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Primal Sources: Essays on H. P. Lovecraft
ISBN: 9780972164405 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies
ISBN: 9780972477284 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures" is Berlin's most comprehensive effort to refigure the field of English Studies. Here, in his last book, Berlin both historically situates and recovers for today the tools and insights of rhetoric-displaced and marginalized aesthetic texts in the college English department. (Education/Teaching)
"Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures" is Berlin's most comprehensive effort to refigure the field of English Studies. Here, in his last book, Berlin both...
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The Evolution of the Weird Tale
ISBN: 9780974878928 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. S. T. Joshi is one of the premier critics of supernatural fiction. His pioneering research on H. P. Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Ambrose Bierce, and other writers has set a standard of scholarship that few have equaled. In The Evolution of the Weird Tale--an informal follow-up to his earlier studies, The Weird Tale (1990) and The Modern Weird Tale (2001)--Joshi assesses a wide array of American and British supernatural writers of the past century or more, meticulously scrutinizing their weird work and gauging their place in the canon of horror fiction. Such American writers from...
S. T. Joshi is one of the premier critics of supernatural fiction. His pioneering research on H. P. Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Ambrose Bierce, and other...
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Living Novels: A Journey Through Twentieth-Century Fiction
ISBN: 9780977790814 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These passionate reviews of 18 novels written during the 20th century from authors in 15 countries offer readers Talmor's vision of the best and the worst in human life. (Literary Criticism)
These passionate reviews of 18 novels written during the 20th century from authors in 15 countries offer readers Talmor's vision of the best and the w...
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101,89 |
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13 Ways of Looking at the Novel
ISBN: 9781400033188 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An essential guide for writers and readers alike, here is Smiley s great celebration of the novel. As she embarks on an exhilarating tour through one hundred titles from classics such as the thousand-year-oldTale of Genjito recent fiction by Zadie Smith and Alice Munro she explores the power of the form, looking at its history and variety, its cultural impact, and just how it works its magic. She invites us behind the scenes of novel-writing, sharing her own habits and spilling the secrets of her craft, and offering priceless advice to aspiring authors. Every page infects us anew... An essential guide for writers and readers alike, here is Smiley s great celebration of the novel. As she embarks on an exhilarating tour through o... |
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Lila's Child: An Inquiry into Quality
ISBN: 9781403356208 / Angielski / Miękka / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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126,07 |
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Lila's Child: An Inquiry into Quality
ISBN: 9781403357540 / Angielski / Twarda / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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180,20 |
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Jane Austen Caught in the Act of Greatness: A Diplomatic Transcription and Analysis of the Two Manuscript Chapters of Persuasion and the Manuscript of
ISBN: 9781403374653 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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126,07 |
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Jane Austen Caught in the Act of Greatness: A Diplomatic Transcription and Analysis of the Two Manuscript Chapters of Persuasion and the Manuscript of
ISBN: 9781403374660 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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180,20 |
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D.H. Lawrence, Travel and Cultural Difference
ISBN: 9781403900692 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study of Lawrence's travel writings is the first book-length study to approach the subject with reference to contemporary post-colonial theory. Focusing on the writings of 1921-25, the period when Lawrence was most intensely engaged in travel, it includes chapters on Sea and Sardinia, Kangaroo, The Plumed Serpent and the essays and stories inspired by Lawrence's experience of the New World.
This study of Lawrence's travel writings is the first book-length study to approach the subject with reference to contemporary post-colonial theory. F...
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201,24 |
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The Culture of Collected Editions
ISBN: 9781403902665 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The phenomenon of the collected edition has made a vital contribution to the construction of authorship, the history of reputation and the formation of the canon. Discussing a range of authors and subjects from Ben Jonson to the internet, this collection of essays brings together the disciplines of Literary and Cultural Criticism, Textual Criticism, Bibliography, Book and Publishing History, to ignite debate on the influence of famous editions of the past and the significance of present-day collected editions.
The phenomenon of the collected edition has made a vital contribution to the construction of authorship, the history of reputation and the formation o...
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The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property and the Law: Critiquing the Contract
ISBN: 9781403935731 / Angielski / Twarda / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property and the Law is a study of the radical novel's critique of the evolving social contract in the 1790s. Focusing on selected novels by Thomas Holcroft, Charlotte Smith, Elizabeth Inchbald, Robert Bage, William Godwin, Mary Hays, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Maria Edgeworth, this book examines narrative investigations into the intricate relationships between theories of rights, the requirements of proprietorship in civil society, and the construction of the legal subject.
