Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime Fiction: Works and Authors of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden Since 1967
ISBN: 9780786475360 / Angielski / Miękka / 572 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the late 1960s, the novels of Sjowall and Wahloo's Martin Beck detective series, along with the works of Henning Mankell, Hakan Nesser and Stieg Larsson, have sparked an explosion of Nordic crime fiction--grim police procedurals treating urgent sociopolitical issues affecting the contemporary world. Steeped in noir techniques and viewpoints, many of these novels are reaching international audiences through film and television adaptations. This reference guide introduces the world of Nordic crime fiction to English-speaking readers. Caught between the demands of conscience and societal...
Since the late 1960s, the novels of Sjowall and Wahloo's Martin Beck detective series, along with the works of Henning Mankell, Hakan Nesser and Stieg...
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Plotted: A Literary Atlas
ISBN: 9781936976867 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This incredibly wide-ranging collection of maps--all inspired by literary classics--offers readers a new way of looking at their favorite fictional worlds. Andrew DeGraff's stunningly detailed artwork takes readers deep into the landscapes from The Odyssey, Hamlet, Pride and Prejudice, Invisible Man, A Wrinkle in Time, Watership Down, A Christmas Carol, and more. Sure to reignite a love for old favorites and spark fresh interest in more recent works as well, Plotted provides a unique new way of appreciating the lands of the...
This incredibly wide-ranging collection of maps--all inspired by literary classics--offers readers a new way of looking at their favorite fictional wo...
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The Arabian Nights Entertainments
ISBN: 9781515261568 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. In the chronicles of the ancient dynasty of the Sassanidae, who reigned for about four hundred years, from Persia to the borders of China, beyond the great river Ganges itself, we read the praises of one of the kings of this race, who was said to be the best monarch of his time. His subjects loved him, and his...
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114,37 zł |
The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt Vol 8: The Plain Speaker
ISBN: 9781138763272 / Angielski / Twarda / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in complete form.
William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period. This nine-volu...
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Romantic Women Writers Reviewed, Part II Vol 5
ISBN: 9781138756779 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women writers to a wider audience.
This multi-volume reset collection will address a significant shortfall in scholarly work, offering contemporary reviews of the work of Romantic women...
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The Ben Jonson Encyclopedia
ISBN: 9780810890749 / Angielski / Twarda / 644 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Friend and rival of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson was one of the most learned and interesting men of his age. Throughout his fascinating life, he served not only as a bricklayer but also a soldier, an adventurer, an actor, a poet, and a playwright. The breadth of his experiences, acquaintances, friends, and enemies was legendary, and his literary canon is equally as diverse. The Ben Jonson Encyclopedia covers in detail the works, life, and times of this seminal figure of the English Renaissance. The cross-referenced entries include summaries of all Jonson s plays, masques, and entertainments, as...
Friend and rival of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson was one of the most learned and interesting men of his age. Throughout his fascinating life, he served not...
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The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature
ISBN: 9781474413947 / Angielski / Miękka / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In fifty-seven chapters leading academics in the field of twentieth-century war studies examine the major wars of the century as well as other conflicts imagined by English and US writers. These include the Boer War, Spanish Civil War, the troubles in Northern Ireland, the Korean War and the decolonising conflicts in Africa through to the war on terror. Topics covered include: pacifism; refugees; camouflage; the war plane; war and children's literature; war and art; spy thrillers, and many more. Taken together the essays make a deliberate and thought-provoking intervention in the field.
In fifty-seven chapters leading academics in the field of twentieth-century war studies examine the major wars of the century as well as other conflic...
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Arthurian Legend in the Seventeenth Century
ISBN: 9781138963900 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The study of the Arthurian legend in the 1600s has revealed almost no romance; the stories are more about the truth of Arthur's existence and his exploits, with influence due to political bearing of the royalty versus parliament at the time. This fascinating study elucidates the differences between the stories of the seventeenth century and those more well-known now and looks at the development of the literature in line with the political climate and its links with Arthurian prophecy and lineage. Originally published 1932 and again in 1967. The study of the Arthurian legend in the 1600s has revealed almost no romance; the stories are more about the truth of Arthur's existence and his e... |
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Image and Influence: Studies in the Sociology of Film
ISBN: 9781138992368 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text outlines what sociologists need to know of the nature of communication and of mass culture, while also looking in some empirical detail at the workings of the Hollywood community and the psychology of the star system. It explores trends such as attempts to adapt semiology and psycholinguistics to our understanding of film 'language', using them to develop a paradigm for film analysis. The book goes on to offer a guide to comprehension of the relation between cinema and society through detailed analysis of the relation between the German silent cinema and its social context and... This text outlines what sociologists need to know of the nature of communication and of mass culture, while also looking in some empirical detail a... |
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Early Cinema in Russia and Its Cultural Reception
ISBN: 9781138968097 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the development of cinematic form and culture in Russia, from its late nineteenth-century beginnings as a fairground attraction to the early post-Revolutionary years. The author traces the changing perceptions of cinema and its social transition from a modernist invention to a national art form. He explores reactions to the earliest films from actors, novelists, poets, writers and journalists. His richly detailed study of the physical elements of cinematic performance includes the architecture and illumination of the cinema foyer, the speed of projection and film... This book examines the development of cinematic form and culture in Russia, from its late nineteenth-century beginnings as a fairground attraction ... |
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Cinema, Literature & Society: Elite and Mass Culture in Interwar Britain
