Work and Leisure in Late Nineteenth-Century French Literature and Visual Culture: Time, Politics and Class
ISBN: 9781349476411 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this engaging new study, Claire White reveals how representations of work and leisure became the vehicle for anxieties and fantasies about class and alienation, affecting, in turn, the ways in which writers and artists understood their own cultural work.
In this engaging new study, Claire White reveals how representations of work and leisure became the vehicle for anxieties and fantasies about class an...
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Beckett and Authority: The Uses of Cliché
ISBN: 9781349283972 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new book situates Beckett in a philosophical and literary tradition that has argued for the creative value of stupidity, a key concept in the thinking of philosophers such as Wittgenstein. It investigates the relationship between verbal cliche, revealing the strategies he used to challenge intellectual and social authority in his works."
This new book situates Beckett in a philosophical and literary tradition that has argued for the creative value of stupidity, a key concept in the thi...
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Defining Collocation for Lexicographic Purposes: From Linguistic Theory to Lexicographic Practice
ISBN: 9783034320542 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume aims to promote a discussion on the definition of collocation that will be useful for lexicographic purposes. Each of the papers in the volume contains addresses in detail one or more aspects of three main issues. The first issue concerns, on the one hand, the boundaries between collocations and other word combinations, and the way in which lexicographers convey classifications to dictionary users. The second issue is the possibility, or even necessity, of adapting the definition of collocation to the objectives of different types of dictionaries, taking into account their...
This volume aims to promote a discussion on the definition of collocation that will be useful for lexicographic purposes. Each of the papers in the vo...
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Montaigne and Brief Narrative Form: Shaping the Essay
ISBN: 9781349457885 / Angielski / Miękka / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book-length study to trace the origins of the essay to the conte, Montaigne and Brief Narrative Form puts the reader in touch with how unstable times and exceptional artistic insights transform one genre to create a new artistic form.
The first book-length study to trace the origins of the essay to the conte, Montaigne and Brief Narrative Form puts the reader in touch with how unsta...
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A Samuel Beckett Chronology
ISBN: 9781349523658 / Angielski / Miękka / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the most complete chronological account of Samuel Beckett's life and work, with full details of how, when and where each work by him came to be written, many details of which have only recently come to light and are often not known to scholars working in the field.
This is the most complete chronological account of Samuel Beckett's life and work, with full details of how, when and where each work by him came to b...
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Franco-British Cultural Exchanges, 1880-1940: Channel Packets
ISBN: 9781349329144 / Angielski / Miękka / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume focuses on the literary connotations of the 'Channel Packet' and sets forth lively dialogues between French and British culture at a key period of artistic innovation and exchange between 'high' and popular art forms.
This volume focuses on the literary connotations of the 'Channel Packet' and sets forth lively dialogues between French and British culture at a key p...
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The Culture of Translation in Early Modern England and France, 1500-1660
ISBN: 9781349486403 / Angielski / Miękka / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores modalities and cultural interventions of translation in the early modern period, focusing on the shared parameters of these two translation cultures. Translation emerges as a powerful tool for thinking about community and citizenship, literary tradition and the classical past, certitude and doubt, language and the imagination.
This book explores modalities and cultural interventions of translation in the early modern period, focusing on the shared parameters of these two tra...
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2013-2015
ISBN: 9783110439151 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Das Georg Buchner Jahrbuch soll als ein Forum der Bestandsaufnahme und der Innovation, der Reflexion und der Debatte, der Quellendokumentation wie der raschen Mitteilung, der Auseinandersetzung wie der Verstandigung dienen und dabei die gesamte Breite der Forschungsergebnisse und -diskussionen erfassen. Dieser Zielrichtung sucht das Jahrbuch in seinen Abteilungen Aufsatze, Debatten, Dokumente und Materialien sowie Rezensionen gerecht zu werden. "Das Georg Buchner Jahrbuch soll als ein Forum der Bestandsaufnahme und der Innovation, der Reflexion und der Debatte, der Quellendokumenta... |
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The Fall of Language in the Age of English
ISBN: 9780231163033 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge yet also embraces the different ways of understanding offered by multiple tongues. She warns against losing this precious diversity. Universal languages have always played a pivotal role in advancing human societies, Mizumura shows, but in...
Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own la...
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Women Writers of Gabon: Literature and Herstory
ISBN: 9781498537209 / Angielski / Twarda / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women Writers of Gabon: Literature and Herstory demonstrates how the invisibility of women (historically, politically, cross-culturally, etc.) has led to the omission of Gabon s literature from the African canon, but it also discusses in depth the unique elements of Gabonese women s writing that show it is worthy of critical recognition and that prove why Gabonese women writers must be considered a major force in African literature. This book is the only book-length critical study of Gabonese literature that exists in English and although there are titles in French that provide analyses of...
