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Alice to the Lighthouse: Children's Books and Radical Experiments in Art
ISBN: 9780312220570 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alice to the Lighthouse is the first and only full-length study of the relation between children's literature and writing for adults. Lewis Carroll's Alice books created a revolution in writing for and about children which had repercussions not only for subsequent children's writers--Stevenson, Kipling, Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Mark Twain--but for Virginia Woolf and her generation. Virginia Woolf's celebration of writing as play rather than preaching is the twin of the Post-Impressionist art championed by Roger Fry. Juliet Dusinberre connects books for children in the late...
Alice to the Lighthouse is the first and only full-length study of the relation between children's literature and writing for adults. Lewis Carroll's ...
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402,53 |
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Tartuffe and the Misanthrope
ISBN: 9781603841283 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prudence Steiner's lively prose translations remain close to the original French, giving us the speech of the characters in a slightly compressed and formalized language that echoes the effect created by Moliere's verse. Roger Herzel's thoughtful Introduction discusses Moliere's life; "Tartuffe," "The Misanthrope," and the comic tradition; and the setting, casting, and style of the plays.
Prudence Steiner's lively prose translations remain close to the original French, giving us the speech of the characters in a slightly compressed a... |
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200,76 |
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Virginia Woolf "The Hours. The British Museum Manuscript of _Mrs. Dalloway_
ISBN: 9781935625018 / Angielski / Miękka / 524 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wussow offers an edited transcription of the holograph British Museum manuscript of Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel "Mrs. Dalloway" which was originally entitled "The Hours." This transcription reproduces Woolf's creative process in great detail, showing every revision and emendation.
Wussow offers an edited transcription of the holograph British Museum manuscript of Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel "Mrs. Dalloway" which was originally e...
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237,37 |
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The Culture of Joyce's Ulysses
ISBN: 9780230108684 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reading Ulysses with an eye to the cultural references embedded within it, Kershner interrogates modernism's relationship to contemporary popular culture and literature. Examples underscore Kershner's corrective to formal approaches to genre as he broadens the methodologies that are used to study it to include social and political approaches.
Reading Ulysses with an eye to the cultural references embedded within it, Kershner interrogates modernism's relationship to contemporary popular cult...
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201,24 |
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Migration Literature and Hybridity: The Different Speeds of Transcultural Change
ISBN: 9780230251465 / Angielski / Twarda / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using three literary analyses to show what happens once we leave behind the theoretical poverty of celebratory readings of contemporary migration and hybridity literature, this book offers a way out of the theoretical deadlock of putting hybridity against purity or flux against fixity.
Using three literary analyses to show what happens once we leave behind the theoretical poverty of celebratory readings of contemporary migration and ...
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201,24 |
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The Mystery
ISBN: 9780813035529 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Augustine's edition of The Mysteryis a model of editorial excellence and an immense contribution to H.D. scholarship, crucial to an understanding of the poet's creative processes and central themes. Every reader of modernist literature will want to have this edition at hand."--Donna Hollenberg, University of Connecticut In The Mystery, finished in 1951 but never before published, H.D. tells a tale of love, intrigue, and religious redemption. Drawn from her notes to her memoir, The Gift, the novel imaginatively re-creates the history of her mother's Moravian... "Augustine's edition of The Mysteryis a model of editorial excellence and an immense contribution to H.D. scholarship, crucial to an underst... |
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97,90 |
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Women Writers of the Contemporary South
ISBN: 9781604738742 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women Writers of the Contemporary South edited by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw essays about Lisa Alther, Toni Cade Bambara, Doris Betts, Rita Mae Brown, Ellen Douglas, Ellen Gilchrist, Gail Godwin, Shirley Ann Grau, Beverly Lowry, Bobbie Ann Mason, Berry Morgan, Mary Lee Settle, Lee Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, Anne Tyler, Alice Walker, and Joan Williams The essays in this collection are evidence that the most notable fiction writers of the contemporary South very well may be women writers. As a part of the new generation following the Southern Renaissance-writers not restricted by regionalism-the...
