Kafka's Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing
ISBN: 9780312232818 / Angielski / Twarda / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1916, Kafka writes of The Sugar Baron, a dime-store colonial adventure novel, ' it] affects me so deeply that I feel it is about myself, or as if it were the book of rules for my life.' John Zilcosky reveals that this perhaps surprising statement - made by the Prague-bound poet of modern isolation - is part of a network of remarks that exemplify Kafka's ongoing preoccupation with popular travel writing, exoticism, and colonial fantasy. Taking this biographical peculiarity as a starting point, Kafka's Travels elegantly re-reads Kafka's major works ( Amerika, The Trial, The Castle ) through...
In 1916, Kafka writes of The Sugar Baron, a dime-store colonial adventure novel, ' it] affects me so deeply that I feel it is about myself, or as if i...
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Paranoia and Modernity: Cervantes to Rousseau
ISBN: 9780801444104 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Modern European Criticism and Theory: A Critical Guide
ISBN: 9780748624492 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modern European Criticism and Theory offers the reader a comprehensive critical overview of the widespread and profound contest of ideas within European 'theory'. The book focuses primarily on the thought of major voices in poetics, philosophy, linguistics, and psychoanalysis, as well as in literary and cultural studies from the Enlightenment to the present day. Examining how conceptions of subjectivity, identity and gender have been questioned, the more than 50 essays written by acknowledged experts in their fields critically assess the ways in which we think, see, and act in the world, as...
Modern European Criticism and Theory offers the reader a comprehensive critical overview of the widespread and profound contest of ideas within Europe...
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The Long Life
ISBN: 9780199229932 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear through works by Thomas Mann, Balzac, Dickens, Beckett, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, to more recent writing by Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and J. M. Coetzee.
Helen Small argues that if we want to understand old age, we have to think more fundamentally about what it means to be a person, to have a life, to have (or lead) a good life, to be part of a just society. What did Plato mean when he suggested... The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, an...
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369,94 zł |
Re-Thinking Europe: Literature and (Trans)National Identity
ISBN: 9789042023529 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Re-Thinking Europe sets out to investigate the place of the idea of Europe in literature and comparative literary studies. The essays in this collection turn to the past, in which Europe became synonymous with a tradition of peace and tolerance beyond national borders, and enter into a critical dialogue with the present, in which Europe has increasingly become associated with a history of oppression and violence. The different essays together demonstrate how the idea of Europe cannot be thought apart from the tension between the regional and the global, between nationalism and pluralism, and...
Re-Thinking Europe sets out to investigate the place of the idea of Europe in literature and comparative literary studies. The essays in this collecti...
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344,74 zł |
Literature and Rationality: Ideas of Agency in Theory and Fiction
ISBN: 9780521064804 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores concepts of rationality drawn from philosophy and the social sciences, in relation to traditions of literary enquiry. The author surveys basic assumptions and questions in philosophical accounts of action, in decision theory, and in the theory of rational choice. He gives examples ranging from Icelandic sagas to Poe and Beckett, and examines some situations and actions drawn from American and European fiction in order to analyze issues raised by contemporary models of agency. Challenging poststructuralism's irrationalist images of science, this innovative study crosses the...
This book explores concepts of rationality drawn from philosophy and the social sciences, in relation to traditions of literary enquiry. The author su...
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Open Secrets: Literature, Education, and Authority from J-J. Rousseau to J. M. Coetzee
ISBN: 9780199208098 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Open Secrets reflects on contemporary humanistic pedagogy by examining the limits of the teachable in this domain. The Goethean motif of the open secret refers not to a revealed mystery but to an utterance that is not understood, the likely fate of any instruction based purely on authority. Revisiting the European Bildungsroman, it studies the pedagogical relationship from the point of view of the tutor or mentor figure rather than with the usual focus on the young hero. The argument is not confined to works of fiction, however, but examines texts in which the category of fiction has a...
Open Secrets reflects on contemporary humanistic pedagogy by examining the limits of the teachable in this domain. The Goethean motif of the open secr...
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681,98 zł |
The Dark Side of Literacy: Literature and Learning Not to Read
ISBN: 9780823229161 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reading is good for us. The reading of literature, we are told, enlarges our horizons, extends our experience beyond our own lives. But the moral and political dangers that attend the association of reading with experience have long been understood. And is that association even valid? What if precisely our most important literary texts are constructed so as to challenge or disrupt it? This book is a radical criticism of the concept of "reading," especially of the concept of "the" reader, as commonly used in literary criticism. Bennett starts with the point that "reading" does not name a...
Reading is good for us. The reading of literature, we are told, enlarges our horizons, extends our experience beyond our own lives. But the moral and ...
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Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature
ISBN: 9781579580544 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A reference work providing a comprehensive guide to the literature written between 500 and 1500 AD. While the volume is primarily devoted to the early literature of England, it also includes entries on historical persons and relevant topics from elsewhere in Europe. Multicultural in scope, the book examines Celtic, Islamic, Hispanic, Germanic, Italian, Mongolian and Russian influences on the literature and culture of the Middle Ages. There are extended entries on major English authors such as Malory and Chaucer, and for entire genres, such as drama, lyric, ballad, debate, saga and chronicle.
A reference work providing a comprehensive guide to the literature written between 500 and 1500 AD. While the volume is primarily devoted to the early...
