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Re Joyce
ISBN: 9780393004458 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arguing that "the appearance of difficulty is part of Joyce's big joke," Burgess provides a readable, accessible guide to the writings of James Joyce.
Arguing that "the appearance of difficulty is part of Joyce's big joke," Burgess provides a readable, accessible guide to the writings of James Joyce.
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84,59 |
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The Flaming Heart: Essays on Crashaw, Machiavelli, and Other Studies of the Relations Between Italian and English Literature from Chaucer
ISBN: 9780393006698 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here, in his own translations and in original English versions of his own, Professor Praz has gathered many important essays central to his life's work, in a continuous study of the vital currents which have flowed between two cultures, the English and the Italian. The classic writers of Italy--Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Ariosto, Tasso, and others--are studied in their effects on English literature.
Here, in his own translations and in original English versions of his own, Professor Praz has gathered many important essays central to his life's wor...
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103,86 |
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Ireland's Women: Writings Past and Present
ISBN: 9780393313604 / Angielski / Miękka / 578 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modern Irish women are outspoken about the issues that rouse their passion--love and sex, marriage and divorce, abortion and adoption. As Katie Donovan says in her introduction: "Our selection is intended to give the reader a taste of the varied spectrum, from the courtly praise of men to swinish male chauvinism; from women's declarations of outrage against church and state to their celebrations of childbirth and motherhood." This book celebrates the vast range of women's thought and activity, their spirituality, and their passions The women who appear in this collection are both well known...
Modern Irish women are outspoken about the issues that rouse their passion--love and sex, marriage and divorce, abortion and adoption. As Katie Donova...
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125,24 |
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The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-Earth: A Complete Guide to All Fourteen of the Languages Tolkien Invented
ISBN: 9780395291306 / Angielski / Miękka / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explains the fourteen different languages and assorted alphabets of Middle-earth, translates Elvish poetry, war slogans, and sayings, and features a complete dictionary of non-English words in the Middle-earth classics.
Explains the fourteen different languages and assorted alphabets of Middle-earth, translates Elvish poetry, war slogans, and sayings, and features a c...
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73,17 |
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Selections from the Notebooks of Edward Bond: Volume Two: 1980-1995
ISBN: 9780413730008 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This second volume of Edward Bond's notebooks covers the period from Restoration, his historic drama with songs, to Eleven Vests, his play for young people written for Big Brum Theatre-in-Education "There is a cliche - which is also false - that all creative writing is autobiographical. If I were to be asked when you write do you write about your life I would answer when I write I am living my life." This second volume of Edward Bond's notebooks covers the period from Restoration, his historic drama with songs, to Eleven Vests, his play for youn... |
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244,89 |
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Amid Our Troubles: Irish Versions of Greek Tragedy
ISBN: 9780413771421 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New essays on ancient Greek classics from Ireland's greatest living dramatists and academics That so many Irish playwrights should return to the Greek classics can not really be a surprise. Drama in Ireland is still a means of exploring the issues of family and state; of gender, class and race; of the oppressors and the oppressed. It is political in the broad sense in which the Greeks understood the word, involving everyone - immediate but concentrated through parallel and parable. This collection of provocative essays reveals how some of the great Irish poets and dramatists,... New essays on ancient Greek classics from Ireland's greatest living dramatists and academics That so many Irish playwrights should return to ... |
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257,78 |
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Foucault and Literature: Towards a Geneaology of Writing
ISBN: 9780415012423 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book aims to provide a detailed introduction to the whole body of Foucault's work, with a particular emphasis on his literary theory. The author examines Foucault's early studies of transgressive writing from Sade and Artaud, to the French new novelists of the 1960s, and his later concern with the genealogy of the author/intellectual, writing and theorizing within specific, historical mechanisms of social control and production. Foucault and Literature offers a critique both of Foucault and of the literary studies that have been influenced by him, and goes on to develop new methods of...
This book aims to provide a detailed introduction to the whole body of Foucault's work, with a particular emphasis on his literary theory. The author ...
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190,96 |
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The English Novel in History 1840-1895
ISBN: 9780415014991 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The construction of history as a social common denominator is a powerful achievement of the nineteenth-century novel, a form dedicated to experimenting with democratic social practice as it conflicts with economic and feudal visions of social order. Through revisionary readings of familiar nineteenth-century texts The English Novel in History 1840-1895 takes a multidisciplinary approach to literary history. It highlights how narrative shifts from one construction of time to another and reformulates fundamental ideas of identity, nature and society.
Elizabeth Ermarth discusses the... The construction of history as a social common denominator is a powerful achievement of the nineteenth-century novel, a form dedicated to experimentin...
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710,17 |
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Her Own Life: Autobiographical Writings by Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen
ISBN: 9780415017008 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During a period when writing was often the only form of self-expression for women, Her Own Life contains extracts from the autobiographical texts of twelve seventeenth-century women addressing a wide range of issues central to their lives.
During a period when writing was often the only form of self-expression for women, Her Own Life contains extracts from the autobiogra...
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181,17 |
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Geoffrey Hartman: Criticism as Answerable Style
ISBN: 9780415020947 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The critic explicitly acknowledges his dependence on prior words that make his word a kind of answer. He calls to other texts "that they might answer him."'
Geoffrey Hartman is the first book devoted to an exploration of the intellectual poetry' of the critic who, whether or not he represents the future of the profession', is a unique and major voice in twentieth-century criticism. Professor Atkins explains clearly Hartman's key ideas and places his work in the contexts of Romanticism and Judaism on which he has written extensively. In Geoffrey Hartman he provides a... The critic explicitly acknowledges his dependence on prior words that make his word a kind of answer. He calls to other texts "that they might answer ...
