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Oceania and the Victorian Imagination: Where All Things Are Possible. Edited by Richard D. Fulton and Peter H. Hoffenberg
ISBN: 9781409457114 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Oceania, or the South Pacific, loomed large in the Victorian popular imagination. It was a world that interested the Victorians for many reasons, all of which suggested to them that everything was possible there. This collection of essays focuses on Oceania s impact on Victorian culture, most notably travel writing, photography, international exhibitions, literature, and the world of children. Each of these had significant impact. The literature discussed affected mainly the middle and upper classes, while exhibitions and photography reached down into the working classes, as did missionary...
Oceania, or the South Pacific, loomed large in the Victorian popular imagination. It was a world that interested the Victorians for many reasons, all ...
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773,33 |
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The American Idea of England, 1776-1840: Transatlantic Writing
ISBN: 9781409430506 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arguing that American colonists who declared their independence in 1776 remained tied to England by both habit and inclination, Jennifer Clark traces the new Americans' struggle to come to terms with their loss of identity as British, and particularly English, citizens. Americans' attempts to negotiate the new Anglo-American relationship are revealed in letters, newspaper accounts, travel reports, essays, song lyrics, short stories and novels, which Clark suggests show them repositioning themselves in a transatlantic context newly defined by political revolution. Chapters examine political...
Arguing that American colonists who declared their independence in 1776 remained tied to England by both habit and inclination, Jennifer Clark traces ...
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734,66 |
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Joyce's Love Stories
ISBN: 9781409442769 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his comprehensive study of love in James Joyce's writings, Christopher DeVault suggests that a love ethic persists throughout Joyce's works. DeVault uses Martin Buber's distinction between the true love for others and the narcissistic desire for oneself to frame his discussion, showing that Joyce frequently ties his characters' personal and political pursuits to their ability to affirm both their loved ones and their fellow Dubliners. In his short stories and novels, DeVault argues, Joyce shows how personal love makes possible a broader social compassion that creates a more progressive...
In his comprehensive study of love in James Joyce's writings, Christopher DeVault suggests that a love ethic persists throughout Joyce's works. DeVaul...
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734,66 |
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The Science of Literature: Essays on an Incalculable Difference
ISBN: 9783110323948 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most contentious questions in contemporary literary studies is whether there can ever be a science of literature that can lay claim to objectivity and universality, for example by concentrating on philological criticism, by appealing to cognitive science, or by exposing the underlying media of literary communication. The present collection of essays seeks to open up this discussion by posing the question's historical and systematic double: has there been a science of literature, i.e. a mode of presentation and practice of reference in science that owes... One of the most contentious questions in contemporary literary studies is whether there can ever be a science of literature that can lay c... |
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488,46 |
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Mortality's Muse: The Fine Art of Dying
ISBN: 9781611494549 / Angielski / Twarda / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The inevitability of death--that of others and our own--is surely among our greatest anxieties. Mortality's Muse: The Fine Art of Dying explores how art, mainly literary art, addresses that troubling reality. While religion and philosophy offer important consolations for life's end, art responds in ways that are perhaps more complete and certainly more deeply human. Among subjects treated: the ars moriendi or "art of dying" tradition; the contrast between past and more recent cultural values; the religious consolation's value but shortcoming for some people; the role of art in offering a...
The inevitability of death--that of others and our own--is surely among our greatest anxieties. Mortality's Muse: The Fine Art of Dying explores how a...
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372,23 |
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Rewriting Medea: Toni Morrison and Liz Lochhead's Postmodern Perspectives
ISBN: 9781612332598 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The complexity of the mother-children relationship, the problems of maternal loss, inordinate erotic love and betrayal, along with the need for a woman to affirm her own identity against every patriarchal oppression, arguably make Medea one of the most popular myths re-enacted by contemporary women writers. Toni Morrison and Liz Lochhead turn to it for the freedom of creating narratives that offer both victimized and empowered portrayals of women, and exploit the key figure of problematic motherhood to invert its canonical tropes. The role of classic appropriation as a counter-hegemonic...
The complexity of the mother-children relationship, the problems of maternal loss, inordinate erotic love and betrayal, along with the need for a woma...