Women Writers of the Contemporary South edited by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw essays about Lisa Alther, Toni Cade Bambara, Doris Betts, Rita Mae Brown, Ell...
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137,09 |
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Writing London: The Trace of the Urban Text from Blake to Dickens
ISBN: 9780333736869 / Angielski / Twarda / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Writing London asks the reader to consider how writers sought to respond to the nature of London. Drawing on literary and architectural theory and psychoanalysis, Julian Wolfreys looks at a variety of nineteenth-century writings to consider various literary modes of productions as responses to the city. Beginning with an introductory survey of the variety of literary representations and responses to the city, Writing London follows the shaping of the urban consciousness from Blake to Dickens, through Shelley, Barbauld, Byron, De Quincey, Engels and Wordsworth. It concludes with an Afterword...
Writing London asks the reader to consider how writers sought to respond to the nature of London. Drawing on literary and architectural theory and psy...
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402,53 |
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An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English
ISBN: 9780333606704 / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This critical survey of modern poetry from Thomas Hardy to Seamus Heaney considers both the self-consciously revolutionary innovations of Modernism and more traditional developments, taking fully into account the extent to which 'English' can no longer be equated solely with England. Scots, Welsh and Irish poetry, and poetry from Commonwealth countries such as Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean, are recognised as equally important aspects of the diversity that characterises modern poetry in English; and, in particular, the contributions of North American poets such as Ezra Pound,...
This critical survey of modern poetry from Thomas Hardy to Seamus Heaney considers both the self-consciously revolutionary innovations of Modernism an...
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195,86 |
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The Art of Brian Friel: Neither Reality Nor Dreams
ISBN: 9780333600757 / Twarda / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a critical study of Friel's entire oeuvre, relating Friel's work to the problems of subjectivity, representation, history and the body, with a view to offering some placement of Friel in relation to both postmodernism and traditional humanism. Central to this study is Friel's concept of 'translation', whereby he offers us the tension of shaping the new through a 'translation' or reformulation of the old.
This is a critical study of Friel's entire oeuvre, relating Friel's work to the problems of subjectivity, representation, history and the body, with a...
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603,81 |
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Alice to the Lighthouse: Children S Books and Radical Experiments in Art
ISBN: 9780333658505 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alice to the Lighthouse is the first and only full-length study of the relation between children's literature and writing for adults. Lewis Carroll's Alice books created a revolution in writing for and about children which had repercussions not only for subsequent children's writers - such as Stevenson, Kipling, Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett and Mark Twain - but for Virginia Woolf and her generation. Virginia Woolf's celebration of writing as play rather than preaching is the twin of the Post-Impressionist art championed by Roger Fry. Dusinberre connects books for children in the late...
Alice to the Lighthouse is the first and only full-length study of the relation between children's literature and writing for adults. Lewis Carroll's ...
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463,94 |
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Ezra Pound: A Literary Life
ISBN: 9780333582572 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on a series of new sources, this biography of Ezra Pound - the first to appear in more than a decade - outlines his contribution to modernism through a detailed account of his development, influence and continued significance. It pays special attention to his role in creating Imagism, Vorticism and the modern long poem, as well as his importance for Yeats, Joyce and Eliot. His roles as editor, translator and critic, plus his attempt to complete The Cantos, are also studied.
Drawing on a series of new sources, this biography of Ezra Pound - the first to appear in more than a decade - outlines his contribution to modernism ...
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402,53 |
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Neo-Victorian Fiction and Historical Narrative: The Victorians and Us
ISBN: 9780230551565 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Placing the popular genre of neo-Victorian fiction within the context of the contemporary cultural fascination with the Victorians, this book argues that these novels are distinguished by a commitment to historical specificity and understands them within their contemporary context and the context of Victorian historical and literary narratives.
Placing the popular genre of neo-Victorian fiction within the context of the contemporary cultural fascination with the Victorians, this book argues t...
