The Burdens of Perfection: On Ethics and Reading in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
ISBN: 9780801477188 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "In some moods, or for some people, the desire to improve can seem so natural as to be banal. The impulse drives forward so much in our culture that it can color our thoughts and shape our actions without being much noticed. But in other moods, or for other people, this strenuous desire becomes all too noticeable, and its demands crushing. It can then drive a sleepless attention to ourselves, a desolate evaluation of what we have been and what we are." from The Burdens of Perfection Literary criticism has, in recent decades, rather fled from discussions of moral psychology,... "In some moods, or for some people, the desire to improve can seem so natural as to be banal. The impulse drives forward so much in our culture tha... |
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Straight from the Heart: Gender, Intimacy, and the Cultural Production of Shojo Manga
ISBN: 9780824835286 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Manga is the backbone of Japanese popular culture, influencing everything from television, movies, and video games to novels, art, and theater. Shojo manga (girls' comics) has been seminal to the genre as a whole and especially formative for Japanese girls' culture throughout the postwar era. In Straight from the Heart, Jennifer Prough examines the shojo manga industry as a site of cultural storytelling, illuminating the ways that issues of mass media, gender, production, and consumption are involved in the process of creating shojo manga. With their glittery pastel covers and focus... Manga is the backbone of Japanese popular culture, influencing everything from television, movies, and video games to novels, art, and theater. Sho... |
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128,50 zł |
Philip Roth and the Zuckerman Books: The Making of a Storyworld
ISBN: 9781604977547 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Philip Roth's standing on the literary scene is undisputed. The recipient of innumerable literary awards, the Jewish American author has reached past the precincts of his Newark's Weequahic neighborhood to become one of the most significant American novelists of the late twentieth century, an unrivalled master of the art of fiction. His literary output spanning more than 50 years and more than thirty books has been astounding both in terms of quantity and quality. Roth's place among the classics has been established by a host of critical studies presenting Roth's work from a myriad of...
Philip Roth's standing on the literary scene is undisputed. The recipient of innumerable literary awards, the Jewish American author has reached past ...
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527,74 zł |
Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries: Volume 26
ISBN: 9780792350460 / Angielski / Twarda / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text records articles of scholarly value that relate to the history of the printed book, to the history of arts, crafts, techniques and equipment, and the economic, social and cultural environment involved in their production, distribution, conservation and description.
This text records articles of scholarly value that relate to the history of the printed book, to the history of arts, crafts, techniques and equipment...
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647,68 zł |
Carnival on the Page: Popular Print Media in Antebellum America
ISBN: 9780807848326 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the decades before the Civil War, American society witnessed the emergence of a new form of print culture, as penny papers, mammoth weeklies, giftbooks, fashion magazines, and other ephemeral printed materials brought exuberance and theatricality to public culture and made the practice of reading more controversial. For a short yet pivotal period, argues Isabelle Lehuu, the world of print was turned upside down.
Unlike the printed works of the eighteenth century, produced to educate and refine, the new media aimed to entertain a widening yet diversified public of men and women.... In the decades before the Civil War, American society witnessed the emergence of a new form of print culture, as penny papers, mammoth weeklies, giftb...
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269,89 zł |
Recommended Reference Books for Small and Medium-Sized Libraries and Media Centers: 2011 Edition, Volume 31
ISBN: 9781598849158 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the highly acclaimed reviews of American Reference Books Annual, "RRB" includes only those resources that have been recommended for purchase by small and medium-sized academic, public, or school libraries. Written by 150 subject specialists, the reviews will help librarians to choose the right new reference materials for their facility in any given field. Every reviewer comment--whether positive and negative--has been retained, since even recommended works may be weak in one respect or another. If your budget precludes purchasing "ARBA," this tool will provide you with the... Based on the highly acclaimed reviews of American Reference Books Annual, "RRB" includes only those resources that have been recommended for purcha... |
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576,07 zł |
Bringing Travel Home to England: Tourism, Gender, and Imaginative Literature in the Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9781611492750 / Angielski / Twarda / 433 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We hold tourism in common as we might a currency or a language. Yet rarely have we thought seriously about how it has shaped our lives, our sense of sexual, religious, political, and social alternatives, or our literatures. This book is the first to identify and examine the relations among literature, tourism, and the wider culture in the long eighteenth century. Gendering emerges as a key mechanism here both for those who brought travel home and for those who were influenced by it in other ways. The author brings Samuel Richardson, Laurence Sterne, and William Wordsworth side-by-side with...
