The Migrant Text: Making and Marketing a Global French Literature
ISBN: 9780773547605 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A wide-ranging analysis of French literature and immigration, inventing a new category for migrant texts.
A wide-ranging analysis of French literature and immigration, inventing a new category for migrant texts.
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166,30 zł |
Violence Against Indigenous Women: Literature, Activism, Resistance
ISBN: 9781771122399 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Violence against Indigenous women in Canada is an ongoing crisis, with roots deep in the nation's colonial history. Despite numerous policies and programs developed to address the issue, Indigenous women continue to be targeted for violence at disproportionate rates. What insights can literature contribute where dominant anti-violence initiatives have failed? Centring the voices of contemporary Indigenous women writers, this book argues for the important role that literature and storytelling can play in response to gendered colonial violence. Indigenous communities have been... Violence against Indigenous women in Canada is an ongoing crisis, with roots deep in the nation's colonial history. Despite numerous policies and p... |
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123,12 zł |
Certain Details: The Poetry of Nelson Ball
ISBN: 9781771122467 / Angielski / Miękka / 65 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nelson Ball has had a significant impact on contemporary Canadian poetry not only as a poet but as an editor, with his Weed/Flower Press in the 1960s and 70s. Certain Details provides a major overview of the breadth and many paths of Ball's poetry over six decades. This selection of his work includes his trademark minimalist poems in addition to longer works and sequences; it spans nature poems, homages, meditations, narratives, found poems, and visual poems. The book contains selections from all of Ball's major collections as well as works that have previously appeared only in... Nelson Ball has had a significant impact on contemporary Canadian poetry not only as a poet but as an editor, with his Weed/Flower Press in the 196... |
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103,67 zł |
Alice Munro's Narrative Art
ISBN: 9781349341597 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Among the first critical works on Alice Munro's writing, this study of her short fiction is informed by the disciplines of narratology and literary linguistics. Through examining Munro's narrative art, Isla Duncan demonstrates a rich understanding of the complex, densely layered, often unsettling stories.
Among the first critical works on Alice Munro's writing, this study of her short fiction is informed by the disciplines of narratology and literary li...
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193,19 zł |
The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature
ISBN: 9781349490066 / Angielski / Miękka / 417 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A first of its kind, The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature provides an overview of Comparative North American Literature, a cutting-edge discipline. Contributors make important interventions into multiculturalism in North America and into U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada border literatures.
A first of its kind, The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative North American Literature provides an overview of Comparative North American Literature, a c...
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386,41 zł |
Space Between Her Lips: The Poetry of Margaret Christakos
ISBN: 9781771122979 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Space Between Her Lips presents the first selected works of one of Canada's most important poets of the last few decades. Margaret Christakos writes vibrant, exciting, and intellectually challenging poetry. She plays language games that bring a probing and disturbing humour to serious themes that range from childhood and children to women in contemporary techno-capitalist society to feminist literary theory, and so much more. Gregory Betts introduction to the collection highlights her formal diversity and her unique combination of feminist and avant-garde affinities. He connects the...
Space Between Her Lips presents the first selected works of one of Canada's most important poets of the last few decades. Margaret Christakos writes v...
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77,96 zł |
Northrop Frye and Others: The Order of Words
ISBN: 9780776625430 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robert D. Denham poursuit, dans ce deuxieme de trois volumes, son analyse poussee des grands penseurs, documents et traditions intellectuelles qui ont marque la vision du theoricien et critique litteraire de renom, Northrop Frye: les sutras mahayana, Machiavel, Rabelais, Boehme, Hegel, Coleridge, Carlyle, Mill, Jane Ellen Harrison et Elizabeth Fraser.
Cet ouvrage, fonde sur des recherches archivistiques et historiques approfondies, documente au fil des mentions reperees dans les textes de Frye, les rares references a ces sources, et offre une analyse de la facon dont celles-ci ont... Robert D. Denham poursuit, dans ce deuxieme de trois volumes, son analyse poussee des grands penseurs, documents et traditions intellectuelles qui ont...
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120,35 zł |
Literary Celebrity in Canada
ISBN: 9781487521394 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years, Canadian authors have enjoyed tremendous international success, writing novels that become Oscar-nominated films or achieve coveted success as selections for the Oprah Winfrey bookclub. Literary Celebrity in Canada is the first extended study of the dynamics of celebrity in the field of Canadian literature. Building on the argument that celebrity is a phenomenon firmly embraced by mainstream culture, Lorraine York examines it in relation to various tensions and conflicts within the literary community and beyond. Using as examples three contemporary literary... In recent years, Canadian authors have enjoyed tremendous international success, writing novels that become Oscar-nominated films or achieve covete... |
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119,48 zł |
From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing
ISBN: 9781554585809 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing, Deena Rymhs identifies continuities between the residential school and the prison, offering ways of reading "the carceral"--that is, the different ways that incarceration is constituted and articulated in contemporary Aboriginal literature. Addressing the work of writers like Tomson Highway and Basil Johnston along with that of lesser-known authors writing in prison serials and underground publications, this book emphasizes the literary and political strategies these authors use to resist the containment of their... In From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing, Deena Rymhs identifies continuities between the residential school and the p... |
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163,84 zł |
Making Canada New: Editing, Modernism, and New Media
ISBN: 9781487500597 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An examination of the connections between modernist writers and editorial activities, Making Canada New draws links among new and old media, collaborative labour, emergent scholars and scholarships, and digital modernisms. In doing so, the collection reveals that renovating modernisms does not need to depend on the fabrication of completely new modes of scholarship. Rather, it is the repurposing of already existing practices and combining them with others whether old or new, print or digital that instigates a process of continuous renewal. Critical to this process of renewal is the... An examination of the connections between modernist writers and editorial activities, Making Canada New draws links among new and old media,... |
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353,40 zł |
Writing Herself Into Being: Quebec Women's Autobiographical Writings from Marie de L'Incarnation to Nelly Arcan
ISBN: 9780773551190 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. WINNER - Prix du livre d'Ottawa 2016 WINNER - Prix Jean-Ethier-Blais 2015 WINNER - Prix Gabrielle-Roy 2014 FINALIST - Prix litteraire Trillium 2015 From the founding of New France to the present day, Quebec women have had to negotiate societal expectations placed on their gender. Tracing the evolution of life writing by Quebec women, Patricia Smart presents a feminist analysis of women's struggles for autonomy and agency in a society that has continually emphasized the traditional roles of wife and mother. Writing Herself into Being examines published autobiographies and autobiographical...