The English Jacobin Novel on Rights, Property and the Law is a study of the radical novel's critique of the evolving social contract in the 1790s. Foc...
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Masculinity in Male-Authored Fiction, 1950-2000: Keeping It Up
ISBN: 9781403945501 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tracing the influence of masculinity on fictional form and theme through an era of dizzying social change, this timely new book conducts a close analysis of English novels selected for contrasting definitions of the male gender, from the allegedly Angry Young Men to the contemporary confessions of Nick Hornby. The literary period since 1950 is interpreted as one of intense political and stylistic negotiation by male authors with the gendered subject-positions both of fictional characters and those who read about them.
Tracing the influence of masculinity on fictional form and theme through an era of dizzying social change, this timely new book conducts a close analy...
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Defining Literary Criticism: Scholarship, Authority and the Possession of Literary Knowledge, 1880-2002
ISBN: 9781403946799 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Outlining the controversies that have surrounded the academic discipline of English Literature since its institutionalization in the late nineteenth century, this important book draws on a range of archival sources. It addresses issues that are central to the identity of academic English - how the subject came into existence, and what makes it a specialist discipline of knowledge - in a manner that illuminates many of the crises that have affected the development of modern English studies. Atherton also addresses contemporary arguments about the teaching of literary criticism, including an...
Outlining the controversies that have surrounded the academic discipline of English Literature since its institutionalization in the late nineteenth c...
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The Real History of Tom Jones
ISBN: 9781403966438 / Angielski / Twarda / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Real History of Tom Jones revivifies historical materials from which Henry Fielding constructed the greatest comic novel of the eighteenth century. This study recovers and explores the contexts necessary to understand Fielding's subtle art, such as the bloody conflict for the throne between Stuarts and Hanoverians, a contradictory class system, game laws that both protected and flouted individual property rights, and a justice system that proclaimed hanging for many crimes but let most criminals go. Drawing on evidence such as the peculiar appearance of eighteenth-century money, the...
The Real History of Tom Jones revivifies historical materials from which Henry Fielding constructed the greatest comic novel of the eighteenth century...
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Memory in Literature: From Rousseau to Neuroscience
ISBN: 9781403966872 / Angielski / Miękka / 185 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the first to discover and probe in depth memory phenomena captured in literary works. Using literature as a laboratory for the workings of the mind, this comparative study of writers from Jean-Jacques Rousseau to Octavio Paz, including Proust, Breton, Woolf and Faulkner, uncovers valuable material for the classification of the memory process. Nalbantian's daring interdisciplinary work, involving literature, science, and art, forges a new model for dialogue between the disciplines.
This book is the first to discover and probe in depth memory phenomena captured in literary works. Using literature as a laboratory for the workings o...
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Innocence and Rapture: The Erotic Child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov
ISBN: 9781403969767 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on works by Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov, Kevin Ohi explores the concept of the erotic child in Aestheticism. He compares the erotic child of these authors to the innocent child propogated by today's ideology, and argues that for these authors, the child served as an emblem for the ecstatic, erotic, and even queer possibilities of art.
Focusing on works by Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov, Kevin Ohi explores the concept of the erotic child in Aestheticism. He compares the erotic chil...
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201,24 |
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Theology and Literature: Rethinking Reader Responsibility
ISBN: 9781403971982 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of new essays by academics from different parts of the world brings refreshing and provocative responses to prominent literary theories, especially theories of the reading process and of reader-response. This edition is significant in three ways: for its encounter with world religions and literatures; its explicit literary cum theological discourse; and its strong focus on the ethics of reading and representation. It boasts an impressive multidisciplinary array of reader-response theories that straddle theological, cultural, and literary boundaries. The essays showcase a...
This collection of new essays by academics from different parts of the world brings refreshing and provocative responses to prominent literary theorie...
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201,24 |
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A Companion to Satire: Ancient and Modern
ISBN: 9781405119559 / Angielski / Twarda / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of twenty-nine original essays, surveys satire from its emergence in Western literature to the present.
This collection of twenty-nine original essays, surveys satire from its emergence in Western literature to the present.
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814,55 |
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Was Poe Immoral?: Edgar Allan Poe and His Critics
ISBN: 9781410211484 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An important, early work of criticism on Poe written by his fiancee.
An important, early work of criticism on Poe written by his fiancee.
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63,47 |
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