ISBN: 9781138970748 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the interwar period cinema and literature seemed to be at odds with each other, part of the continuing struggle between mass and elite culture which so worried writers such as Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot and the Leavises. And this cultural divide appeared to be sharp evidence of a deeper struggle for control of the nation's consciousness, not only between dominant and oppositional elements within Britain, but between British and American vales as well. On the one hand, films like Sing As We Go, Proud Valley, and The Stars Look Down consolidated the... During the interwar period cinema and literature seemed to be at odds with each other, part of the continuing struggle between mass and elite cultu... |
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The Films of Werner Herzog: Between Mirage and History
ISBN: 9781138989245 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Given Herzog's own pronouncement that 'film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates, ' it is not surprising that his work has aroused ambivalent and contradictory responses. Visually and philosophically ambitious and at the same time provocatively eccentric, Herzog's films have been greeted equally by extreme adulation and extreme condemnation. Even as Herzog's rebellious images have gained him a reputation as a master of the German New Wave, he has been attacked for indulging in a romantic naivete and wilful self-absorption. To his hardest critics, Herzog's films appear as... Given Herzog's own pronouncement that 'film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates, ' it is not surprising that his work has aroused ambiva... |
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Hollywood in the Age of Television
ISBN: 9781138971912 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of papers examines the evolving relationship between the motion picture industry and television from the 1940s onwards. The institutional and technological histories of the film and TV industries are looked at, concluding that Hollywood and television had a symbiotic relationship from the start. Aspects covered include the movement of audiences, the rise of the independent producer, the introduction of colour and the emergence of network structure, cable TV and video recorders. Originally published in 1990. This collection of papers examines the evolving relationship between the motion picture industry and television from the 1940s onwards. The institu... |
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The Arabian Nights Entertainments
ISBN: 9781514840795 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Performing the Renaissance Body: Essays on Drama, Law, and Representation
ISBN: 9783110462593 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the Renaissance period the body emerges as the repository of social and cultural forces and a privileged metaphor for political practices and legal codification. Due to its ambivalent expressive force, it represents the seat and the means for the performance of normative identity and at the same time of alterity. The essays of the collection address the manifold articulations of this topic, demonstrating how the inscription of the body within the discursive spheres of gender identity, sexuality, law, and politics align its materiality with discourses whose effects are themselves... In the Renaissance period the body emerges as the repository of social and cultural forces and a privileged metaphor for political practices and le... |
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David Jones on Religion, Politics, and Culture: Unpublished Prose
ISBN: 9781474274135 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. David Jones - author of In Parenthesis, the great epic poem of World War I - is increasingly recognised as a major voice in the first generation of British Modernist writers. Acclaimed by the likes of T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats and W.H. Auden, his writing was deeply informed by his Christian faith and Welsh blood. This book makes available for the first time a number of previously unpublished writings by Jones that cast new light not only on Jones's own writing but on the political, religious and cultural engagements of British Modernism. Annotated throughout, with substantial... David Jones - author of In Parenthesis, the great epic poem of World War I - is increasingly recognised as a major voice in the first genera... |
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The William Makepeace Thackeray Library: Volume II - Early Travel Writings
ISBN: 9781138201934 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Makepeace Thackeray spent part of virtually every year of his writing life in Paris and he wrote continually on France and French culture. This volume contains a selection of Thackeray s travel writing, the majority of which centres around his time spent in France, with the addition of some writing on his travels to Germany and America." "With an explanatory introduction by Richard Pearson, this books reveals some of Thackeray s lesser-known work which would later inform his later novels. This book will be of interest to those studying Thackeray and nineteenth-century travel... William Makepeace Thackeray spent part of virtually every year of his writing life in Paris and he wrote continually on France and French culture. ... |
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The William Makepeace Thackeray Library: Volume I - Early Fiction and Journalism
ISBN: 9781138699410 / Angielski / Twarda / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains extracts of William Makepeace Thackeray s early fiction and journalism in the 1830s and 1840s. In his early career, Thackeray worked as an editor, sub-editor, writer, reviewer, foreign journalist, illustrator, versifier, and hack reporter, and by 1837 had managed to maintain an unbroken and multi-faceted literary output through magazines, journals and newspapers for fourteen years. With an introduction by Richard Pearson, this books reveals some of Thackeray s early and lesser-known work. This book will be of interest to those studying Thackeray and... This volume contains extracts of William Makepeace Thackeray s early fiction and journalism in the 1830s and 1840s. In his early career, Thackeray ... |
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Word and Image in Arthurian Literature
ISBN: 9781138987302 / Angielski / Miękka / 377 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1996, the articles in this book are revised, expanded papers from a session at the 17th International Congress of the Arthurian Society held in 1993. The chapters cover Arthurian studies' directions at the time, showcasing analysis of varied aspects of visual representation and relation to literary themes. Close attention to the historical context is a key feature of this work, investigating the linkage between texts and images in the Middle Ages and beyond. Originally published in 1996, the articles in this book are revised, expanded papers from a session at the 17th International Congress o... |
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219,99 zł |
Minnereden
ISBN: 9783110464313 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 513 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Minnereden bilden die umfangreichste Textgruppe der weltlichen deutschen Literatur des spaten Mittelalters. Die zumeist paargereimten Verstexte sind uberaus wertvolle Quellen fur die Erforschung des vormodernen Diskurses uber die verschiedenen Dimensionen zwischengeschlechtlicher Liebe. Bisherige Minnereden-Anthologien beschranken sich auf die unkommentierte Wiedergabe historischer Sammlungskontexte. Erstmals steht mit der vorliegenden Edition nun ein reprasentatives Bild des Gattungszusammenhangs zur Verfugung. Die Auswahl der 57 Texte - zusammen ca. 10.600 Verse - orientiert sich... Minnereden bilden die umfangreichste Textgruppe der weltlichen deutschen Literatur des spaten Mittelalters. Die zumeist paargereimten Verstexte sin... |
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