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The Green Studies Reader: From Romanticism to Ecocriticism
ISBN: 9780415204064 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Green Studies is a booming area for study and The Green Studies Reader is a fantastically comprehensive selection of critical texts which address the connection between ecology, culture, and literature. It offers a complete guide to the growing area of 'ecocriticism' and a wealth of material on green issues from the romantic period to the present.
Included are extracts from today's leading ecocritics and figures from the past who pioneered a green approach to literature and culture. This Reader sets the agenda for Green Studies and encourages a reassessment of development of... Green Studies is a booming area for study and The Green Studies Reader is a fantastically comprehensive selection of critical texts which add...
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759,15 |
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Studies in the Spectator Role: Literature, Painting and Pedagogy
ISBN: 9780415208284 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Michael Benton's book develops the concept of spectatorship as an answer to these questions. It explores the similarities and differences in our experiences of literature and the visual arts, and discusses their implications for pedagogy and their applications in cross-curricular work in the classroom.
Teachers will find that, while many of the visual and verbal texts may be familiar, the approaches to them offer fresh insights and a rich agenda for the classroom. Shakespeare, Fielding, Hogarth, Blake, Wordsworth, Constable, Turner, the Pre-Raphaelites, Wilfred Owen, Paul Nash, Stanley... Michael Benton's book develops the concept of spectatorship as an answer to these questions. It explores the similarities and differences in our exper...
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112,60 |
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Literature and Nation: Britain and India 1800-1990
ISBN: 9780415212069 / Angielski / Twarda / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Perhaps no two nations in modern times have had a more complex cultural engagement than imperial Britain and colonised India. This unique anthology of stories, poems, historical documents and extracts from novels - most unavailable elsewhere - enables readers to examine the cultures of these two countries in an integrated way.
Introductory chapters by Richard Allen and Harish Trivedi and others set out agendas for reconsideration of classic texts from the period. Major themes include: The British nation and the colonies Literature, nation and revolution Poetry and... Perhaps no two nations in modern times have had a more complex cultural engagement than imperial Britain and colonised India. This unique anthology of...
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636,71 |
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Literature and Nation: Britain and India 1800-1990
ISBN: 9780415212076 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Perhaps no two nations in modern times have had a more complex cultural engagement than imperial Britain and colonised India. This unique anthology of stories, poems, historical documents and extracts from novels - most unavailable elsewhere - enables readers to examine the cultures of these two countries in an integrated way.
Introductory chapters by Richard Allen and Harish Trivedi and others set out agendas for reconsideration of classic texts from the period. Major themes include: The British nation and the colonies Literature, nation and revolution Poetry and... Perhaps no two nations in modern times have had a more complex cultural engagement than imperial Britain and colonised India. This unique anthology of...
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190,96 |
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I A Richards & His Critics V10
ISBN: 9780415217415 / Angielski / Twarda / 574 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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1420,35 |
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Spenser's Faerie Queene: Warton's Observations and Hurd's Letters
ISBN: 9780415219570 / Angielski / Twarda / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This set publishes two of the most influential critical works of the eighteenth century together for the first time. Richard Hurd's Letters on Chivalry and Romance and the second (enlarged) edition of Thomas Warton's Observations on the Fairy Queen appeared within a few months of each other in 1762. These two books, which together represented a new 'historical' criticism, established Spenser's Faerie Queene as a 'romantic' poem in the tradition of medieval romance and fictions of chivalry.
With the recent surge of interest in the eighteenth century origins of the... This set publishes two of the most influential critical works of the eighteenth century together for the first time. Richard Hurd's Letters on Chi...
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5632,39 |
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Imagining Robin Hood: The Late Medieval Stories in Historical Context
ISBN: 9780415223089 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A.J. Pollard takes us back to the earliest surviving stories, tales and ballads of Robin Hood, and re-examines the story of this fascinating figure. Setting out the economic, social and political context of the time, Pollard illuminates the legend of this yeoman hero and champion of justice as never before. Imagining Robin Hood questions:
A.J. Pollard takes us back to the earliest surviving stories, tales and ballads of Robin Hood, and re-examines the story of this fascinating figure... |
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759,15 |
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein : A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook
ISBN: 9780415227315 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was first published in 1818. From that point onwards, Frankenstein's monster has remained a key figure in the popular imagination. The novel is one of the most widely studied works of English literature, but we can also find traces of Frankenstein and his monstrous creation in a range of cultural forms from film to the erotic novel.
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was first published in 1818. From that point onwards, Frankenstein's monster has remained a key figure in the popular imag...
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475,03 |
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Texts and Contexts: An Introduction to Literature and Language Study
ISBN: 9780415229876 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The idea of studying texts 'in context' has become a major new emphasis in contemporary literary studies. Texts and Contexts explores the idea of contexts and the way they affect texts, concentrating on:
* the writer's context * the reader's context * the text's context * the language context * the meaning context. Through a series of units comprising texts, exercises and readings, Adrian Beard sets out a framework for studying texts and their contexts and shows how this approach can lead to a valuable new understanding of the changing and multiple meanings of any... The idea of studying texts 'in context' has become a major new emphasis in contemporary literary studies. Texts and Contexts explores the ide...
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93,01 |
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George Eliot: Family History
ISBN: 9780415232548 / Angielski / Twarda / 2944 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Any understanding of George Eliot's mature art must begin with an appreciation of the rich, difficult family dynamic out of which it was forged. Her friends and relations understood this, and went into print with their own accounts of the process by which George Eliot's early recollections became the basis, not just for her fiction, but also for her philosophic conservatism. The past - and memory of that past - was the cornerstone on which Eliot believed any chance of social or political progress must securely rest.