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111,99 |
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Provocation and Negotiation : Essays in Comparative Criticism
ISBN: 9789042037052 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays takes on two of the most pressing questions that face the discipline of Comparative Literature today: "Why compare?" and "Where do we go from here?." At a difficult economic time, when universities all over the world once again have to justify the social as well as academic value of their work, it is crucial that we consider the function of comparison itself in reaching across disciplinary and cultural boundaries. The essays written for this book are by researchers from all over the world, and range in topic from the problem of translating biblical Hebrew to modern...
This collection of essays takes on two of the most pressing questions that face the discipline of Comparative Literature today: "Why compare?" and "Wh...
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399,44 |
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How to Study a Jane Austen Novel
ISBN: 9780333670743 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. However much students enjoy their reading of a Jane Austen novel, many find it difficult to know how to organise their critical responses. This book shows students how to develop a firm grasp of Jane Austen's characters, themes and techniques, as well as such central topics as the use of irony in the novels, and their style and moral patterning. However much students enjoy their reading of a Jane Austen novel, many find it difficult to know how to organise their critical responses. This boo... |
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164,92 |
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The Language and Literature Reader
ISBN: 9780415410038 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Language and Literature Reader is an invaluable resource for students of English literature, language, and linguistics. Bringing together the most significant work in the field with integrated editorial material, this Reader is a structured and accessible tool for the student and scholar. Divided into three sections, Foundations, Developments and New Directions, the Reader provides an overview of the discipline from the early stages in the 1960s and 70s, through the new theories and practices of the 1980s and 90s, to the most recent and contemporary... The Language and Literature Reader is an invaluable resource for students of English literature, language, and linguistics. Bringing toget... |
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244,84 |
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The Lives of the Novel: A History
ISBN: 9780691121895 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a bold and original original history of the novel from ancient Greece to the vibrant world of contemporary fiction. In this wide-ranging survey, Thomas Pavel argues that the driving force behind the novel's evolution has been a rivalry between stories that idealize human behavior and those that ridicule and condemn it. Impelled by this conflict, the novel moved from depicting strong souls to sensitive hearts and, finally, to enigmatic psyches. Pavel analyzes more than a hundred novels from Europe, North and South America, Asia, and beyond, resulting in a provocative... This is a bold and original original history of the novel from ancient Greece to the vibrant world of contemporary fiction. In this wide-ranging su... |
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195,91 |
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature - New and Expanded Edition
ISBN: 9780691160221 / Angielski / Miękka / 616 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant display of erudition, wit, and wisdom, his exploration of how great European writers from Homer to Virginia Woolf depicted reality has taught generations how to read Western literature. This new expanded edition includes a substantial essay in introduction by Edward Said as well as an essay, never before translated into English, in which Auerbach responds to his critics. A German Jew, Auerbach was forced out of his professorship at the... More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach's Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary criticism. A brilliant disp... |
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107,71 |
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Daniel O'Connell, the British Press and the Irish Famine: Killing Remarks
ISBN: 9780754605539 / Angielski / Twarda / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through an investigation of the reportage in 19th-century English metropolitan newspapers and illustrated journals, this book begins with the question Did anti-O'Connell sentiment in the British press lead to 'killing remarks', rhetoric that helped the press, government and public opinion distance themselves from the Irish Famine?. The book explores the reportage of events and people in Ireland, focusing first on Daniel O'Connell and then on debates about the seriousness of the famine.
Through an investigation of the reportage in 19th-century English metropolitan newspapers and illustrated journals, this book begins with the question...
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695,99 |
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Fictions of the Sea: Critical Perspectives on the Ocean in British Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9780754606208 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This timely collection brings together twelve original essays on the cultural meaning of the sea in British literature and history, from early modern times to the present. Interdisciplinary in conception, it charts metaphorical and material links between the idea of the sea in the cultural imagination and its significance for the social and political history of Britain, offering a fresh analysis of the impact of the ocean on the formation of British cultural identities. Among the cultural and literary artifacts considered are early modern legal treatises on marine boundaries, Renaissance and...
This timely collection brings together twelve original essays on the cultural meaning of the sea in British literature and history, from early modern ...