We hold tourism in common as we might a currency or a language. Yet rarely have we thought seriously about how it has shaped our lives, our sense of s...
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Remixthebook
ISBN: 9780816676156 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Digital technology has transformed contemporary culture. New social media, hyperlinks, and cut-and-paste techniques have changed the way we write. E-books, which allow us to carry entire libraries with us, are bringing new browsing and reading habits. Digital editing and other on-the-fly postproduction processes have altered how we make music, films, and visual art. A key rhetorical trope employed in all aspects of digital media is the remix, the creation of innovative new works of visual, literary, and performance art through the mashup. In remixthebook, Mark Amerika explores... Digital technology has transformed contemporary culture. New social media, hyperlinks, and cut-and-paste techniques have changed the way we write. ... |
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86,60 zł |
Open Access für alle?: Die Bedeutung von Open Access im Hochschulbereich - ein exemplarischer Vergleich des Nutzungsverhaltens in den Geistes
ISBN: 9783640488506 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Buchwissenschaft, Note: 2,0, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz (Buchwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Wirtschaften mit Buchern, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Seit 2000 werden an der Johannes-Gutenberg Universitat Mainz Hochschulschriften wie Magister- oder Masterarbeiten, Dissertationen und Habilitationen digitalisiert im hochschuleigenen Server Archimed (Archiv Mainzer elektronischer Dokumente) zur freien Verfugung gestellt. Die Universitatsbibliothek hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt Hochschulpublikationen zentral und frei verfugbar zu machen, die zuvor...
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Buchwissenschaft, Note: 2,0, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz (Buchwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Wi...
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Child-Sized History: Fictions of the Past in U.S. Classrooms
ISBN: 9780826517937 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than three decades, the same children's historical novels have been taught across the United States. Honored for their literary quality and appreciated for their alignment with social studies curricula, the books have flourished as schools moved from whole-language to phonics and from student-centered learning to standardized testing.
Books like Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins, and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry stimulate children's imagination, transporting them into the American past and projecting them into an American... For more than three decades, the same children's historical novels have been taught across the United States. Honored for their literary quality and a...
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245,90 zł |
Child-Sized History: Doris E. Fleischman, Ruth Hale, and Jane Grant
ISBN: 9780826517920 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than three decades, the same children's historical novels have been taught across the United States. Honored for their literary quality and appreciated for their alignment with social studies curricula, the books have flourished as schools moved from whole-language to phonics and from student-centered learning to standardized testing.
Books like Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins, and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry stimulate children's imagination, transporting them into the American past and projecting them into an American... For more than three decades, the same children's historical novels have been taught across the United States. Honored for their literary quality and a...
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605,76 zł |
Contemporary Children's Literature and Film: Engaging with Theory
ISBN: 9780230231498 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together the voices of leading and emerging scholars, this book provides an innovative and accessible guide to using theory to study children's literature and film. Integrating key theoretical approaches and thinkers from across feminism, ecocriticism, postcolonialism and poststructuralism, the book shows how these can be used as tools to analyse a range of contemporary children's literature and film texts. The book will be at the cutting-edge of scholarship, combining new approaches to not only locate children's texts within changing social, cultural and political contexts, but also...
Bringing together the voices of leading and emerging scholars, this book provides an innovative and accessible guide to using theory to study children...
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509,72 zł |
Literary Learning: Teaching the English Major
ISBN: 9780253356994 / Angielski / Twarda / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Literary Learning explores the nature of literary knowledge and offers guidance for effective teaching of literature at the college level. What do English majors need to learn? How can we help them develop the skills and knowledge they need? By identifying the habits of mind that literary scholars use in their own research and writing, Sherry Lee Linkon articulates the strategic knowledge that lies at the heart of the discipline, offering important insights and models for beginning and experienced teachers. Literary Learning explores the nature of literary knowledge and offers guidance for effective teaching of literature at the college level. What do ... |
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321,12 zł |
Literature, Theory, History
ISBN: 9780230113398 / Angielski / Twarda / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses literature, theory and history in close relation. Its main focus is on comparative literature and history, culture, poetics, rhetoric, theatricality, genre and gender, and balances close reading with theory and historical context.