This set, the fifth collection in the Family History series... Any understanding of George Eliot's mature art must begin with an appreciation of the rich, difficult family dynamic out of which it was forged. Her f...
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5142,62 |
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The Postcolonial Jane Austen
ISBN: 9780415232906 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jane Austen has proved to be one of the most accessible and enduring legacies of Western culture in the last 200 years. As a cultural icon, as well as an object of serious intellectual investigation, Jane Austen has influenced the critical understanding of and the popular imagination around social relations and cultural rituals - the institution of marriage, the ideology of romantic relationship, the cultural imagining of class, or social prestige - as well as larger historical pictures that include slavery and colonialism.
Jane Austen has proved to be one of the most accessible and enduring legacies of Western culture in the last 200 years. As a cultural icon, as well as...
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759,15 |
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A Beginner's Guide to Critical Reading : An Anthology of Literary Texts
ISBN: 9780415234672 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These selections of literary texts are accompanied by commentaries designed to help the student contextualize their own responses. The book highlights key issues, from textual editing to the politics of gender and includes advice for those wishing to read more about a particular issue or approach.
These selections of literary texts are accompanied by commentaries designed to help the student contextualize their own responses. The book highlights...
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710,17 |
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Thomas Hardy
ISBN: 9780415234917 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thomas Hardy was the foremost novelist of his time, as well as an established poet. Author of Jude the Obscure and Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy reflected in his works the dynamics of social, intellectual and aesthetic change in nineteenth-century England.
Thomas Hardy was the foremost novelist of his time, as well as an established poet. Author of Jude the Obscure and Far from the Maddin... |
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710,17 |
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E.M. Forster's A Passage to India : A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook
ISBN: 9780415238229 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Perhaps E.M. Forster's most challenging work, A Passage to India has, since 1924, provoked debate on topics from imperialism to modernism to ethnicity, sexuality and symbolism. This sourcebook introduces not only the novel but the key issues which surround it. The sourcebook offers: a contextual and biographical overview, with a chronology of important dates; contemporary reviews key extracts from Forster's relevant essays, books and articles; a summary of the work's critical history; substantial contemporary essays by important critics of the novel; a consideration of film and television...
Perhaps E.M. Forster's most challenging work, A Passage to India has, since 1924, provoked debate on topics from imperialism to modernism to ethnicity...
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440,75 |
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The Language of Postcolonial Literatures: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780415240185 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to some of the central features of language in a wide variety of postcolonial texts.
The Language of Postcolonial Literatures draws on a range of writers, from Jean Rhys and Derek Walcott to Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Nuruddin Farah and Salman Rushdie, to show how English has been shaped by and had to contend with other languages in former British colonies. Exploring literatures from a range of countries including India, Nigeria, Canada, Australia, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the Caribbean, Talib shows how individuals retain... This book provides a comprehensive introduction to some of the central features of language in a wide variety of postcolonial texts.
The Langua... |
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710,17 |
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The Language of Postcolonial Literatures: An Introduction
ISBN: 9780415240192 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to some of the central features of language in a wide variety of postcolonial texts.
The Language of Postcolonial Literatures draws on a range of writers, from Jean Rhys and Derek Walcott to Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Nuruddin Farah and Salman Rushdie, to show how English has been shaped by and had to contend with other languages in former British colonies. Exploring literatures from a range of countries including India, Nigeria, Canada, Australia, Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the Caribbean, Talib shows how individuals retain... This book provides a comprehensive introduction to some of the central features of language in a wide variety of postcolonial texts.
The Langua... |
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195,86 |
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Modernism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies
ISBN: 9780415242370 / Angielski / Twarda / 1728 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As befits so notoriously ambiguous a term, 'modernism' may be studied in a wide variety of contexts. The term embraces subjects ranging from the new architectural practices of Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, the innovative art of painters as diverse as Monet and Kandinsky, the drama of Strindberg and Jarry, the poetry of Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens, the fiction of Joseph Conrad, William Faulkner and Gertrude Stein. This collection of resources provides readers with access to major debates relating to modernism as a set of aesthetic practices and as a product of (late) modernity.
This... As befits so notoriously ambiguous a term, 'modernism' may be studied in a wide variety of contexts. The term embraces subjects ranging from the new a...
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6367,04 |
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Charles Dickens's Bleak House: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook
ISBN: 9780415247726 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With its sustained social criticism and complex construction, Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853) is considered by many critics to be Dickens's most remarkable novel. Janice Allan:
With its sustained social criticism and complex construction, Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853) is considered by many critics to be Dic... |
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440,75 |
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The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins
ISBN: 9780415250337 / Angielski / Twarda / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Travel writing, it has been said, helped produce the rest of the world for a Western audience. Could the same be said more recently of so-called postcolonial writing? In this work, Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is given to postcolonial works within their cultural field. Using both literary-critical and sociological methods of analysis, Huggan discusses both the exoticist discourses that run through postcolonial studies, and the means by which postcolonial products are marketed and domesticated for Western consumption. This volume examines everything from...
Travel writing, it has been said, helped produce the rest of the world for a Western audience. Could the same be said more recently of so-called postc...
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759,15 |
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The Postcolonial Exotic: Marketing the Margins
ISBN: 9780415250344 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Travel writing, it has been said, helped produce the rest of the world for a Western audience. Could the same be said more recently of postcolonial writing?
In The Postcolonial Exotic, Graham Huggan examines some of the processes by which value is attributed to postcolonial works within their cultural field. Using varied methods of analysis, Huggan discusses both the exoticist discourses that run through postcolonial studies, and the means by which postcolonial products are marketed and domesticated for Western consumption. Global in scope, the book takes in... Travel writing, it has been said, helped produce the rest of the world for a Western audience. Could the same be said more recently of postcolonia...
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205,65 |
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