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710,17 |
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Staging Anatomies: Dissection and Spectacle in Early Stuart Tragedy
ISBN: 9780754633990 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hillary M. Nunn here traces the connections between the London public's interest in medical dissection and the changing cultural significance of bloodshed on the early Stuart playhouse stage. Considering the playhouses' role within the social world of early modern London, Nunn explores the influence of public dissection upon the presentation of human bodies in well-known plays such as King Lear, as well as in a wide range of often neglected early Stuart tragedies like The Second Maiden's Tragedy and Revenge for Honour. In addition to dramatic texts, the study draws heavily on anatomy...
Hillary M. Nunn here traces the connections between the London public's interest in medical dissection and the changing cultural significance of blood...
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710,17 |
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Talking Animals in British Children's Fiction, 1786-1914
ISBN: 9780754636564 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traces how 19th-century debates about the human and animal intersected with the venerable genre of the animal story written for children. This work raises questions about the construction of the child reader, the qualifications of the implied author, and the possibilities of children's literature compared with literature written for adults.
Traces how 19th-century debates about the human and animal intersected with the venerable genre of the animal story written for children. This work ra...
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773,33 |
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Disease, Diagnosis, and Cure on the Early Modern Stage
ISBN: 9780754637912 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays makes an important contribution to scholarship by examining how the myths and practices of medical knowledge were interwoven into popular entertainment on the early modern stage. Rather than treating medicine, the theater, and literary texts separately, the contributors show how the anxieties engendered by medical socio-scientific investigations were translated from the realm of medicine to the stage by Renaissance playwrights, especially Shakespeare. As a whole, the volume reconsiders typical ways of viewing medical theory and practice while individual essays focus...
This collection of essays makes an important contribution to scholarship by examining how the myths and practices of medical knowledge were interwoven...
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710,17 |
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Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community: A Literary Study of Political Identities, 1650-1700
ISBN: 9780754639855 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focussing on Quaker pamphlet literature of the commonwealth and restoration period, Catie Gill seeks to explore and explain womena s presence as activists, writers, and subjects within the early Quaker movement. Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community draws on contemporary resources such as prophetic writing, prison narratives, petitions, and deathbed testimonies to produce an account of womena s involvement in the shaping of this religious movement. The book reveals that, far from being of marginal importance, women were able to exploit the terms in which Quaker identity was...
Focussing on Quaker pamphlet literature of the commonwealth and restoration period, Catie Gill seeks to explore and explain womena s presence as activ...
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710,17 |
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Joseph Severn: Letters and Memoirs
ISBN: 9780754650140 / Angielski / Twarda / 752 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together 160 of Joseph Severn's letters, most never before published, along with reproductions of 30 of Severn's paintings and drawings.
This volume brings together 160 of Joseph Severn's letters, most never before published, along with reproductions of 30 of Severn's paintings and draw...
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710,17 |
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Hellenism and Loss in the Work of Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9781409404453 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking up Virginia Woolf's fascination with Greek literature and culture, this book explores her engagement with the nineteenth-century phenomenon of British Hellenism and her transformation of that multifaceted socio-cultural and political reality into a particular textual aesthetic, which Theodore Koulouris defines as 'Greekness.' Woolf was a lifelong student of Greek, but from 1907 to1909 she kept notes on her Greek readings in the Greek Notebook, an obscure and largely unexamined manuscript that contains her analyses of a number of canonical Greek texts, including Plato's Symposium,...
Taking up Virginia Woolf's fascination with Greek literature and culture, this book explores her engagement with the nineteenth-century phenomenon of ...
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783,64 |
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Beastly Journeys: Travel and Transformation at the Fin de Siècle
ISBN: 9781846319587 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bats, beetles, wolves, butterflies, bulls, panthers, apes, leopards and spiders are among the countless creatures that crowd the pages of literature of the late nineteenth century. Whether in Gothic novels, science fiction, fantasy, fairy tales, journalism, political discourse, realism or naturalism, the line between the human and the animal becomes blurred. Beastly Journeys examines these bestial transformations across a range of well-known and less familiar texts and shows how they are provoked not only by the mutations of Darwinism but by social and economic shifts that have been lost in...
Bats, beetles, wolves, butterflies, bulls, panthers, apes, leopards and spiders are among the countless creatures that crowd the pages of literature o...
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195,86 |
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