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"Invisible Cities" and the Urban Imagination
ISBN: 9783031130472 / Angielski / Twarda / 359 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1972, Italo Calvino publishedInvisible Cities, a literary book that masterfully combines philosophy and poetry, rigid structure and free play, theoretical insight and glittering prose. The text is an extended meditation on urban life, and it continues to resonate not only among literary scholars, but among social scientists, architects, and urban planners as well. To commemorate the 50thanniversary ofInvisible Cities, this collection of essays serves as both an appreciation and a critical engagement. Drawing from a wide array of disciplinary perspectives and geographical contexts, this...
In 1972, Italo Calvino publishedInvisible Cities, a literary book that masterfully combines philosophy and poetry, rigid structure and free play, theo...
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Contemporary French and Francophone Futuristic Novels: The Longing to Be Written and Its Refusal
ISBN: 9783031166273 / Angielski / Twarda / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book sheds a new light on the metafictional aspects of futuristic and science fiction novels, at the crossroads of information and media studies, possible worlds theories applied to cognitive narratology, questions related to the criticism of post-humanity, and, more broadly, contemporary French and Francophone literature. It examines the fictional minds of characters and their conceptions of resistance to the anticipated worlds they inhabit, particularly in novels by Pierre Bordage, Marie Darrieussecq, Michel Houellebecq, Amin Maalouf, Jean-Christophe Rufin, Antoine Volodine, and...
This book sheds a new light on the metafictional aspects of futuristic and science fiction novels, at the crossroads of information and media studies,...
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483,04 |
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Ayatollah Khomeini\'s Mystical Poetry and Its Reception in Iran and the Diaspora
ISBN: 9789087284015 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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505,22 |
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Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fiction
ISBN: 9783030870768 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fictionexamines questions of truth and relativism, turning to detectives, both real and imagined, from Poe’s C. Auguste Dupin to Robert Mueller, to establish an oblique history of the path from a world where not believing in truth was unthinkable to the present, where it is common to believe that objective truth is a remnant of a simpler, more naïve time. Examining detective stories both literary and popular including hard-boiled, postmodern, and twenty-first century novels, the book establishes that examining detective fiction allows for a unique...
Truth to Post-Truth in American Detective Fictionexamines questions of truth and relativism, turning to detectives, both real and imagined, from Poe...
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442,79 |
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Marlene Streeruwitz: Perspektiven Auf Autorin Und Werk
ISBN: 9783662647714 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marlene Streeruwitz ist eine der streitbarsten politischen Autor*innen der Gegenwart. Literatur ist ihr nicht nur politisches Instrument, sondern als »Modell der Welt in Sprache« zugleich auch ästhetisch autonom. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes diskutieren die Weiterschreibungen, Gegen- und Neukonstruktionen der außertextuellen Welt in den Prosatexten, Essays, Vorlesungen und crossmedialen Projekten der Autorin. In den Blick genommen wird das Welt- und Lebenswissen der Literatur, ihr Beitrag zu unserer Trauer und Resistenz, Erinnerungs- und Überlebensfähigkeit – zwischen Glück, Lust,...
Marlene Streeruwitz ist eine der streitbarsten politischen Autor*innen der Gegenwart. Literatur ist ihr nicht nur politisches Instrument, sondern als ...
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319,76 |
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The Stuttering Son in Literature and Psychology: Boys and Their Fathers
ISBN: 9783031100383 / Angielski / Twarda / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Stuttering Son: A Literary Study of Boys and Their Fathersexamines stuttering, a condition which overwhelmingly affects boys, in terms of the complex relationships a number of male authors have had with their fathers. Most of these writers, from Cotton Mather to John Updike, were themselves stutterers; for two others, Melville and Kafka, the focus shifts to how similar family tensions contributed to their interest in the related condition of anorexia. A final section looks at the patricidal impulse lurking behind much of this analysis, as evident in Dostoyevsky, Shakespeare’sHamlet, and...
The Stuttering Son: A Literary Study of Boys and Their Fathersexamines stuttering, a condition which overwhelmingly affects boys, in terms of the comp...