This book discusses literature, theory and history in close relation. Its main focus is on comparative literature and history, culture, poetics, rheto...
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194,97 zł |
Wordmongers: Manuscript Culture in the Age of Print and the Case of Nineteenth-Century Iceland
ISBN: 9780935995114 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking its title from Marshall William Fishwick's description of "wordmongers" as those whose principal vocation is speaking and writing words, this book is a study of manuscript and scribal culture in the age of print. While the first part explores the flourishing scholarship of post-medieval scribal culture in Europe and beyond during the last generation and advocates a radical revision of traditional dichotomies (manuscript versus print, literacy versus illiteracy) in favor of more complex paradigms (multiple modes and media of transmission and reception), the second part focuses on... Taking its title from Marshall William Fishwick's description of "wordmongers" as those whose principal vocation is speaking and writing words, thi... |
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157,74 zł |
The Grand Chorus of Complaint: Authors and the Business Ethics of American Publishing
ISBN: 9780199751785 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Lord Byron toasted Napoleon for executing a bookseller, and when American satirist Fitz-Greene Halleck picketed his New York publisher for trying to starve him, both writers were taking part in a time-honored tradition-styling publishers as unregenerate capitalists. However apocryphal, both stories speak to the longstanding feud between writers and publishers over how the book business ought to be conducted. Such grumblings were so constant throughout the nineteenth century that Horace Greeley wearily referred to them collectively as "the grand chorus of complaint." Ranging from the...
When Lord Byron toasted Napoleon for executing a bookseller, and when American satirist Fitz-Greene Halleck picketed his New York publisher for trying...
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222,61 zł |
Prosaics and Other Provocations: Empathy, Open Time, and the Novel
ISBN: 9781618111616 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This far-ranging study develops Morson's concept of "prosaics," which stresses the importance of ordinary events and the novel's unique ability to portray them. Arguing that time is open and contingency real, Morson develops a "prosaics of process" showing how some masterpieces have found an alternative to structure. His well-known pseudonym Alicia Chudo, the inventor of "misanthropology," explores the disturbing philosophical content of laughter, disgust, and even empathy. Northwestern University's most popular professor, Morson attributes declining student interest in literature to current...
This far-ranging study develops Morson's concept of "prosaics," which stresses the importance of ordinary events and the novel's unique ability to por...
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493,57 zł |
Editing Lives: Essays in Contemporary Textual and Biographical Studies in Honor of O M Brack, Jr.
ISBN: 9781611485400 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it affords all other areas of modern knowledge. The life of our fellow human beings, and how we know and tell lives, is one such area of modern knowledge that is foundationally affected by theories and practices of textual creation, transmission, and apprehension. This collection of new essays and studies by internationally acclaimed scholars, along with a select few who are less acclaimed but of distinct promise, provides a view into the...
Central to all post-Renaissance scholarship, textual studies continues to evolve, both in its techniques and methods as well as in the illumination it...
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498,99 zł |
Kundera and Modernity
ISBN: 9781557536372 / Angielski / Miękka / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While a large amount of scholarship about Milan Kundera's work exists, in Liisa Steinby's opinion his work has not been studied within the context of (European) modernity as a sociohistorical and a cultural concept. Of course, he is considered to be a modernist writer (some call him even a postmodernist), but what the broader concept of modernity intellectually, historically, socially, and culturally means for him and how this is expressed in his texts has not been thoroughly examined. Steinby's book fills this vacuum by analyzing Kundera's novels from the viewpoint of his understanding of...
While a large amount of scholarship about Milan Kundera's work exists, in Liisa Steinby's opinion his work has not been studied within the context of ...
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276,19 zł |
The Pleasures of Reading: A Booklover's Alphabet
ISBN: 9781591586951 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following up on her critically acclaimed "Reading Matters: What the Research Reveals about Reading, Libraries, and Community," Catherine Sheldrick Ross takes a new look at pleasure reading through 30 thought-provoking essays based on themes arranged from A to Z. In short lively chapters, she discusses topics ranging from "Alexia," "Bad Reading," and "Changing Lives" to "Romance Fiction," "Self-help," "Titles," "Vampires," and "Year of Reading." Drawing on her own research as well as other published sources, Ross comments on the significance of each theme, provides examples of the... Following up on her critically acclaimed "Reading Matters: What the Research Reveals about Reading, Libraries, and Community," Catherine Sheldrick ... |
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306,18 zł |