Women's Life Writing in Post-Communist Romania
ISBN: 9783110763874 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes the impact of abusive regimes of power on women's lives and on their self-expression through close readings of life writing by women in communist Romania. In particular, it examines the forms of agency and privacy available to women under totalitarianism and the modes of relationships in which their lives were embedded. The self-expression and self-reflexive processes that are to be found in the body of Romanian women's autobiographical writings this study presents create complex private narratives that underpin the creative development of inclusive memories of the past...
This book analyzes the impact of abusive regimes of power on women's lives and on their self-expression through close readings of life writing by wome...
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Recherche littéraire / Literary Research: Automne / Fall 2022
ISBN: 9782875747037 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the annual peer-reviewed publication of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), Recherche littéraire / Literary Research is an Open Access journal published by Peter Lang. Its mission is to inform comparative literature scholars worldwide of recent contributions to the field. To that end, it publishes scholarly essays, review essays discussing recent research developments in particular sub-fields of the discipline, as well as reviews of books on comparative topics. Scholarly essays are submitted to a double-blind peer review. Submissions by early-career comparative...
As the annual peer-reviewed publication of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA), Recherche littéraire / Literary Research is a...
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Der Einfluß der englischen, französischen, italienischen und lateinischen Literatur auf die Dichtungen Matthew Priors
ISBN: 9783112662434 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Marlene Streeruwitz: Perspektiven Auf Autorin Und Werk
ISBN: 9783662647714 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marlene Streeruwitz ist eine der streitbarsten politischen Autor*innen der Gegenwart. Literatur ist ihr nicht nur politisches Instrument, sondern als »Modell der Welt in Sprache« zugleich auch ästhetisch autonom. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes diskutieren die Weiterschreibungen, Gegen- und Neukonstruktionen der außertextuellen Welt in den Prosatexten, Essays, Vorlesungen und crossmedialen Projekten der Autorin. In den Blick genommen wird das Welt- und Lebenswissen der Literatur, ihr Beitrag zu unserer Trauer und Resistenz, Erinnerungs- und Überlebensfähigkeit – zwischen Glück, Lust,...
Marlene Streeruwitz ist eine der streitbarsten politischen Autor*innen der Gegenwart. Literatur ist ihr nicht nur politisches Instrument, sondern als ...
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Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Skin, Silk, and Show
ISBN: 9783030753993 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores the politics and poetics of Victorian surfaces in their manifold manifestations. In so doing, it examines various cultural products ‘as they are’ and highlights the art of surface composition in the Victorian era as well as the socio-cultural ramifications of the preoccupation with the exterior. By closely reading the various surfaces materialising in Victorian literature and culture, the individual contributions explore the dialectics of surface and depth in Victorian (and Neo-Victorian) cultures as well as the legibility of surfaces. They look into the surfaces of...
This volume explores the politics and poetics of Victorian surfaces in their manifold manifestations. In so doing, it examines various cultural produc...
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501,19 zł |
Counterfactual Romanticism
ISBN: 9781526171832 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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109,41 zł |
Everyday Mobilities in Nineteenth- And Twentieth-Century British Diaries
ISBN: 9783031126833 / Angielski / Twarda / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book uses diaries written by ordinary British people over the past two centuries to examine and explain the nature and extent of everyday mobilities, such as travel to school, to work, to shop or to visit friends, and to explore the meanings attached to these mobilities. After a critical evaluation of diary writing, the ways in which mobility changed over time, interacted with new forms of transport technology, and varied from place to place are examined. Further chapters focus on the roles of family and life course, gender, income and class, and journey purpose in shaping mobilities,...
This book uses diaries written by ordinary British people over the past two centuries to examine and explain the nature and extent of everyday mobilit...
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385,52 zł |
Ninth Art. Bande Dessinée, Books and the Gentrification of Mass Culture, 1964-1975
ISBN: 9783031170003 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In France, comics are commonly referred to as the "ninth art". What does it mean to see comics as art? This book looks at the singular status of comics in the French cultural landscape.Bandes dessinéeshave long been published in French newspapers and magazines. In the early 1960s, a new standard format emerged: large hardback books, called albums. Albums played a key role in the emergence of the ninth art and its acceptance among other forms of literary narrative. FromBarbarellain 1964 toLa Ballade de la mer saléein 1975, fromAstérixand its million copies toTintinand its screen versions,...
In France, comics are commonly referred to as the "ninth art". What does it mean to see comics as art? This book looks at the singular status of comic...
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154,18 zł |
Points of Entanglement in French Caribbean Travel Writing (1620-1722)
ISBN: 9783031233555 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book argues for a literary re-examination of the representation of the early colonial Caribbean by proposing theoretical linkages to contemporary Caribbean theories of creolization and archipelagic thinking. Using Édouard Glissant’s notion of points of entanglement, Christina Kullberg claims that the historical, social, and political messiness of the Caribbean seventeenth century make for complex representations and expressions, generating textual...
This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book ar...
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192,74 zł |
Points of Entanglement in French Caribbean Travel Writing (1620-1722)
ISBN: 9783031233586 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book argues for a literary re-examination of the representation of the early colonial Caribbean by proposing theoretical linkages to contemporary Caribbean theories of creolization and archipelagic thinking. Using Édouard Glissant’s notion of points of entanglement, Christina Kullberg claims that the historical, social, and political messiness of the Caribbean seventeenth century make for complex representations and expressions, generating textual...
