmorang,...
The prima donna of modern Indonesian literature is the short story. Menagerie 1, the first in a series of volumes focusing on this literary form, offe...
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135,04 zł |
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Di Serambi: On the Verandah: A Bilingual Anthology of Modern Indonesian Poetry
ISBN: 9780521472029 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the Verandah brings together the work of twelve contemporary Indonesian poets. The poems are presented in both Indonesian and English, together with notes on linguistic and cultural references, and a brief biography of each contributor. The translations have been crafted to keep faith with the rhythm and flow of the Indonesian poetry. The poems chosen offer a range of chronological, thematic, and stylistic perspectives on Indonesian poetry. This anthology will prove invaluable to students and teachers of Indonesian language and culture.
On the Verandah brings together the work of twelve contemporary Indonesian poets. The poems are presented in both Indonesian and English, together wit...
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488,13 zł |
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