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The Literary Culture of Plague in Early Modern England
ISBN: 9781137510563 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about the literary culture that emerged during and in the aftermath of the Great Plague of London (1665). Textual transmission impacted upon and simultaneously was impacted by the events of the plague. This book examines the role of print and manuscript cultures on representations of the disease through micro-histories and case studies of writing from that time, interpreting the place of these media and the construction of authorship during the outbreak. The macabre history of plague in early modern England largely ended with the Great Plague of London, and the miscellany of...
This book is about the literary culture that emerged during and in the aftermath of the Great Plague of London (1665). Textual transmission impacted u...
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Victorian Fiction Beyond the Canon
ISBN: 9781137518224 / Angielski / Twarda / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about selected Victorian texts and authors that in many cases have never before been subject to sustained scholarly attention. Taking inspiration from the pioneeringly capacious approach to the hidden hinterland of Victorian fiction adopted by scholars like John Sutherland and Franco Moretti, this energetically revisionist volume takes advantage of recent large-scale digitisation projects that allow unprecedented access to hitherto neglected literary texts and archives. Blending lively critical engagement with individual texts and close attention to often surprising trends in the...
This book is about selected Victorian texts and authors that in many cases have never before been subject to sustained scholarly attention. Taking ins...
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Spanish Gothic: National Identity, Collaboration and Cultural Adaptation
ISBN: 9781137306005 / Angielski / Twarda / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents the first English introduction to the broad history of the Gothic mode in Spain. It focuses on key literary periods, such as Romanticism, the fin-de-siecle, spiritualist writings of the early-twentieth century, and the cinematic and literary booms of the 1970s and 2000s. With illustrative case studies, Aldana Reyes demonstrates how the Gothic mode has been a permanent yet ever-shifting fixture of the literary and cinematic landscape of Spain since the late-eighteenth century. He proposes that writers and filmmakers alike welcomed the Gothic as a liberating and transgressive...
This book presents the first English introduction to the broad history of the Gothic mode in Spain. It focuses on key literary periods, such as Romant...
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Gender in Spanish Urban Spaces: Literary and Visual Narratives of the New Millennium
ISBN: 9783319473246 / Angielski / Twarda / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines Spain's urban centers by unpacking the tensions between how cityscapes inform and are informed by individual gender performances. Grounded in current theoretical perspectives emergent from women's and gender studies as well as spatial theory, contributors analyze recent Spanish literary fiction and visual narratives from the turn of the millennium to the present day. This volume collectively critiques and interrogates the traditional heteronormative politics and economics that have bolstered gender divides in Spanish metropolitan areas. Putting theories by such urban...
This book examines Spain's urban centers by unpacking the tensions between how cityscapes inform and are informed by individual gender performances. G...
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The Raymond Tallis Reader
ISBN: 9780333772720 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text provides a comprehensive survey of the often controversial thinker Raymond Tallis. From nihilism, Theorrhoea and literary theory, to the role of the unconscious, it guides the reader through the panoptic sweep of Tallis' critical insights, revealing a way of thinking for the 21st century. The works are supplemented by a detailed introduction and linking commentary.
This text provides a comprehensive survey of the often controversial thinker Raymond Tallis. From nihilism, Theorrhoea and literary theory, to the rol...
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Movement in Renaissance Literature: Exploring Kinesic Intelligence
ISBN: 9783319691992 / Angielski / Twarda / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates how writers and readers of Renaissance literature deployed `kinesic intelligence', a combination of pre-reflective bodily response and reflective interpretation.
This book investigates how writers and readers of Renaissance literature deployed `kinesic intelligence', a combination of pre-reflective bodily respo...
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Second Sight in the Nineteenth Century: Prophecy, Imagination and Nationhood
ISBN: 9781137519696 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700-1840
ISBN: 9783030327910 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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British Sociability in the European Enlightenment: Cultural Practices and Personal Encounters
ISBN: 9783030525668 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Modernism and Theology: Rainer Maria Rilke, T. S. Eliot, Czeslaw Milosz
ISBN: 9783030615291 / Angielski / Twarda / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Birds in Eighteenth-Century Literature: Reason, Emotion, and Ornithology, 1700-1840
ISBN: 9783030327941 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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British Sociability in the European Enlightenment: Cultural Practices and Personal Encounters
ISBN: 9783030525699 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Literary Voices of the Italian Diaspora in Britain
ISBN: 9783031354403 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume studies the literary voices of the Italian diaspora in Britain, including 21 authors and 34 pieces of prose, verse, and drama. This book shows how authors both recount the history of the migrant community in the period 1880-1980 while creatively experimenting with hybrid forms of expression and blending words with visuals. Literary Voices of the Italian Diaspora in Britain discusses topical issues like migration and social integration, cultures and foods in transition, as well as plurilingualism. The book pays special attention to discussions of the horrors of the Second...
