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Childhood in Edwardian Fiction: Worlds Enough and Time
ISBN: 9780230221611 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book-length look at childhood in Edwardian fiction, this book challenges assumptions that the Edwardian period was simply a continuation of the Victorian or the start of the Modern. Exploring both classics and popular fiction, the authors provide a a compelling picture of the Edwardian fictional cult of childhood.
The first book-length look at childhood in Edwardian fiction, this book challenges assumptions that the Edwardian period was simply a continuation of ...
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Literary Landscapes: From Modernism to Postcolonialism
ISBN: 9780230553163 / Angielski / Twarda / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the varied ways in which modernist and postcolonial innovations in fiction are motivated by crises and revolutions in the human perception and appropriation of space. 'Space' for the writers concerned has its political, historical, cultural and gender dimensions as well as its geographical identity.
This book explores the varied ways in which modernist and postcolonial innovations in fiction are motivated by crises and revolutions in the human per...
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The Homosexual Revival of Renaissance Style, 1850-1930
ISBN: 9780230219977 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why were so many late-nineteenth-century homosexuals passionate about the Italian Renaissance? This book answers that question by showing how the Victorian coupling of criminality with self-fashioning under the sign of the Renaissance provided queer intellectuals with an enduring model of ruthlessly permissive individualism.
Why were so many late-nineteenth-century homosexuals passionate about the Italian Renaissance? This book answers that question by showing how the Vict...
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Art Drama Architecture Music: An Anthology of Miron Grindea's Adam Editorials, Volume II
ISBN: 9780853036661 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ADAM International Review was the longest-running literary periodical in Europe. It first appeared in Britain during the Second World War and continued to challenge and entertain its readers until 1985, when the death of its only editor, Miron Grindea, brought its lively story to an end. ADAM published material that had never been published before - an essay by Proust on Balzac, numerous drawings by Jean Cocteau, poems by Katherine Mansfield, musings by Picasso, and essays by T.S. Eliot. This anthology contains an outstanding selection of the original material with numerous illustrations and...
ADAM International Review was the longest-running literary periodical in Europe. It first appeared in Britain during the Second World War and continue...
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267,73 |
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Art Drama Architecture Music: An Anthology of Miron Grindea's Adam Editorials, Volume II
ISBN: 9780853036678 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ADAM International Review was the longest-running literary periodical in Europe. It first appeared in Britain during the Second World War and continued to challenge and entertain its readers until 1985, when the death of its only editor, Miron Grindea, brought its lively story to an end. ADAM published material that had never been published before - an essay by Proust on Balzac, numerous drawings by Jean Cocteau, poems by Katherine Mansfield, musings by Picasso, and essays by T.S. Eliot. This anthology contains an outstanding selection of the original material with numerous illustrations and...
ADAM International Review was the longest-running literary periodical in Europe. It first appeared in Britain during the Second World War and continue...
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111,72 |
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Trauma, Postmodernism and the Aftermath of World War II
ISBN: 9780230202955 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first sustained study of the relationship between Anglo-American postmodernist fictionand the Second World War, Crosthwaite demonstrates that postmodernism has not abandoned history but has rather reformulated it in terms of trauma that is traceable, time and again, to the catastrophes of the 1940s."
The first sustained study of the relationship between Anglo-American postmodernist fictionand the Second World War, Crosthwaite demonstrates that post...
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Evading Class in Contemporary British Literature
ISBN: 9780230615274 / Angielski / Twarda / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This trenchant book argues that the cultural attempt to erase class during the period from Margaret Thatcher to Tony Blair has only generated its return as a troubling subterranean element in British literature and theory. Driscoll critiques the way postmodern theory idealizes contemporary British literature as a space of fluid, flexible decentered subjects, arguing that beneath this ideology are clear evasions of class. Offering critical readings of canonized middle-class authors from Martin Amis to Graham Swift, Driscoll makes the compelling argument that the contemporary British novel,...
This trenchant book argues that the cultural attempt to erase class during the period from Margaret Thatcher to Tony Blair has only generated its retu...
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200,77 |
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Beckett's Masculinity
ISBN: 9780230615281 / Angielski / Twarda / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book to focus on masculinity in Samuel Beckett's work as a way to understand his historical and national context, the difficulty of reading and interpreting his texts, and his ruthless disintegration of sexual and gendered norms throughout his oeuvre.
This is the first book to focus on masculinity in Samuel Beckett's work as a way to understand his historical and national context, the difficulty of ...
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Irish Elegies
ISBN: 9780230615342 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, critically acclaimed author Chris Arthur continues his experiments with the mercurial literary genre of the essay, using it in innovative ways to explore aspects of family, place, memory, loss, and meaning. Through these unique prose meditations, readers are led to a dozen unexpected windows on Ireland.
In this book, critically acclaimed author Chris Arthur continues his experiments with the mercurial literary genre of the essay, using it in innovativ...
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Gods and Soldiers: The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing
ISBN: 9780143114734 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A one-of-a-kind collection showcasing the energy of new African literature Coming at a time when Africa and African writers are in the midst of a remarkable renaissance, Gods and Soldiers captures the vitality and urgency of African writing today. With stories from northern Arabic-speaking to southern Zulu-speaking writers, this collection conveys thirty different ways of approaching what it means to be African. Whether about life in the new urban melting pots of Cape Town and Luanda, or amid the battlefield chaos of Zimbabwe and Somalia, or set in the imaginary surreal...