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710,17 |
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Raymond Williams: Literature, Marxism and Cultural Materialism
ISBN: 9780415023443 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Raymond Williams' prolific output is increasingly recognised as the most influential body of work on literary and cultural studies in the past fifty years. This book provides the most comprehensive study to date of the theoretical and historical context of Williams' thinking on literature, politics and culture.
John Higgins traces: * Williams' intellectual development * the related growth of a New Left cultural politics * the origins of the theory and practice of cultural materialism. Raymond Williams is an astonishing achievement and will challenge many received... Raymond Williams' prolific output is increasingly recognised as the most influential body of work on literary and cultural studies in the past fifty y...
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747,55 |
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Raymond Williams: Literature, Marxism and Cultural Materialism
ISBN: 9780415023450 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Raymond Williams' prolific output is increasingly recognised as the most influential body of work on literary and cultural studies in the past fifty years. This book provides the most comprehensive study to date of the theoretical and historical context of Williams' thinking on literature, politics and culture.
John Higgins traces: * Williams' intellectual development * the related growth of a New Left cultural politics * the origins of the theory and practice of cultural materialism. Raymond Williams is an astonishing achievement and will challenge many received... Raymond Williams' prolific output is increasingly recognised as the most influential body of work on literary and cultural studies in the past fifty y...
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200,76 |
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The Madhouse of Language
ISBN: 9780415031905 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Language has always been used as a measure of social, ideological, and psychological contexts for the exploration of madness. The Madhouse of Language considers the relations between madness and language from the late seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries, focusing on the close analysis of both medical records and texts by mad writers. It presents a highly original account of the linguistic relations between madness and sanity, of the appropriation by sane writers of the forms of English, and of attempts by mad patients to gain access to the expressive potential of language.
Language has always been used as a measure of social, ideological, and psychological contexts for the exploration of madness. The Madhouse of Lang...
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710,17 |
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Raymond Williams: Making Connections
ISBN: 9780415040884 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Raymond Williams believed that making connections between politics, economics, education and culture was a continuing critical task. This is a critical exploration of every aspect Williams's work, which spans his fiction and non-fiction, and his contributions to drama, film, literary criticism, sociology, cultural studies, media studies and politics.
Raymond Williams believed that making connections between politics, economics, education and culture was a continuing critical task. This is a critica...
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244,84 |
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Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women's Travel Writing and Colonialism
ISBN: 9780415046299 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discourses of Difference unravels the complexities of writings by British women travellers of the high colonial period. Sara Mills' broad-based study draws on the work of Foucault and of theorists of colonialism such as Edward Said, Mary Louise Pratt and Gayatri Spivak to produce a new theoretical framework for the analysis of these texts, and of others written during the period. Mills argues that critics have paid insufficient attention to issues of gender, and have failed to consider the context in which texts by women were written and received. Through the case studies of three women...
Discourses of Difference unravels the complexities of writings by British women travellers of the high colonial period. Sara Mills' broad-based study ...
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759,15 |
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Fighting Forces, Writing Women: Identity and Ideology in the First World War
ISBN: 9780415047050 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this study, Sharon Ouditt examines the traumatic and constantly shifting nature of women's experience during the World War I.
In this study, Sharon Ouditt examines the traumatic and constantly shifting nature of women's experience during the World War I.
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205,65 |
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The Myth of Aunt Jemima: White Women Representing Black Women
ISBN: 9780415049184 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Myth of Aunt Jemima is a bold and exciting look at the way three centuries of white women writers have tackled the subject of race in both Britain and America. Diane Roberts challenges the widely-held belief that white women writers have simply acquiesed in majority cultural inscriptions of race. The Myth of Aunt Jemima shows how 'the mythic spheres of race, of the separation of black and white into low and high, other and originary, tainted and pure, remain to trouble a society struggling still to free itself from debilitating racial representations.'
Beautifully... The Myth of Aunt Jemima is a bold and exciting look at the way three centuries of white women writers have tackled the subject of race in bot...
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710,17 |
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The Myth of Aunt Jemima: White Women Representing Black Women
ISBN: 9780415049191 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Myth of Aunt Jemima is a bold and exciting look at the way three centuries of white women writers have tackled the subject of race in both Britain and America. Diane Roberts challenges the widely-held belief that white women writers have simply acquiesed in majority cultural inscriptions of race. The Myth of Aunt Jemima shows how 'the mythic spheres of race, of the separation of black and white into low and high, other and originary, tainted and pure, remain to trouble a society struggling still to free itself from debilitating racial representations.'
Beautifully... The Myth of Aunt Jemima is a bold and exciting look at the way three centuries of white women writers have tackled the subject of race in bot...
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220,35 |
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The Usurer's Daughter : Male Friendship and Fictions of Women in 16th Century England
ISBN: 9780415050494 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text draws upon new historicist and feminist theories to examine Renaissance literature and the cultural impact of the humanist project. This work provides new readings of Shakespeare, taking a new approach to classical scholarship. The focus is on the central importance of the history of the representation of women. The book also examines how social relations between men were textualized during the early modern period.
This text draws upon new historicist and feminist theories to examine Renaissance literature and the cultural impact of the humanist project. This wor...
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186,06 |
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A Short History of English Literature
ISBN: 9780415050784 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'It is good to see a reprint and complete updating of this well-known historical tour de force, with its evidence of vast reading and literally thousands of useful facts.' - Times Educational Supplement
'It is good to see a reprint and complete updating of this well-known historical tour de force, with its evidence of vast reading and literally thousa...
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205,65 |
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