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Poetry: The Ultimate Guide
ISBN: 9781403994608 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Richard Bradford s new introduction to poetry combines definitions, context and literary theory to addresses and answer the slippery question what is poetry?'. The book provides a compact history of English poetry from the 16th century to the present day, alongside coverage of all the major critical and theoretical approaches to verse."
Richard Bradford s new introduction to poetry combines definitions, context and literary theory to addresses and answer the slippery question what is ...
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Pyostryye Skazki
ISBN: 9780719081842 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Odoyevsky's cycle of short stories, Pyostryye Skazki (1833), is a transitional work between his writings of the 1820s (in particular his contributions to Mnemozina, 1824-5) and his mature period which culminated in Russkiye Nochi (1844). Pyostryye Skazki thus represents a romantic amalgam of elements drawn from fairy-tale and folklore, the fantastic and the society tale, serving didactic, satirical and whimsical purposes. The narration supposedly comes from an authorial alter ego, one Iriney Modestovich Gomozeyko, who occupies a place in Russian literature of the 1830s alongside Pushkin's...
Odoyevsky's cycle of short stories, Pyostryye Skazki (1833), is a transitional work between his writings of the 1820s (in particular his contributions...
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103,06 |
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Reading, writing and the influence of Harold Bloom
ISBN: 9780719077012 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reading, writing and the influence of Harold Bloom' takes the work of the world's best-known living literary critic and discovers what it is like to read 'with', 'against' and 'beyond' his ideas.
The editors, Alan Rawes and Jonathon Shears, introduce the collection by assessing the impact of Bloom's brand of agonistic criticism on literary critics and its ongoing relevance to a discipline attempting to redefine and settle on its collective goals. Firmly grounded in, though not confined to, Bloom's first specialism of Romantic Studies, the volume contains essays that examine Bloom's debts... Reading, writing and the influence of Harold Bloom' takes the work of the world's best-known living literary critic and discovers what it is like to r...
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464,00 |
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Early American Literature, 1776-1820
ISBN: 9780816078622 / Angielski / Twarda / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Early American Literature: 1776-1820 examines American literature during the first years of the new nation. This new resource offers insightful strategies for studying and writing about early American literature, providing background information, productive areas of research, writing topics, and the best secondary sources for further study.
Early American Literature: 1776-1820 examines American literature during the first years of the new nation. This new resource offers insightful strate...
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205,71 |
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Women's Fiction Authors: A Research Guide
ISBN: 9781591586425 / Angielski / Miękka / 163 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Students, researchers, readers' advisors, and women's fiction fans will find a starting point for researching popular women's fiction authors and to find new ones with this practical guide. It includes entries for more than 70 leading contemporary and popular authors, listing print and online sources, as well as web sites for obtaining authoritative information. A special addition to this volume is the inclusion of "author read-alikes" for 15 of the featured authors. An appendix lists some of the classic forerunners of women's fiction.
Students, researchers, readers' advisors, and women's fiction fans will find a starting point for researching popular women's fiction authors and t... |
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175,23 |
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Huh - Krf
ISBN: 9783110213935 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 679 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1100,58 |
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Har - Hug
ISBN: 9783110213911 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 660 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following extensive revision and updating, the Killy Lexicon of Literature will be republished beginning in 2008. Thus, a new and improved edition of this renowned standard work of German literary science will be made available to scientists, students, and literature enthusiasts. The Killy includes bio-bibliographical articles about all of the important German-language authors from the Middle Ages to the present. It provides clear, reliable, and extensive information on the life and works of each author, thus facilitating the classification of each into a historical and literary-historical...
Following extensive revision and updating, the Killy Lexicon of Literature will be republished beginning in 2008. Thus, a new and improved edition of ...
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1100,58 |
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Fri - Hap
ISBN: 9783110213898 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 677 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1100,58 |
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The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction
ISBN: 9780230542556 / Angielski / Twarda / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written in hypertext and read from a computer, hypertext novels exist as a collection of textual fragments, which must be pieced together by the reader. The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction offers a new critical theory tailored specifically for this burgeoning genre, providing a much needed body of criticism in a key area of new media fiction.
Written in hypertext and read from a computer, hypertext novels exist as a collection of textual fragments, which must be pieced together by the reade...
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201,24 |
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Beckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the Fiction and Criticism
ISBN: 9780719071577 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the fiction and criticism is the first study in English on the literary relation between Beckett and Dante. It is an innovative reading of Samuel Beckett and Dante's works and a critical engagement with contemporary theories of intertextuality. It is an informative intertextual reading of Beckett's work, detecting previously unknown quotations, allusions to, and parodies of Dante in Beckett's fiction and criticism. The volume interprets Dante in the original Italian (as it appears in Beckett), translating into English all Italian quotations. It benefits...
Beckett's Dantes: Intertextuality in the fiction and criticism is the first study in English on the literary relation between Beckett and Dante. It is...
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103,06 |
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The Four Funerals in Beowulf and the Structure of the Poem
ISBN: 9780719081217 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is well known that the old English poem "Beowulf" begins and ends with funerals and includes the third as a digression part way through. Now, for the first time, a fourth funeral (hitherto disguised as poetic imagery) is identified from archaeological evidence. A detailed analysis of the four funerals establishes their thematic and structural importance, revealing them as pillars around which the poem is built. The poet is revealed as a literate antiquarian of considerable structural skill; one who explores feminist issues, plays with numbers and enjoys a pun; who establishes an ideal then...
