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In Praise of Antiheroes : Figures and Themes in Modern European Literature, 1830-1980
ISBN: 9780226075433 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. In an age of upheaval and challenged faith, traditional heroes are hard to come by, and harder still to love, with their bloodstained hands and backs unbowed by the consequences of their actions. Through penetrating readings of key works of modern European literature, Victor Brombert shows how a new kind of hero-the antihero-has arisen to replace the toppled heroic model. Though they fail, by design, to live up to conventional expectations of mythic heroes, antiheroes are not necessarily "failures." They display different kinds of courage more in tune with our time and our needs:...
In an age of upheaval and challenged faith, traditional heroes are hard to come by, and harder still to love, with their bloodstained hands and backs ...
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106,83 zł |
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In Praise of Antiheroes: Figures and Themes in Modern European Literature, 1830-1980
ISBN: 9780226075525 / Angielski / Twarda / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. In an age of upheaval and challenged faith, traditional heroes are hard to come by, and harder still to love, with their bloodstained hands and backs unbowed by the consequences of their actions. Through penetrating readings of key works of modern European literature, Victor Brombert shows how a new kind of hero the antihero has arisen to replace the toppled heroic model.
Though they fail, by design, to live up to conventional expectations of mythic heroes, antiheroes are not necessarily "failures." They display different kinds of courage more in tune with our time and our needs:... In an age of upheaval and challenged faith, traditional heroes are hard to come by, and harder still to love, with their bloodstained hands and backs ...
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202,52 zł |
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Uneasy Sensations: Smollett and the Body
ISBN: 9780226160511 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. The eighteenth-century comic novelist Tobias Smollett has often been criticized for the extreme physicality of his writing, which is full of scatological images and graphic depictions of bodily injury and disintegration.
Aileen Douglas draws on feminist and other new theoretical perspectives to reassess Smollett's entire body of fiction as well as his classic "Travels through France and Italy." Like many writers of his time, Douglas argues, Smollett was interested in the body and in how accurately it reflects internal disposition. But Smollett's special contribution to the... The eighteenth-century comic novelist Tobias Smollett has often been criticized for the extreme physicality of his writing, which is full of scatologi...
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212,59 zł |
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Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-garde : War, Civilization, Modernity
ISBN: 9780231134453 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde traces the dynamic emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about Europe's future in a period marked by two world wars and rising threats of totalitarianism. Educated informally in her father's library and in Bloomsbury's London extension of Cambridge, Virginia Woolf came of age in the prewar decades, when progressive political and social movements gave hope that Europe "might really be on the brink of becoming civilized," as Leonard Woolf put it. For pacifist Bloomsbury, heir to Europe's unfinished...
Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde traces the dynamic emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking abou...
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142,09 zł |
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A Dream I Tell You: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right
ISBN: 9780231138833 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. "I used to feel guilty at night. I live in, I always used to live in two countries, the diurnal one and the continuous very tempestuous nocturnal one.... What a delight to head off with high hopes to night's court, without any knowledge of what may happen Where shall I be taken tonight Into which country? Into which country of countries?"--Helene Cixous, from Dream I Tell You For years, Helene Cixous has been writing down fragments of her dreams immediately after awaking. In Dream I Tell You, she collects fifty from the past ten years. Cixous's accounts of her dreamscapes...
"I used to feel guilty at night. I live in, I always used to live in two countries, the diurnal one and the continuous very tempestuous nocturnal one....
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79,12 zł |
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The Currency of Eros : Women's Love Lyric in Europe, 1540-1620
ISBN: 9780253331496 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. "Professor Jones' book uniquely fills a huge hole in gender studies in the Renaissance. Its easy clarity of argument, its scrupulous care for detail, its just plain good story telling, and its theoretical sophistication make it an obvious candidate for the status of standard work." --Maureen Quilligan .." full of fine insights... a fine addition to a growing body of work on Renaissance women writers." --Renaissance Quarterly "In this forceful and perceptive study... Jones has fused gyno- and gender criticism superbly and produced one of the most important works on the European... "Professor Jones' book uniquely fills a huge hole in gender studies in the Renaissance. Its easy clarity of argument, its scrupulous care for detai... |
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135,31 zł |
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Lyric, Meaning, and Audience in the Oral Tradition of Northern Europe
ISBN: 9780268025892 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. By looking at the ways in which cultures in Northern Europe interpret lyric songs, Thomas A. DuBois illuminates both commonalities of interpretive practice and unique features of their musical traditions. DuBois draws on sets of lyric songs from England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, and Finland to explore the question of meaning in folklore, especially the role of traditional audiences in appraising and understanding nonnarrative songs. DuBois's examples range from the medieval and early modern periods to the late twentieth century. He examines lyric songs embedded within prose...