This volume studies the literary voices of the Italian diaspora in Britain, including 21 authors and 34 pieces of prose, verse, and drama. This book s...
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Indigenous and Transcultural Narratives in Québec
ISBN: 9783031459382 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on modes of cultural belonging in Québec. It looks at recent literary memoir, autobiographical fiction, and documentary testimony. Through four in-depth case studies of cultural creators, one Indigenous and three non-Indigenous, Dervila Cooke discusses multicultural and ethnically diverse society in Québec, examining current tensions, challenges, and opportunities. Works studied range from Abla Farhoud’s first novel in 1998 to Anita Aloisio’s 2022 documentary film Calliari, QC. Topics include the desire for freedom to self-ascribe and enact cultural... This book focuses on modes of cultural belonging in Québec. It looks at recent literary memoir, autobiographical fiction, and documentary testimon... |
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Thomas Middleton, Renaissance Dramatist
ISBN: 9780748627806 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thomas Middleton is one of the major English Renaissance dramatists alongside Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson. Middleton continues to fascinate audiences and readers with his black humour, his wry and witty treatment of sexuality, morality, and politics. He is a consummate professional dramatist, experimenting with stagecraft in a manner that combines the visual and the verbal to startling effect.This book brings together these aspects of Middleton's craft through a detailed study of his major plays. Middleton experimented with, and helped to shape, a range of dramatic genres: city comedy,...
Thomas Middleton is one of the major English Renaissance dramatists alongside Marlowe, Shakespeare and Jonson. Middleton continues to fascinate audien...
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Transformations, Ideology, and the Real in Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Other Narratives: Finding The Thing Itself
ISBN: 9781611494853 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transformations, Ideology, and the Real in Defoe s Robinson Crusoe and Other Narratives: Finding 'The Thing Itself' explores important problems in the fiction of Daniel Defoe, from his interest in rendering reality (what he called the Thing itself ), whether in painting or prose fiction, to the various ways in which Defoe s works were read by contemporaries and by those novelists who attempted to imitate and comment upon his Life and Strange Surprizing Adventure of Robinson Crusoe decades after its publication. A number of sections of the book attempt to consider the complexities of various...
Transformations, Ideology, and the Real in Defoe s Robinson Crusoe and Other Narratives: Finding 'The Thing Itself' explores important problems in the...
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The Supernatural Revamped: From Timeworn Legends to Twenty-First-Century Chic
ISBN: 9781611478648 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in Western and non-Western tradition and popular culture. The first two volumes of the series, The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) and Images of the Modern Vampire: The Hip and the Atavistic. (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013) focused on the vampire legend. The essays in this collection expand that scope to include a multicultural and multigeneric discussion of a pantheon...
This book is the logical continuation of a series of collected essays examining the origins and evolution of myths and legends of the supernatural in ...
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Performance and Literature in the Commedia Dell'arte
ISBN: 9780521643245 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The actors of the commedia dell'arte (the sixteenth-century Italian professional theater) usually did not perform from scripted drama. They improvised their performances from a shared plot and thorough knowledge of individual character roles. Robert Henke analyzes commedia dell'arte texts to demonstrate how the spoken word and written literature were combined in performance. Henke examines primary sources including performance accounts, actors' contracts, letters and other documents.
The actors of the commedia dell'arte (the sixteenth-century Italian professional theater) usually did not perform from scripted drama. They improvised...
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Dostoevsky and the Christian Tradition
ISBN: 9780521782784 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection brings together Western and Russian perspectives on the issues raised by the religious element in Dostoevsky's work. The essays cover such topics as temptation, his use of the gospels, the Russian tradition of the veneration of icons, as well as reading aloud, and dialogism. In addition to an exploration of the impact of the Christian tradition on Dostoevsky's major novels, Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov, there are also discussions of lesser known works such as The Landlady and A Little Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree
This collection brings together Western and Russian perspectives on the issues raised by the religious element in Dostoevsky's work. The essays cover ...
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Dostoevsky and the Russian People
ISBN: 9780521889933 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Russian popular culture and folklore were a central theme in Dostoevsky's work, and folklore imagery permeates his fiction. Dostoevsky and the Russian People is a comprehensive study of the people and folklore in his art. Linda Ivanits investigates the integration of Dostoevsky's religious ideas and his use of folklore in his major fiction. She surveys the shifts in Dostoevsky's thinking about the Russian people throughout his life and offers comprehensive studies of the people and folklore in Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Devils, and The Brothers Karamazov. This important study will...
Russian popular culture and folklore were a central theme in Dostoevsky's work, and folklore imagery permeates his fiction. Dostoevsky and the Russian...
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