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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153,11 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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191,40 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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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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89,44 zł |
Determinism and Enlightenment
ISBN: 9781802077674 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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409,50 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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150,37 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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344,56 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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574,29 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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389,59 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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207,43 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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700,25 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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497,71 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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574,29 zł |
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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163,80 zł |
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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459,42 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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497,71 zł |
The Sacred Life of Modernist Literature
ISBN: 9781350255340 / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Gothic Romanticism
ISBN: 9783030968342 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gothic Romanticism: Wordsworth, Architecture, Politics, Form offers a revisionist account of both Wordsworth and the politics of antiquarianism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. As a historically-driven study that develops a significant critique and revision of genre- and theory-based approaches to the Gothic, it covers many key works by Wordsworth and his fellow “Lake Poets” Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey. The second edition incorporates new materials that develop the argument in new directions opened up by changes in the field over the... Gothic Romanticism: Wordsworth, Architecture, Politics, Form offers a revisionist account of both Wordsworth and the politics of antiqu... |
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Conjuring the Truth: Yuri Tynianov’s ‘Real’ Pushkin
ISBN: 9781800798755 / Angielski / Twarda / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first single volume in either English or Russian on the representation of Pushkin in Yuri Tynianov’s novels. It demonstrates the percipience and originality of Tynianov’s concept of Pushkin’s personality and assesses Tynianov’s contribution to the Soviet historical novel. The approach re-orients the angle of investigation from the study of his novels as historical biographical works with their adherence to chronology and factuality to their study within the generic frameworks of other genres, which allowed Tynianov to create a new, artistically viable form of novel. The... This is the first single volume in either English or Russian on the representation of Pushkin in Yuri Tynianov’s novels. It demonstrates the perc... |
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504,25 zł |
The Palgrave Literary Dictionary of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
ISBN: 9781349849857 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume considers the work and life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851). It looks not only at Frankenstein and its composition, sources, themes and reception but at the wide range of other work by Shelley including such novels as The Last Man and Mathilda and her tales, reviews, travel writing and the (until recently neglected) Literary Lives of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French writers. There are detailed entries on her personal and/or literary relationship with her parents Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley, Byron, Coleridge and Claire...
This volume considers the work and life of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851). It looks not only at Frankenstein and its composition, sources, th...
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655,15 zł |