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A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text
ISBN: 9781444332056 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text introduces the early editions, editing practices, and publishing history of Shakespeare's plays and poems, and examines their influence on bibliographic studies as a whole.
A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text introduces the early editions, editing practices, and publishing history of Shakespeare's plays...
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188,95 |
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Reading 1759: Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
ISBN: 9781611484786 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Familiar to many as the British year of victories during the Seven Years War, 1759 was also an important year in the histories of fiction, philosophy, ethics, and aesthetics. Reading 1759 is the first book to examine together the range of works written and published during this crucial year. Offering broad coverage of the year s work in writing, these essays examine key works by Johnson, Voltaire, Sterne, Adam Smith, Edward Young, Sarah Fielding, and Christopher Smart, along...
Reading 1759 investigates the literary culture of a remarkable year in British and French history, writing, and ideas. Familiar to many as the British...
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422,64 |
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Masculinity in Fiction and Film: Representing Men in Popular Genres, 1945-2000
ISBN: 9781847062628 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book looks at a wide range of fiction and film texts, from the 1950s to the present, in order to analyse the ways in which masculinity has been represented in popular culture in Britain and the United States. It covers numerous genres, including spy fiction, science fiction, the Western and police thrillers. Each chapter focuses on key forms of masculinity found in each genre, such as the 'double agent', the 'rogue cop' and the 'citizen-soldier'. Brian Baker takes a broad, contextual approach, placing a detailed discussion of key texts and issues concerning masculinity in their... This book looks at a wide range of fiction and film texts, from the 1950s to the present, in order to analyse the ways in which masculinity has bee... |
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306,76 |
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Intimacy and Family in Early American Writing
ISBN: 9781137404077 / Angielski / Twarda / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through the prism of intimacy, Burleigh sheds light on eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century American texts. This insightful study shows how the trope of the family recurred to produce contradictory images - both intimately familiar and frighteningly alienating - through which Americans responded to upheavals in their cultural landscape.
Through the prism of intimacy, Burleigh sheds light on eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century American texts. This insightful study shows how the tro...
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201,24 |
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Makers and Users of Medieval Books: Essays in Honour of A.S.G. Edwards
ISBN: 9781843843757 / Angielski / Twarda / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Late medieval manuscripts and early modern print history form the focus of this volume. It includes new work on the compilation of some important medieval manuscript miscellanies and major studies of merchant patronage and of a newly revealed woman patron, alongside explorations of medieval texts and the post-medieval reception history of Langland, Chaucer and Nicholas Love. It thus pays a fitting tribute to the career of Professor A.S.G. Edwards, highlighting his scholarly interests and demonstrating the influence of his achievements. Carol M. Meale is Senior Research Fellow at the...
Late medieval manuscripts and early modern print history form the focus of this volume. It includes new work on the compilation of some important medi...
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461,50 |
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Twice-Told Children's Tales: The Influence of Childhood Reading on Writers for Adults
ISBN: 9780415867153 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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242,84 |
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Educating for Cosmopolitanism: Lessons from Cognitive Science and Literature
ISBN: 9781137392268 / Angielski / Twarda / 141 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on developments in cognitive science, Bracher formulates pedagogical strategies for teaching literature in ways that develop students' cognitive capabilities for cosmopolitanism, the pursuit of global equality and justice. Several staple classroom texts, such as Things Fall Apart, provide detailed examples for teaching practices.
Drawing on developments in cognitive science, Bracher formulates pedagogical strategies for teaching literature in ways that develop students' cogniti...
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201,24 |
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Teaching Information Literacy Through Short Stories
ISBN: 9781442255456 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teaching Information Literacy through Short Stories examines information literacy themes through 18 short stories. The book provides librarians and instructors a fresh approach to introduce, accompany, and supplement their teaching. The book is divided into six sections corresponding with the six pillars of Association of College and Research Libraries Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Accompanying each short story are questions to stimulate thought and discussion around various aspects of information and scholarship including authority, process, value, inquiry,...
Teaching Information Literacy through Short Stories examines information literacy themes through 18 short stories. The book provides librarians and in...
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184,60 |
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Teaching Information Literacy through Short Stories
ISBN: 9781442255449 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Teaching Information Literacy through Short Stories examines information literacy themes through 18 short stories. The book provides librarians and instructors a fresh approach to introduce, accompany, and supplement their teaching. The book is divided into six sections corresponding with the six pillars of Association of College and Research Libraries Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education. Accompanying each short story are questions to stimulate thought and discussion around various aspects of information and scholarship including authority, process, value, inquiry,...
Teaching Information Literacy through Short Stories examines information literacy themes through 18 short stories. The book provides librarians and in...
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378,91 |
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The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines: Volume III: Europe 1880 - 1940
ISBN: 9780198778431 / Angielski / Miękka / 1528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The third of three volumes devoted to the cultural history of the modernist magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this collection contains fifty-six original essays on the role of "little magazines" and independent periodicals in Europe in the period 1880-1940. It demonstrates how these publications were instrumental in founding and advancing developments in European modernism and the avant-garde. Expert discussion of approaching 300 magazines, accompanied by an illuminating variety of cover images, from France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Portugal, Scandinavia, Central and...
The third of three volumes devoted to the cultural history of the modernist magazine in Britain, North America, and Europe, this collection contains f...
