Australian Literature: Postcolonialism, Racism, Transnationalism
ISBN: 9780199274628 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English.
In a provocative contribution to the series, Graham Huggan presents fresh readings of an outstanding, sometimes deeply unsettling national literature whose writers and readers just as unmistakably belong to the wider world. Australian literature is not the unique province of Australian readers and critics; nor is its exclusive task to provide an internal... The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions ...
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177,74 zł |
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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386,61 zł |
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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708,33 zł |
Sex and Eroticism in Mesopotamian Literature
ISBN: 9780415311618 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A glimpse of a world with a sexual culture and erotic values very different from our own, through exploration of the earliest preserved written evidence on the subject - the Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform sources of the 21st to 5th centuries BC. Drawing on sophisticated literary texts - courtly love poems and bridal songs, myths, narratives and incantations - this book uncovers a range of perspectives on the subject of passion and pleasure. The reader is treated to eloquent and freely-expressed views on topics from prostitution, love magic and deviant sexual practice to gender, fertility and...
A glimpse of a world with a sexual culture and erotic values very different from our own, through exploration of the earliest preserved written eviden...
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209,82 zł |
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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708,33 zł |
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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280,63 zł |
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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160,35 zł |
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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453,66 zł |
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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195,13 zł |
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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379,10 zł |
The Enigmatic Christina Stead: A Provocative Re-Reading
ISBN: 9780522849226 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Christina Stead (1902-1983) is arguably Australia s greatest female novelist. Stead s concentrated emotional intensity, her interest in extraordinary passion, and her keen sense of fantasy and the grotesque have led to comparisons with D. H. Lawrence, Dostoevsky, and Dickens. Petersen argues that although Stead's texts are saturated with a heterosexual norm, it is a facade that masks both lesbianism and male homosexual desire.
" Christina Stead (1902-1983) is arguably Australia s greatest female novelist. Stead s concentrated emotional intensity, her interest in extraordinary ...
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122,25 zł |
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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82,79 zł |
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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577,15 zł |
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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139,91 zł |
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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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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552,30 zł |
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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415,59 zł |
The Pain of Unbelonging: Alienation and Identity in Australasian Literature
ISBN: 9789042021877 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beyond the obvious and enduring socio-economic ravages it unleashed on indigenous cultures, white settler colonization in Australasia also inflicted profound damage on the collective psyche of both of the communities that inhabited the contested space of the colonial world. The acute sense of alienation that colonization initially provoked in the colonized and colonizing populations of Australia and New Zealand has, recent studies indicate, developed into an endemic, existential pathology. Evidence of the psychological fallout from the trauma of geographical deracination, cultural...
Beyond the obvious and enduring socio-economic ravages it unleashed on indigenous cultures, white settler colonization in Australasia also inflicted p...
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275,25 zł |
The Littoral Zone: Australian Contexts and Their Writers
ISBN: 9789042022188 / Angielski / Miękka / 319 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this, the first collection of ecocritical essays devoted to Australian contexts and their writers, Australian and US scholars explore the transliteration of land and sea through the works of Australian authors and through their own experiences. The littoral zone is the starting point in this fresh approach to reading literature organised around the natural environment-rainforest, desert, mountains, coast, islands, Antarctica. There's the beach, where sexual and spiritual crises occur; the Western Australian wheatbelt; deserts, camel trekking, and the transformation of a salt flat into an...
In this, the first collection of ecocritical essays devoted to Australian contexts and their writers, Australian and US scholars explore the translite...
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415,07 zł |
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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128,30 zł |