This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book ar...
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154,18 zł |
Höfische Lyrik: Eine Einführung
ISBN: 9783662666500 / Niemiecki / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Minnesang, Sangspruch und Leich – die drei Hauptgattungen der deutschsprachigen Lyrik des Hochmittelalters stehen im Zentrum dieser Einführung. Der erste Teil behandelt die kulturgeschichtlichen und politischen Voraussetzungen sowie die form- und gattungsgeschichtlichen Entwicklungen. Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt dabei auf der kulturellen Konstruktion der Geschlechterrollen und Liebeskonzepte. Der zweite Teil bietet zahlreiche Interpretationen zu konkreten Fallbeispielen aus allen drei Gattungen der höfischen Lyrik und führt so in die Praxis der Textanalyse ein. Kapitel zur...
Minnesang, Sangspruch und Leich – die drei Hauptgattungen der deutschsprachigen Lyrik des Hochmittelalters stehen im Zentrum dieser Einführung. Der...
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90,07 zł |
Determinism and Enlightenment
ISBN: 9781802077674 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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410,29 zł |
Ageing Masculinities, Alzheimer's and Dementia Narratives
ISBN: 9781350237483 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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150,66 zł |
Travel, Translation and Transmedia Aesthetics: Franco-Chinese Literature and Visual Arts in a Global Age
ISBN: 9789811655647 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the works of four contemporary first-generation Chinese migrant writer-artists in France: François CHENG, GAO Xingjian, DAI Sijie, and SHAN Sa. They were all born in China, moved to France in their adulthood to pursue their literary and artistic ambitions, and have enjoyed the highest French and Western institutional recognitions, from the Grand Prix de la Francophonie to the Nobel Prize in Literature. They have established themselves not only as writers, but also as translators, calligraphers, painters, playwrights, and filmmakers mainly in their host country. French has...
This book examines the works of four contemporary first-generation Chinese migrant writer-artists in France: François CHENG, GAO Xingjian, DAI Sijie,...
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346,96 zł |
Keats’s Reading / Reading Keats: Essays in Memory of Jack Stillinger
ISBN: 9783030795320 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores John Keats’s reading practices and intertextual dialogues with other writers. It also examines later writers’ engagements with Keats’s poetry. Finally, the book honors the distinguished Keats scholar Jack Stillinger and includes an essay surveying his career as well as a bibliography of his major publications. The first section of the volume, “Theorizing Keats’s Reading,” contains four essays that identify major patterns in the poet’s reading habits and responses to other works. The next section, “Keats’s Reading,” consists of six essays that examine...
This book explores John Keats’s reading practices and intertextual dialogues with other writers. It also examines later writers’ engagements wit...
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578,30 zł |
Critical Forms: Forms of Literary Criticism, 1750-2020
ISBN: 9780198881117 / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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390,33 zł |
Vernacular Verse Histories in Early Medieval England and Francia: The Bard and the Rag-picker
ISBN: 9780367711085 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu reads texts like Beowulf, Widsith, and the Waltharius as participating in an alternative mode of history-writing that functioned in a larger ecology of narrative forms alongside chronicles, Latinate ecclesiastical histories, and Biblical epics.
In a provocative take on Germanic heroic poetry, Taranu reads texts like Beowulf, Widsith, and the Waltharius as participating in an alternative mode ...
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207,83 zł |
Animality: The Anthropological Ground in Tradition and Modernity
ISBN: 9781032552279 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Addressing the western understanding of the status and nature of animals and the relation of animals to the question of life, this book provides a discourse on animality through an interdisciplinary investigation into various areas of humanities.
Addressing the western understanding of the status and nature of animals and the relation of animals to the question of life, this book provides a dis...
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701,59 zł |
The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literature
ISBN: 9783030818210 / Angielski / Miękka / 407 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literaturecontends that the processes of enlightenment, modernization, and secularization in nineteenth-century Eastern European Jewish society were marked not by a reading revolution but rather by a writing revolution, that is, by a revolutionary change in this society's attitude toward writing. Combining socio-cultural history and literary studies and drawing on a large corpus of autobiographies, memoirs, and literary works of the period, the book sets out to explain the curious absence of writing skills and Hebrew grammar from the curriculum...
The Sin of Writing and the Rise of Modern Hebrew Literaturecontends that the processes of enlightenment, modernization, and secularization in nineteen...
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501,19 zł |
The Wounded Body: Memory, Language and the Self from Petrarch to Shakespeare
ISBN: 9783030919061 / Angielski / Miękka / 411 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited collection explores the image of the wound as a ‘cultural symptom’ and a literary-visual trope at the core of representations of a new concept of selfhood in Early Modern Italian and English cultures, as expressed in the two complementary poles of poetry and theatre. The semantic field of the wounded body concerns both the image of the wound as a traumatic event, which leaves a mark on someone’s body and soul (and prompts one to investigate its causes and potential solutions), and the motif of the scar, which draws attention to the fact that time has passed and urges those...
This edited collection explores the image of the wound as a ‘cultural symptom’ and a literary-visual trope at the core of representations of a new...
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578,30 zł |