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362,27 |
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Trauma and History in the Irish Novel: The Return of the Dead
ISBN: 9780230250307 / Angielski / Twarda / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book considers the widespread treatment of traumatic memory in Irish fiction of the past thirty-five years. It focuses on both trauma fiction and the historical novel, and the way certain novelists looked to early events in twentieth century Irish history to engage the recent political violence in Northern Ireland beginning in 1969.
This book considers the widespread treatment of traumatic memory in Irish fiction of the past thirty-five years. It focuses on both trauma fiction and...
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201,24 |
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Alice Walker
ISBN: 9780230575882 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, is one of America's major and most prolific writers. She is also among its most controversial. How has Walker's work developed over the last forty years? Why has it often provoked extreme reactions? Does Walker's cultural, political and spiritual activism enhance or distort her fiction? Where does she belong in the evolving tradition of African American literature?
Alice Walker, second edition: * Examines the full range of Walker's prose writings: her novels, short stories, essays, activist writings,... Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, is one of America's major and most prolific writers. She is also among its mos...
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489,77 |
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Imagining Iraq: Literature in English and the Iraq Invasion
ISBN: 9780230278752 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before, during and after the invasion of Iraq a large number of literary texts were produced, circulated and received as taking a position for or against the invasion, or as contributing political insights. This topical new book provides an in-depth survey of such texts and examines what they reveal about the condition of literature.
Before, during and after the invasion of Iraq a large number of literary texts were produced, circulated and received as taking a position for or agai...
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201,24 |
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Nationalism and the Formation of Caribbean Literature
ISBN: 9781403983862 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book-length study of nationalism and literature in the West Indies before 1950.
This is the first book-length study of nationalism and literature in the West Indies before 1950.
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201,24 |
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Ödön Von Horváth
ISBN: 9783476103260 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Odon von Horvath war in seinem dramatischen und epischen Werk der Chronist seiner Zeit. Er analysierte insbesondere die Orientierung des Kleinburgers an autoritaren und volkischen Heilsversprechungen. Als Ideologieskeptiker erkannte er diese Strukturen als politische Bedrohung und deckte sie auf.
Odon von Horvath war in seinem dramatischen und epischen Werk der Chronist seiner Zeit. Er analysierte insbesondere die Orientierung des Kleinburgers ...
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67,67 |
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Bertolt Brecht
ISBN: 9783476103109 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brecht als Dramatiker, Lyriker, Erzahler und Theoretiker. Brechts Werke werden nach einer allgemeinen Einfuhrung verschiedenen Werkgruppen und Phasen zugeordnet, z.B. Musikdramen, Wirtschaftsdramen, Lehrstucke, Bearbeitungen. Erganzt werden die Werkerlauterungen um Angaben zu Entstehung, Fassungen, Erstdruck, verarbeiteten Quellen, MitarbeiterInnen, Inszenierungen, etc.
Brecht als Dramatiker, Lyriker, Erzahler und Theoretiker. Brechts Werke werden nach einer allgemeinen Einfuhrung verschiedenen Werkgruppen und Phasen ...
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67,67 |
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Heiner Müller-Handbuch: Leben - Werk - Wirkung
ISBN: 9783476018076 / Niemiecki / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Heiner Muller (1929-1995) gilt als der wichtigste deutsche Theaterautor seit Brecht. Der vorliegende Band gibt einen umfassenden Uberblick uber das Gesamtwerk. Uber die Werkanalysen hinaus lassen die Autoren auch grundlegenden Aspekten, dem Verhaltnis zur Tradition und den Stellungnahmen Mullers zum Zeitgeschehen, genugend Raum. Auf diese Weise kommt die Vielfalt von Mullers eigener Produktion ebenso zum Tragen wie die thematisch und motivisch ubergreifenden Momente. Der Leser bekommt eine Vorstellung von Voraussetzungen und Wirkungen seines Schaffens und der Bedeutung von Mullers Positionen...
Heiner Muller (1929-1995) gilt als der wichtigste deutsche Theaterautor seit Brecht. Der vorliegende Band gibt einen umfassenden Uberblick uber das Ge...
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413,81 |
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