By looking at the ways in which cultures in Northern Europe interpret lyric songs, Thomas A. DuBois illuminates both commonalities of interpretive pra...
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157,70 zł |
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Terms of Response : Language and the Audience in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Theory
ISBN: 9780271026541 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book takes a new look at the place occupied by medieval Spanish epic within European folk and literary tradition. Thomas Montgomery traces the origins of key parts of most known medieval Spanish epics to an ancient myth. He shows how the myth of the initiation of the young warrior, shown by Georges Dumezil to be fundamental to the belief systems of widely distributed Indo-European peoples, was variously adapted to shape the action of texts including the Siete Infantes de Lara, the Mocedades de Rodrigo, and the Poema de Mio Cid, in which it accounts for the... This book takes a new look at the place occupied by medieval Spanish epic within European folk and literary tradition. Thomas Montgomery traces the... |
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209,75 zł |
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Yale French Studies, Number 102 : Belgian Memories
ISBN: 9780300097726 / Angielski / Miękka / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What is the nature of the relationship between memory, identity, and culture in a recently federalized nation? In Belgian Memories, writers and scholars from a wide variety of disciplines, including ethnology, linguistics, philosophy, literature, history, film, art history, and geography, ask to what extent Belgium's literary and visual environment (from novels to paintings, comic strips to movies, and architecture to urban planning) reflects distinctly Belgian ways of dealing with the past. Such issues have become more pressing since Belgium has reconstituted itself politically and must deal...
What is the nature of the relationship between memory, identity, and culture in a recently federalized nation? In Belgian Memories, writers and schola...
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176,25 zł |
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Jeremias Gotthelf : An Introduction to the Swiss Novelist
ISBN: 9780313202315 / Angielski / Twarda / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. This books aim is to introduce the English reader to the major Swiss novelist.
This books aim is to introduce the English reader to the major Swiss novelist.
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294,48 zł |
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Nordic Experiences : Exploration of Scandinavian Cultures
ISBN: 9780313299544 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. This book is a compilation of scholarly articles on a wide variety of subjects pertaining to the cultures of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Nordic Experiences discusses music, art, literature, folkore, and the social fabric of past and present to offer the reader a many-faceted image of what the term Scandinavia stands for today. There are now some 12-13 million people of Nordic descent living in the United States, and their culture has played a part in shaping the American experience. The cultural contacts and exchanges between the United States and the... This book is a compilation of scholarly articles on a wide variety of subjects pertaining to the cultures of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and... |
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491,54 zł |
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Masterpieces of Philosophical Literature
ISBN: 9780313331732 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Some works of philosophy also stand as significant contributions to literature, and some works of literature have profoundly influenced philosophy. Written expressly for high school and college students, this reference insightfully introduces ten widely studied works of philosophical literature. Individual chapters discuss Plato's Republic, Augustine's Confessions, Dante's Divine Comedy, More's Utopia, Voltaire's Candide, Goethe's Faust, Kierkegaard's Either/Or, Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Huxley's Brave New World,... Some works of philosophy also stand as significant contributions to literature, and some works of literature have profoundly influenced philosophy.... |
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317,01 zł |
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Shakespeare and the Theatrical Event
ISBN: 9780333801314 / Angielski / Twarda / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In his latest book, John Russell Brown sets out the grounds for a new and revealing way of studying Shakespeare's plays. By considering the entire theatrical event and not only what happens on stage, he takes his readers back to the major texts with a fuller understanding of their language and an enhanced view of a play's theatrical potential. Chapters on theatre-going, playscripts, acting, parts to perform, interplay, stage space, off-stage space, and the use of time all bring recent developments in Theatre Studies together with Shakespeare Studies.