A one-of-a-kind collection showcasing the energy of new African literature Coming at a time when Africa and African writers are in the mids...
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95,29 |
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Re-Reading Harry Potter
ISBN: 9780230219588 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses the political and social presumptions ingrained in the texts of the Harry Potter series and examines the manner in which they have been received in different contexts and media. The 2ndedition also contains extensive new material which comments on the later books and examines the impact of the phenomenon across the world."
This book discusses the political and social presumptions ingrained in the texts of the Harry Potter series and examines the manner in which they have...
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Margaret Atwood: An Introduction to Critical Views of Her Fiction
ISBN: 9781403987112 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recognized as a feminist author, and the greatest living Canadian writer engaged with issues of gendered and national identity, Margaret Atwood also problematizes both of these labels and trends in her work. This Guide will cover Atwood's entire fictional oeuvre and will engage fully with each of the debates developed by the various key critics of her work, interweaving these with sustained critical commentary and guiding readers through the key critical issues and approaches to reading Atwood's fiction. Including detailed coverage of Atwood's most widely-studied novels - The Handmaid's Tale,...
Recognized as a feminist author, and the greatest living Canadian writer engaged with issues of gendered and national identity, Margaret Atwood also p...
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512,40 |
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Pagan Themes in Modern Children's Fiction: Green Man, Shamanism, Earth Mysteries
ISBN: 9780230218390 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Applying a range of critical approaches to works by authors including Susan Cooper, Catherine Fisher, Geraldine McCaughrean, Anthony Horowitz and Philip Pullman, this book looks at the formative and interrogative relationship between recent children's literature and fashionable but controversial aspects of modern Paganism.
Applying a range of critical approaches to works by authors including Susan Cooper, Catherine Fisher, Geraldine McCaughrean, Anthony Horowitz and Phil...
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Marcel Proust's Search for Lost Time: A Reader's Guide to The Remembrance of Things Past
ISBN: 9780307472328 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An accessible, irreverent guide to one of the most admired and entertaining novels of the past century: Rememberance of Things Past. There is no other guide like this; a user-friendly and enticing entry into the marvelously enjoyable world of Proust.
At seven volumes, three thousand pages, and more than four hundred characters, as well as a towering reputation as a literary classic, Proust s novel can seem daunting. But though begun a century ago, in 1909, it is in fact as engaging and relevant to our times as ever. Patrick Alexander is passionate about Proust s genius and appeal... An accessible, irreverent guide to one of the most admired and entertaining novels of the past century: Rememberance of Things Past. There is n...
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68,61 |
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The Demotic Voice in Contemporary British Fiction
ISBN: 9780230217577 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an assessment of narrative technique in contemporary British fiction, focusing on the experimental use of the demotic voice (regional or national dialects). The book examines the work of James Kelman, Graham Swift, Will Self and Martin Amis, amongst many others, from a practical as well as theoretical perspective.
This book is an assessment of narrative technique in contemporary British fiction, focusing on the experimental use of the demotic voice (regional or ...
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200,77 |
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The Contemporary British Historical Novel: Representation, Nation, Empire
ISBN: 9780230200074 / Angielski / Twarda / 193 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A detailed study of an increasingly popular genre, this book offers readings of a group of significant and representative works, drawing on a range of interpretative strategies to examine the ways in which the contemporary historical novel engages with questions of nation and identity to illuminate Britain's post-imperial condition.
A detailed study of an increasingly popular genre, this book offers readings of a group of significant and representative works, drawing on a range of...
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Teaching the Short Story
ISBN: 9780230573697 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The short story is moving from relative neglect to a central position in the curriculum; as a teaching tool, it offers students a route into many complex areas, including critical theory, gender studies, postcolonialism and genre. This book offers a practical guide to the short story in the classroom, covering all these fields and more.
The short story is moving from relative neglect to a central position in the curriculum; as a teaching tool, it offers students a route into many comp...
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401,58 |
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Ireland and Postcolonial Studies: Theory, Discourse, Utopia
ISBN: 9780230224063 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an interrogative critical genealogy of all facets of Irish postcolonial studies, situating it within broader debates on international neo-imperialism, globalization, and development.
This book is an interrogative critical genealogy of all facets of Irish postcolonial studies, situating it within broader debates on international neo...
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200,77 |
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Haunting and Spectrality in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Possessing the Past
ISBN: 9780230205574 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring the pervasive presence of the Victorian past in contemporary culture, these essays use the trope of haunting and spectrality as a critical tool with which to consider neo-Victorian works, as well as our ongoing fascination with the Victorians, combining original readings of well-known novels with engaging analyses of lesser-known works.
Exploring the pervasive presence of the Victorian past in contemporary culture, these essays use the trope of haunting and spectrality as a critical t...
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200,77 |
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Salman Rushdie and Indian Historiography: Writing the Nation Into Being
ISBN: 9780230205482 / Angielski / Twarda / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paying particular attention to the representation of women and to gendered notions of the nation, this book examines for the first time the marked parallels between Rushdie's critique of the Nehruvian legacy and the most significant recent trends in Indian historiography, especially the feminist and subalternist movements.
Paying particular attention to the representation of women and to gendered notions of the nation, this book examines for the first time the marked par...
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200,77 |
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