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379,07 |
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The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction
ISBN: 9781441172013 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Guiding readers through key writers and genres, historical contexts and major theoretical approaches, this is a comprehensive introduction to the study of popular fiction. Charting the rise of commercial fiction from the 19th century to today, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Popular Fiction includes introductory surveys, written by leading scholars, to a wide range of popular genres, including: Science Fiction Part II of the book also... Guiding readers through key writers and genres, historical contexts and major theoretical approaches, this is a comprehensive introduction to the s... |
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715,89 |
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Information Literacy Instruction That Works: A Guide to Teaching by Discipline and Student Population
ISBN: 9781555708603 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Information literacy and library instruction are at the heart of the academic library's mission. But how do you bring that instruction to an increasingly diverse student body and an increasingly varied spectrum of majors? In this updated, expanded new second edition, Ragains and 16 other library instructors share their best practices for reaching out to today's unique users. Readers will find strategies and techniques for teaching college and university freshmen, community college students, students with disabilities, and those in distance learning programs. Alongside sample lesson plans,...
Information literacy and library instruction are at the heart of the academic library's mission. But how do you bring that instruction to an increasin...
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354,62 |
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Imagining an English Reading Public, 1150-1400
ISBN: 9781107694613 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This original study explores the importance of the concept of habitus that is, the set of acquired patterns of thought, behavior and taste that result from internalizing culture or objective social structures in the medieval imagination. Beginning by examining medieval theories of habitus in a general sense, Katharine Breen goes on to investigate the relationships between habitus, language, and Christian virtue. While most medieval pedagogical theorists regarded the habitus of Latin grammar as the gateway to a generalized habitus of virtue, reformers increasingly experimented with vernacular...
This original study explores the importance of the concept of habitus that is, the set of acquired patterns of thought, behavior and taste that result...
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203,54 |
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Necessary Luxuries
ISBN: 9780801479403 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The consumer revolution of the eighteenth century brought new and exotic commodities to Europe from abroad coffee, tea, spices, and new textiles to name a few. Yet one of the most widely distributed luxury commodities in the period was not new at all, and was produced locally: the book. In Necessary Luxuries, Matt Erlin considers books and the culture around books during this period, focusing specifically on Germany where literature, and the fine arts in general, were the subject of soul-searching debates over the legitimacy of luxury in the modern world. Building on recent... The consumer revolution of the eighteenth century brought new and exotic commodities to Europe from abroad coffee, tea, spices, and new textiles to... |
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150,59 |
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Adventures Among Books
ISBN: 9781491201824 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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55,67 |
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Roberto Bolaño's Fiction: An Expanding Universe
ISBN: 9780231168069 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by literature in translation. Chris Andrews, a leading translator of Bolano's work into English, explores the singular achievements of the author's oeuvre, engaging with its distinct style and key thematic concerns, incorporating his novels and stories into the larger history of Latin American and global literary fiction. Andrews provides new readings and interpretations of Bolano's novels, including 2666, The Savage Detectives, and...
Since the publication of The Savage Detectives in 2007, the work of Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) has achieved an acclaim rarely enjoyed by litera...
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409,08 |
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Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781138025158 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Multiculturalism, and its representation, has long presented challenges for the medium of comics. This book presents a wide ranging survey of the ways in which comics have dealt with the diversity of creators and characters and the (lack of) visibility for characters who don't conform to particular cultural stereotypes. Contributors engage with ethnicity and other cultural forms from Israel, Romania, North America, South Africa, Germany, Spain, U.S. Latino and Canada and consider the ways in which comics are able to represent multiculturalism through a focus on the formal elements of the... Multiculturalism, and its representation, has long presented challenges for the medium of comics. This book presents a wide ranging survey of the w... |
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777,25 |
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Alan Power Exposed: Hundreds of Errors in "The Princess Diana Conspiracy"
ISBN: 9781494318192 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This extensive book review - written by an expert on the murder of Princess Diana - exposes Alan Power as a fraudster. Over 200 separate errors are shown, but with Power's propensity for repetition there are actually well over 500. The most disturbing factor is the nature of the errors - the 180 page review reveals that Power has deliberately duped his readers. There are many instances of Power fraudulently altering sworn witness evidence to fit with his pre-determined false scenario of what occurred. Alan Power Exposed shows that Power's book is a minefield of deceptive writing, manipulation...
This extensive book review - written by an expert on the murder of Princess Diana - exposes Alan Power as a fraudster. Over 200 separate errors are sh...
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53,68 |
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Adventures Among Books
ISBN: 9781494486082 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: English literature; Literature; Literary Collections / General; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism / Books
The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more t...
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47,85 |
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Tottel's Songes and Sonettes in Context
ISBN: 9781409464655 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though printer Richard Tottel s Songes and Sonettes (1557) remains the most influential poetic collection printed in the sixteenth century, the compiliation has long been ignored or misundertood by scholars of early modern English culture. Embracing a broad range of critical and historical perspectives, the eight essays within this volume offer the first sustained analysis of the many ways that consumers read and understood Songes and Sonettes as an anthology over the course of the early modern period. Copied by a monarch, set to music, sung, carried overseas, studied, appropriated, rejected,...
Though printer Richard Tottel s Songes and Sonettes (1557) remains the most influential poetic collection printed in the sixteenth century, the compil...
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