It is well known that the old English poem "Beowulf" begins and ends with funerals and includes the third as a digression part way through. Now, for t...
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103,06 |
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Now Read This III: A Guide to Mainstream Fiction
ISBN: 9781591585701 / Angielski / Twarda / 405 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The third in the Now Read This series, Pearl & Cords's guide briefly describes and organizes approximately 500 of the most popular and current contemporary, mainstream fiction titles according to their primary appeal features-character, setting, language, and story. It also notes award-winning titles and those appropriate for book clubs; and it offers users suggestions for related reads. Focus is on titles published since 2000, and all annotations are new to this volume. This is "the" standard readers' advisory guide to mainstream fiction, and an essential tool for readers' advisors.
The third in the Now Read This series, Pearl & Cords's guide briefly describes and organizes approximately 500 of the most popular and current cont... |
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309,33 |
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Critical Survey of Long Fiction: Print Purchase Includes Free Online Access
ISBN: 9781587655357 / Angielski / Twarda / 6056 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The newly revised Critical Survey of Long Fiction grows to ten volumes and offers profiles on the major writers of long fiction throughout history and the world. The in-depth essays in this set are designed for high school, undergraduate students and adult readers. Each essay provides an author biography, career analysis, and thoughtful critiques of individual novels and novellas.
The newly revised Critical Survey of Long Fiction grows to ten volumes and offers profiles on the major writers of long fiction throughout history and...
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Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature
ISBN: 9780810855168 / Angielski / Twarda / 494 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature in modern China. This book offers a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central role in the evolution of modern Chinese literature.
Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature in modern China. This boo...
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651,40 |
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The Portable Poetry Workshop
ISBN: 9780230522305 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the art of poetry writing from a practice-based perspective, showing how form, trope and theory inform the practical craft of writing poems. It is divided into three key sections:
Each chapter unpacks a particular concept or form, using examples to display it in... This book explores the art of poetry writing from a practice-based perspective, showing how form, trope and theory inform the practical craft of wr... |
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133,99 |
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The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns
ISBN: 9780748636488 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns provides both a comprehensive introduction to and the most contemporary critical contexts for the study of Robert Burns. Detailed commentary on the artistry of Burns is complemented by material on the cultural reception and afterlife of this most iconic of world writers. The biographical construction of Burns is examined as are his relations to Scottish, Romantic and International cultures. Burns is also approached in terms of his engagements with Ecology, Gender, Pastoral, Politics, Pornography, Slavery, and Song-culture, and there is extensive...
The Edinburgh Companion to Robert Burns provides both a comprehensive introduction to and the most contemporary critical contexts for the study of Rob...
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514,26 |
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The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry
ISBN: 9780748636259 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The last three decades have seen unprecedented flourishing of creativity across the Scottish literary landscape, so that contemporary Scottish poetry constitutes an internationally renowned, award-winning body of work. At the heart of this has been the work of poets. As this poetry makes space for its own innovative concerns, it renegotiates the poetic inheritance of preceding generations. At the same time, Scottish poetry continues to be animated by writing from other places. The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry is the definitive guide to this flourishing poetic scene. Its...
The last three decades have seen unprecedented flourishing of creativity across the Scottish literary landscape, so that contemporary Scottish poetry ...
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The Novel 100 : A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time
ISBN: 9780816078592 / Angielski / Twarda / 632 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Which novels are truly great, and why? The Novel 100, Revised Edition is a unique reference that profiles great novels drawn from all cultures and periods of literature. Each entry provides a plot summary and assessment of a particular novel, with an emphasis on facts about the novel's creation, critical reception, and contribution to literary history. For this revised edition, Daniel S. Burt has reevaluated the original list and added entries on 25 additional novels, including Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Jane Austen's Persuasion, Charles Dickens's David Copperfield, Philip Roth's...
Which novels are truly great, and why? The Novel 100, Revised Edition is a unique reference that profiles great novels drawn from all cultures and per...
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The Novel 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Novels of All Time
ISBN: 9780816078608 / Angielski / Miękka / 632 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Which novels are truly great, and why? The Novel 100, Revised Edition is a unique reference that profiles great novels drawn from all cultures and periods of literature. Each entry provides a plot summary and assessment of a particular novel, with an emphasis on facts about the novel's creation, critical reception, and contribution to literary history.
Which novels are truly great, and why? The Novel 100, Revised Edition is a unique reference that profiles great novels drawn from all cultures and per...
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83,21 |
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Book of the Perfect Life
ISBN: 9780300165111 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Book of the Perfect Life crystallizes the mystical experience of the late Middle Ages, but still speaks to seekers today. Martin Luther wrote of this fourteenth-century devotional work that "next to the Bible and St Augustine, no other book has come to my attention from which I have learned-and desired to learn-more concerning God, Christ, man, and what all things are." Theologia Deutsch-the title this work has most commonly appeared under-has been through 190 editions in ten languages throughout its six hundred-year history. Drawing on the latest German critical edition of the work,...
The Book of the Perfect Life crystallizes the mystical experience of the late Middle Ages, but still speaks to seekers today. Martin Luther wrote of t...
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