Outsiders: The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance
ISBN: 9780268206659 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Giants are a ubiquitous feature of medieval romance. As remnants of a British prehistory prior to the civilization established, according to the Historium regum Britannie, by Brutus and his Trojan followers, giants are permanently at odds with the chivalric culture of the romance world. Whether they are portrayed as brute savages or as tyrannical pagan lords, giants serve as a limit against which the chivalric hero can measure himself. In Outsiders: The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance, Sylvia Huot argues that the presence of giants allows for fantasies of...
Giants are a ubiquitous feature of medieval romance. As remnants of a British prehistory prior to the civilization established, according to the Histo...
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534,26 zł |
Alimentary Orientalism: Britain\'s Literary Imagination and the Edible East
ISBN: 9781684484669 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism reassesses the politics of Orientalist representation by examining the contentious debates surrounding these exotic, recently popularized, and literally consumable things. It suggests that the interwoven discourses sparked by these commodities transformed the period’s literary Orientalism and created surprisingly self-reflexive ways through which British writers encountered and imagined cultural otherness. Tracing exotic ingestion as a motif across a range of authors and...
What, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism reassesses the politics of Orienta...
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155,56 zł |
Alimentary Orientalism: Britain\'s Literary Imagination and the Edible East
ISBN: 9781684484676 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism reassesses the politics of Orientalist representation by examining the contentious debates surrounding these exotic, recently popularized, and literally consumable things. It suggests that the interwoven discourses sparked by these commodities transformed the period’s literary Orientalism and created surprisingly self-reflexive ways through which British writers encountered and imagined cultural otherness. Tracing exotic ingestion as a motif across a range of authors and...
What, exactly, did tea, sugar, and opium mean in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain? Alimentary Orientalism reassesses the politics of Orienta...
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643,19 zł |
Jane Eyre in German Lands: The Import of Romance, 1848-1918
ISBN: 9781501382390 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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150,37 zł |
Improbability, Chance, and the Nineteenth-Century Realist Novel
ISBN: 9780814255933 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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218,48 zł |
Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England: The 'Black Ghost' of Bermondsey
ISBN: 9781032264493 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England seeks to provide a comprehensive examination of the notorious Manning's 'Bermondsey murder', and its wider implications in Victorian criminal narrative and popular culture.
Gender, Crime, and Murder in Victorian England seeks to provide a comprehensive examination of the notorious Manning's 'Bermondsey murder', and its wi...
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700,25 zł |
Female Identity in Contemporary Fictional Purgatorial Worlds
ISBN: 9781350227033 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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440,90 zł |
Diálogos entre la literatura española áurea, el cine y la ficción televisiva: Nuevas perspectivas de estudio en la era digital
ISBN: 9781800797574 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Este libro representa una propuesta de revisión de la literatura española del Siglo de Oro en sus traslaciones al cine y la televisión, con especial atención a los novedosos focos interpretativos que se activan con el acceso a materiales audiovisuales en la era digital. El autor no solo recorre algunos hitos de este diálogo entre los textos literarios y los fílmicos, como las variadas recreaciones del Quijote o del teatro del siglo XVII, sino que reivindica el estudio, a la luz de nuevas perspectivas metodológicas, de películas como El Buscón (1979) o series como... Este libro representa una propuesta de revisión de la literatura española del Siglo de Oro en sus traslaciones al cine y la televisión, con espe... |
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337,76 zł |
Shirley Jackson's Dark Tales: Reconsidering the Short Fiction
ISBN: 9781350361119 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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440,90 zł |
The Migrant's Corner: Paradoxes of Representing Mediterranean Crossings in Italian and French Contemporary Culture
ISBN: 9781800798823 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The stories of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe have made the headlines in the news over the last twenty years. This book considers the migrant's story as portrayed in literature, cinema, museums and festivals in Italy and France, highlighting the complexity of advocating for migrants from a European perspective.
The stories of migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe have made the headlines in the news over the last twenty years. This book consi...
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322,63 zł |
Personation Plots: Identity Fraud in Victorian Sensation Fiction
ISBN: 9781438490847 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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139,28 zł |
The Art of Directing
ISBN: 9781800797635 / Twarda / 542 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This dictionary of French film directors from the silent era to the streaming age is a valuable reference resource for students, scholars and academics as well as film lovers. The biographical and filmographic information is provided in brief entries, offering readers the chance to expand their knowledge of French-language cinema.
This dictionary of French film directors from the silent era to the streaming age is a valuable reference resource for students, scholars and academic...
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504,25 zł |
9/11 Gothic: Decrypting Ghosts and Trauma in New York City's Terrorism Novels
ISBN: 9781793638342 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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163,80 zł |
Global Ambiguity in Nineteenth-Century American Gothic
ISBN: 9780367539023 / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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207,43 zł |
Cyberpunk Culture and Psychology
ISBN: 9780367535698 / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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202,24 zł |
Creolizing Frankenstein
ISBN: 9781538176535 / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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546,00 zł |
Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of Water
ISBN: 9780813950983 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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218,79 zł |
21st-Century British Gothic
ISBN: 9781350286566 / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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440,90 zł |
Everyday Evil in Stephen King's America: Essays, Images, Paratexts
ISBN: 9781032518596 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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700,25 zł |