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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Counterfactual Romanticism
ISBN: 9781526171832 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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107,31 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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389,98 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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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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194,97 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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155,97 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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91,11 zł |
Determinism and Enlightenment
ISBN: 9781802077674 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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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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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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350,98 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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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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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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Glanz und Elend der Aufklarung in Wien: Voraussetzungen -- Institutionen -- Texte
ISBN: 9783205217510 / Niemiecki Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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240,90 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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688,13 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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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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Culture and Cruelty in Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud
ISBN: 9781793603944 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book challenges the cultural optimism of the Enlighten through an examination of Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud. These authors pushed back against the optimism of the enlightenment through their writing and advanced the idea of cruelty as lying at the root of all human nature and culture.
This book challenges the cultural optimism of the Enlighten through an examination of Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Artaud. These authors pushed back aga...
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The French in Macao in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Literary, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives
ISBN: 9783030946678 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The French in Macao in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Literary, Cultural, and Historical Perspectivesinvestigates the role that Macao played as a meeting place of the East and the West during this period of time and its decline as a Portuguese colony in the eyes of the Europeans. The book provides a comprehensive view of representations of Macao as portrayed by the French. These texts in French have been studied less than Chinese or Portuguese texts on Macao. Overall, the book contributes to the study of colonial history, cultural studies, and China in the late Qing dynasty.
The French in Macao in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Literary, Cultural, and Historical Perspectivesinvestigates the role that Macao ...
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467,99 zł |
Spatiality at the Periphery in European Literatures and Visual Arts
ISBN: 9783031303111 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spatiality at the Periphery in European Literatures and Visual Artsanalyzes the impact migrations, both internal and external, have on Europe’s literary and visual representations in the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. The volume aims to subvert a centripetal reading of European cultural production by including peripheral thinkers, writers, and visual artists operating in transcultural contexts. The essays highlight and investigate the fertile artistic discourses generated in the spatial peripheries outside of Europe or its inner peripheries. The volume addresses the need for...
Spatiality at the Periphery in European Literatures and Visual Artsanalyzes the impact migrations, both internal and external, have on Europe’s lite...
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506,99 zł |