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483,04 |
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Reading the Vegetarian Vampire
ISBN: 9783031183492 / Angielski / Twarda / 133 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Pivot traces the rise of the so-called “vegetarian” vampire in popular culture and contemporary vampire fiction, while also exploring how the shift in the diet of (some) vampires, from human to animal or synthetic blood, responds to a growing ecological awareness that is rapidly reshaping our understanding of relations with others species. The book introduces the trope of the vegetarian vampire, as well as important critical contexts for its discussion: the Anthropocene, food studies, and the modern practice, politics and ideologies of vegetarianism. Drawing on references to recent...
This Pivot traces the rise of the so-called “vegetarian” vampire in popular culture and contemporary vampire fiction, while also exploring how the...
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181,11 |
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Peter Handke: Narrative Worlds – Pictorial Orders
ISBN: 9783476059314 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The volume presents Handke's works from Hornissen (1966) to Das zweite Schwert (2020) in individual analyses and at the same time opens up overarching orientations of Handke's writing. The autoreflexive traces that characterise the author's experimental early work are perpetuated in a middle phase by a return to traditional forms of epic narrative and literary models that is philosophically influenced. In the late work, these approaches give rise to a comprehensive poetology of narrative that links all the texts together. In the process, previously developed motifs are condensed into...
The volume presents Handke's works from Hornissen (1966) to Das zweite Schwert (2020) in individual analyses and at the same time opens up overarching...
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563,56 |
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Eine Poetik des Hasses: Negative Emotionalität und herabsetzendes Schreiben in der Gegenwartsliteratur
ISBN: 9783662663202 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In seiner Studie analysiert Patrick Siegmann das Schreiben von Elfriede Jelinek, Thomas Bernhard und Rainald Goetz, in welchem eine fortdauernde Auseinandersetzung mit dem Hass auf verschiedene Weisen thematisiert wird. Dabei widmet er sich der Erschliessung einer Poetik des Hasses, die sich gegen Kategorien wie Heimat und Familie richtet und welche der Aufarbeitung der nationalsozialistischen Vergangenheit sowie der deutschen Identitat dient. Die fur die kultur- und literaturwissenschaftliche Untersuchung des Hasses gewinnbringenden Primaranalysen fokussieren einen Textkorpus aus Romanen,...
In seiner Studie analysiert Patrick Siegmann das Schreiben von Elfriede Jelinek, Thomas Bernhard und Rainald Goetz, in welchem eine fortdauernde Ausei...
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244,52 |
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Unlocking the Future: The Urban Imagination in Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction
ISBN: 9781032483382 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book highlights the urban imagination in contemporary Chinese science fiction, in order to assess the capacity of Chinese society to conceive of the future.
The author argues that ‘the future’ is a set of directional and normative ideas that forms the basis of the entire social mobilization mechanism in China, while the capacity to imagine the future is likely to be produced in response to the present challenges. By discussing the urban space, the reconstruction of time, the infrastructure, and concepts of the 'urban-rural' and civilization in contemporary Chinese science fiction, she... The book highlights the urban imagination in contemporary Chinese science fiction, in order to assess the capacity of Chinese society to conceive of t...
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631,52 |
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Trauma and Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9783030774097 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Trauma and Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and Culturerepositions motherhood studies through the lens of trauma theory by exploring new challenges surrounding conception, pregnancy, and postpartum experiences. Chapters investigate nine case studies of motherhood trauma and recovery in literature and culture from the last twenty years by exploring their emotional consequences through the lens of trauma, resilience, and “working through” theories. Contributions engage with a transnational corpus drawn from the five continents and span topics as rarely discussed as pregnancy denial,...
Trauma and Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and Culturerepositions motherhood studies through the lens of trauma theory by exploring new challeng...
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563,56 |
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Book Markets in Mediterranean Europe and Latin America: Institutions and Strategies (15th-18th Centuries)
ISBN: 9783031132674 / Angielski / Twarda / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book depicts the Early Modern book markets in Europe and colonial Latin America. The nature of book production and distribution in this period resulted in the development of a truly international market. The integration of the book market was facilitated by networks of printers and booksellers, who were responsible for the connection of distant places, as well as local producers and merchants. At the same time, due to the particular nature of books, political and religious institutions intervened in book markets. Printers and booksellers lived in a politically fragmented world where...