Women Writers of Gabon: Literature and Herstory demonstrates how the invisibility of women (historically, politically, cross-culturally, etc.) has led...
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Publishing the Grail in Medieval and Renaissance France
ISBN: 9781843844266 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Grail is one of the most enduring literary motifs in publishing history. In spite of an ever-changing world, the reading public has maintained a fascination for this enigmatic object, as well as the various adventures and characters associated with it. But the nature and reception of the Grail have not remained static. Thanks to the fact that the first known author of a Grail story, Chretien de Troyes, died c.1180-90 before completing his tale and revealing the meaning of the Grail, authors and publishers across history have reimagined, reinterpreted and re-packaged Grail literature so as...
The Grail is one of the most enduring literary motifs in publishing history. In spite of an ever-changing world, the reading public has maintained a f...
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Une tenebreuse affaire
ISBN: 9781533534392 / Francuski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Dix ans de bohème
ISBN: 9781535294836 / Francuski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. " Dans son numero du 10 septembre 1887, l'Intermediaire des chercheurs demandait ou se pourraient trouver quelques details sur ce que furent les hydropathes. Je repondis alors que peu de documents existaient, a part la collection introuvable du journal l'Hydropathe, et une plaquette de Leo Trezenick intitulee les Hirsutes. Cela m'avait fait remuer, en une vieille armoire, quelques tres anciens papiers, ou j'ai cueilli les notes suivantes, destinees a servir de base a un ouvrage de plus longue haleine sur les hydropathes, les hirsutes et le Chat noir, lorsque tout cela aura subi la necessaire...
" Dans son numero du 10 septembre 1887, l'Intermediaire des chercheurs demandait ou se pourraient trouver quelques details sur ce que furent les hydro...
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La vuelta al mundo en 80 días
ISBN: 9781535288897 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jules Gabriel Verne, conocido en los paises hispanohablantes como Julio Verne (Nantes, Reino de Francia, 8 de febrero de 1828-Amiens, Tercera Republica Francesa, 24 de marzo de 1905), fue un escritor, poeta y dramaturgo frances celebre por sus novelas de aventuras y por su profunda influencia en el genero literario de la ciencia ficcion."
Jules Gabriel Verne, conocido en los paises hispanohablantes como Julio Verne (Nantes, Reino de Francia, 8 de febrero de 1828-Amiens, Tercera Republic...
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Edgar Allan Poe: sa vie et ses ouvrages
ISBN: 9781442651708 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The earliest foreign study of the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe, the text presented in this volume is something of a landmark in the history of comparative literature. Baudelaire's first and longest essay on Poe was published in the Revue de Paris is 1852; it was revised and abridged for use as the preface of the first volume of his translation of Poe's tales, Histoires extraordinaires. This study was significant especially in the area of Franco-American literary relations because it was the basis of not only the French attitude toward Poe, but of his reputation... The earliest foreign study of the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe, the text presented in this volume is something of a landmark in the history of... |
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The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature: Grief, Guilt, and Hypocrisy
ISBN: 9781349289615 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploration of the emotionologies of several medieval, romance emotional communities through both fictional and non-fictional narratives. The contributors analyze texts from different linguistic traditions and different periods, but they all focus on women characters.
Exploration of the emotionologies of several medieval, romance emotional communities through both fictional and non-fictional narratives. The contribu...
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Inner Workings of the Novel: Studying a Genre
ISBN: 9781349290413 / Angielski / Miękka / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pasco analyzes innovative nineteenth- and twentieth-century French works to suggest a definition of the novel, in all of its variations and difficulties: a relatively long, artistically designed, prose fiction. He permits literary aficionados to reevaluate novels through comparisons with other genres and both recent and former traditions.
Pasco analyzes innovative nineteenth- and twentieth-century French works to suggest a definition of the novel, in all of its variations and difficulti...
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Backwoodsmen as Ecocritical Motif in French Canadian Literature: Connecting Worlds in the Wilds
ISBN: 9781498531108 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Samuel Beckett
ISBN: 9781501158711 / Angielski / Miękka / 760 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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My Father and I: The Marais and the Queerness of Community
ISBN: 9781501705618 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "It is a living museum of a long-gone Jewish life and, supposedly, a testimony to the success of the French model of social integration. It is a communal home where gay men and women are said to stand in defiance of the French model of social integration. It is a place of freedom and tolerance where people of color and lesbians nevertheless feel unwanted and where young Zionists from the suburbs gather every Sunday and sometimes harass Arabs. It is a hot topic in the press and on television. It is open to the world and open for business. It is a place to be seen and a place of... "It is a living museum of a long-gone Jewish life and, supposedly, a testimony to the success of the French model of social integration. It is a co... |
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