In his latest book, John Russell Brown sets out the grounds for a new and revealing way of studying Shakespeare's plays. By considering the entire the...
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555,46 zł |
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Axel's Castle
ISBN: 9780374529277 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Published in 1931, Axel's Castle was Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism--a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six major twentieth-century writers: William Butler Yeats, Paul Valery, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. As Alfred Kazin later wrote, "Wilson was an original, an extraordinary literary artist . . . He could turn any literary subject back into the personal drama it had been for the writer."
Published in 1931, Axel's Castle was Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism--a landmark book that explores the evolution of the Frenc...
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81,48 zł |
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Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks
ISBN: 9780393325096 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-20 dni roboczych. Typically, readers believe that fiction, especially the Realist novels that dominated Western culture for most of the nineteenth century and beyond, is based on historical truth and that great novels possess a documentary value. That trust, Gay brilliantly shows, is misplaced; novels take their own path to reality. Using Dickens, Flaubert, and Mann as his examples, Gay explores their world, their craftsmanship, and their minds. In the process, he discovers that all three share one overriding quality: a resentment and rage against the society that sustains the novel itself. Using their stylish...
Typically, readers believe that fiction, especially the Realist novels that dominated Western culture for most of the nineteenth century and beyond, i...
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73,24 zł |
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Ibsen's Selected Plays
ISBN: 9780393924046 / Angielski / Miękka / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. "Backgrounds" gives students an understanding of Ibsen's creative process with selections from his correspondence and other writings. Twenty-seven documents have been collected and arranged by play, with a section of autobiographical writings at the end Ibsen's plays continue to provoke diverse commentary. "Criticism" includes nineteen of the most important responses to Ibsen's work, among them essays by Bernard Shaw, Sandra Saari, E. M. Forster, Hugh Kenner, and Joan Templeton A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.
"Backgrounds" gives students an understanding of Ibsen's creative process with selections from his correspondence and other writings. Twenty-seven doc...
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71,52 zł |
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Greek Fiction
ISBN: 9780415085076 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Greek fiction has been attracting greater attention as a result of new approaches associated with gender studies, narrative theory and the social analysis of ancient literature. Recent work on the novel, or romance has concentrated on the so-called canon of Greek fiction: Xenophon of Ephesus, Heliodorus, Longus, Chariton and Achilles Tatius. Much attention has been focused on the definition of the genre and its possible origins. This volume aims to widen the terms of the definition of the genre while providing a synoptic treatment of the most important works of Greek fiction. Greeks began...
Greek fiction has been attracting greater attention as a result of new approaches associated with gender studies, narrative theory and the social anal...
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187,08 zł |
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Latin Fiction
ISBN: 9780415147217 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Latin Fiction provides a chronological study of the Roman novel from the Classical period to the Middle Ages, exploring the development of the novel and the continuity of Latin culture. Essays by eminent and international contributors discuss texts including: * Petronius, Satyrica and Cena Trimalchionis Latin Fiction provides a chronological study of the Roman novel from the Classical period to the Middle Ages, exploring the development of... |
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639,05 zł |
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Latin Fiction
ISBN: 9780415147224 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. Latin Fiction provides a chronological study of the Roman novel from the Classical period to the Middle Ages, exploring the development of the novel and the continuity of Latin culture. Essays by eminent and international contributors discuss texts including: * Petronius, Satyrica and Cena Trimalchionis Latin Fiction provides a chronological study of the Roman novel from the Classical period to the Middle Ages, exploring the development of... |
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187,08 zł |
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Carnivalizing Difference : Bakhtin and the Other
ISBN: 9780415269919 / Angielski / Twarda / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22-25 dni roboczych. It has seemed at times that there is no neutral territory between those who see Bakhtin as the practitioner of a kind of neo-Marxist, or at least materialist, deconstruction and those who look at the same texts and see a defender of traditional, liberal humanist values and classical conceptions of order, a conservative in the true sense of the term. Arising from a conference under the same title held at Texas Tech University, Carnivalizing Difference seeks to explore the actual and possible relationships between Bakhtinian theory and cultural practice. The introduction explores the changing...
It has seemed at times that there is no neutral territory between those who see Bakhtin as the practitioner of a kind of neo-Marxist, or at least mate...
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559,30 zł |
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