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OXOPETRA ELEGIES
ISBN: 9783718658718 / Angielski / Twarda / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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OXOPETRA ELEGIES
ISBN: 9783718658817 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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295,61 zł |
Greek Literature in the Byzantine Period: Greek Literature
ISBN: 9780415937719 / Angielski / Twarda / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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The Guernica Bull: Studies in the Classical Tradition in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780820332666 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "The Guernica Bull," Harry C. Rutledge examines the use of classical motifs in twentieth-century literature, art, and drama. From the echoes of Plato's dialogues at the heart of Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice" to the retelling of the story of Harmodius and Aristogiton--a story with grim parallels to Nazi Germany--in Marguerite Yourcenar's "Lena," these modern works are a testament to both the creativity of modern artists and the versatility and timelessness of classical themes. Rutledge finds the ideal meshing of classical images and modern sensibility in Pablo Picasso's "Guernica."... In "The Guernica Bull," Harry C. Rutledge examines the use of classical motifs in twentieth-century literature, art, and drama. From the echoes of ... |
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Mann: Buddenbrooks
ISBN: 9780521316972 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This textbook examines Mann's great novel Buddenbrooks.
This textbook examines Mann's great novel Buddenbrooks.
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Fifteenth-Century Studies Vol. 24
ISBN: 9781571132666 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Setting the tone for volume 24 is a trio of articles on 15th-century French adaptations of Chretien de Troyes's Arthurian romances. Norris Lacy examines adaptation and reception in Cliges, Jane Taylor writes on the importance of cultural details to reception studies of both Erec and Cliges, and Maria Timelli on structural aspects of Erec. Other studies of romance include MaryLynn Saul's article on courtly love and patriarchal marriage institutions in Malory, and Anne Caillaud's piece on gender conventions of courtly love as a vehicle for misogyny in Antoine de la Sale's Petit Jehan de...
Setting the tone for volume 24 is a trio of articles on 15th-century French adaptations of Chretien de Troyes's Arthurian romances. Norris Lacy examin...
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Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther
ISBN: 9780521316996 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The tradition of the German novel, before the emergence of its 'classic' writers in the first half of the twentieth century (Thomas Mann, Kafka, Hesse, Musil), does not have an assured place in the canon of European literature. Not that it has wanted for spirited advocates; but, despite all efforts, it has remained firmly on the periphery. The one signal exception is Goethe's novel Die Leiden des jungen Werthers usually rendered as 'The Sorrows of Young Werther'. Werther was an extraordinary and immediate bestseller both in Germany and abroad.
The tradition of the German novel, before the emergence of its 'classic' writers in the first half of the twentieth century (Thomas Mann, Kafka, Hesse...
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Midsummer Night Dreams and Related Poems
ISBN: 9780748624409 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Midsummer Night Dreams and Related Poems comprises ten of Hogg's poems which, in very different ways, explore the visionary and supernatural, and one writer's portrayal of them, echoing the subject and title of Shakespeare's famous play. Chief among these poems is The Pilgrims of the Sun, a visionary journey which seeks to demonstrate Hogg's command not only of his native Scottish tradition of poetry but also of English and even European traditions, including those of Milton and Pope, Dante and Byron. Its counterpart is the hellish visionary journey of the weirdly brilliant 'Connel of Dee'....
Midsummer Night Dreams and Related Poems comprises ten of Hogg's poems which, in very different ways, explore the visionary and supernatural, and one ...
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Proust's Additions: The Making of 'a La Recherche Du Temps Perdu'
ISBN: 9780521083102 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It has previously not been feasible to study in depth the expansion of Proust's famous novel, A la recherche du temps perdu. In 1913, the novel was to be 1500 pages; by 1922, when Proust died, it was 3000. How did it grow to such proportions? Which characters were always there - which ones sprang from their author's imagination in his very last years? Had Proust always been as interested in certain psychological phenomena as he was to become during the First World War and after? With the public release of the Proust manuscripts, these questions can be answered with a greater range, and...
It has previously not been feasible to study in depth the expansion of Proust's famous novel, A la recherche du temps perdu. In 1913, the novel was to...
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Proust's Additions: The Making of 'a La Recherche Du Temps Perdu'
ISBN: 9780521083157 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study in depth the expansion of Proust's famous novel, A la recherche du temps perdu.
A study in depth the expansion of Proust's famous novel, A la recherche du temps perdu.
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217,21 zł |
Laster im Mittelalter / Vices in the Middle Ages
ISBN: 9783110202748 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Das Thema Laster im Mittelalter zeichnet sich durch seine Kontinuitat uber das gesamte Mittelalter aus und hat seine Wurzeln in der Spatantike und seine Nachwirkungen in der Neuzeit. Es beruhrt fast alle Bereiche mittelalterlicher Kultur und hat eine unerschopfliche Literatur hervorgebracht. Der Sammelband beruht auf den Ergebnissen des Freiburger Kolloquiums 2006, das sich erstmals mit der langen Tradition der sieben Todsunden und den mittelalterlichen Lasterkatalogen befasste, und vereint die Beitrage namhafter Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler unterschiedlicher... Das Thema Laster im Mittelalter zeichnet sich durch seine Kontinuitat uber das gesamte Mittelalter aus und hat seine Wurzeln in der Spatan... |
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