This book depicts the Early Modern book markets in Europe and colonial Latin America. The nature of book production and distribution in this period re...
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644,07 |
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Popular Fiction: Technology, Ideology, Production, Reading
ISBN: 9781032487328 / Angielski / Twarda / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1990, Popular Fiction looks at popular fiction in its literary, filmic, and televisual forms.
First published in 1990, Popular Fiction looks at popular fiction in its literary, filmic, and televisual forms.
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704,38 |
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Rationality Is . . . The Essence of Literary Theory
ISBN: 9781666721348 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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148,24 |
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Rationality Is . . . The Essence of Literary Theory
ISBN: 9781666730180 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,22 |
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Points of Entanglement in French Caribbean Travel Writing (1620-1722)
ISBN: 9783031233555 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book argues for a literary re-examination of the representation of the early colonial Caribbean by proposing theoretical linkages to contemporary Caribbean theories of creolization and archipelagic thinking. Using Édouard Glissant’s notion of points of entanglement, Christina Kullberg claims that the historical, social, and political messiness of the Caribbean seventeenth century make for complex representations and expressions, generating textual...
This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book ar...
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201,24 |
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Points of Entanglement in French Caribbean Travel Writing (1620-1722)
ISBN: 9783031233586 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book argues for a literary re-examination of the representation of the early colonial Caribbean by proposing theoretical linkages to contemporary Caribbean theories of creolization and archipelagic thinking. Using Édouard Glissant’s notion of points of entanglement, Christina Kullberg claims that the historical, social, and political messiness of the Caribbean seventeenth century make for complex representations and expressions, generating textual...
This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book ar...
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160,99 |
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The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culture
ISBN: 9783030834241 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culturedelves into the complex problems involved in all attempts to survive. The essays analyze survival in contemporary prose narratives, short stories, poems, dramas, and theoretical texts, but also in films and other modes of cultural practices. Addressing diverse topics such as memory and forgetting in Holocaust narratives, stories of refugees and asylum seekers, and representations of war, the ethical implications involved in survival in texts and media are brought into a transnational critical discussion. The volume will be of...
The Ethics of Survival in Contemporary Literature and Culturedelves into the complex problems involved in all attempts to survive. The essays analyze ...
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603,81 |
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Monika Rinck: Poesie und Gegenwart
ISBN: 9783662648971 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aus Anlass ihrer Frankfurter Poetikvorlesungen erscheint der erste Sammelband über das Werk der Lyrikerin, Essayistin und Übersetzerin Monika Rinck. Die Aufsätze decken ein methodisch und thematisch breites Feld ab: von Close Readings bis zu subjekttheoretischen Fragestellungen, von Barockbezügen bis zur Analyse der Selbstpositionierung der Autorin im Feld der Gegenwartsliteraturen. Insbesondere geraten dabei die für die Autorin charakteristischen Grenzüberschreitungen zwischen Lyrik und Essay, zwischen poetischer Praxis und Lebensform in den Blick. Den Band rundet ein Gespräch mit der...
Aus Anlass ihrer Frankfurter Poetikvorlesungen erscheint der erste Sammelband über das Werk der Lyrikerin, Essayistin und Übersetzerin Monika Rinck....
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263,32 |
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Teaching Shakespeare Beyond the Major
ISBN: 9783031242236 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited collection considers the task of teaching Shakespeare in general education college courses, a task which is often considered obligatory, perfunctory, and ancillary to a professor’s primary goals of research and upper-level teaching. The contributors apply a variety of pedagogical strategies for teaching general education students who are often freshmen or sophomores, non-majors, and/or non-traditional students. Offering instructors practical classroom approaches to Shakespeare’s language, performance, and critical theory, the essays in this collection explicitly address the...
This edited collection considers the task of teaching Shakespeare in general education college courses, a task which is often considered obligatory, p...
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523,30 |
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