WINNER - Prix du livre d'Ottawa 2016 WINNER - Prix Jean-Ethier-Blais 2015 WINNER - Prix Gabrielle-Roy 2014 FINALIST - Prix litteraire Trillium 2015 F...
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166,30 zł |
Robert Copland: Poems
ISBN: 9781487591236 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robert Copland is (fl. 1505-1546) had a long career as a poet, translator, and printer, and his achievements were substantial. As a printer, he worked for and with Wynkyn de Worde, and his editions look back to the work of Caxton, de Worde's master, and forward, through the work of his successor William Copland, to the Elizabethan period. As a translator, he worked at a time when foreign languages were becoming increasingly necessary to the average Englishman. John Berdan calls Copland one of the main channels of French influence in England during this period. This book makes... Robert Copland is (fl. 1505-1546) had a long career as a poet, translator, and printer, and his achievements were substantial. As a printer, he wor... |
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140,27 zł |
Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature
ISBN: 9781487516611 / Angielski / Miękka / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Governor General's Award-winning author George Elliott Clarke identifies African-Canadian literature's distinguishing characteristics, argues its relevance to both African Diasporic and Canadian Studies and critiques several of its key creators and texts.
Governor General's Award-winning author George Elliott Clarke identifies African-Canadian literature's distinguishing characteristics, argues its rele...
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181,89 zł |
Forgotten: Narratives of Age-Related Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease in Canada
ISBN: 9780773550926 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the 1860s, long before scientists put a name to Alzheimer's disease, Canadian authors have been writing about age-related dementia. Originally, most of these stories were elegies, designed to offer readers consolation. Over time they evolved into narratives of gothic horror in which the illness is presented not as a normal consequence of aging but as an apocalyptic transformation. Weaving together scientific, cultural, and aesthetic depictions of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, Forgotten asserts that the only crisis associated with Canada's aging population is one of...
Since the 1860s, long before scientists put a name to Alzheimer's disease, Canadian authors have been writing about age-related dementia. Originally, ...
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602,85 zł |
Writing Herself Into Being: Quebec Women's Autobiographical Writings from Marie de L'Incarnation to Nelly Arcan
ISBN: 9780773551183 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. WINNER - Prix du livre d'Ottawa 2016 WINNER - Prix Jean-Ethier-Blais 2015 WINNER - Prix Gabrielle-Roy 2014 FINALIST - Prix litteraire Trillium 2015 From the founding of New France to the present day, Quebec women have had to negotiate societal expectations placed on their gender. Tracing the evolution of life writing by Quebec women, Patricia Smart presents a feminist analysis of women's struggles for autonomy and agency in a society that has continually emphasized the traditional roles of wife and mother. Writing Herself into Being examines published autobiographies and autobiographical...
WINNER - Prix du livre d'Ottawa 2016 WINNER - Prix Jean-Ethier-Blais 2015 WINNER - Prix Gabrielle-Roy 2014 FINALIST - Prix litteraire Trillium 2015 F...
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535,29 zł |
Forgotten: Narratives of Age-Related Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease in Canada
ISBN: 9780773550933 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the 1860s, long before scientists put a name to Alzheimer's disease, Canadian authors have been writing about age-related dementia. Originally, most of these stories were elegies, designed to offer readers consolation. Over time they evolved into narratives of gothic horror in which the illness is presented not as a normal consequence of aging but as an apocalyptic transformation. Weaving together scientific, cultural, and aesthetic depictions of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, Forgotten asserts that the only crisis associated with Canada's aging population is one of...
Since the 1860s, long before scientists put a name to Alzheimer's disease, Canadian authors have been writing about age-related dementia. Originally, ...
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166,30 zł |
Literary Culture and Translation: New Aspects of Comparative Literature
ISBN: 9789384092733 / Angielski / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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252,67 zł |
Northrop Frye and Others: Volume III: Interpenetrating Visions
ISBN: 9780776626703 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Robert D. Denham poursuit son examen d'ecrivains et autres influences qui ont marque l'eminent critique Northrop Frye, mais sur lesquels celui-ci n'avait pas consacre de reflexions tres developpees.
Le premier chapitre porte sur la lecture que fait Frye de Patanjali, le fondateur de la philosophie du yoga hindou, et le deuxieme, sur le mythographe culturel Giambattista Vico, l'histoire litteraire et le langage poetique. Frye s'interessait aux arts visuels et a la musique et Denham approfondit l'influence de J.S. Bach sur Frye. Le chapitre sur Tolkien porte sur la tendance en... Robert D. Denham poursuit son examen d'ecrivains et autres influences qui ont marque l'eminent critique Northrop Frye, mais sur lesquels celui-ci n'av...
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98,47 zł |
Avant Canada: Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries
ISBN: 9781771123525 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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164,18 zł |
La seve immortelle: roman
ISBN: 9781978127357 / Francuski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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43,32 zł |